The SF Playhouse 2011-2012 Season
The season revolves around fear and hope, the opposite human impulses that drive us to do our best and our worst. And ironically, our fears can bring out the best, and hope lead to the worst.
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Bill English announces the season
Honey Brown Eyes
West Coast Premiere
by Stefanie Zadravec
Directed by Susi Damilano
Sept 20th - Nov 5th
Press Opening, Saturday Sept 24, 2011
Tues/Wed/Thurs at 7pm Fri/Sat at 8pm, Sat Mat at 3pm
Bosnia, 1992. Two kitchens. Two soldiers. Once members of a band together. Now on opposite sides of a war. Can a bond formed through music survive a world spinning out of control? Unlikely partnerships emerge in this play of horror, humanity and stunning relevance.
Period of Adjustment
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Bill English
Nov 15th - Jan 14th
Press Opening, Saturday Nov 19, 2011
Tues/Wed/Thurs at 7pm Fri/Sat at 8pm, Sat Mat at 3pm
A Tennessee Williams comedy? Ralph Bates is a Korean War hero facing problems with his in-laws. His former comrade George has just married the beautiful and naïve Isabel, but he’s suffering with “the shakes.” They meet up on a snowy Christmas Eve in Tennessee where a tangled and explosively funny 24 hours ensues.
Becky Shaw
Regional Premiere
by Gina Gionfriddo
Directed by Amy Glazer
Jan 24th - Mar 10th
Press Opening, Saturday Jan 28, 2012
Tues/Wed/Thurs at 7pm Fri/Sat at 8pm, Sat Mat at 3pm
From their first blind date, which includes an unscheduled visit to the police station, this couple, along with the newlyweds who set them up, surprise us –and themselves– in a comedy thriller The New York Times called “as engrossing as it is ferociously funny, like a big box of fireworks fizzing and crackling across the stage!”. This play asks what we owe the people we love the most and the strangers who land on our doorstep. A 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
The Aliens
West Coast Premiere
by Annie Baker
Directed by Lila Neugebauer
Mar 20th - May 5th
Press Opening, Saturday Mar 24th, 2012
Tues/Wed/Thurs at 7pm Fri/Sat at 8pm, Sat Mat at 3pm
In the town of Shirley, hanging out by the dumpster behind the coffee shop, two young men meditate on music, philosophy, ‘shrooms, and Bukowski. When a teenage employee asks them to relocate, they find the disciple they’ve been waiting for. A beat-tinged, psychotropic journey, Annie Baker’s The Aliens is a funny and heartening look at friendship, ritual, and small town New England.
A Behanding in Spokane
Regional Premiere
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by Susi Damilano
May 15th - June 30th
Press Opening, Saturday May 19th, 2012
Tues/Wed/Thurs at 7pm Fri/Sat at 8pm, Sat Mat at 3pm
Take a man searching for his missing hand, two con-artists out to make a few hundred bucks, and an overly curious hotel clerk, and the rest is up for grabs. From Academy Award Winner Martin McDonagh, the writer of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Pillowman, and In Bruges comes a comedy as black as sin, caustic as acid, funny as hell.
My Fair Lady
Based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe
Directed by Bill English
July 10th - Sept 15th
Press Opening, Saturday July 14, 2012
Tues/Wed/Thurs at 7pm Fri/Sat at 8pm, Sat Mat at 3pm
This classic Broadway musical is reinvented into a fresh new production designed to fit the intimate SF Playhouse Stage. By stripping the show to its core, the power, brilliance and humor of the original pour forth with new life. This illuminating new production of the beloved American musical is performed by a cast of 10. Foregoing elaborate sets and extravagant production numbers, this My Fair Lady will focus on Eliza’s emotional journey.
