Past is the present, Imperfect

A very special person and good friend Tom Minter will have one of his plays read at The Warehouse on Saturday. You should go because he is great.

Playreading Series hosted by the City Artistic Partnerships
Featuring Tom Minter
Past is the present, Imperfect

Saturday, November 29
3 pm
@ The Warehouse
1017 7th Street, NW

Tom Minter—Born in New York, raised in Philadelphia, Black American playwright Tom Minter studied play writing at Pomona College, Claremont California. In 1991, Minter moved to London, England, where his work was initially nurtured by The New Playwright’s Trust, and subsequently performed in London and Berlin. He has collaborated with several British directors, but was especially mentored through working with Areta Breeze. In 1996 Minter was commissioned by The London New Play Festival to write Sempre Suburbia! The work premiered in the Festival’s program that year. His play Fragments of a Dream was produced at The Riverside Studios, in Hammersmith, London. His work Exposition was premiered at The Arts Theatre, in London’s West End, in 1997. In 1998 The Brave Hearts Theater in Minneapolis premiered 2 one act plays by Minter: Strawberry dwarves and other lies, and Hostage. Minter moved back to the states in 2000. His work has been championed by the New York based Hansberry Project, and has been presented at The Henry Street Settlement, and The Lark Theater in Manhattan. Minter has had two full scale works produced in Philadelphia; Perfection Unspeakable, in 2005, and in 2006, Cakewalk, a production created in collaboration with digital animation artist Victor Ingrassia. Minter lives in DC.

Past is the present, Imperfect—Locked in suburbia over three days at Christmas, a son wrestles with his mother’s fastidious delusions; an aunt deals with the repercussions of her act of self sacrifice, and a wife strains to keep the knives out of everyone’s hands–especially her own. Past is the present, Imperfect is a biting look at how one family copes with a holiday revelation, which exposes the consequential lies that have shaped dysfunction.