12th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival: An Evening of Short Plays at Thick House
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
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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."
Event summary prepared by the Goldstar Editorial Team.
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More Details About 12th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival
Quotes & 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 Information
Website: http://playground-sf.org/bestof.shtml
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:
<p>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</p>
Ensemble: B.W. Gonzalez*, Christen Karle*, Anthony Nemirovsky*, Joseph O'Malley, Carla Pantoja, Adrian Roberts*, Ken Sonkin*
* Member, Actors' Equity Association
