The annual event at the California not-for-profit will offer a workshop production and four readings while two fully-staged world premieres — Richard Greenberg’s A Naked Girl on the Appian Way and Lucinda Coxon's Vesuvius — continue the season at the company's Segerstrom mainstage and Argyros second stage in Costa Mesa.
The lineup for the Pacific Playwrights Festival is as follows:
Mark Rucker directs the new "story of a courageous young wife and mother who struggles to survive breast cancer while holding down a job, taking care of the kids, cajoling her husband and conversing with God."
Casey Stangl directs the SCR commission which "zig-zags through the formative years in the life of an African-American woman."
Bill Rauch stages the work which proposes "Hedda lives on in ‘The Neighborhood of Tragic Women,’ an alternative hell where fictional characters are forced to endure until at last they are forgotten. Will she ever really die?"
Carolyn Cantor directs the new play "about a couple facing terrible loss and seeking the will to continue." The play is expected to appear at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2005-06.
Sharon Ott helms the McCarter Theatre's commission set in the old South about "three brothers bonded by love and jealousy in a comedy about the nature of human nature." With the addition of these new works, the plays to have received readings, workshops and full productions at PPF since its launch in 1998 comes to 62.
For tickets to South Coast Rep, at 655 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa, CA, call (714) 708-5555 or visit www.scr.org.
