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Update #2: BOA X Tickets now on sale!
Hello Fantastic Kickstarters! We are so excited that the BOA X Festival is less then 2 weeks away! Check out our new BOA website at bayoneacts.org to get more information about the festival and to purchase your tickets!
Update #1: BOA X Program Announcement
PROGRAM 1 (March 6 - March 26, 2011)
THE FALL
By Crish Barth
In March of 2009, an online chat-group emerged to discuss Natasha Richardson's skiing accident. What they ended up discussing was anything but Natasha Richardson -- inspired by true events.
Directed by Colin Johnson/Round Belly Theatre Company
TEST PREPARATION
By M.R. Fall
Standardized testing is Hell. Or is Hell standardized testing?
Directed by Julia Heitner/No Nude Men
SPEAK ROUGHLY
By Stuart Eugene Bousel
A dramatic meditation on puzzles and things that are puzzling, iconic and inconclusive identities, significant and insignificant life moments, and all the times you wish you hadn't had sex.
Directed by Kate Jopson/Woman’s Will
THE OPPOSITE OF ROMANCE
By Jon Brooks
An imminent extra-marital affair is short-circuited by a possibly public post on Facebook. A play about middle age and marriage in the era of instant communication.
Directed by Stephanie Renee Maysonave/Company Member, Boxcar Theatre
THE POND
By Sam Leichter
It's Christmas Eve near the idyllic shores of Maine's Wrang Pond. As Bella awaits her husband's return, a winter storm and an unexpected turn of events bring her face-to-face with an enigmatic stranger.
Directed by Paul Cello/Instrumental Theatre
PROGRAM 2 (March 6 - March 26, 2011)
TWICE AS BRIGHT
By Daniel Heath
A woman waits for a bus and decides to fall in love and break up with the next man she meets before she gets on her bus. She has ten minutes to make it happen.
Directed by Sara Staley/Playwrights Center, SF
THE HOT SPOT
By Tim Bauer
A couple debates uprooting their mid-western lives and heading for California, but their discussion is complicated by the appearance of a pool of light in their living room that, whenever they step into, compels them to perform monologues.
Directed by Rob Ready/PianoFight Productions
A THREE LITTLE DUMPLINGS ADVENTURE
By Megan Cohen
A delightfully twisted tale of three little dumpling's epic adventure through the house one afternoon.
Directed by Jessica Holt/3WM
PURE BALTIC AVENUE
By Bennett Fisher
A mortgage fraud scheme turns into a clockwork frenzy as three suits struggle to get rich and escape unscathed. It's a simple premise, really.
Directed by Alex Curtis/Threshold
CANARY YELLOW
By Sharif Abu-Hamdeh
A couple's relationship rewinds; a review of loss and love, in its absurdity and poignancy.
Directed by Sara Judge/Theater Pub
CLOUD FLOWER
By 11th Hour Ensemble
Cloud Flower explores the memory of the atom bomb's devastation of Hiroshima through the tangled dreams of one of its survivors. Using trademark imagination and physicality, the 11th Hour Ensemble presents an evocative take on the infamy of the Mushroom Cloud.
Created and directed by Allison Combs and Ryo Harada/11th Hour Ensemble
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You will receive mad love and gratitude from all of the 70+ BOA theater artists and a shout-out in our BOA program.
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You will receive all of the above, plus a specially-designed BOA X Pin. This pin will beautifully compliment your lapel, messenger bag or hat.
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You will receive all of the above, plus a published copy of the BOA X Play Anthology book which will include all of the play texts featured in the BOA X festival.
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You will receive all of the above and your BOA Anthology will have a personalized inscription to you from one of our BOA X featured playwrights.
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You will receive all of the above, and will be given 1 set of tickets to a BOA X performance of your choice.
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You'll receive all of the above, plus a mixtape of the "Sounds of BOA" hand-selected by our sound designer and featuring the eclectic sounds you will hear during the BOA performances. This "mixtape" will be supplied to you in your choice of format (cassette, CD, or mp3).
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You will receive all of the above and will be invited to the first all-company festival rehearsal which will feature a group table read where all of the playwrights, actors and directors gather to read the scripts. Libations and sweets will abound!
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You'll receive all of the above, plus drinks with the artists after the performance hosted by Artistic Director Jessica Holt.
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You'll receive all of the above, plus a short 5-minute play written just for you by one of the BOA X playwrights around a theme or topic mutually agreed upon by you and the playwright.
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You'll receive all of the above, plus your specially commissioned short play is guaranteed a production slot in BOA X.
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The Bay One Acts Festival (BOA) showcases the best short plays from the most exciting independent theatre companies in San Francisco. BOA celebrates its 11th festival, April 22 - May 12, 2012 at the Boxcar Theatre in San Francisco. The festival creates an incredible instant theatre community in San Francisco – building bridges between companies, cultivating connections between artists, and encouraging enthusiasm for the short play form.
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