TDM Thesis Festival Writers Week: Expectations by Jonah Sorscher

Expectations
A TDM Senior Thesis Play Reading by Jonah Sorscher

After years of unsuccessful auditioning in New York City, 26-year-old Margot returns to her childhood home to live with her parents. But when she receives a callback for a theatrical adaptation of Great Expectations, all bets are off. Racing against the dawn of adulthood and the pressures that it brings, she holes up in the attic to method act the role of Miss Havisham, a woman who has fashioned her entire life to remain trapped in a single moment of heartbreak. As fiction and reality begin to blur, so do past and present, ultimately offering the question: what happens when we can't outlive our own expectations?

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About the TDM Senior Thesis Festival

Theater, Dance & Media’s Senior Thesis Festival returns for its third year, with two weeks of readings and performances in March. Writers Week, March 11-12, features staged readings of five original works by TDM seniors. Production Week, March 27-29, will showcase a solo performance on the Farkas Hall Stage.