Live Audio Play Reading of ADULTS, a New Play by Maizy Broderick Scarpa
Produced by Sandcastle Theater Company
Directed by Lana Richards
Stage Management & Production Support by Ariella Wolfe, and J. Lyn Monks

CAST 
MAGGIE: Kathleen A. Poe
JO: Sarah Palmero
STAGE DIRECTIONS: Sara Curtis

ABOUT THE PLAY
In the wake of their mother's death, two middle-aged sisters navigate feelings, friendship, and funeral logistics. In real-time and through flashbacks, the sisters grapple with their relationship with each other, their larger-than-life mother, and themselves. Will the bond that's tethered them since childhood survive the seismic shift?

CONTENT WARNING
PG13; mature themes, reference to death of a parent

PLAYWRIGHT’S NOTE
We aren't very comfortable acknowledging grief in American culture, nor do we have many spaces that hold the complexity of familial relationships. I hope that ADULTS creates a communal moment of celebration; a place to honor the absurdity, pain, insight, connection, humor, and contradictions of moving through time with people whose love supports, chafes, and reminds us who we are. *If something in this play feels particularly familiar, consider telling someone near you after listening...and inviting them to share their experience in return. 
– Maizy Broderick Scarpa

Learn more about the playwright: http://www.maizyscarpa.com/about.html 

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
In an early conversation, Maizy talked about how ADULTS is in some ways an inverse of the traditional kitchen sink play, where there is an appearance of a happy family and life, but when you look closely there is conflict and darkness and bad-feeling. Instead, the circumstances of ADULTS are very grave, but at its core are two characters who love each other very much. And it's through that love and trust they are able to work through those challenges of life. I'm excited to share the characters and the relationship at the heart of this piece. 
– Lana Richards

SPECIAL THANKS 
Congregation Bet Haverim, Polly Klaas Community Theater, UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance, and Sacramento City College Music Department.

Graphics by Lynndhop
Music by Lesfm (song title: The Beat of Nature)

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ADULTS a new one-act play by Maizy Broderick Scarpa

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NLS is a record label to sound 
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This phenomenon is collectively building a data for the network of sound authority occultly

In the music of the 19th century

The exacerbation of the line with the repetition of preludes and harmonies generates a higher order

Towards the goal too

La non linéarité est présente dans tout le travail depuis le début.  Ce n'est pas la forme sonate, pas la
 type de temple, c'est la loi elle-même qui régit la forme et donne le caractère parce que c'est le
 personnage lui-même.  De même que le caractère architectural est marqué par la réapparition de motifs
 structurelle, unalignmente ou texturale afin d'atteindre le but ultime, dans la musique du XIXe
 l'exacerbation de la ligne avec la répétition des préludes et des harmonies génère un ordre supérieur
 vers le but aussi

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