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12th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival: An Evening of Short Plays at Thick House

Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
Title: 12th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival (website)
Venue: Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
Full Price: $28.00 - $40.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $20.00
Rating: 3.5 stars

Rated 3.5 by 6 members who went.

The 12th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival is an evening of seven short plays written by some of the Bay Area's hottest new playwrights. Performed and directed by top local talent, the short works are given full production to deliver what the Examiner calls, "as entertaining and thought-provoking as anything on stage at The City's major theaters these days."

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Members Who Went Said:

4 Star Rating
Written on
May 13 2008

Karen U.

Karen U.

The new scripts were inventive, well acted and just plain fun. Superb direction from some very impressive directors who have invested in Playground, and the creation/development of drama in our time. You should go, definitely!!!

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4 Star Rating
Written on
May 12 2008

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Peony

A very rich evening of theatre with lots of humor and depth. The performances at the Festival were much more polished than the Monday night staged readings. I enjoyed seeing each actor playing different roles. Direction was uniformly skilled.

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4 Star Rating
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May 26 2008

Susie S

Susie S

Great variety of interesting, creative and well-acted plays.

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Event Highlights

  • Opening Night (May 10) includes a post-show champagne reception with the artists.
  • The Monday Night PlayGround series was a success with Goldstar's members, as were the Best of PlayGround Festivals for 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004.
  • "It's not just the playwrights who get a rush from the breakneck speed of PlayGround." --San Francisco Chronicle
  • "You never know, maybe you can say you saw them when." --SF Gate

More Details About This Event:

The Best of PlayGround Festival is an evening of seven short plays written by some of the Bay Area's hottest new playwrights. Performed and directed by top local talent, the short works are given full production to deliver what the Examiner calls, "As entertaining and thought-provoking as anything on stage at The City's major theaters these days." PlayGround selects these seven works out of the 36 produced throughout the Monday Night PlayGround season.

The schedule:

O Happy Dagger by Crish Barth, directed by Tracy Ward
The Boy Who Did Not Listen To His Mother by Cass Brayton, directed by Nancy Carlin
Three Stories by Garret Jon Groenveld, directed by Lee Sankowich
Leo by Daniel Heath, directed by Jessica Heidt
Panopticon by Aaron Loeb, directed by Barbara Oliver
The Known World by Geetha Reddy, directed by Chris Smith
Giving Up The Ghost by Lauren Yee, directed by Jim Kleinmann

Ensemble: B.W. Gonzalez*, Christen Karle*, Anthony Nemirovsky*, Joseph O'Malley, Carla Pantoja, Adrian Roberts*, Ken Sonkin*
* Member, Actors' Equity Association