Flint Rep’s third annual New Works Festival is a three-day event presenting staged readings and workshops of new plays and musicals. Audience members will get a chance to experience this new work before anyone else and participate in post-show discussions with the playwrights and composers.

Friday January 17 7:00pm
TALK TO ME
Book and Lyrics by Charlie Sohne
Music by Tim Rosser

Commissioned by the New York City Children’s Theatre, this musical is about a young boy on the autism spectrum and the unexpected companionship he finds in Siri, the automated personal assistant on
his mother’s iPhone. What starts out as an easy and reliable way to get answers to all his questions might prove to be his key to learning to better connect with those around him.

Saturday, January 18, 2:00pm
QUIVER
by Jenni Lamb
For over twenty years, Adam and Diane (twin brother and sister) have spent a week at their cabin in Northern Michigan waking at dawn and heading into the woods armed with compound bows and coffee. After missing the last three years, Adam is desperate for the silence of the woods and Diane needs to fill her freezer with venison for the winter.
Quiver explores our relationship to our surroundings-and habitat, and our deep need to connect with nature. It also delves into the way we experience the end of relationships, childhood, and life itself.

January 18, 7:00 pm
WRONG RIVER
by Josh Wilder
As the water crisis in Flint, Michigan begins to make national headlines, a young couple struggling to make ends meet scrambles to fight for a better future for their daughter- even if it means losing everything they have.

Sunday January 19 7:00pm
THE MOON AND THE SEA
Book by Douglas Lyons
Concept, Music & Lyrics by Creighton Irons
Along with their friend Elijah, Charlie and Erin revisit the beach where years before they experienced a miracle–the moon and the sea fell in love and became one. When Erin unexpectedly brings her new fiancee, Charlie is forced to confront the idea that their love is finished and made to wonder whether the event that changed his life even happened at all.