Free-Play Festival: Venn Diagram

Name: Free-Play Festival: Venn Diagram
Start: 2024-08-09T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-08-09T19:30:00-07:00
Location: Potrero Stage

Schedule

Fri Aug 09 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Potrero Stage | San Francisco, CA

VENN DIAGRAM by Margo L. Rofé (PlayGround-LA)
August 9 at 6:00 PM, August 10 at 4:00 PM, August 11 at 12:00 PM
A Black woman reaches out to her old Jewish friend and college roommate, whom she has not seen for many years, seeking help with staving off her mother’s homelessness. Reconnected, the women discover they have similar current life situations and begin to rekindle their once close friendship during a magical time in their lives. But, faced with ever-present external forces that continuously tear at the fabric of their relationship, can these women recapture that bond in time to save a mother in desperate need of help? This is a powerful story about unconscious biases, inherited trauma, and mental illness and its impact on families and friends.
Margo Rofé is a retired lawyer/playwright who resides in Southern California. Margo’s works have been showcased, produced, and/or workshopped by the University of Nebraska Omaha as part of its BIPOC Festival; The Pulp Stage Theatre in Portland, OR; Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble; The Robey Theater; and the Alliance of LA Playwrights. Her monologue Caplata was published in the anthology The Covid Monologues. Her play Venn Diagram reached the semi-finalist round of the Dramatists Guild Foundation’s National Fellowship competition. Margo is also a member of PlayGround-LA, which produced her short plays She Was There and The Chase (both received the People’s Choice award). Margo is a Board Member of Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble, a member of the Alliance of LA Playwrights, and has served as a committee member for the 43rd NAACP Image Awards’ Literary Sub-committee in the category of Poetry Literature.
PlayGround closes out the summer season with the third annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, August 9-25, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. This three-week “fringe style” new works festival features 11 productions from highly sought-after theatre artists from across the country including four PlayGround artists based in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Ranging in subject from the U.S. Citizen Test to mentally ill mothers to gender dysphoria, and varying in styles from dance pieces to ensemble plays to one-person shows, PlayGround’s Free-Play Festival features a stellar lineup of seasoned theatre professionals, first-time producers, and all-star performers in every aspect of live performance, direction, and choreography. Each production will be presented for three performances at Potrero Stage (18th Street @ Arkansas), detailed schedule below. Admission is free (donations gratefully accepted) but advance reservations are required for livestreaming. For more information or to reserve in-person or online tickets, visit https://playground-sf.org/freeplay.