SF Playhouse Announces 2010-11 'Why Theatre?' Season

Sweeping views of the City served as a backdrop last Monday evening when Ginger and Moshi Alafi hosted an exclusive event for high level supporters to the SF Playhouse and Bill English, Artistic Director announced plans for their eighth season of award winning theatre. The SF Playhouse has set an enviable standard for theatre production and in the process has attracted the Bay Area's best talent to its stage; this season will continue that trend.

"The theme of the new season will be 'Why Theatre?", remarkEd English, "Why do we do theatre? How does theatre serve our community?" Each of our selections for our 8th season will give a different answer to these questions. Based on the belief that mankind created theatre to serve a spiritual need in our community, our riskiest and most challenging season yet will ask us to face our deepest mysteries from the very meaning of existence to forging individual identities, facing the fear of change and exploring enduring human myths.

Reborning, A World Premiere by Zayd Dohrn, explores the universal question of how we deal with loss in a story about extremely lifelike baby dolls called "Reborns".

Closing our season will be our second World Premiere, Alcestis by Aaron Loeb, an anachronistic merging of the great play by Euripedes with the world of Rock'n'Roll that puts a unique perspective on the huge topics of heroism and sacrifice.

For more information, visit www.sfplayhouse.org

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The SF Playhouse's Eighth Season: 2010-2011
Why Theatre?

World Premiere
Reborning
By Zayd Dohrn
May 3-June 11th
Press Opening May 7th

Art and life imitate each other in this contemporary drama about confronting the past and facing the futurE. Kelly, a sculptor of lifelike baby dolls, begins to suspect that her client Emily may be her long-lost mother-and the doll she is building for Emily may be her own likeness. Her determination to find the truth leads to a startling and heartwarming redemption.

World Premiere
Alcestis
by Aaron Loeb
June 21 to Sept. 3rd
Press Opening: June 25th

Death comes for Admetus, and when his beloved wife Alcestis agrees to die for him, Hercules, his old lead-guitarist from the burnt out rock band, the Argonauts, defies the Gods to save her. Fresh from the Off-Broadway opening of Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party, Aaron Loeb spins his anachronistic rock'n'roll myth inspired by the great play of Euripides. The twelve chores become twelve steps as our over-the-hill superhero comes to the rescue.

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