The Spins at Out of Box Theatre, Atlanta, GA, 2016 (Photo: Jerry Jobe)
Drama/ 6 Characters, 3 Men, 3 Women/ Full Length, Three Scenes
Synopsis: A haunting tale of unimaginable loss. Lynn, an alcoholic musician, nurses wounds both old and new — the death of her brother Riley and the recent end of a romantic relationship. Her grief plays out on two planes of existence. While her best friend Melissa tries to intervene in her waking life, Lynn escapes into sleep and dreams, where her rock idol, a dead musician, helps her through her sorrow. Her drunken, emotional vertigo is underscored throughout by the spinning of a record on a turntable — one of her only remaining connections to her brother.
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Sara Crawford
P.O. Box 965031
Marietta, GA
USA 30006
E-mail: sara@saracrawford.net
About the Playwright: Sara Crawford has been an actress, a singer, a playwright, a songwriter, a guitarist, a keyboard player, a poet, a screenwriter, and an author of both fiction and non-fiction. She graduated in 2008 from Kennesaw State University with a B.A. in English, and in 2012 from the University of New Orleans with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (emphasis in Playwriting). Currently, in addition to working as a freelance writer and internet marketer, she is a creative writing professor in the graduate program at Southern New Hampshire University, teaching online classes. She also loves to talk about books, music, and writing on her YouTube channel.
Development of The Spins was supported by the 2009 Horizon Theatre’s Apprentice Company; Jennifer Bauer-Lyons, Company Director, and Lisa Adler, Co-Artistic/Producing Director, Atlanta, GA. The Spins was first performed at Out of Box Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, in January, 2016.
