Will Geer Program Hosts New Plays

  ’Botanicum Seedlings,’ the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum’s development series for playwrights, celebrates its 10th year of supporting new works and new voices in theater with readings of three new plays, beginning with Jami Brandli’s ‘Bliss’ on Sunday, June 10 at 11 a.m. at 1419 Topanga Canyon Blvd. in Topanga, halfway between PCH and Woodland Hills.   ’Bliss,’ (or ‘Emily Post is Dead’) is a domestic comedy of mythological proportions set in 1960 in North Orange, New Jersey, where Clytemnestra, Medea and Antigone look to Emily Post for advice, until Cassandra questions their fate. Randee Trabitz directs.   Upcoming readings include ‘Dancer in Kandahar’ by Shannon Lee Clair on June 17, and Michael Gene Sullivan’s ‘Recipe’ on June 24.   Botanicum Seedlings was created and is run by Theatricum playwright-in-residence Jennie Webb with Seedlings literary manager Julie Retzlaff.   Readings are free, and begin at 11 a.m. On-site parking is $5. Contact: (310) 455-3723 or theatricum.com