Member Productions

REDUCTION IN FORCE

a new comedy about back-stabbing, ass-kissing, and survival of the sneakiest

written by Patricia Milton, directed by Gary Graves

The Icarus Wealth Management Group has hit financial whitewater.  Behind closed boardroom doors profits plunge, questionable investments surface, and a crisis erupts.  What's the solution?  Fire the "little people," of course!  A reduction in force puts career secretary Anita Green on the chopping block.  Will she keep her job or her self-respect?  An hilarious clusterf*** of backstabbing, ageism, class warfare, and --- romance!

A Central Works Method Play developed in collaboration with Gary Graves, Michaela Goldhaber, John Patrick Moore, Kendra Lee Oberhauser, Gregory Scharpen & Jan Zvaifler.  Complete details here.

Central Works at the Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704

The play was used in the department of theater by director Brian Keegan, professor at the Ohio State University(Lima) since fall of 2009.  Last fall EMBRACE ARMS was studied in Dr. Alan Woods', Ohio State University's (Columbus) honors class in the department of theater.It is part of Evans' collection which is archived at the Ohio State University’s Department of Theatre and Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute located in the Special Collections section of the Thompson Library (Main).

Evans' work as being part of the theater of the Absurd was reaffirmed by her "blind" reader Sybil Kempson at Great Plains Theater Conference: the review "My fave kind of plot - one with its own logic. Hard to get ahead of - surprising for all involved. Precise and admirable balance of ADHD and focus contributes to excellent plot structure.

Fresh dialogue. They've got a great banter going on and after a while it becomes poetic, and becomes a doorway to a different reality. Full of surprises - unafraid of absurdity. Very engaging characters & don't need ot be full on acct of wild dialogue - they can relax and be flat in a wonderful way.Character can lie in athleticism of performers delivering.

Stakes are very high & covered over in deceptive and compelling way by excellent banter. Very moving because indirect. Sneaks up on you like death itself. Dramatic premise is the reality & unreality of being hospitalized & surgeried, of dying and living. The setting floats. But you can see the rooms, the furnishings, the equipment. Definite theaterical potential.

The language is its own setting. Totally authentic, original.

Dialogue btwn father & daughter, the looking & discussing of old photos - unforgettable. Excellent, fitting style that uplifts the story. Very very nice play. Very moving. 9.5."

 

 

 

This play was commissioned by the National Park Service two years ago and is being presented at the Women's Rights Museum in Seneca Falls NY on August 6th for two afternoon performances.  Admission is free and open to the public.

 

The Jason Miller Playwrights' Project presents a staged reading of the new play by Alicia Lynn Grega, under the direction of Sarah Stachura Regan at The Olde Brick Theatre on Providence Square in Scranton, Pa.

Avenging Arachne is a contemporary interpretation of the ancient Greek myth about the weaver, Arachne.

Cast TBA. Admission is by donation.

Visit http://subverseaphrodesia. com/arachne.aspx for more information.

THE OWL GIRL received a staged reading, directed by Naomi Newman, at San Francisco's Theater of Yugen, as part of Golden Thread Theater's first reading series.

THE OWL GIRL is a magic realist play about two families who both have keys to the same house, and what happens when they try to live in it together.

The reading was followed by a response panel that included survivors of the Nakba, the Holocaust, and the Armenian genocide.

S/HE, a play commissioned by International Culture Lab consisting of two one-act plays, LINDSEY'S  OYSTER by American playwright Tammy Ryan and LAST EXIT BEFORE THE BRIDGE by Turkish playwright Zeynep Kacar, will be performed at The Kitchen Theater May 4-15, 2011.  For more information go to: www.kitchentheatre.org or www.intlculturelab.org.

Carolyn Kras's short play "Reticence" will be showcased on May 2 @ 7 P.M. in "The Puzzle: Marble's Festival of New Work."  The location is Room 806, One West 29th Street, New York, NY 10001.

"Reticence" is about a married couple who fear they have exhausted all conversation.  For more info, please visit www.carolynkras.com

Believers by Patricia Milton
directed by Lisa Edsall Giglio

Sunday, May 1, 2 pm at Stage Werx Theatre, 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco. Mimosas & homemade chocolate chocolate-chip cookies!

Love. Drugs. Unexpected side effects. 
Inside Tower Labs, drug researcher Rocky Wise is working to create a love vaccine so he never again will feel the pain of a bad break-up. His worst fears are activated when his former beloved, Grace Wright, shows up to work in his lab. Can he develop the vaccine in time to avert another heartbreak? “Believers” delivers a prescription-strength dose of whacked-out comedy.

This reading features Jeffrey Hoffman, Gabi Patacsil, Jaimelee Roberts, and Garret Dailey. As part of the Wily West Productions New Play Festival!
 
Tickets are $10, or just $5 for those associated with a theatre company and members of ICWP, TBA, Play Cafe, or Playwrights Center of San Francisco.

Historic Mt. Olivet cemetery in Pineville, Louisiana will reenact the burial of Major Mercer Canfield. Killed at the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana.

Terri Febuary was asked to write two monologues to be performed at the cemetery.

The 16th Governor of Louisiana, Thomas Overton Moore, the Secessionist Governor 1860-1864 was buried in the historic cemetery.

Major Mercer Canfield, will be the soldier who is eulogized at the cemetery with the reenacting of a traditional military funeral of that era.

These monologues are a part of the Sesquicentennial Civil War remembrance.

This is a script based on excerpts of interviews taken by the WPA in the 1930's of Ex-Slaves who were still alive and lived through slavery and the Civil war. *

This compilation of readings dealing with the life of a slave as told in the recorded and written interviews, will be performed at Tyrone Plantation in Rapides Parish near Alexandria, Louisiana on Bayou Rapides Road, April 29, 2011 6:00 p.m. Central.

This is part of the Sesquicentennial Civil War recognition.

There are 3 women and 2 men as readers.

http://www.theheartoflouisiana.com

*("When I Was a Slave" Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection edited by Norman R. Yetman.)