Cape May Stage Presents Reading of Streetlight Woodpecker

CAPE MAY — Cape May Stage presents a staged reading of Streetlight Woodpecker, a new work from New Jersey playwright and Ocean City native Shawn Fisher. June 10 at 8 p.m. stop by the Robert Shackleton Playhouse for this ‘pay-what-you-wish’ event.
Focusing on Benji, a Marine returning home to Philadelphia after being critically injured during battle, Streetlight Woodpecker depicts the emotionality of life after war and the wounds that resurface upon coming home. Rendered homeless by his father’s suicide mere days after his return, Benji moves in with his childhood friend Sam. Soon, questions from his youth return to haunt him – questions about his manhood and his relationship with Sam – and Benji turns to booze, pills, and reckless fighting as a form of distraction, all while plotting to kill the woodpecker that loudly bangs the metal streetlights in the neighborhood.
Shawn Fisher is also the playwright of How to Make a Rope Swing, which premiered last year at Cape May Stage and won an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award and was a national finalist for New York’s Urban Stages Emerging Playwright Award. His work has been produced or performed as staged-reading at a number of regional theatres. Co-founder and Director of the National Playwrights’ Symposium at Cape May Stage, Fisher has also acted as set designer for a number of the theatre’s productions.
A staged reading of Streetlight Woodpecker will take place June 10 at 8 p.m. at the Robert Shackleton Playhouse located on the corner of Bank and Lafayette Streets in downtown Cape May. Age guidance is 16 and older. Tickets for the event are ‘pay-what-you-wish’ and advance reservations are not available. For more information visit www.capemaystage.org or call Cape May Stage’s box office at (609) 770-8311.