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Student
Voices on Stage in Plays by Young Writers
Winning
Plays from the 20th year of the California
Young Playwrights Contest
Who:
Playwrights Project
What:
Plays by Young
Writers
’04, a festival of winning scripts from the
20th
annual California
Young Playwrights Contest
Full productions: Under
the Hood by William Alden
Welcome to Me and Mine by
Patricia Ash
The Other Side by Teddy
Steinkellner
Over the Asian Airwaves by Lauren
D. Yee
Readings:
Purposely Mistaken by Karen
Barros
A New Beginning? by Marina Cook
Trouble with Magic by Jessie Mos
When:
January 13 – 23, 2005 (See schedule)
Where:
The Old Globe, Cassius Carter Centre Stage, Balboa Park
Tickets:
Individual:
$15.00 ($12.00 for seniors, students, military)
School Groups:
$9.00 for groups of 10 or more
Other Groups:
$10.00 for groups of 10 or more
Opening Night:
$40.00 includes reception
How:
For ticket information or sales call Playwrights Project (619) 239-8222
Website:
www.playwrightsproject.com
San
Diego - Playwrights Project returns to The Old Globe in January
for its annual production of Plays by
Young Writers, winning scripts
from the California Young Playwrights
Contest. Selected from 193 contest submissions, four scripts
will be presented as full productions and three as readings at the Cassius
Carter Centre Stage, January 13-23, 2005.
“This
year’s writers favor teenage characters and humorous situations,” says Deborah
Salzer, director of Playwrights Project. “One play, Over
the Asian Airwaves, is an all out farce, a genre we rarely produce.
Since theatre in the round doesn’t lend itself to door slamming, co-directors
Anne Tran and George Yé are finding other ways to physicalize the humor.”
Written
by Lauren D. Yee, age 18, Over the Asian
Airwaves is about a Chinese American woman
in 1949 who chooses the chaos of a struggling radio station over the
predictability of her long-time
boyfriend. A prolific writer who has submitted many scripts to the contest,
Lauren lives
in San Francisco and studies at Yale College. For this
production, she has done extensive revisions
with help from a master of comedy, Scott Patrick Wagner, New Works Director
at
North Coast Repertory Theatre.
Coronado
resident Patricia Ash, age 17, is the writer of Welcome
to Me and Mine, a series of funny, poignant vignettes about the
pressures of high school. Patricia attends Coronado School of the Arts,
which produced an earlier draft of her play last spring. Playwright
and director Stephen Metcalfe has been Patricia’s “writing friend” through
the revision process. Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, artistic director of the
new theatre company Moxie, will stage the play.
In
Under the Hood, by 15-year-old
William Alden of Santa Monica, a mouthy, popular girl finds
herself locked in a car with a boy she considers a loser. William wrote
the script while taking an extension course at UCLA taught by playwright Simon
Levy, whose creative home in Los Angeles, the Fountain Theatre, has collaborated
with Playwrights Project on several productions. Don Loper stages the action as
the day gets hotter and the air runs out. Through imaginative set design
and direction, the car itself becomes a player in this surreal drama.
A
television psychic stirs up the lives of a teenage boy and his widowed mother in
The Other Side by Teddy
Steinkellner, age 14, of Santa Barbara. At the start of the
play, the boy dismisses the psychic as a fake. Events change his mind and
raise spiritual questions for everyone to ponder. Playwright Ruth McKee
mentored Teddy as he strengthened the script, to be directed by Esther Emery.
Three
writers from the younger division of contest participants will have scripts
performed as readings: Karen Barros and Marina Cook of Escondido,
and Jessie Mos of San Diego. Natalie Sentz will direct the readings.
Submissions
to the annual playwriting contest are evaluated by two or more initial readers.
The most promising scripts go to a group of final judges, who also volunteer
their time and expertise. This year’s judges were Judith
Dolan, Stephen Metcalfe, Laurie O’Brien, Patti Saraniero, Arthur Wagner and
Carl Weintraub.
Plays
by Young Writers
opens at The Old Globe on Friday, January 14th
at 7:30 PM, with public performances on Saturday, January 15 at 7:30 PM, Friday,
January 21 at 7:30 PM, Saturday, January 22 at 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM, and
Sunday, January 23 at 2:00 PM.
For
more information, contact Deborah Salzer or Cecelia Kouma:
Playwrights Project
Ph. 619-239-8222
dsalzer@playwrightsproject.com;
ckouma@playwrightsproject.com
Plays
by Young Writers
Performance Schedule
Thursday,
January 13 10:00
AM Trouble
with Magic, Under the Hood, Me and Mine
Friday,
January 14
10:00 AM Purposely
Mistaken, The Other Side, Over the Asian Airwaves
Friday,
January 14* 7:30 PM
Trouble with Magic, Under the Hood, Me and
Mine
Saturday,
January 15 7:30
PM Purposely
Mistaken, The Other Side, Over the Asian Airwaves
Tuesday,
January 18 10:00
AM The Other
Side, Over the Asian Airwaves
Wednesday,
January 19 10:00 AM
Under the Hood, Me and Mine
Thursday,
January 20 10:00
AM The Other
Side, Over the Asian Airwaves
Friday,
January 21
10:00 AM A
New Beginning, Under the Hood, Me and Mine
Friday,
January 21
7:30 PM The
Other Side, Over the Asian Airwaves
Saturday,
January 22 2:00
PM The
Other Side, Over the Asian Airwaves
Saturday,
January 22 7:30
PM A
New Beginning, Under the Hood, Me and Mine
Sunday,
January 23 2:00
PM Under
the Hood, Me and Mine
*
Friday, January 14 7:30 pm performance is Opening Night, includes
reception; $40/ticket
Morning
performances are scheduled for school groups, however individual tickets may be
available.
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