FORKING!, an Original Comedy Where the Audience Decides the Ending
Off-Market Theater (965 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103)
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- $15.00
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- FREE - $7.50*
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The last date listed for FORKING! was Saturday January 31, 2009 / 8:00pm.
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Goldstar Member Tips
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Goldstar Member on What to Wear
Anything... super casual.
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Howard A. Smith (A/K/A TigerKing) on Where to Park
Better to take transit -- or find parking on the street if you drive.
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Goldstar Member on Other
Front seat would be ideal, but the theater is small enough not to matter too much
Goldstar Member Reviews
Goldstar Member
this was a feel good, laugh out loud fun time and i have told my friends and family to go see this play.Written on Jan 14 2009
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James
FORKING had a few moments... and I mean few… and moments... of funny. It was essentially a group of drinking buddies who seemed to be demonstrating their personal lives on stage. It appeared that at least half of the audience was made up of their friends (perhaps bar pals?). The theme was swearing, getting laid, and pounding beers. Not acting as if pounding beers - actually doing it - the cast and crew were audibly (crack, pshhhhht) and visibly opening and passing around cans of beer - constantly. And some of their pals came with their own flasks of stronger drinks. Drinking can be great, I love sex, and I'm way above average on the vulgar scale, but that's pretty much all this consisted of. Any of those things, or just about any subject for that matter, can be made interesting if written cleverly and performed well. But none were handled cleverly or interestingly at all. I suppose "FORKING" is meant to imply the voting "forks" in the plot, but it was used much more as a sex reference (what rhymes with fork? the word most used in this play), and most votes were weather or not two people have sex. And you gotta love a cast that high fives, shakes hands, and accepts kudos from good friends and crew as they go on and off stage from the side of the theater – like a football team. And don’t come thirsty unless you like beer. They sell snacks - cookies, brownies, etc. - but there is one beverage available. Beer! I love some of our local theater here in San Francisco, but unfortunately this kind of thing gives local theater a bad name and keeps audiences away from the good shows.Written on Jan 12 2009
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Howard A. Smith (A/K/A TigerKing)
Written on Jan 19 2009
This was a very entertaining laughfest -- truly a fun piece of work! It had "The Smiths" rolling. It was presented as a series of inter-related vignettes reminiscent of the extreme animated reality show "Drawn Together" from Comedy Central, or better yet the demented soap opera satire "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" from 1976/1977.
We even called for an encore! And in that vein, I would suggest the players prepare something akin to movie out-takes where they can come back out and do an alternative ending, or something of that nature.
Truly fun stuff! And kudos to the young pianist. That was a nice addition. He really helped set the mood.
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Goldstar Member
The stage is small and there are very few seats. The show starts off rocky and a little forced, but the writing, the acting and the gets dramatically better and quick. 30 minutes into it, you are clapping your hands, stomping your feet and trying to silence those who are voting against you.Written on Jan 16 2009
It's engaging, entertaining and funny. I would definitely recommend it, especially through Goldstar.
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More Information About FORKING!
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Quotes & Highlights
- See a series of mockumentary videos about the making of the show on PianoFight's website.
Description
<p>This full-length play came about after SF native Daniel Heath’s short play Twice as Bright was awarded the top prize in Pianofight’s “ShortLived,” a three-month competition of 22 short plays by local writers (that SF Weekly deemed “Better than SNL”), the winner chosen by the audiences. Heath’s prize? The opportunity to write a full-length piece on anything of his choosing, to be produced by PianoFight for a month-long run in the theater the company manages, Studio 250. After a few boozy creative sessions, Heath delivered a whopper with twists, turns, and multiple endings. And he did it having never before written a full-length play.</p> <p>The story centers around Chastity, a wedding photographer with a bad knee and no health care, and Joshua, a Canadian who will lose his job if he can't get his visa renewed. After a night of heavy drinking, the two decide that the best way to solve both their problems is to get married – giving Chastity health coverage as the new spouse of Joshua, who would become an American citizen by marrying Chastity. The only problem: Will the audience get them to their joyous day?</p> <p>Starring PianoFight mainstays Christy Crowley, Stefanie Goldstein, Nina Harada, Kate Jones, Jeremy Mascia, Rob Ready and Dan Williams, and featuring Ray Hobbs and Jacque Vavroch, the play is directed by Eric Reid, who also helmed Heath's winning piece in “ShortLived.” </p>
About the Ticket Supplier: PianoFight Productions
PianoFight was voted the Best Theater Company in San Francisco in SF Weekly's 2009 Readers' Poll, and the Best Up-And-Coming Theater Company in the City by SF Weekly in 2011.