COMING SOON:
CHAINS OF DEW
by Susan Glaspell
APRIL 2009

Our winter show will serve as our annual Classic American Theatre selection. Susan Glaspell was a primary contributor to the famous Provincetown Players, a group of artists residing in that seaside Massachusetts town, best known for the first productions of Eugene O'Neill. The Players moved their theater to New York and produced more new plays, including Chains of Dew in 1922.

Susan Glaspell was also a reporter, a novelist and a short story writer. As a playwright she is best known for the one-act Trifles and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1931 for Allison's House.

"Chains of Dew" is about a popular poet who lives in the Midwest and works as a bank executive. He complains to his New York friends that his life in Iowa is dull and that his wife and family are a burden, but that he must go on for the sake of those who depend on him. The friends go to his home to liberate him but find the job to be more than they expected. This is the first American production of the play since it was first performed.

Chains of Dew will run the first two weekends of April at the Randall Museum Theater and at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center Auditorium, closing April 12. Rehearsals begin February 2.

The Spring play has not yet been chosen. Authors being considered are Aristophanes, Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorky, George Bernard Shaw, Ingmar Bergman, Arthur Miller and Milan Kundera. Whatever is picked, rehearsals will begin April 13. It will be performed the first two weekends of June at the Randall Museum and at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center Auditorium. We are also considering trying a third weekend at a new venue, the soon-to-be-reopened Upper Noe Recreation Center on 30th Street between Church and Sanchez Streets. This location is convenient to to the J-Church, 24-Divisadero and 26-Valencia Muni lines. We have wanted to open a third venue and we have a newly renovated facility and some local interest at Upper Noe.

Auditions for SFFCT's 2008-09 Season IX will be Monday-Wednesday September 8-10 at West Portal Playground. Please prepare a contemporary monologue and also bring a Shakespeare monologue if you want to audition for All's Well That Ends Well. On Thursday and Friday September 11-12 we will hold callbacks for All's Well That Ends Well. If we are able to cast all three plays from the pool of auditioners we will hold no more auditions this season. West Portal Playground is literally on top of the West Portal Muni Station. It is at 121 Lenox Way just up the hill from West Portal Library and just downhill from West Portal School. Write to us at sffct@yahoo.com or call 415-753-7037 with any questions

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how we can make it fit.

San Francisco Recreation and Park Department
Gavin Newsom, Mayor, Yomi Agunbiade, General Manager