Pegasus Theatre presents Fresh Reads: The Return, which celebrates new comedies with staged readings of three new works by Southwestern playwrights. The works will take audiences from 10^th century Germany to present day West Texas to the future of robotics. The staging includes lights, sound, and costumes, but a minimal set.

Shows selected for Fresh Reads: The Return

• The Art of Martyrdom by Rita Anderson - An irreverent behind-the-scenes look at Hrosvitha, the first female playwright. It is an exploration of how her “secret” plays got out and about the 10th-century nun’s secret playfulness. But, if the first female playwright of the Western world lived 500 years before Shakespeare, then why has no one heard of her?
• The Robotics of Love and Longing by Germaine Shames - A quirky adult comedy about technology, taboos, and the lengths to which the human need for connection may drive us.
• Mutability by Straton Rushing - A senseless crime gets committed in a rural, desolate corner of West Texas and the lone survivor is left to tell her story... but this is a comedy so it is actually about grief, fear, and the slow undignified economic death of rural America which will be explored with heart and humor.