New Plays from A.C.T.'s Young Conservatory (Young Actors Series)

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Ascension Day, by Timothy Mason: Nine young people struggle for independence, personal identity, love, and the promise of the future at a Lutheran Bible camp in Wisconsin in 1947. Windshock, by Mary Gallagher: A group of teenagers tell the story of a family at odds with each other and a mysterious stranger who changes their lives forever.

Reindeer Soup, by Jow Pintauro: A motherless family tried to survive in the frozen tundra of Northern Canada in the face of a hostile environment, a dysfunctional father, a mystic Eskimo, and a reindeer named Norman.

Sightings and High Tide, by Brad Slaight: In the first of these two one-act plays, an unusual prom night finds three teenagers wrestling with social pressures, complicated by a promised visit from afar. In the second, a chance meeting with two girls on a Southern California beach helps two young men sort out their feeling about the death of their best friend.