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Playwrights' Revolution: 2010
The Playwrights’ Revolution is a program that embraces the Capital Stage mission to develop new plays and playwrights. Each year new plays will be selected for a series of intimate staged readings designed to identify and develop exciting new works for the theatre. Audiences will be invited to take part in the new play development by attending readings and participating in post-reading discussions. Some of these new pieces will be further developed through workshopped and even fully-mounted productions. In July 2009, Capital Stage proudly presented its first World Premiere production from the Playwrights’ Revolution: Erratica, An Academic Farce by Reina Hardy.
This year’s Playwrights’ Revolution highlights our Women in Theatre Project (WIT), a program dedicated to supporting works for the stage by and about women. Also this year, Capital Stage is very proud to introduce our first teen playwright to the Playwrights’ Revolution.
Please join us this summer for a series of four staged readings & experience the future live theatre...
Tickets: $10/Reading or $30 for the series of 4
Free Admission for 2010-11 Cap Stage Subscribers
Call for tickets: 916-995-5464
BELIEVERS by Patricia Milton
Monday, July 12, 7pm
Is it really better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? Or is it better to (pharmaceutically) remove the possibility of heartbreak altogether? Rockwell Wise is set to develop a love vaccine when his ex-lover Grace is hired to lead his team. What could go wrong? This full-length romantic comedy is set in a dystopian future, and inspired by the Grimm’s fairy tale The Frog Prince.
Patricia Milton's plays have been performed in New York, Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, and places in between. Her comedies Busybody (Bay Area One Acts 2008) and A Hitch in Her Plans (Winner, 2007 Hill Country Playwriting Festival) are published by Original Works Publishing and Eldridge Publishers. Solving Sunflowers was a prizewinner in the 2009 Eudora Welty New Play Series and a finalist in the 2010 Players Guild Theatre New Play Competition. She is co-author with Andrew Black of three full-length comedies: Porn Yesterday, Strange Bedfellows, and It's Murder, Mary!,and they are collaborating with Caroline Altman on a musical, Not Without Our Women. Patricia is President, Playwrights Center of San Francisco, and a member of Play Café, Theatre Bay Area, Central Works Writing Group, and The Dramatists Guild.
THE UNFORTUNATES by Aoise Stratford
Monday, July 19, 7pm
Mary Jane Kelly has a problem. She's a pound forty behind in her rent, her window is broken, she has lost her key, and her boyfriend just moved out. And it's 1888—not a good time to be poor and "unfortunate" on the streets of London. Somewhere out there in the foggy shadows, one of the world's most notorious criminals is at work. This new show by award-winning playwright Aoise Stratford explores such big issues as popular culture and women in Victorian society and more human concerns, such as the ways we choose to remember the ones we've lost and how that defines the way we live.
Aoise Stratford’s work has been produced in Canada, Italy, Australia, Belgium, England, and throughout the USA. Most recently, her full-length drama “Henry’s Wives” was produced by the English Drama Group in Salzburg, Austria. She is the recipient of several awards including the Alan Minieri Award, A Pinter Review Prize for Drama Silver Medal, the Yukon Pacific Playwright Award, the Hudson River Classics New Play Award, and The Last Frontier Theatre Conference Audience Choice Award. Her short plays have also won her ‘best playwright’ awards at Looking Glass Theatre NY, Turtle Shell Theatre, NY, American Globe Theatre, NY, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and others. She has been a finalist for the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman Award and been nominated for an American Theatre Critics’ Association New Play Award for her full-length play “Somewhere In Between.” She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the International Center for Women Playwrights. She has taught writing workshops for various conferences including the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Curious Theatre (Denver), and the Last Frontier Theatre Festival. Her work has been published by Smith and Kraus, JAC, United Stages and Merriweather Press.
COMPLETE by Andrea Kuchlewska
Monday, July 26, 7pm
Complete is a fast-paced comedy in which two obsessive linguists, a nine-year-old zealot, and a magnetic seminar leader meet head-on in a time-splitting wrangle over the power and perversion of language. When Eve discovers that Micah is doing the same self-help “Training” that twisted her childhood lexicon, what will stop her from destroying them both?
Andrea Kuchlewska is currently writing a series of plays about Americans and language. She is developing The History of English, about the 1996-97 Oakland Ebonics controversy, with Oakland Public Theater in Oakland, CA. Complete, a comedy examining the jargon of “large group awareness trainings” (such as est) and its echoes in our current popular discourse, was a finalist for the 2009 Princess Grace Award, sold out its run in the 2009 FringeNYC, and was selected for the 2009 FringeNYC Encore Series.
Andrea is a member of FAB Women, the women’s development group at The Barrow Group Theatre Company in New York City, and is a former artist in residence at The Z Space Studio in San Francisco. Andrea is also an associate member of the Dramatists Guild and the League of Professional Theatre Women. Andrea’s work has been developed or produced at FringeNYC, The Barrow Group, The Z Space Studio, El Teatro de la Esperanza, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Woman’s Will, Amnesia, The Marsh, Venue 9, Climate Theatre. Andrea produced the Z Magic Mondays play reading series, a program of Magic Theatre and The Z Space Studio, from 2003 – 2005, where she curated and promoted the work of San Francisco playwrights. While working in San Francisco, she was an active member of writers’ and artists’ groups at Magic Theatre, Brava Theater Center, Climate Theatre, and The Z Space Studio.
Andrea holds a BA in linguistics from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA in playwriting from San Francisco State University.
And our first featured teen playwright…
ENCOUNTERING LIGHT by Carissa Meagher
Monday, August 2, 7pm
A man and a woman encounter one another in a bar at closing time. He is down on his luck, having just discovered his fiancé is having an affair. She is out on the town, looking for excitement and men. After some snappy judgments and guarded debates, they allow themselves to open up to one another and discover a bit of their true humanity. Could it be love? Or just another fling? One bar, two strangers, and a whole lot of martinis later...
Carissa Meagher has been interested in and pursuing playwrighting since the age of ten when she first entered a young playwrights competition. Since then, she has continued to write many scenes, monologues, and one acts. She studied playwrighting with Karen Pollard at Natomas Charter Performing and Fine Arts Academy. Her first one-act, My America, a play about intolerance and the persecution of Muslims after 9/11, was produced by Natomas Charter. Recently, Carissa co-wrote a play titled Circus which was produced at California Stage in Sacramento. Her monologues were included in This is My Life and Closed Doors, compilations of dance and theatre that raised money for abused and homeless teens. Her other one-acts that have received readings include: Cleo Takes China, Jane Vole’s First Day of Work, Wolf, Bollix: The Unfortunate Mishaps of an Irishman, and Regretted Connection. Currently, she is working on a full length drama, A Mind of Nature, an exploration of the mental health care system and the effects of mental illness on families. Carissa will be attending North Carolina School of the Arts, BFA Acting program in the fall.
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