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Free Play Reading: The Company by Lex Thammavong

When:
July 7th
7-9:30PM

Where:
The Proscenium Theater At The Drake
302 South Hicks Street

Price:
FREE

Event Details

“In the dystopian food desert of City X no one’s quite sure who pulls the strings......except for, of course, Ash, a leftist activist/puppeteer, who no one takes seriously. That is until a mysterious “health, lifestyle, bioengineering conglomerate”called “The Company” sets up its new headquarters in City X.

When “The Company” attempts to buy City X’s last remaining independent bookstore, “The Church”, in its first of many efforts to transform the neighborhood, suddenly Ash and their neighbors quickly organize a resistance to save their community before “The Company” devours their businesses, homes, or even worse: their flesh.”

Join us on Monday, July 7 at 7pm for our third Foundry First Spark Reading presented in partnership with Philadelphia Theatre Company. Tickets are free! This reading is presented as part of PlayPenn's 2025 New Play Development Conference, July 5–20.

TICKETS ARE FREE!!!!

“The Company” by Lex Thammavong

Directed by Brett Ashley Robinson
Dramaturg: Walter Bilderback
Stage Manager: Randi Alexis Hickey

Cast:

• Erin Malimban as Ash

• Jackie Soro as Destiny

• Corinna Burns as Margaret

• Bob Weick as Bobby

• Shane Troxell as Hunter

• Michael A. Stahler as Voice

• Tyler Rocio Ecoña as Stage Directions

Theatre Address:
The Proscenium Theatre at The Drake
302 S. Hicks Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102

“The Company” is part of the lineup for PlayPenn’s 2025 New Play Development Conference, running July 5–20 at venues across Philadelphia. Each year, the conference offers audiences an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the future of American theatre, as bold, boundary-pushing new works—like this one—come to life in free public staged readings featuring some of the region’s most exciting playwrights, artists, and producing collaborators.