The 2008 Festival of New Solo Plays
March 27 to April 6 at the Powerhouse Theatre
 
Fifteen writer-performers from the workshop perform an eclectic array of new work that is
deeply moving, hilariously brave, bawdy, brazen and bold.
 
Jake Arnette
Good Quiet
 
and and
 
w e e k T W o and
Chrystee Pharris
In Search of O
 
What do you do at age 32 when—
though you’re bold and have no
fear—you haven’t found your O?
 
saturday, april 5 at 8:30pm
& sunday april 6 at 6pm
 
Joseph Valdez
Swimming to China in My Birthday Suit
 
Love and disease in dangerous times.
My nerves are doing the crazy
monkey dance all over my body.
I pick up my phone. Ring ... ring ...
“Hello? Ashley? Are you there?”
 
 
and
 
Stephanie Stephenson
Husband Fatigue,
Kettle Korn & the Antichrist
 
A woman’s intrepid trek through the
maze of her mother’s multiple marriages.
and
saturday, april 5 at 6pm
& sunday april 6 at 3pm
 
Trey Burnette
Rim of the World
 
Dolls, Hospitals, Lipstick- A Black Leather Whip.  Behind the wheel of a red convertible Mustang, a boy 's search for the meaning of mother and self, and the outer realm of love.
 
Kane Phelps
Little Buddha
 
In his dream house in Big Sur, everything is exactly as planned.
And then, Little Buddha
howls into his world.
 
In a classroom with tough, smart,
challenged kids, their teacher
gets life lessons he never learned
in the segregated South, with
tantrums and voices and
macaroni and cheese.
 
thursday, april 3 at 8pm
& friday april 4 at 8pm
 
                                              
 
 
                                                
 
Marc Goldstein
Meyer Percheck & the
Stream of Consciousness
 
When Meyer was fifteen, he wanted to be English and play in a rock n’ roll band.
He wanted to be Pete Townshend and windmill his arm around and around
and around and around ...
Sunday only
and
Amber Willat
The Lucy House:
Disaster in the Desert
 
Here’s what happens when you bring together a 68-year-old Jew-hating angry gay man, with a 65-year-old prostitute-banging, gambling, psychic Vietnam vet, with a
64-year-old, one-eyed, sleep-disordered, 24/7 pill-popping, washed up frat boy with a young explosive American boy with Texas and Bronx instincts who's madly in love with the boss’s daughter. 
 
 
 
and
saturday, march 29 at 6pm
& sunday march 30 at 6pm
 
Mary DeTienne
Hell, No! We Won’t Go,  
or How to avoid getting pushed off the edge of a cliff in a hang-glider glued together by stoners
 
When a six-year-old Wisconsin girl thinks that poverty is sad,
racism is bad, and the bomb is mad, what does she do? 
A ramble through the turbulent sixties, seventies, and eighties—
from Hollywood ashrams to underground arsenals—
on a quest to end war forever.
saturday, march 29 at 8:30pm
& sunday march 30 at 3pm
 
Tamara Krinsky
Egg Child
When Sarah decided to donate her eggs to help her Dad, she never thought she’d end up scrambled. A tale of fried nerves, cracked brains, and sunny-side-up hopes.
 
and Necar Zadegan The Women Within My Skin I see them all around, in my hair, in my eyes, and they cling to me. and
It starts in the secrets of Sicily, creeps across the seas, up to your back patio door.
Lisa Marie Sandoval
Secrets, Silence, & the Yowling
 
thursday, march 27 at 8pm
& friday, march 28 at 8pm
 
Christina Johnson
Hunger Strike
     You can make me be quiet
              But you can’t make me eat.
 
Dieting is more important than living. Less is more. Speaking up is impossible, until someone needs help.
 
Gabby Friedenthal
Cowboys and Hurricanes,
from Motherhood Unplugged
 
Wom (wife/mom) belts out from the vortex of motherhood.
 
 
and w e e k o N E
Stephen Grynberg
Grace in the Closet,
and other things hidden there
 
Marc Goldstein
Meyer Percheck & the
Stream of Consciousness
Sunday only
 
and rehearsal calendar
Listen to Martin Perlich’s
KCSN FM radio interview of
Stacie Chaiken, Gabby Friedenthal and Jospeh
Valdez, and excerpts from Festival plays.