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Directed by David Stein
Stage Managed by Casey Fern
Costumes by Elise Barley
Sets & Light Design by Quinn J. Whitaker
Music & Sound Design by Kat Downs
Chorography by Alysia Hook
July 15-August 14
Thursday/ Friday/ Saturday 8pm
STARRING
Andrew Calabrese
Linda-Ruth Cardozo
Lance Fuller
Kat Kneisel
Ben Ortega
Linda Wang
A modern twist on A Midsummer Night's Dream set in a redwood forest
in Northern California! When Jack agrees to sell his forest land to a multinational lumber
company all hell breaks loose at his wedding party. Throw some hallucinogens into the
punch bowl and Jack finds himself in the custody of a beautiful tree nymph while being
pursued by the wedding party, which includes his jilted bride. An outrageous romp in the
woods ensues, settling the fate of the forest, and the lovers, once and for all.
NYMPH O' MANIA
has its own website: www.nymphplay.com
AUGUST
SOLO PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP FESTIVAL
"DIS-ORIENTED: A trio of solo performances by Asian-American women"
featuring Zahra Noorbakhsh, Coke Nakamoto, Thao P. Nguyen
"I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid To Tell You"
Written and Performed by Jennifer Jajeh
"Love, Humiliation and Karaoke"
Written and Performed by Enzo Lombard
"I Heart Hamas: And other things I'm afraid To Tell You"
Written and Performed by Jennifer Jajeh
"Lady Parts"
Written and Performed by Martha Rynberg
"Solo Show #2"
Written and Performed by Bruce Pachtman
"Ungrateful Daughter"
Written and Performed by Lisa-Marie Rollins
"AAAAAAAAAARGH!"
Written and Performed by W. Kamau Bell
THE SPW SHOWCASE featuring
Nicole Maxali, Ericka Lutz, Julia Jackson, Debra Netkin
ABOUT THE SOLO PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP:
Founded in 2005 by W. Kamau Bell & Bruce Pachtman, The Solo Performance
Workshop celebrates 5 years of creating some of The Bay Area's most
engaging, socially relevant, politically conscious, genre bending,
and hilarious solo theater.
From Enzo Lombard's comedic musical, "Love, Humiliation, & Karaoke,"
to Jennifer Jajeh's tragic-comedy "I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm
Afraid to Tell You," to Lisa Marie Rollins' debut "Ungrateful Daughter," to
W. Kamau Bell's critically acclaimed hit show "The W. Kamau Bell Curve:
Ending Racism in About an Hour," and much, much more. SPW concentrates
on NEW voices of solo work.
Never heard of The Solo Performance Workshop? Well, it's time you jump
in with both feet!
BUY A FESTIVAL PASS FOR $69 AND SEE 7 PERFORMANCES!
Click on tickets for ANY show to buy Festival pass.
SEPTEMBER
Paolo thinks he’s going to die. And not just quietly in his sleep
when he’s 87 either. He’s convinced that the blood clot in his
leg is going to make its way into his chest, causing a major heart
attack, which would kill Paolo instantly at his desk, while he was
updating his status on Facebook. And this is all assuming that Paolo
doesn’t kill himself first. Either by finally manning up and slitting
his wrists (just making sure to avoid the tendons to retain use of his
hands if he screws up) or maybe jumping in front of a BART train
(although he doesn’t wanna be remembered as the ass who got
the trains delayed). But first, he has to write the perfect suicide note,
which he can’t seem to do.
If you don’t think that’s dark enough, today is the day his mom died,
fourteen years ago. Paolo’s going to visit her grave, to sort out all
this cosmic screwing around. From psych wards, to exclusive
Bay Area prep schools in Marin County, to Playstation controllers
used as improvised nooses, what’s someone who might be bi-polar to do?
Bi-Poseur, the show that Hiya Swanhuyser of the SF Weekly said,
“mines the depths and comes up with gold” is probably the best
time anyone will ever have hearing about suicide, mental illness,
and dead parents for a night.
Bi-Poseur is proudly directed by the indomitable W. Kamau Bell
(Of The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About An Hour
fame and directing Enzo Lombard’s Love Humiliation & Karaoke and
Jennifer Jajeh’s I Heart Hamas:
And Other Things I’m Afraid to Tell You fame).
