Past Seasons at The Pear
SEASON 1: 2002/03
Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw
Jeanie Forte (director), Sara Betts (Vivie), Joe Higgins* (Sir George Crofts), Steven Lone (Frank Gardiner), Nicolae Muntean (Praed), John Musgrave (Rev. Sam Gardiner), Diane Tasca (Mrs. Warren)
The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder and Col. Partridge's Pear Oil Radio Show by the Pear Playwrights Ensemble
Neva Marie (director), Paul Braverman, Brett Gaynor, Kim Jiang, Julie Masterson, Chris McCarty, Nicolae Muntean, Rebecca Schenone, James Stillian, Jennifer Sundberg, Eric Swartz, and Kristin Walter
Show and Tell by Anthony Clarvoe
Rebecca Ennals (director), Michael Barr (Farsted), Wiliam Church* (Seth), Maureen Coyne (Iris/ Lucy), Jennifer Erdmann (Corey), Patricia Tyler (Sharon/Erinn), Gloria Wang (Ann/Gail)
High Dive by Leslie Ayvazian and We Had a Very Good Time by David Auburn
Diane Tasca (director); Pat Tyler (Woman on High Dive)
We Had a Very Good Time
William Kenney (director), Kurt Gravenhorst (Paul/Dima), Diane Tasca (Nicole/Anna)
Vehicle by Elyce Melmon
Jeanie Forte (director), Patrick Brady (Jason Cantor), Paz Hilfinger-Pardo (Kim Cantor), Neva Marie* (Christina Cantor), Martha Stookey (Claudia Hurwitz)
SEASON 2: 2003/04
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (translation by Tom Stoppard)
And the World Goes Round by John Kander and Fred Ebb
Approaching Zanzibar by Tina Howe
A Beautiful Home for the Incurable by Ian Walker
A Fair Country by Jon Robin Baitz
Pear Slices, The Pear Playwrights Group
Season 3 2004/2005
Veracruz by John Levin
A MID(WINTER)SUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH by Thornton Wilder
PEAR SLICES 2005 by The Pear Playwrights Guild
THE PSYCHIC LIFE OF SAVAGES by Amy Freed
What the Birds Carry by Elizabeth Gjelten
THE BELLE OF AMHERST by William Luce
Season 4 2005/06
The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams
Master Class by Terrence McNally
Pear Slices 2006 Once again variety will spice the Pear as we present eight short and highly diverse new works by members of the Pear Playwrights Guild.
Tales of the Lost Formicans by Constance Congdon
Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw
Deuce by Sharmon Hilfinger
The Belle of Amherst by William Luce
Season 5 2006/07
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'niell
The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Pear Slices 2007 by The Pear Playwrights Guild
The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge
Space Is Blue and Birds Fly in It by Gregory Meyer
Season 6 2007/08
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov New translation by Craig Lucas
September 7 - 30
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee October 26 – November 18
True West by Sam Shepard January 17 – February 3
Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel February 22 – March 16
Pear Slices 2008 by the Pear Playwrights Guild April 4 -27
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen New Dramatization by Diane Tasca May 16 – June 8
Homeland Prayer by Jeff Carter World Premiere June 27 – July 13
season 7 2008/09
Eccentricities of a Nightingale 9/12/08 -
Nickel and Dimed 10/24/08 - 11/09/08
The Circle 1/09/09 -02/01/09
Pick Up Ax 2/27/09 - 03/15/09
Pear Slices 2009 4/10/09 - 4/26/09
The Way of the World 5/08/09 - 05/31/09
Metamorphoses 6/26/09 - 7/12/09
season 8 2009/10
Tell It Slant
by Sharmon Hilfinger
September 11 -27
This
riveting new drama with music tells the story of the personal crisis
that spurred the young Emily Dickinson to find her remarkably
idiosyncratic poetic voice. With original songs by Joan McMillen,
based on Dickinson's poetry. Learn More.
Hay
Fever
by Noel Coward
October 23 – November 8
It’s
June, 1924, and you are cordially invited for a weekend at the House
of Bliss (that is, actress Judith Bliss and her colorful family).
Champagne, charades, and shenanigans will ensue. Young,
lighter-than-air (and twice as bubbly) Noel Coward.
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Speed-the-Plow
by
David Mamet
January 8 – 24
Hooray
for Hollywood? Three denizens of the motion-picture industry (a
studio exec, a wannabe producer, and an office temp) tangle in this
savagely witty portrait of the biz. (The Pear’s 50th
production!)
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Pear
Slices 2010
by the Pear Playwrights Guild
February 12 - 28
You
know them, you love them—so bring on those Slices! This is the
seventh batch of exciting/versatile/gripping and altogether amazing
short plays by the Pear Playwrights Guild.
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The
Illusion
by Pierre Corneille
March 19 – April 4
Adapted by Tony Kushner
This
shimmering gem of French Neoclassical theatre is given a hilarious
new translation by the much-acclaimed author of Angels
in America.
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The
Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
May 7 – 30
A
portrait of the playwright as a young man, caught between ambition
and his ties to his Southern-belle mother and reclusive sister.
Heartbreaking, funny, beautiful. (A co-production with California
Conservatory Theatre)
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The
Shaker Chair
by Adam Bock
June 25 – July 11
Buying
a Shaker chair literally shakes up the life of a formerly disengaged
woman. She is gradually drawn deeper into an animal-rights dispute.
(Spoiler alert: live pig onstage!) A brilliant work by a rising Bay
Area theatrical star.
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