Allison Page's HILARITY to Premiere at DIVAfest, 3/5-28

DIVAfest presents HILARITY, a new play by Allison Page, directed by Claire Rice at the EXIT Studio, 156 Eddy St, SF. The show runs March 5 - March 28, 2015
(Previews March 5 & 6, Opening March 7). Tickets $15-25 ($10.00 previews) - http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/902630.

HILARITY is a new play about a girl named Cyd. She's not so nice. She's not so sober. She's not so happy. But she is funny. Cyd is a comic on the edge of destruction. Liz is the only person keeping her from pickling herself to death. She has an agent who's afraid of confrontation. She has a mother who likes men on motorcycles. She has a mattress in the middle of the room, and that's it. Maybe she'll turn it all around, or maybe her drunken lies, hungover manipulations and impulsive violence will finally bury her. What does it matter how good you are at something, if you don't know how to be a person?

DIVAfest has been awarded grants by both the TBA Cash panel and the Dramatist Guild to produce this exciting new work by one of San Francisco's favorite performers!

Allison Page (playwright) is a writer/actor/comedian from rural northern Minnesota. She's been in the bay area nearly 7 years. She is the Co-Creative Director at Killing My Lobster, where she also writes, performs, produces, and teaches. As an actor, some of her favorite roles are Rita ("Prelude to a Kiss"), The Bear ("BEEEEEEAAR"), Lavinia ("Titus Andronicus"), The Girl ("The Seven Year Itch") and Arlecchino ("A Gap in Generations"). As a writer, she's had short plays in the SF Olympians Festival ("Golden Apple of Discord") and SF Theater Pub's Pub From Another World ("Mrs. Youngblood"). She's written for numerous literary events including Women of Letters, Shipwreck, Write Club SF, Travel Tavern and others. Her blog Everything Is Already Something appears onsftheaterpub.com every other Wednesday.

Claire Rice (director) is a playwright and director. She has worked with Thunderbird Theatre Company, No Nude Men, Three Wise Monkeys, PianoFight, AtmosTheatre, Wiley West Productions, San Francisco Theater Pub, San Francisco Olympians Theatre Festival, Custom Made Theatre Company, DIVAFest and is co-founder of Ann Marie Productions. She recently directed "Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them" by Christopher Durang for Custom Made Theatre, and for DIVAfest she directed "Kristin Hersh's Rat Girl" adapted for the stage by Stuart Bousel, and "Pussy" by Maura Halloran. Her plays include "Sex in the Next Room," "Woman Come Down," "The Carmine Lie," "It Ain't Me," "Water Line," "Demeter's Daughter," "Pride and Succubus" and "Ares and Eris."

Also featuring Marie O'Donnell, Heather Kellogg, Jennie Brick, Jason Pienkowski. Assistant directed by Sam Bertken. Lighting Design by Beth Cockrell. Fight Choreography by Jon Bailey. Stage Managed by Linda Huang. Production Managed by Teresa Hernandez.

Find out more about HILARITY at: http://www.theexit.org/divafest/2014/12/15/hilarity/#more-1613.

And get your tickets at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/902630.

Begun in 2002 as a response to the lack of opportunities for female playwrights in the larger theater industry, DIVAfest has since produced over 60 new plays by women. In 2014 DIVAfest evolved from being an annual EXIT Theatre festival into an independent, year-long producing organization. Throughout the year, DIVAfest supports new and developing work with co-productions, bi-monthly work-shopping opportunities at DIVAs Tell All, and DIVA or Die Burlesque, a monthly revue. While we continue to expand our scope and diversify our impact, at the core, DIVAfest remains a celebration of female power and creativity, encouraging female artists, allies, and audiences to broaden their horizons and exceed boundaries.

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