Discovery Bay Players, who staged a critically acclaimed production of Faith Healer last fall (2010) in Seattle and Port Townsend, will be staging a play reading this September (2011).  First up is an original work, The Rehearsal, by local playwright David Draheim, to be read absolutely free of charge at the Jefferson County Library, 630 Cedar Avenue, Port Hadlock, starting 2:00pm, September 10 & 11 (Saturday & Sunday).  No reservations.  First-come, first served.

The Rehearsal is a seriously comedic, postmodern, metadrama about four actors – two couples, one straight, one gay – who have been creating through improvisation a play about a gay professor, his homophobic colleague, a pregnant lesbian bookseller, and a tango-dancing gigolo janitor from Harlem.  This latter quartet of characters, in turn, is rehearsing an adaptation of a story by Jorge Luis Borges.  The Rehearsal is a play within a play within a play about trust, commitment, and the possibility of love.

Directed by Patricia Earnest, stage-managed by Heather Tillman, actors are Steve Treacy, Michelle Hensel, Lawrason Driscoll, and Freeman Luoma.