Ashland New Plays Festival

Fall Festival

A celebratory week-long festival featuring public readings, talkbacks, a playwriting workshop, and more.

Schedule:

1:30 pm: The Life You Gave Me

The Life You Gave Me by Novid Parsi

Summary: A son tries to save his mother. She has other ideas. So do two mysterious strangers who watch the play—and ask the son to tell the story again and again until he gets it right, whatever right might be.

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7:30 pm: Nerve by Minita Gandhi

Summary: Jyoti, a recent widow with ailing health, finds the future of her well-being in her daughters’ hands. A multigenerational and multicultural dark comedy that explores the love language of food, the deep wounds of sibling rivalry, and how a family moves through grief- Nerve asks what our legacy is and that we truly leave behind.

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