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On the Periphery of Love
A Weekend of Solo Performance with
Valentine's Day Implications
Feb. 13, Sat. (8:00) - Paolo Sambrano
Feb. 14, Sun. (7:00) - Thao P. Nguyen,
Zahra Noorbakhsh, Bruce Pachtman
Tickets: General Admission $15 (per performance)
Festival Pass $25 (Saturday & Sunday pass)
What do these things have in common: free trade pistachios,
Islamic inter-gender rooming protocol, parade floats from
Orange County, and suicide? Well, obviously, Valentine's Day.
At least it's obvious to the organizers of On the Periphery of Love:
A Weekend of Solo Performance with Valentine's Day Implications.
Look, you spend 364 days a year either in a happy relationship,
or unhappy because you're not in a relationship, or disappointed
because your group marriage doesn't look anything like
the way it's depicted in a popular HBO series.
So, this Valentine's Day weekend, why not take the
time to check out a new vision of romance? Or, better yet,
four new visions of romance. Because on Saturday,
February 13th and Sunday, February 14th, four members of
W. Kamau Bell's Solo Performance Workshop (which is rapidly
emerging as one of the top development labs for solo performers
in the Bay Area) are throwing an alternative Valentine's Day
shindig. A different show on both nights.
On the Periphery of Love opens on Saturday with the
premiere of Paolo Sambrano's Bi-Poseur. Sunday we offer you a
theatrical box of candy. Three bite sized, chewy comic solo
extravaganzas. That's when solo performers Thao P. Nguyen,
Zahra Noorbakhsh, and Bruce Pachtman enter the picture.
Attendees can purchase tickets for each show or, like
Woodstock and the Jewish High Holy Days, they can obtain a
weekend pass that allows them entry into both programs.
On the Periphery of Love: A Weekend of Solo Performance with
Valentine's Day Implications occurs at the intimate
(perfect for Valentine's Day),
dark (again just right), and spooky (that wasn't part of the plan) StageWerx Theatre in Union Square.
If you don't think that's a perfect way to spend Valentine’s Day weekend,
maybe you just don't believe in love.
Which is sad,
because we know someone who'd be perfect for you.
SHOW DESCRIPTIONS
All Atheists Are Muslims --
Zahra Noorbakhsh
How hard can it be for a Muslim, Iranian girl in her
mid-twenties to move in with her White-American,
Atheist boyfriend and get her father's blessing...
when she says that she doesn't want her father's
blessing? Which is what Zahra wants. What she
doesn't want is to get stoned in a
ditch in the backyard. Is that too much to ask?
Possibly. ~ Zahra was a finalist in the National
College Comedy Competition at the Aspen Rooftop
Comedy Festival.
I’m So Gay --
Thao P. Nguyen
Thao is gayer then a rainbow farting unicorn.
Somehow, her parents haven't noticed. Well it's
finally time for her to tell them. ~ Thao has
performed at Menlo College, the San Francisco
Theater Festival, and The Marsh. She is also the
co-producer of the solo performance series WordsFirst
at Counterpulse.
it starts in bed and ends in bed but differently --
Bruce Pachtman
It's hard to explain how Bruce went from being laid off,
losing his girlfriend, and ultimately rendered incapable
of getting out of bed to suddenly co-habitating with a
famous actress, landing a lead role in a Mike Nichols
comedy, and owning a talking clock that provides him
with good counsel. Even he finds it hard to believe. ~
Bruce’s first solo show, don't make me look too psychotic
ran in San Francisco, Philadelphia and L.A. for a total
of 100 weeks.
Bi-Poseur --
Paolo Sambrano
Assuming Paolo doesn't kill himself first, the blood clot
in his leg will. But before all that he has to deal with
uncooperative Playstation controllers, Bay Area prep
schools, and his quest for the perfect suicide note
(otherwise, why do it?) ~ Paolo was the lead producer
of the short film, Elements, nominated for a Golden
Gate Award at the 2005 S.F. International Film Festival.
Feb. 13, Sat. (8:00) - Paolo Sambrano
Feb. 14, Sun. (7:00) - Thao P. Nguyen,
Zahra Noorbakhsh, Bruce Pachtman
Tickets: General Admission $15 (per performance)
Festival Pass $25 (Saturday & Sunday pass)
Monthly
Next Show: January 31st 7pm
Featuring:
Brain Rosen
Katie Rubin
Solo theater creates casts of thousands – plus special effects –
all bursting from single performers. The results are hilarious
and heartbreaking, passionate and provocative, ablaze with
personal visions.
Solo Sundays, S.F.’s premier monthly showcase, presents select
samplings of veteran virtuosos and top emerging talent in the
intimate StageWerx theater near Union Square.
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)
Next Show: January 31st 7pm
Featuring:
Brain Rosen
Katie Rubin
Please join us for what we’re
certain will be one of the best shows in town.
April
Stage Werx is proud and honored to announce
that we are now the official home sweet home of
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Monthly
Sunday February 21st 7pm
Sunday March 21st 7pm
Tickets $20
Enzo really does not want to end up cut into little pieces and
deposited on the side of the highway. Yet he’s risking just that
by driving 600 miles to meet SanDiegoDavid, a complete stranger
he met online. Enzo’s not looking for love, he’s just way behind
on an assignment for his Berkeley psychic class. Even though
“David” could very well be a serial murderer, to Enzo he’s still safe.
Safe because David is a non-contender for dating, having three
out of five of Enzo's rigid non-negotiables. To be safer still,
Enzo’s meeting him at a Del Taco parking lot. But when he arrives
at their meeting place, the guy’s car is left parked across the
entryway making it impossible for anyone to get in or out. David’s
psycho potential has just gone through the roof. Who does that?
What has Enzo gotten himself into? This is humiliating, and
even worse, TOTALLY UN-PSYCHIC.
"Love Humiliation Karaoke - Outstanding Production (Solo)
Enzo Lombard - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical Production"
Playbill
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San Francisco Chronicle
"constant laughter"
San Francisco BayTimes
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March
Triangular love and real estate in San Francisco
a stage play by Jim Strope
Starring:
Belle Borovik
Leer Relleum
Carlo Matteucci
Rob Witowski
Every weekend in March
Friday 8pm
Saturday 8pm
Sunday 3pm
Tickets $16
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