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Glass Houses
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 7:00PM

The Players Theatre
115 MacDougal Street
Between West 3rd & Bleecker Streets
New York, NY 10012
Main Stage
A, C, E, B, D, F & M trains to West 4th. Exit at West 3rd and walk one block east to Macdougal street. The theatre is located on the corner above Cafe Wha.

The theatre is located on the first floor but there is a small flight of stairs at the entry. The restrooms are located in the basement.

Glass Houses
A new play by Tennyson Bardwell. A Staged Reading

tagline
A young Catholic girl struggles with her faith in the wake of the "cancel culture" death of her genius brother.

synopsis
Glass Houses is about a brilliant, sixteen year old Catholic girl struggling with her faith in the wake of the tragic “cancel culture” death of her genius brother.
We open on a stormy night in Shaddy's upstate home, where electrical blackouts keep putting her into darkness, evoking a parable: How life often plunges us into darkness, and how we emerge with more wisdom, "By the awful grace of God.”
From this stormy night of her brother’s first ever romantic date to his untimely death months later, Shaddy interacts with her family and two imaginary characters: a deceased cousin, and Jesus of Nazareth - whom she confronts more aggressively as her doubts increase.
This is a memory piece and Shaddy orchestrates, breaking fourth walls, controlling stage elements - like a night with Thorton Wilder. Glass Houses builds with humor, even farce, into deeper drama, to its shocking conclusion.

Tennyson Bardwell bio
Carnegie-Mellon graduate and award winning screenwriter/director Tennyson Bardwell (Indie hit, Dorian Blues, The Skeptic) presents his first play, Glass Houses.
Tennysonʼs first feature, Dorian Blues, won 14 awards on the festival circuit; including The coveted HBO Best First Feature prize at LA’s Outfest, New York NewFest's Best Screenplay award, and received much critical acclaim:

"Throughout the film the writing remains cleverly acrid. …Bardwell gently lights a footpath between two ways of living." the NY Times

"A brilliantly well written script – insightful, hilarious, and ultimately profoundly moving." The London Times

"A film with a lot of heart." The NY Post

"Well written and well acted.'' The LA Times

Bardwellʼs second film, The Skeptic, starring Tim Daly (Diner, ABC's Private Practice, Wings), Zoe Saldana (Star Trek, Avatar), and Tom Arnold (True Lies), was released worldwide by IFC Films and SFP.

www.TennysonBardwell.com