“Glove Story” by TV writer and producer Ken Pisani, will be performed in staged reading at DC Black Theatre Festival.
Finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Julie Harris Playwright Award, Glove Story: A tragicomedy in black & white will be performed in a one-time-only staged reading as part of the DC Black Theatre Festival’s New Works Reading Series June 28th 2014 at 8 p.m. at The ARC Theater (1900 Mississippi Ave, SE, Washington DC 20020).
First presented in Los Angeles in a staged reading at the Stella Adler Theatre featuring Emmy-winner Ed Asner (Lou Grant, Roots) and Sy Richardson (Repo Man, Pushing Daisies), with subsequent reading hosted by the Writers Guild of America, West, featuring Eugene Byrd (8 Mile, The Promised Land) and Michael Welch (The Twilight Saga, Joan of Arcadia), Glove Story is being presented in anticipation of a future fully-staged production.
“Irish” Jimmy Morgan and Sandy “Sandman” Johnson are retired middleweight champions who fought each other in a legendary trilogy in the 1950s and early ’60s against the backdrop of a changing nation and the Civil Rights movement.
“Irish” Jimmy won the middleweight crown from “the Sandman” in 1956, losing the title back to him in their 1958 rematch. Both times, Johnson had found himself distracted, first by events in Montgomery and later at Little Rock; and when he retired for good after their 1963 draw to join the Civil Rights movement, “Irish” Jimmy never forgave him for refusing one final bout that would mark a definitive end to their rivalry.
Now in their seventies, “Irish” Jimmy finds himself down on his luck and in failing health, while “Sandman” Johnson enjoys adulation as a Civil Rights icon. But things aren’t exactly as they appear, and when they find themselves reluctantly reunited in the present by a young female sportswriter, their stewing animosity erupts to hilarious and ultimately poignant effect.
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