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Start your night off right with Plays & Players' PIFA New Play Festival and celebrate the best of local playwrights with staged readings of new plays. In partnership with Philadelphia Dramatists Center (PDC) -- Philadelphia's premiere community of playwrights, collaborating artists and audience members dedicated to creating and nurturing new work -- this evening is sure to be brave, provocative and inspirational. Inspired by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel's "Bake-Off" writing exercise, playwrights from around the area "bake" a play from the same ingredients, including this year's PIFA theme of "Paris in 1911." Select plays are chosen by a panel of local experts to receive further development and have public performances.

The selected pieces are Marilyn Monroe Has Sex for the Last Time with Groucho Marx by Greg Romero and The Stormy Hanky by Joy Cutler. Both are experimental one-act plays that border on the grotesque, challenging people’s views on propriety, relationships and behavior.

Monroe/Groucho is a daring – and at times disturbing – play about the intersection of sexuality and obscenity. It puts its audience into the position of voyeur as they watch a woman and man role-playing as Marilyn Monroe and Groucho Marx engage in various acts of carnal lust.

Stormy Hanky takes an absurdist look at the anarchy that emerges when one of the characters inadvertently “brings back the 4th primary color.” As a result, artists riot, and all colors and shapes in the world no longer hold their original integrity.

Please note, these performances contain adult language and situations and are for adult audiences only. Not suitable for children.

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