Free-Play Festival: Made In America?
Schedule
Thu, 14 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Sat, 16 Aug, 2025 at 04:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Potrero Stage | San Francisco, CA
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Made In America? by Yide CaiThurs, Aug 14, 6PM; Fri, Aug 15, 8PM; Sat, Aug 16, 4PM
“Made in America?” is a solo performance set in a museum and about the last piece of brick ever made in America. The performance follows a curator giving a tour of an artwork—a single brick—unraveling its unexpected history tied to economic collapse, transnational industry, and personal loss.
Yide Cai(Playwright) is a poet, translator, and award-winning playwright from Shenzhen, China. His work has been featured at OOB Festival, La MaMa, The Tank, Kanini Fest, and more. He is a fellow of the Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics, a member of TPOC Producing Cohort, and a scholar at Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Yide also works internationally as a producer, director, and dramaturg, with credits including German National Theater Weimar, Prague Shakespeare Company, and Chinese premieres of Dead Poets Society, The Book of Will, and Lydia & The Troll. He is a MFA in Playwriting candidate at Boston University, and holds a BA in Playwriting & German Studies at Emory University.
Lauren Komer (Director) is a Brooklyn-based director and theater artist. A majority of Komer’s work explores the convergence of theater, film, and interactive media. Komer is obsessed with deviancy, disgust, and the dark urges that lay in wait within the psyche. She rejects linear, naturalistic storytelling and embraces highly visual, fragmented, and referential narratives. Her work is steeped in pop culture, eroticism, mysticism, and postmodernism. Her work has appeared in NYC, Boston, and internationally in Europe and the U.K. She is a Theater Arts Fellow of Brandeis University (B.A. Theater Arts with Highest Honors). Komer also studied playwriting, theater theory, and screenwriting at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University. Follow her work @postmodernlady_
PlayGround closes out the summer season with the fourth annual
FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, August 1-24, at Potrero Stage and simulcast! This
four-week “fringe style” new works festival features 17 productions
and 58 performances by talented theatre artists from across the
country including. Productions will be presented for 3-4 performances
at Potrero Stage (18th Street @ Arkansas). For more information or to
reserve in-person or online tickets, visit
https://playground-sf.org/freeplay
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Where is it happening?
Potrero Stage, 1695 18th Street,San Francisco, California, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
