AUDIENCE FAVORITE! Michael Kimball's DUCK AND COVER *

Sixth Annual Play Reading Series
Palm Springs' Premier Festival of New Plays

April 11-12, 18-19 @ 7:30 PM
Downtown Palm Springs at 314 S. Cahuilla Road (Palm Springs Woman's Club)

THE DESERT'S ONLY NEW PLAY FESTIVAL WHERE YOU, THE AUDIENCE, CAST YOUR VOTE FOR THE SERIES FAVORITE! Selected from 95 nationwide submissions, you will experience original works for the stage, never-before-seen in the Coachella Valley, and then vote for your favorite. The "Series Favorite" will then be honored with a fully-staged production during Dezart Performs' 2014-15 Season.

Not to be missed, the Sixth Annual Play Reading Series features the talent of actors and directors from all over the Coachella Valley and Los Angeles.

Tickets are $8 per night, or $25 for the complete 4-night series. Tickets are available online here, or by phone at 800-838-3006.

Synopses and Series Schedule*

  • Evening One - Friday, April 11 @ 7:30 PM
  • THE (former) PROSTITUTES POTLUCK SUPPER - A Comedy**
  • by Frankie Little Hardin
  • In small Georgia town, south of Atlanta, a group of exceptional women ‐ and one man ‐ meets every month for a potluck supper. They're a diverse group in age and ethnicity and current occupation but they share one thing in common: their former lives as Working Girls. Now they enjoy each other's company; they share lives, hopes and dreams when they break bread together each month. But there's a new addition to the group and her arrival is going to call into question everything about who they believe themselves to be.
    **For mature audiences only. Contains strong language and sexuality.


  • Evening Two - Saturday, April 12 @ 7:30 PM
  • WHISPERS TO THE MOON - A Drama in Two Acts
  • by Kris Bauske
  • Marcia Mayfield has returned to the same hotel on the Riviera every August for the last forty-two years. There, she meets up with the one true love of her life, Charles D'Anjou, and they spend two weeks together despite the fact that each is married to someone else. This summer, however, Marcia's adult daughter shows up unannounced, and Marcia must juggle her efforts to help Carol choose her life's path while trying to find a way to tell Charles she must finally end the affair. Can Marcia keep her secret from Carol, and is the affair the only secret Marcia's hiding? What is the dark secret only Charles knows?
  • Evening Three - Friday, April 18 @ 7:30 PM
  • THE LIVING MRS. DEL VECCHIO - A Comedy in Two-Acts
  • by Larry Ukolowicz
  • Three women bond on the day of a funeral to form a trial-by-jury organization created to chastise anyone who simply ruins a lovely day. Witness their very first trial complete with pizza, a lot of vodka, a spouse tied to a folding chair and dance performances of the awkwardly preposterous kind in this wacky, crazy screwball comedy destined to tickle your funny bone.
  • Evening Four - Saturday, April 19 @ 7:30 PM
  • *DUCK AND COVER - A full-length Comedy - WINNER! AUDIENCE FAVORITE!
  • by Michael Kimball
  • It's October 1962. America's postwar innocence teeters on the brink of massive social change: civil rights, women's rights, students' rights, Vietnam, Dylan and The Beatles, the pill... But in suburban Massachusetts, the Whitebottom home remains sheltered from it all. Twelve-year-old Stevie wants a pair of sneakers. His mother Claire would like to get her drivers license. But husband Hugh, a shoe store manager, sees sneakers and women drivers as the first steps to anarchy.
  • *Schedule subject to change.