The Kitchen Series
The Kitchen Series - Food and Theater
Back by popular demand! A special series cooked up just like mom used to make. Join Precarious Theater and Brava for a new, intimate way of experiencing our greatest classics – join us on stage for a special reading with great actors, delicious free food, and great company! Be part of the magic as Plays leap off the page and come to life. We promise to satiate your cravings for both food and fun!
Tickets $20 in advance/$25 at door
Truffaldino Says No
by Ken Slattery
December 6, 2010
In this new play by a local favorite, an classical commedia character decides to leave an Italian, "old world" populated with ridiculous sterotypes, and sets out for the "new world", Northern California, which turns out to be populated with ridiculous stereotypes. And he can't seem to shake the commedia plot which follow him: Truffaldino is in love with Isabella, then Debbie; then Isabella AND Debbie; who look exactly the same." Just in time for the holidays we see what happens when old world meets new!
The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden
by Federico Garcia Lorca
February 21, 2011
An erotic lace-paper valentine in a prologue and three scenes (Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín: aleluya erotica en un prologo y tres escenas). A lusty romp about love (really), involving an old bachelor, fresh virgin, and a phantom lover. Doña Rosita the Spinster, or, The Language of Flowers (Doña Rosita la soltera) A journey through the seasons of life. A play on wanting and waiting. Directed by very special guest director, Mina Morita
The Skin of Our Teeth
by Thornton Wilder
April 18, 2011
Was the typical American family always dysfunctional and plagued by disaster from within and without? Join the Antrobus family as they survive the ice age, the flood, and other calamities of Biblical and all-too-human making, in this Pulitzer Prize winning classic by the author who also penned OUR TOWN. Equal doses of hilarious and profound.
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
June 13, 2011
A serious comedy for trivial people. In what may be the most perfectly funny play ever written, Ernest is in love with Gwendolen, but when it is revealed that both Ernest and his best friend Algernon are not entirely who they appear to be, a madcap comedy of close calls and hilarious revelations brings all things to a delicious finish.
