Awesome Theatre is proud to present it’s official line up for 2018. This promises to be our most ambitious year yet, full of comedy, horror, and general strangeness.
SEMI-FINALS-FEB 21, 7PM
It’s a play, it’s a playwriting contest, it’s a play about a playwriting contest, just go with it.
Hosted by Kaylamay Paz Suarez
After four preliminary rounds, our four finalists will now expand their plays to ten minutes and face off for the two coveted spots in finals.
Your Semi-Finalists are,
Never-Ever Land by Sang S. Kim
Growing up sucks.
Demoted by Bridgette Dutta Portman
When planetary personnel problems get personal.
Way Too Schtoned by Kyle McCurdy
I smoked way too much party before this weed.
HMO-Z by Sean Garahan
Health care for all, even Zombies
The highest scoring play and the audience Favorite from semi-finals expand thier plays to 30 minutes and go head to head to win a full production.
FINALS, APRIL 11, 7PM
The people have spoken! Two gunslingers of guffaws have made it to the final round. Now both plays will be expanded and go head to head all for the glory of being named THE FUNNIEST PLAY EVER!
Hosted by Kaylamay Paz Suarez
Featuring: Never-Ever Land by Sang S. Kim and Demoted by Bridgette Dutta Portman
Christian Teen Dolphin-Sex Beach Party
By Anthony R. Miller and Jess Thomas
Directed by Colin Johnson
Maybe go DOES make mistakes.
Ronnie and Judy are just two regular kids who love the lord. But when Judy is attacked and impregnated by a dolphin, their summer plans go out with the tide. A greedy Pastor, an eccentric French Professor and famous people all get involved in this absurdist satire about religion, fame, and love.
Thursday nights at 9PM, April 5, 12, 19 & 26 and May 3 & 10
Mercy Killing
By Alandra Hileman
Directed by Claire Rice
Love is dead, literally.
Mercy is a barista in San Francisco. She’s also a serial killer. The only one who knows is a Grim Reaper named Thana, her girlfriend, sort of, it’s complicated. The two of them navigate a tenuous romance while trying to evade detection by the authorities on either side of mortality.
Thursday nights at 9PM, June 21 & 25, July 5, 12, 19 & 26
TERROR-RAMA III: DEAD THE WHOLE TIME
Directed by Christian Haines
Hosted by Sindie Chopper
The Horror-Theatre Double Feature Rides Again with two world premiere tales of terror.
October 12, 13, 19,20, 26 & 27 7PM
The Suffered By Colin Johnson
Frederick, a once popular author, now seeing his fame fade retreats to a small hotel for the memorial of his recently deceased wife, Lillian. But when a strange song awakens the truth of Lillian’s death, Frederick cannot escape his secrets.
My Cannibal Summer By Claire Rice
A gated community of cannibals welcomes home one of their own from war. But something is different, Eddie doesn’t have “The Hunger” anymore. When he falls for the community’s newest resident Sonia, he decides to escape and finds out coming home is easy, but leaving could kill you.
unproduceable
Featuring “A History of Freaks” by Katie May
Directed by Claire Rice
Saturday, November 17, 8PM
Exit Theatre
$10 Online Advance – $15 at the door
UNPRODUCEABLE is a reading series where Awesome Theatre brings to the stage the best Bay Area playwrights and their most unproduceable plays. What makes a play UNPRODUCEABLE? Could it be too many characters? Does it have a live elephant crash through a wall? Do scorpions fall from the rafters in slow motion? Ultimately the story of what makes a play UNPRODUCEABLE is the story of what it means to be a playwright working in the modern theatre. Spend an evening in conversation with a celebrated Bay Area playwright and a hear a play that might not be coming to a stage near you but you’ll wish it was.
