Work Eats Home

Your office becomes your living room in this collection of five original one-act plays about where you spend your time away from home. This first production of our second year embodies our mission to produce new works by new writers.

- Beckett meets the Marx brothers in David Ackerman’s absurdist
comedy Shred This.
- Tim Bauer’s The Magic Word lampoons the white collar solipsism
of many of our downtown’s finest.
- How to Survive in Corporate America is playwright Ian August’s
surreal instructional manual for how to survive the daily grind.
- Noelle Chandler’s I am the Wrecking Ball investigates the fine
line between retirement and professional wrestling.
- Something Warm by Ryan Beebe explores the imminently imploding relationship of a young professional
couple.

June 19th through July 12th 2008
Thursday through Saturday (no 4th of July show)
$12/ticket

The Phoenix Theatre, 414 Mason Steet(@ Geary)
6th floor, San Francisco

 

March to November

By Tore Ingersoll-Thorp

The play is inspired by Chloe Veltman’s
(SF Weekly) January 9th article “Election
Stage Left.” The oped on the past and present
temperament of political theatre also served
as a call to arms for Bay Area writers to pen
more leftist, activist work.

Challenging playwrights and companies to write
richer material to surprise their audiences rather
than placate them, Ms. Veltman asserts that for
artists all too willing to rest on their lazy liberal laurels,it is time to raise the bar.

We are responding.

Using the article as a spark and the upcoming election as a backdrop, we utilize a classic hero story to assess the relevance of overtly political theatre.

October 23rd through 
November 8th 2008
Thursdays through Saturdays, $14/ticket
--Final weekend (Nov. 6, 7, 8)--FREE for anyone wearing their “I voted” sticker.

The Phoenix Theatre, 414 Mason Steet(@ Geary)
6th floor, San Francisco.

 

The Short and Happy Life

By Ryan Michael Teller

“Everyone was writing their 9/11 response plays and this was mine. An exploration of loss--an exploration of a pure and simple
relationship which is exploited by
a corrupt outside world.”

After the incomprehensible death by
combustion of his best friend and mentor,
Manny Singer tries to navigate the
monstrous world of present day Los
Angeles and the monsters looking to
capitalize on his story. This surreal
extrapolation from the event, frenetic
and dreamlike, examines the harsh
abandonment of youth.

March 5th through 21st 2009
Thursdays through Saturdays
$14/ticket

The Phoenix Theatre,
414 Mason Steet (@ Geary)
6th floor, San Francisco.

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