Finnigan Productions presents its third annual festival of new plays by local playwrights, Finnigan’s Festival of Funky Fresh Fun, running April 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, & 24 at 7:30pm at The Rudyard Kipling, located at 422 W. Oak Street.  Finnigan’s Festival of Funky Fresh Fun is the second production in Finnigan’s sixth season in Louisville.

 

Finnigan’s Festival of Funky Fresh Fun is a celebration of local theatre artists in the disciplines of playwriting, acting and directing, with scripts from nine local writers, being directed by nine local directors and performed by thirteen local actors.  For the first time the plays were selected by a committee of theatre artists who regularly contribute to Finnigan shows. 

 

Finnigan’s Festival of Funky Fresh Fun’s plays include Footnotes, a love story for the inner geek, by David J. Loehr; two scientists decipher a mixtape manifesto in Mixtape Warfare by Kate Barry; a cursed disco light that makes this party hell in Sympathy for the Techno by Ben Unwin; the tricky road to accepting parents who accept your sexuality in The Reception by returning playwright Carlos Manuel; daddy and daughters learn the hard way why blindfolds and bachelor parties don’t mix in Talk is Cheap (everything else is negotiable) by returning playwright Todd Zeigler; Mother and Daughter take an existential word romp that leads them right back to wherever they were to begin with in Autofill by returning playwright Tad Chitwood; a play within a play within a play goes south when an actor threatens to walk in Going Through the Motions by Mike Brooks; last year’s e-bay family has moved on to Meth in a squeal of a sequel - Beak Wetter by returning playwright Sherry R. Deatrick; and Carlos the Crossdresser holds the audience hostage (can his Fox-News-watching-brother save us all?) in Latch/Gem by Finnigan’s Artistic Director Brian Walker.

 

Directing credits for Finnigan’s Festival of Funky Fresh Fun are being shared by several local directors, including, Necessary Theatre’s artistic director Tad Chitwood, Louisville Repertory Company’s Amy Lewis, StageLab’s founding co-principal Kathi E. B. Ellis, Chris Bryant, Finnigan company members George R. Bailey, Briana Gregory, Chris Hartman, Jeremy Sapp and Finnigan’s Brian Walker. 

 

Finnigan’s Festival of Funky Fresh Fun is being produced by Louisville native and artistic director of Finnigan Productions, Brian Walker and Gil D. Reyes.  Walker’s previous writing/producing credits include The Time I was Kidnapped by the Church, Smoke This Play, Great American Sex Play, my daddy’s name is Big Oil, Shot me Down & dirty sexy derby play. Reyes specializes in new play development, with directing credits with Actor’s Theatre of Louisville’s Apprentice Program, The American Airlines Theatre on Broadway, Acting for a Cure, and The Necessary Theatre. 

 

Finnigan’s Festival of Funky Fresh Fun’s cast includes local talents Corey Long, Becky LeCron, Joe Hatfield, Natalie Fields, Dan Canon, Laura Ellis, Leah Roberts, Amy Lewis, Delilah Smyth, Jeremy Sapp, Michael Roberts, Elizabeth Cox, Todd Zeigler and Kelly Kapp.

 

Reservations for dinner and the show may be made by calling The Rudyard Kipling at 502.636.1311.  Tickets are only $12.

 

Saturday, April 17^th will be a special pay what you can performance.  Come Thunder at the Rud with Finnigan instead!

 

Finnigan’s Festival of Funky Fresh Fun was written and conceived by adults for adults and due to adult language and situations, it is not recommended for anyone under the age of seventeen.