A Series of Meetings

by Savannah Reich

Why are there so many meetings? And why are they all terrible? Are we just not trying hard enough? Our facilitators have spent the past year meeting once a week to figure out what is wrong with all our meetings and now, they are ready to share their findings with you at a one-time only, very special meeting- so well planned, so thoughtful, so perfect that it will heal everything that divides us.

Why are there so many meetings? And why are they all terrible? Are we just not trying hard enough? Our facilitators have spent the past year meeting once a week to figure out what is wrong with all our meetings and now, they are ready to share their findings with you at a one-time only, very special meeting- so well planned, so thoughtful, so perfect that it will heal everything that divides us.

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A Series of Meetings

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  • Heidi Kraay: A Series of Meetings by Savannah Reich
    “

    In the audience for this play, I felt the way I do at most meetings--something ridiculous is happening, I'm on the outside (AND inside), surreality is reaching a breaking point and I don't think the people who called the meeting even know why we're here. And (I think) those feelings are completely as Reich intends. Yes, meetings have gotten out of hand. This play too gets out of hand--in a riotous, delicious, laugh-from-the-gut way that helps me reconsider what in heck we're doing together when another meeting gets called...and what I might do differently--laugh, for instance.

    In the audience for this play, I felt the way I do at most meetings--something ridiculous is happening, I'm on the outside (AND inside), surreality is reaching a breaking point and I don't think the people who called the meeting even know why we're here. And (I think) those feelings are completely as Reich intends. Yes, meetings have gotten out of hand. This play too gets out of hand--in a riotous, delicious, laugh-from-the-gut way that helps me reconsider what in heck we're doing together when another meeting gets called...and what I might do differently--laugh, for instance.

    ”
  • Wolfgang Jones: A Series of Meetings by Savannah Reich
    “

    A SERIES OF MEETINGS is very fun and very inventive. Reich plays with structure and theatre in a way that inverts so much of our expectations of this medium (and its relationship to the audience) before offering a thought-provoking and hopeful ending which left me considering our collective potential if we really came together. Yet another piece by this playwright that I'm eager to see staged.

    A SERIES OF MEETINGS is very fun and very inventive. Reich plays with structure and theatre in a way that inverts so much of our expectations of this medium (and its relationship to the audience) before offering a thought-provoking and hopeful ending which left me considering our collective potential if we really came together. Yet another piece by this playwright that I'm eager to see staged.

    ”

Development History

  • Workshop, Seven Devils New Play Conference , 2023
  • Workshop, Playwrights Center , 2021