About This Show
PlayGround, San Francisco’s incubator for the next generation of playwrights, presents The Best of PlayGround: The 7th Annual Emerging Playwrights Festival, featuring full productions of seven original short plays from the year’s top playwrights.
The seven plays to be presented this year include Cass Brayton’s I’d Like to Buy a Vowel, an odd lover’s triangle with a drag queen in which drama can sometimes substitute for love; Michael Lutz’s The Vigil is an introspective tale about a man in a bar, heading to his mother’s funeral, and worrying about his fish; Martha Soukup’s Cold Calls, a short comedy about a telemarketer with whom most people would definitely want to speak; Aaron Loeb’s Sound, in which two Asian Americans discuss the creation of the world, relations between Japan and Korea, and their unborn child; Hunters and Gatherers, by Kenn Rabin, is a dreamy interlude between two strangers on the ferry to Alcatraz; Maria Rokas’ Plans and Peccadilloes, a story of marriage gone wrong, and Kristina Goodnight’s Letterophilia, a comedy about written correspondence.
The festival will also offer staged readings of two full-length plays, commissioned by PlayGround: The Eve Generation, by Kristina Goodnight (playing June 21 at 2PM),and Missives, by Garret Jon Groenveld (June 28 at 2PM).
Rounding out the 18-day festival will be post-performance discussions and symposia featuring leading Bay Area theater professionals, and education programs for emerging professional playwrights.