Homegrown: New Plays by Local Playwrights

Homegrown: New Plays by Local Playwrights

A play reading in Penfold Theatre’s series “Homegrown: New Plays by Local Playwrights”

Pull back the curtain for an intimate view of the playmaking process! Penfold has collected scripts in development by rising stars in the Central Texas playwriting community and will be teasing them to audiences in a series of play readings.

Deus Ex Machina

Deus Ex Machina is a live, choose-your-own-adventure performance that gives total control of the play’s storyline to the audience. Written by Penfold Associate Artistic Director Liz Fisher, Deus Ex Machina rips characters from Greek mythology and throws them into a gladiator ring. Through the power of Zeus, the audience is transformed into gods and battle it out like clashing titans to determine the fates of the infamous characters of the House of Atreus: Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Electra, and Orestes. But no matter what the audience chooses, there are consequences, and not all of these characters will make it out alive.

Run time: 2 hours
For ages: High school