Moonbox Productions is thrilled to announce its Boston New Works Festival taking place June in the Calderwood Pavilion and the BCA Plaza Theatres at Boston Center for the Arts. The Boston New Works Festival will be a weekend long festival celebrating new original plays by local playwrights and will showcase 7 original plays on five different stages at the Calderwood Pavilion and the BCA Plaza Theatres.

Schedule:

7:30 p.m: Mox Nox at BCA Plaza Theatre
By Patrick Gabridge
Directed by Alexandra Smith
Mox Nox – In a world of rising water, everyone desperately needs love and higher ground.
In a world of rising water, two sisters reunite at their family home. Mira, the caretaker sister, had to weather her mother’s death alone, and holds every childhood slight so close that she is literally burning from the inside out. Sister Deedee has returned to bring her fiancé, Pike, to higher ground, even as her memory vanishes. A play of lyrical magic and visual surprise, with characters desperately need love and dry land.

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7:30 p.m: Guts at BCA Plaza Theatre
By Rachel Greene
Directed by Shalee Cole Mauleon
Can six contestants on a hit reality weight-loss competition fin self-love and communal healing in a place designed to make them hate themselves and their bodies? Do they have the guts. The hit reality weight-loss competition show Guts is back with its Biggest Season Ever. there will be grueling challenges, verbal abuses, and – of course – the fan-favorite weekly weigh-ins. But behind the camera rivalries are forming, romances are blossoming, and friendships are being found in the most unlikely of places. Can these six contestants find self-love, communal healing, and liberation in a place designed to make them hate themselves and their bodies? Do they have the guts.

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8:30 p.m: Choose and Celebrate at Calderwood Pavilion
By Catherine Giorgetti
Directed by Devon Whitney
When violence permeates the 1970s queer community in Boston, Teresa’s activism and personal life converge and her relationships are thrown into disarray. In 1973 Boston, Teresa grapples with the realities of gay life: how to support her best friends Eric and Christopher in their union ceremony, how to deal with a homophobic straight friend who doesn’t understand her, and what to do when violence permeates her community. Inspired by stories from Gay Community News and the real queer people who lived in 1973 Boston.

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