Thursday September 1st 8pm
Friday September 2nd 8pm
Saturday September 3rd 8pm
Thursday September 9th 8pm
Friday September 10th 8pm
Saturday September 11th 8pm
Thursday September 16th 8pm
Friday September 17th 8pm
Saturday September18th 8pm
Thursday September 23rd 8pm
Friday September 24th 8pm
Saturday September 25th 8pm
Tickets $
Monthly
Next Show: September 26th 7pm
Featuring:
SOLO SUNDAYS, one of S.F.'s premier showcases for solo performance, presents select samplings of veteran virtuosos
and top emerging talent in the intimate StageWerx theater
near Union Square. Beyond stand-up and storytelling, solo
theater creates casts of thousands - plus special effects -
all bursting from a single performer. The results are
hilarious and heartbreaking, passionate and provocative,
ablaze with personal visions.
W. Kamau Bell is the co-founded and facilitated of the
Solo Performance Workshop. You may be familiar with his name.
His solo show, “The W. Kamau Bell Curve” was a critical and
popular success this past year in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley
and most recently at the Comedy Central Stage in LA. He was
honored by the SF Weekly as the 2008 Comedian of the Year.
Which is likely the reason that the plays created in SPW deliver
a very funny and personal perspective on stories that often
contain serous outcomes.
SOLO SUNDAYS is being programmed by Bruce Pachtman,
the co-founder of the Solo Performance Workshop as well
as the writer/actor of “don’t make me look too psychotic”,
the acclaimed solo show that ran for a combined100 weeks in
San Francisco, Philadelphia and LA.
We’re thrilled to announce
that SOLO SUNDAYS is being produced at one of San Francisco’s
finest venues for solo performance, StageWerx, an intimate 50
seat theater directed by Ty and Cory McKenzie, a theater iconoclast
with a history of presenting anything from rock operas to scary
movies to improv comedy to staged readings to circus arts.
Tickets $10
7:00pm
Fourth Sunday of each month
(except when holidays force us to choose another weekend)
(like December)
No show in August 2010
Next Show: September 26th 7pm
Featuring:
TBA
Please join us for what we’re
certain will be one of the best shows in town.
Future show Performer/Writers
Monthly
Circus Finelli Revue:
A New Bi-Weekly Variety Show
2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each Month
July 14th and 28th 2010
Showtime: 8 pm
Tickets: $15 general, $10 students and seniors,
available through brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006
$10 tickets available through www.tixbayarea.com, or at the tix booth in Union Square, SF
Circus Finelli presents a new bi-weekly comedy variety
show at Stage Werx.
Circus Finelli is San Francisco’s all-women clown
troupe, specializing in ridiculous circus comedy
with a vaudeville aesthetic.
Links of interest:
Circusfinelli.com
Stagewerx.org
Vanessavortex.com
“Smartly funny… a razor sharp ensemble” –SF Bay Guardian
Monthly
SUNDAY August 15th 7pm
Lineup:
Dixie De La Tour * Julia Jackson * Joe Klocek
Good comedians have the ability to reduce a 30-minute experience
to a 30 second joke. Joe Klocek, one of San Francisco's finest
comedians, wants to reverse that process. After performing comedy
for 15 years he's eager NOT to condense events to a set-up and a
punchline. He wants to tell the story behind the punchline. So, Joe
created a storytelling series and in the process assembled a
remarkable group of San Francisco's top stand-up comics, solo
performers and storytellers. It occurs at StageWerx, an intimate
space that is superb for telling stories.
ABOUT JOE KLOCEK: Joe has appeared on Comedy Central's Live
at Gotham and NBC's Last Comic Standing, was the runner up
at the SF International Comedy Competition and headlines at
the Punch Line Comedy Club.
Tickets $10
No Show in July
Website for Previously Secret Information
Monthly
Every 3rd Wednesday of the month
join us for 4 amazing performers
Wednesday August 18th 8pm $10 at the door
Featuring:
Kelly McCarron
Morgan
Mike Spiegelman
Jeff Applebaum
Comedy Werx is a monthly fundraiser for Stage Werx Theatre
While other arts organizations have been forced to shut down,
Stage Werx has managed to keep its doors open. But we are badly in
need of some necessary improvements. Curtains, light board,
electrical work, and the holy grail of improvements, a basement
bathroom. (clouds part, angels sing).
Comedy Werx brings together some of San Francisco's most talented
and funny performers while helping to raise the necessary money to
fund these improvements. We’ll also be featuring local services and
items in a nightly raffle. Please join us and help support the arts.
Next show:
Wednesday September 15th 8pm
Line-up: TBA
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