Innovators Showcase at PlayGround

The PlayGround Innovator Incubator is a multi-year intensive incubation program to support theatrical innovation and the launch of new innovative theatrical production companies. In November/December each year, PlayGround will present the Innovators Showcase, a three-week new works showcase, featuring world premiere productions and numerous other new play developmental activities and staged readings highlighting the work of Innovator Incubator participants.

2024 INNOVATORS SHOWCASE

November 4-24, 2024
Potrero Stage & Simulcast
Admission: Free

Tickets are found here: https://tickets.playground-sf.org/TheatreManager/1/online?event=380

The showcase will include:

UNPLANNED, an anthology of shorts about reproductive health
Network Effects Theater Company
Nov 4 at 7pm, Nov 5 at & 7pm
If there’s a night to get together for Reproductive Rights, it’s this November 5th. (And 4th.) Join us as we explore reproductive health through the lens of four short plays written by four writers and expressed through an ensemble local cast. The anthology Unplanned will raise money for organizations serving family planning across the country, and on election night 2024, we’ll broadcast the returns from the Potrero Stage screen. Either way, it’ll be a night best spent together!

FOUR SEASONS POLITICAL LANDSCAPING; readings of four plays focusing on politics, civil rights, and governance
Oakland Public Theater
Nov 15 at 7pm, Nov 16 at 2pm & 7pm
Four Seasons in the Political Landscape is a collection of staged readings of short plays from local writers: Judicial Process by Reg Clay, A Kafkaesque look at ICE officers and judicial tampering; Cinquo de Mayo Compared to What by Richard Talavera, A city council debates ethnic holidays; The Stick and the Ball by Neil Harkins, Global warming, extreme polarization/the so-called “overton window; ” and UNTITLED by Kristi Lin Billun.

DESERT WIND, the story of a Yemenite Jewish couple, caught in the violence, of the Houthi uprising in Yemen.
The American Jewish Theatre
Nov 23 at 7pm, Nov 24 at 2pm
In this Houthi takeover, the husband is thrown into prison, while his wife is forced to flee through the endless desert, on foot, because they are Jews. In the delirium of his torture, he reaches out to her, and with her soul, she connects with him. A story that’s never been told, Desert Wind is an in-depth experience of how Jews are treated by radical Islamic regimes.