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Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist at Pride Films and Plays

Dates: (3/7/2020 - 3/14/2020 )

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Pride Films and Plays


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Phone: 773-857-0222

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The American premiere of FIVE ENCOUNTERS ON A SITE CALLED CRAIGSLIST, an Edinburgh Festival hit by the British playwright and actor Samuel Ward. Desperately hilarious and achingly bleak, this is an intricate and tender exploration of our attempts to encounter each other in a technologized world, performed by a single actor interacting extensively with the audience. The play follows a twenty-something man as he recounts, sometimes very graphically, five of the sexual hookups he had with men he met through Craigslist. He asks the audience to help him recreate those encounters, but in ways that are symbolic rather than realistic

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Pride Films and Plays announces that performances of both its current productions - DEX & ABBY and FIVE ENCOUNTERS ON A SITE CALLED CRAIGSLIST a?" are suspended until further notice. Both productions may continue at a later date if circumstances permit. T

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January 31, 2020

Pride Films and Plays will produce the American premiere of FIVE ENCOUNTERS ON A SITE CALLED CRAIGSLIST, an Edinburgh Festival hit by the British playwright and actor Samuel Ward. Desperately hilarious and achingly bleak, this is an intricate and tender exploration of our attempts to encounter each other in a technologized world, performed by a single actor interacting extensively with the audience.

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