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…
“Thousands of Years -- Rome”, a
new play by Rachael Bail
will be presented by the McLean Drama Company
at the Alden Theatre in McLean,
Va. Friday,
June 27 and Saturday the 28 at 8pm. Sunday, June 29, the performance
is at 2pm. Kim Curtis and Maureen Kerrigan are directing the romantic
drama.
“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” will also be
presented at the Capital Fringe Festival in July at Flashpoint's Mead
Theatre,
916
G Street, NW in Washington, D. C.'s theatre district. It will be directed by
Jamie Roberts.
Dates and times are: Sunday,
July 20, 9pm; Thursday, July
24, 9:30pm; Friday, July 25, 6pm; Saturday, July 26, 1pm; Sunday, July
27,
Noon.

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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