BOA X Program Announcement

PROGRAM 1 (March 6 - March 26, 2011)

THE FALL

By Crish Barth

In March of 2009, an online chat-group emerged to discuss Natasha Richardson's skiing accident. What they ended up discussing was anything but Natasha Richardson -- inspired by true events.

Directed by Colin Johnson/Round Belly Theatre Company

TEST PREPARATION

By M.R. Fall

Standardized testing is Hell. Or is Hell standardized testing?

Directed by Julia Heitner/No Nude Men

SPEAK ROUGHLY

By Stuart Eugene Bousel

A dramatic meditation on puzzles and things that are puzzling, iconic and inconclusive identities, significant and insignificant life moments, and all the times you wish you hadn't had sex.

Directed by Kate Jopson/Woman’s Will

THE OPPOSITE OF ROMANCE

By Jon Brooks

An imminent extra-marital affair is short-circuited by a possibly public post on Facebook. A play about middle age and marriage in the era of instant communication.

Directed by Stephanie Renee Maysonave/Company Member, Boxcar Theatre

THE POND

By Sam Leichter

It's Christmas Eve near the idyllic shores of Maine's Wrang Pond. As Bella awaits her husband's return, a winter storm and an unexpected turn of events bring her face-to-face with an enigmatic stranger.

Directed by Paul Cello/Instrumental Theatre

PROGRAM 2 (March 6 - March 26, 2011)

TWICE AS BRIGHT

By Daniel Heath

A woman waits for a bus and decides to fall in love and break up with the next man she meets before she gets on her bus. She has ten minutes to make it happen.

Directed by Sara Staley/Playwrights Center, SF

THE HOT SPOT

By Tim Bauer

A couple discovers a strange pool of light in their living room that, whenever they step into, compels them to perform monologues.

Directed by Rob Ready/PianoFight Productions

A THREE LITTLE DUMPLINGS ADVENTURE

By Megan Cohen

A delightfully twisted tale of three little dumpling's epic adventure through the house one afternoon.

Directed by Jessica Holt/3WM

PURE BALTIC AVENUE

By Bennett Fisher

A mortgage fraud scheme turns into a clockwork frenzy as three suits struggle to get rich and escape unscathed. It's a simple premise, really.

Directed by Alex Curtis/Threshold

CANARY YELLOW

By Sharif Abu-Hamdeh

A couple's relationship rewinds; a review of loss and love, in its absurdity and poignancy.

Directed by Sara Judge/Theater Pub

CLOUD FLOWER

By 11^th Hour Ensemble

Cloud Flower explores the memory of the atom bomb's devastation of Hiroshima through the tangled dreams of one of its survivors. Using trademark imagination and physicality, the 11th Hour Ensemble presents an evocative take on the infamy of the Mushroom Cloud.

Created and directed by Allison Combs and Ryo Harada/11^th Hour Ensemble

9th Annual Bay One Acts Program Announcement!

Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company

is very proud to announce its programming for

The 9th Annual Bay One Acts (BOA)!

February 18th - March 13th, 2010 at Boxcar Theatre in San Francisco.

Ticket information to come soon!

Program 1

Generic Play by Edward Luhn

Dir: Jill MacClean, Managing Producer, Playwrights Foundation

Somewhat clinical dramatization of perennial domestic conflict, with brief but humorous denouement.

Query by Ben Fisher

Dir: Meg O’Connor, Administrative Director, Playwrights Center

A dark comedy about bureaucracy, art, and language.

Catcher in the Rye (Cancelled) by Jon Brooks

Dir: Jessica Holt, Threshold

A hilarious parody of the perils of copyright infringement, fair use and dramatic license.

Reading with Friends by Crish Barth

Dir: Paul Cello, Climate Theatre

Four friends have reluctantly gathered in a small apartment on a cold winter night to read the parts of Barry's latest play out loud. Only thing missing? Barry and the play.

Altered Landscape by William Bivins

Dir: Claire Zawa, Three Wise Monkeys

Frank and Lena canoe out to the river island where they spent their honeymoon. When they wake to find the river choked with logs, they are forced to confront their entrapment--both on the island and in their lives.

The Philadelphian by Sam Leichter

Dir: Rob Ready, Piano Fight

George can't remember what he said or did last night... but Devon can. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Program 2

Three Little Words by Tim Bauer

Dir: Alex Curtis, Playpen Theatre

Romeo and Juliet. The entire play. All the speeches. All the characters. With four actors. In three-word sentences. Which can't be done.

The Great Double Check by Megan Cohen

Dir: Claire Zawa, Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company

Two friends' hunt for a missing wallet turns into an all-out screwball when a mysterious stranger reveals a secret that will change everyone's future.

Oh my goodness what could it be?

Housebroken by Stuart Bousel

Dir: Claire Rice, No Nude Men

A fable that may be about hubris, adoption, snobbery, music, class, lifestyle, marriage, ambition, parenthood, insecurity, art and/or humility. The author admits that after two years of lessons he still couldn't play the piano, and suspects he's not the only one.

Nothing Works by Daniel Heath

Dir: Amy Claire Tasker, General Manager at Cutting Ball

A short comedy about failure.

The Life and Death of Joshua Zweig by Lauren Yee

Dir: Tore Ingersoll-Thorp, Sleepwalkers Theatre

Today, Joshua Zweig will die. Or rather, there is a very highly probability that he will. At least according to Dead Joshua Zweig, the ghost who has come back to warn him of his impending death. How does a man cope with life in the face of uncertainty? And what happens to those he leaves behind?