Saturday, February 11 at 2:00 pm in the Marc Jacobs Reading Room

The Provincetown Public Library is pleased to announce the first public reading, as enhanced readers theater, of Checkmate, Reckoning in a Trans-Racial Family, an original, new play by Tim Bosworth, Cape Cod writer and playwright. It features Glenn Starner-Tate, Sallie Tighe, Steve Brito, and Karen McPherson. Checkmate was written in 2022, and has been described by a critic as a fresh approach to an old problem.

February 11, 2023, represents Tim’s return to the Provincetown Public Library after a 4-year hiatus. His last play read at the Library was Hardly Ever, a story of love, basketball, politics, and sexual abuse. Tim is a member of the Provincetown Theater’s Playwright’s Lab. His original one-act comedy, How to Sail, was produced as a part of the Lab’s Spring Festival in 2016.          

Tim started writing plays right after 9-11. This is Tim’s sixth play in addition to other work. He wrote and directed over Zoom, Alpheus, King of Somerset County, NJ, in May 2021, as a part of Somerset County’s annual celebration of Older Americans’ Month. His play, Troubles in Henry’s Nose, his humorous and uplifting take on personal loss, filmed in 2020, has been seen in-person in senior centers in Provincetown, Orleans, and Harwich, and, since it was filmed, throughout the Northeast as far west as Ohio, and south to North Carolina. It can also be seen on YouTube and on the author’s website, www.troublesinhenrysnose.com. His first play, Somewhere Under the Rainbow, was read in the lobby of the Provincetown Theatre in 2015.