Now Accepting Submissions For Pint Sized IV!

It’s that time of year again!  PINT-SIZED PLAYS are back for a fourth go around!  We are now accepting play submissions through April 15th, 2012. And mark your calendars, the festival performs this July!

Guidelines:

1. Local, Bay Area playwrights only. Must be able to prove residence upon request.

2. Plays must be no longer than the time it takes to finish a beer. This means plays may be as short as a few seconds, but no longer than ten pages.  If a scene is too long, the beer could get warm and we certainly don’t want that.  We’ve got an hour for the evening and we want those plays brief and those beers cold.

3. Plays must take place in a bar. This is both a thematic concern and a logistical one.  The plays will be performed at a bar and as great as it would be to see a scene of people drinking beers while skydiving, we don’t have the fly system installed yet.  Items provided for your plays: tables, chairs and beers.  So keep that in mind.

4. Plays must respect the bar space. Our hosts are incredibly supportive of the festival, but we need to reciprocate that respect. Don’t do anything in your play that you wouldn’t do in a bar yourself (with some degree of sobriety).

5. Plays must have no more than three actors.

6. At least one of the characters must be drinking a beer during the scene and the play is over when a beer is finished.  We don’t have many rules, but this one is a biggie.

Plays should be submitted electronically, in a .doc or PDF format, with the playwright’s name and contact information to sfpintsized@gmail.com with the subject “First Name, Last Name – Pint Sized 2013 Submission.”

Clarifying questions may also be sent to this address.

Selected plays will be announced in May 2013.

We look forward to reading your submissions!

-Brian, Julia, Neil and Stuart

Two Amazing Events On Their Way!

Taming of the Shrew Opens March 18! 

Theater Pub jumps into their third Shakespeare production, this time taking on the ever-controversial, ever-thought provoking, ever-fascinating TAMING OF THE SHREW.

It’s Kate vs. the World! When brilliant but brittle Katherina (Kim Saunders)’s younger sister Bianca (Shay Wisniewski) finds herself being courted by three eligible bachelors (Vince Faso, Brian Martin, Ron Talbot), their opportunistic mother (Jan Marsh) lays down the law that Bianca won’t be allowed to marry until Katherina finds a husband. The suitors select Petruchio (Paul Jennings), a money seeking adventurer who might be Kate’s worst nightmare- or the best thing that ever happened to her.

Also featuring Sam Bertken, Shane Rhodes, Sarah Stewart, and directed by Stuart Bousel, this fast and furious production of the classic play will be one part Shakespeare, one part boxing match, and all parts Theater Pub.

The show plays March 18, 19, 25 and 27, at 8 PM at the Cafe Royale. Tickets are free and no reservations are required, but we encourage you to come early, enjoy the pop-up restaurant of the evening, and donate at the door to keep Theater Pub alive!

The first Saturday Write Fever will be March 23rd at the Exit Cafe! 

The Exit Theater announces a new Saturday night monthly event in their Café- and an exciting new collaboration with the San Francisco Theater Pub!

Starting March 23rd, every third Saturday of the month, we invite writers, actors, directors, theater creators and theater audiences alike to an evening of quick script-making and flash-fried performance!

Join us for an 8:30 mixer followed by a 9:00 writing sprint where writers (any writers who care to participate that night) have 30 minutes to generate original monologues based around that night’s pre-selected subjects (will they be drawn from a hat? WHO CAN SAY?!?). We cast actors from the crowd (no experience necessary), then at 9:30, they perform the work on stage in the café for an on-the-spot, one-night-only instant festival! Come join in the communal creativity, either as writer, performer, or audience!

Hosted by local writers Stuart Bousel and Megan Cohen, admission to this event is free, with the Café staying open and staffed so you can purchase drinks and snacks all night long! No need for reservations! We’ll provide paper and pens, all you need to bring is your amazing, sexy mind and the desire to create for creation’s sake.

See you there!