NotaBle Acts Theatre Company is pleased to share its initial 2016 festival lineup which includes thirteen new plays by New Brunswick playwrights. As previously announced, this year’s Mainstage production will be a new work by Solo Chicken Productions’ the coop. A Record of Us has been in development for the past year and will make its world premiere on the Fredericton Playhouse stage July 20-23, kicking off this year’s eleven day summer theatre festival.

With the exception of A Record of Us, all of the works included in this year’s festival were chosen among the many plays submitted through the festival’s annual playwriting competition.

This year’s winners include:

Wasters by Jake Martin

Caged by Alex Donovan

5 Short Plays About Nothing by Brent White

A Disturbance in the Force by Brittany Sparrow

Parallel Lines by Arianna Martinez

Speed-Marriage by Brandon Hicks

Gracenotes by Patrick Toner

Weekenders by Bruce Allen Lynch

The Dangers of Geothermal Heating by Dylan Sealy

First Sight by John Ball

Ralph and Laura and the River Valley Promo by Gordon Mihan

Fort Faith by Jean-Michel Cliche

Full descriptions of each play are available here.

A compete list of performance dates, locations and ticket information will be available soon.