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Future Productions
to be announced
April, 2010
Berkeley City Club

After a stroke, an old activist wants to die, but his gay daughter, a divorce lawyer won't let him. A gay caregiver is caught in between. The to-be or not-to-be of euthanasia.
to be announced
Remember The Ladies

A trio of plays for four actresses, encompassing:

The Waitress Who Read Proust

a monodrama about the inner life of a working waitress and how reading Marcel Proust changed her life.

Woman At the Crossroads
a story of the old age of the great classical Japanese poet, Ono No Komachi, now a homeless woman.

Moscow 1919
the Russian poet, Marina Tvsetaeva returns from the grave to relive a key experience in Moscow in 1919.
to be announced
 Old Age Isn't For Sissies

A revue of old age in the words and works of playwrights as diverse as Sophocles, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams and Samuel Beckett.
to be announced
Aunts and Uncles, a Western

After their mother’s death and father’s abandonment, a brother and sister are parented by two sets of aunts and uncles, before being reunited after a lifetime apart. A parable of the rural poor in transition in the 1950's United States.
to be announced
Air on a G String

A comedy about the famous ecdysiast Gypsy Rose Lee

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