Cleveland Public Theatre

Presents the Final Two Weeks of

TEST FLIGHT 2024

Through – March 30, 2024

 

Featuring workshop productions by Northeast Ohio artists as part of CPT’s New Play Development Program. Many of the Test Flight productions go on to have full productions at CPT and other theatres across the country.

 

WEEK 3: March 21-23

How to Live in a House on Fire
Written and directed by Kari Barclay

It’s 2020 in Berkeley, California, and wildfires are raging. As a gay couple prepares to evacuate, they decide what from the 50 years of their relationship to take with them and what to leave behind. Their preparations take them back to the night they met in a queer commune in Berkeley in radical 1970, when other fires raged through the community, and they dared to dream of a better future. 

 

WEEK 4: March 28 - 30

Tales of a Fat Man

Written by Tyree J. Franklin
Directed by Roy Tyrone James II

As you can guess, the play follows the journey of a larger man's past, present, and future of navigating this world in the body he's had since childhood. It's a sort of coming-of-age retelling of the good, bad, & ugly tendencies of society. There's also a new age Greek style chorus that accompanies and sometimes antagonizes the 'Fat Man' on his journey to Self-love.  

 

EVERY TICKET is “Choose What You Pay” starting at $1 and can be purchased at https://www.cptonline.org/or through the CPT Box Office at 216.631.2727 ext. 501.  Every Thursday is a Covid-conscious performance where masks are required, and every Friday is Free Bev (as in free beverage) Friday.