Spring 2006 Plays
April 11
BAMBI'S NIGHT OUT by Byron Gordon
Directed by Adena Demonte
Vince loses his cool in his attempt to teach Lenny the art of picking up women.
Traveling
through the universe at the speed of a supersonic slug, Byron Gordon
makes his staged play debut with "Bambi's Night Out." A San Francisco
native (born and raised) Byron concocts gripping stories out of the
underbelly of the human condition. Not one to shy away from
controversy, Byron's most recent parable, The Battle for Justice, was
recently self-published and critically reviewed by the public at large
describing it as one of the most powerful dramas ever to grace the
written page. Life is demanding to this young provocateur so if theater
lovers the world-over want to hear and see much more from him they
should consider philanthropy.
THE SCRATCH by Morgan Ludlow
Directed by Adena Demonte
Estelle
must face the ultimate battle of her life with "The Scratch." Driving
down the highway in her station wagon with the dug up bones of her
daughter and mother, she is ready.
Morgan founded Center
Stage Theatre Company which produced over 20 new plays in Salt Lake
City. His play THE ONSLOW PROJECT has received a staged reading at City
Lights Theatre in San Jose and was a candidate for a New Works grant
from Theatre Bay Area. He has had several of his plays produced with
various theatre companies in Salt Lake City including: AGE OF ANXIETY
at Theatre Works West, THE MONTANA STAR, THE CAMPUS ROSE, THE SPIDER'S
BANQUET and SERENADE with Center Stage Theatre and WAITING FOR AUNT REA
at the University of Utah. Morgan is currently a manager for Teatro
ZinZanni, a circus dinner theatre extravaganza, on Pier 29 in San
Francisco.
May 9
BURNING by Harrison Rivers
Directed by Mark Gagné
Through
a series of conversations – about family, driving, livestock and love –
two people discover a genuine connection and a beautiful, albeit
unconventional, relationship begins.
Originally from
Manhattan, Kansas, Harrison Rivers relocated to San Francisco after a
four-year stint at Kenyon College in the cornfields of Ohio. He has
used his American Studies and Drama majors to procure gainful
employment as an academic counselor at a local high school and writes
in his spare time. Harrison's plays have been workshopped at CAFEARTS
(San Francisco ) and accepted for production at Theatre-Studio, Inc.,
The Riant Theatre, manhattantheatresource (New York City) and The Last
Frontier Theater Conference in Valdez, Alaska.
June 20
MOSCOW, UTAH by Krista Knight
Directed by Alice Shikina
Janel
and Irene Stevens are telephone operators for the "It's Beginning to
Look A Lot Like Christmas Holiday Supply Company." They work from their
home in Basmanny, a painfully small town in Utah, so that they can take
care of their younger sister Laura, the victim of a "zoo accident". The
older sisters dream of moving to Moscow, Utah and away from the burden
of caring for Laura. To what extent will Janel and Irene go to make
their own dreams come true?
June 27
THE MUSICALITY OF CHOCOLATE by Marilyn Flower
Directed by Adena Demonte
Chocoholic
writer Frieda Goldman and her developmentally delayed sister, Faith,
vie for the heart of a man who struggles to free himself from familial
ghosts of the Holocaust.
Marilyn's short plays have been performed by Playground, Abydos, and by
Playwright¹s Café at the 2003 San Francisco Fringe Festival. "The
Musicality of Chocolate" is my first full-length play.
July 11
RICE KUGEL by Chas Belov
Directed by John Ferreira
Chinese
American Richard is becoming Jewish. Why is he keeping it secret from
his new white, Jewish boyfriend Bill? Comedy-drama; contains explicit
sexual dialogue.
Chas Belov joined the Playwrights Center of San Francisco in 2004. He
has written on gay and language matters in the amateur press community
for many years. His humorous paper, Computer Generation of Conference
Presentations, was published by the National Computer Conference. His
parody of Steve Goodman’s song "City of New Orleans" was published in
the 1997 New England Science Fiction Association Hymnal. An
autobiographical essay, "My Life of Race and Sex," was published in
Lavender Godzilla, the literary journal of the Gay Asian Pacific
Alliance. Rice Kugel is his first play.
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