Clay & Water 2025

Our Seventh Annual Playwrights’ Retreat and
New Play Reading Series

When: Monday-Thursday, February 24- 27, 2025 (details and schedule for specific plays below)
Where: Rigel Center, 4195 Wilbanks Avenue, Green Cove Springs, FL 32043. PLEASE NOTE: Rigel Center is actually in the Town of Penney Farms, but if you use GPS or mapping apps, it is listed as Green Cove.)
Admission: Free.
Reservations:  Required (due to limited seating).  Click the red “Reservations” link below. If you have any difficulty with the link, please email reservations@clamourtheatre.org, or call 917-902-7210.

Brand new plays!

Four developmental readings of their works-in-progress! A different play each evening!

Please note: If we have more than 2 events available for reservations at one time, you may not see all of them when you first click the red “Reservations” toggle. Just click in the white space between two events to force the widget to expand and display all available events.

For questions or assistance, please email boxoffice@clamourtheatre.org (and please tell us which play you are asking about or trying to reserve).

ACCESSIBILITY

Rigel Center is wheelchair-accessible.

Play readings include an actor who reads stage directions including descriptions of the setting and important physical action.

THE PLAYS

(Please note:  Some of these plays contain adult language and adult situations.)

MONDAY, FEB 24,  7 PM EASTERN – “BONES LIKE DUST” by Gina Femia
Worlds collide when pedologist Richard comes to Jeni’s rural shack to study her dirt. When an unexpected storm traps Richard on her porch, dirt isn’t the only thing that gets dug up. Art, faith, and science all ask:  What happens when home disappears?
with Catie Casey and Clayton Riddley

TUESDAY, FEB 25, 7 PM EASTERN – “THE THOMAS HARDY PROJECT”  by Becca Blackmore
Two very different high school seniors team up for an advanced placement English project, both hoping it will be the path to valedictorian. But, will it be the path to friendship? And what happens when that friendship is tested?
with Kaelyn Newman, Kaylee Byers, and Kerry Reardon

WEDNESDAY, FEB 26, 7 PM EASTERN – “HARM REDUCTION” by Elizabeth Irwin
When Susan, the unlikeliest of moms becomes the foster parent to 17 year old Kayla, she is befriended by her neighbors, whose son is in Kayla’s class, in a story about support, envy, outrage, kindness and the occasional awkward triumph.
with Rhodie Jackson, Kamajhia, Kate McManus, Kerry Reardon, and Jack Shaughnessy

THURSDAY, FEB 26, 7 PM EASTERN – “CAGE” by Barbara Blatner
What are our relationships with each other and with other species in the shadow of the climate emergency?
After her parents’ difficult divorce, George, 13, badly needs her mother, but Bobby is overwhelmed with single parenthood.  When George catches a large rat snake and brings it home as a pet, this incursion into
Bobby’s territory forces her to reckon with her daughter, the divorce, and the snake in a new way.
with Debbie Pascoe and Samantha Pascoe

COMMUNITY RESPONSE

The Retreat playwrights visited a class at the Green Cove Springs Junior High School. The beautiful thank you notes below came from the students. We removed their names to protect their privacy and scanned them so we could share them with you.

THE PLAYWRIGHTS

Becca Blackmore
BECCA
BLACKMORE
Barbara Blatner
BARBARA
BLATNER
GINA
FEMIA
Elizabeth Irwin
ELIZABETH
IRWIN

THE DRAMATURGS

Lindsey Barr
LINDSEY R.
BARR
Suzi Elnaggar
SUZI
ELNAGGAR
Fiona Kyle
FIONA
KYLE
Linda Lombardi
LINDA
LOMBARDI
Kae Milne Twichell
KAE MILNE
TWICHELL

PARTNERS & SPONSORS

Penney Farms Retirement Community
Green Insurance
Bemer Group
Goode's Cleaning Service
House of Dazzle

And thank you to the restaurants and many other contributors to our “No Starving Artists” Fund who are helping to feed our guests while they are here!

And, THANK YOU to the anonymous donor who has fully funded our “No Starving Artists” Fund for Clay & Water 2025 and is helping to feed our guests while they are here!

And thank you to the restaurants and many other contributors to our “No Starving Artists” Fund who are helping to feed our guests while they are here!

And thank you to the restaurants and many other contributors to our “No Starving Artists” Fund who are helping to feed our guests while they are here!

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