Way of the WorldThe Pear Avenue Playwright's Guild

Creating a working environment for playwrights is core to the mission of the Pear Avenue Theatre. We offer excellent opportunities for playwrights to participate in our theatre, and we are committed to including new work by Bay Area playwrights each season.

We nurture an ongoing Playwrights Guild, which focuses on the writing process. Meetings often include writing exercises examining writing techniques, analysis of plays, and reading from members works-in-progress. Each season we produce an evening of short plays, “Pear Slices,” written by members of the Guild.

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Play Reading Series

Join us for three exciting evenings of new plays written by members of the Pear Playwrights Guild

 

Familiar Strangers
by Margy Kahn
Sunday, May 17, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
directed by Lindi Press

Set in L.A. (Tehrangeles) of the early 90's Familiar Strangers is a tragicomedy about the plight of an Iranian woman raising a rebellious teenage daughter in a culture she only partly agrees with and understands

Time NotOur Time
by Leah Halper
Sunday, May 24, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
directed by John Aney

In 1959, best-selling author Rachel Carson is about the embark upon the biggest--and last--struggle of her life: she will battle time to awaken the world to the dangers of pesticides--and change history as a result.

Ellipsis
by Elyce Melmon
Sunday, June 7, 2009 @7:30 pm
directed by Linnea George

When Henry Backster, a blind poet, comes to San Francisco to receive a literary award, it is with the hope that he can rekindle a passionate relationship with the widow of his twin brother, but she is slow to forgive the transgressions that led to his success.


May 5, 2009