Know Theatre’s Tamara Winters is straightforward when asked why the Over-the-Rhine theater launched Serials! a year ago: “We wanted to give audiences a reason to keep coming back. We keep bringing it back because it’s working!”
Late last summer, Serials! featured scripts by five playwrights delivered in 15-minute installments across five alternating Monday evenings. Know, the producer of the annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival, envisioned that the series would bring back audiences that flock to OTR for the Fringe.
A second round of Serials!, “Thunderdome,” (this past February and March) made it more competitive: After each performance, audiences voted for favorites. Two low-voted works departed, and two new pieces were added.
On Monday, Serials! begins its third iteration. The theme is “Round House.” Five serialized tales have been conceived, but after the June 29 performance (7:30-9:30 p.m.), writers will trade places and continue a script someone else started or continued. That round-robin process repeats on July 13, Aug. 3 and 17, finishing up on Aug. 31. Read more here.
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This article appears in Jun 24-30, 2015.
