The
McLean Drama Company,
a 501(c) 3 non-profit Organization, stages theatrical productions and dramatic
readings emphasizing its mission – to
present and inspire dramatic writing and new plays by area playwrights.
That primary focus has been concentrated in McLean and Fairfax County,
Virginia, but it also includes Montgomery County, Maryland, and Washington,
D.C.
The McLean Drama Company was founded to fill the
fundamental need for original scripts and dramatic works
in McLean and the greater Washington, D.C. area.
Rachael Bail, the founder and president of the McLean
Drama Company is a playwright, producer and journalist. She
is also a former Voice of America editor and Supreme Court correspondent.
She was married to Hal Prince’s concertmaster, having spent years
within the Broadway community and as
an author in New York City.
During several years living and working in Rome, Italy, she
wrote a column for the Rome Daily American.
Coming
up…
"Immoral
Combat", a new play by Rachael Bail, will be presented
at the
Alden Theatre in McLean, Va. June 12-14. Performances will be at 8pm, June
12
and 13, and
2:00pm, June 14.
"Immoral Combat" satirizes the news media,
including the
way reporters and editors covered the recent presidential campaign.
The play also takes aim
at the reporting about
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The winning play in the McLean Drama Company's
play contest for adults will be presented on Sunday
afternoon following "Immoral
Combat".
The winning play is "Seeds" by Shane Gardner.
The runner-up was "Holler" by
George Purefoy Tilson.

Allison
Plourde playing Octavia in
Rachael Bail's "Thousands of Year Rome"
at the Alden Theatre in McLean, Virginia

Alex
Bastani as Marius and Allison
Plourde playing
Octavia in
Rachael Bail's "Thousands of Year Rome"
at the Alden Theatre in McLean, Virginia

Maureen
Kerrigan, Director of the Alden Theatre
Production, "Thousands of Years -- Rome" and
Rachael Bail, Playwright, President
and Founder
of
the
McLean Drama Company
Above Photo Credits: Inbal More Photography, Inc.
“Thousands
of Years -- Rome”, a new play by Rachael
Bail,
was presented by the McLean Drama Company at the
Alden Theatre June 27-29, 2008.
“Thousands of Years -- Rome” takes a young Roman
couple from their parting in the Roman Forum in the 1st Century AD through
various vicissitudes to their reunion and marriage in the Forum in the 21st
Century. It covers the Roman battles in Britain, the Roman conquest of Spain,
the Renaissance, the unification of Italy, the Nazi occupation of Rome, and
the Iraq war. Following the performance June 29, the McLean Drama Company
will also present the winner of its 10-minute play contest, "Open
Communication" a comedy by Katie and
Alex Lewis.
Robert Griffin won second and
third prizes for
"Irish-American Misunderstanding" and "You Can Bank On
It".
“Thousands of Years -- Rome” was also presented
at the
Capital Fringe Festival at Flashpoint's
Mead Theatre
in
Washington, D. C.'s theatre district. Jamie
Roberts
directed the Capital Fringe Festival's
presentation
on
July 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 2008.

Earlier original
works staged in full productions by the McLean
Drama Company at the Alden Theatre include: “Tales
of the Decameron”, a
dramatization of famed Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece; “Lady
MacBeth Revealed”,
a new look at Shakespeare’s famous character where she is portrayed
not as the villainess he presented, but as a loyal Scotswoman; and “Return
to Vietnam”, a look at that war through the eyes and heart
of a Vietnamese woman and an American serviceman.
For a video clip from "Return to Vietnam"
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The McLean Drama Company has also produced "Emily and I”, which explores domestic violence in the context of a CIA officer and his wife in McLean, and staged dramatic readings of winners of the high school students’ 10-Minute Play Contest.
Professionally staged dramatic readings of those productions, and others, have
been presented for over a decade at the
National Press Club in Washington, D.C.


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