directed by
Troy Johnon
& Diane Tasca
Eight 10 Minute Plays
Written by
Members of the Pear Playwrights Group
Paul Braverman, Doug Brook, Helena G. Clarkson, Leah Halper, Margy Kahn, Megan Ma, Elyce Melmon & Ross Peter Nelson
cast (click on Name for Bio and Picture)
Lance Fuller
Maria Giere
Shelley Lynn Johnson
Bill C. Jones
Kate Jopson
Peggy Lynch
Ray Renati*
Alika Spencer
*Member, Actors Equity
Artistic Staff
| Directors |
Troy Johnson and Diane Tasca |
| Set Designer |
Norm Beamer |
| Stage Manager |
Zachary Howard |
| Lighting Designer | Michael Sokolsky |
| Costume Designer | Pat Tyler |
| Sound Designer | Robyn Braverman |
| Props | Robyn Braverman and Pat Tyler |
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The Plays
Timelines tangle as visitors from The Future invade a bedroom and push the re-set button on a couple's missed opportunity . . . to procreate. – Paul Braverman, Out of Time
A man and a woman run the gamut of a relationship in ten minutes, performing a courtship dance that might have been choreographed by Samuel Beckett.– Helena G. Clarkson, As Is (No Warranty)
Two lifelong friends--one too busy to appreciate life, the other with too little time left--rediscover the ties that bind them, and forge new ones – Megan Ma, Foreign Bodies
A creature from Scottish legends crawls out onto California's rocky coast: Half-man, half-seal, and looking for Love, the Selkie encounters an aging flower child and uptight female park ranger. --Margy Kahn, The Selkie
A Jewish mother and daughter find temporary sanctuary from the Nazis in a Catholic church in Italy. A friendly priest offers them longterm protection, but they must assume the identity of Catholic nuns. – Elyce Melmon, The Veiling
A homeless, wheel-chair-bound Vietnam vet helps a woman find the name of the father she never met in Portland's Vietnam Memorial. – Leah Halper, Eye Level Eye
A young woman returns from Italy with a surprising announcement for her parents: She had found God in the person of a polite young man whom she met on the sidewalk in Rome. – Doug Brook, Finding God
Two peace activists are stuck for ideas about political theatre. So they cross the River Styx to seek advice from the master--the Greek playwright Aristophanes. –Ross Peter Nelson, The Return of The Frogs