The 33rd Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival Begins
The 33rd Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival will take place this July 23 through August 1, 2010. The Festival will be taking place at the Thick House (map) in San Francisco. This year Playwright Yussef El Guindi’s newest work, Three Wolves and a Lamb, will be developed as part of the 2010 Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
“This play came in a rush. A rush for me is two months. Most plays for me take nine months to a year to complete—I’m that slow…” said Yussef. “I had for a while been wanting to write an all out politically inflected comedy. My other pieces of late had been somewhat dour, so I was looking to have fun. I’m not sure why I thought wading into the Palestinian/ Israeli imbroglio might be fun, but some little imp in my imagination must have thought so…”
Three Wolves and a Lamb is a funny, sexy and irreverent production that explores the love and the tension between a Palestinian and Jewish married couple as they face a series of personal revelations while planning a children’s peace camp.
Other plays in the festival include:
- The Killing of Michael X, A New Film by Celia Wallace by Cory Hinkle
- Three Wolves and a Lamb by Yussef El Guindi
- Atlas of Longing by Jeanne Drennan
- Hunter’s Point by Elizabeth Gjelten
- Tvá Kamila by Erin Marie Bregman
- Port Out, Starboard Home by Sheila Callaghan: A co-commission with FoolsFury Theater.
- BASH! (Bay Area Shorts)
- Pookie Goes Grenading by JC Lee
- The Expiration Date by Steven Salzman
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