OUR MAY 25 REDHOUSE PRESENTATION WILL BE ECLECTIC!!

• THREE NEW SHORT PLAYS BY MEMBERS KATHY KRAMER AND RICHARD HARRIS.
• A DRAMATIC READING OF A SHORT STORY BY A GUEST WRITER.

"Fetch, Franny" is the story of a desperate pet owner, driven by concern for a missing pet. As a last attempt, he visits a medium where he meets a trainee who keeps bringing him solutions to concerns he does not have. Finally the head medium goes into a trance to solve problem.

Richard Harris is a retired advertising executive, educated at Texas Wesleyan College and Cooper Union. A veteran community actor who also tried to make it in Hollywood. (They weren't waiting for him.) He now finds playwriting brings him the joy of communicating with a very enticing muse.

"Over the Deep Part" is set in that evocative space—the family attic—two sisters sort through a lifetime of memories following their parents’ deaths. They will discover that truth and love, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.

In the comedy, "Line-up", four hapless suspects in a police line-up face Lydia, who claims to have endured inappropriate behavior at the hands of one of them. Who’s guilty? And guilty of what, exactly? Sarge will find out! (And so will the audience.)

Kathleen Kramer lives near Ithaca, where several of her full-length plays and numerous shorter works have been produced. In 2007, her play, "Hearts of Clover" was a semi-finalist in the Eileen Heckart Drama Competition at Ohio State and a winner in the Appalachian New Play Festival in Athens, OH. Two of her short plays were presented in "Asphalt Shorts," a festival of site-specific works in Ontario, Canada.

Is a lion still a lion when the savannah becomes a suburb? “A Crisis for Mr. Lion” illustrates in words a picture book no child will ever see, a tale of talking animals who wonder at their place in the world. Winner of the 2006 Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Award, it was recently selected as one of 2007’s most notable stories by storySouth, making it eligible for the upcoming Million Writers Award.

Author William Preston teaches English at the Manlius Pebble Hill School and lives with his family in Syacuse. His first published short story, “You Will Go to the Moon,” appeared in the July 2006 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction and was listed among the Honorable Mentions in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. His story “Close” appeared in the February 2007 issue of Asimov's, and his poetry and nonfiction have appeared in various publications.

As always, a talkback discussion with the playwright will follow the reading.

Admission: $6; students and seniors $5.

Redhouse is located at 201 South West Street, on the west side of Armory Square.