Launched in 1998, South Coast Repertory’s annual Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF) is a major national showcase for new plays. The 21st festival in April 2018 will bring the total number of plays presented in PPF to 136, including many that have become mainstays of contemporary American theatre. Each year’s three-day festival attracts theatre professionals from across the nation, who are drawn by the chance to be the first to see some of the best new plays in the country. These artistic leaders, along with SCR’s devoted new play audiences, take advantage of the opportunity to engage with seven new plays that traverse the theatrical spectrum. And, in between plays, PPF offers a gregarious gathering place for the sharing of ideas with colleagues and friends, old and new.
POOR YELLA REDNECKS
by Qui Nguyen
directed by May Adrales
dramaturg, Elizabeth Rothman
Friday, April 20, at 1 p.m., on the Segerstrom Stage
Shadows of their Vietnamese homeland haunt Tong and Quang’s attempts to settle in a foreign world called Arkansas. Married life is hard, especially for refugees—and even harder when it turns out your first marriage isn’t over. An irreverent hip-hop take on the immigrant story.
HOUSE OF JOY
by Madhuri Shekar (YES!)
directed by Shelley Butler
dramaturg, Danielle Mages Amato
Sunday, April 22, at 10:30 a.m., on the Segerstrom Stage
In an Imperial Harem, in a place like India, in a time like 1666: Hamida, a bodyguard, wakes to the oppression in her midst and decides to do something about it. Seduction, skullduggery and swordplay in a mythic, swashbuckling action-romance for the ages!
https://www.scr.org/plays/pacific-playwrights-festival/2018-pacific-playwrights-festival
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