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In Search of Justice

July 27, 2008
A short play by Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Glenn Havlan

This compelling play is about a German judge in the early years of the Nazi regime who must decide a case of assault, charged against S.S. thugs who have beaten a Jewish shopkeeper. It is complicated by many factors; an incomplete police report, conflicting motives of concerned parties, unreliable testimonies and the political pressure of an increasingly totalitarian state. It is a kind of 'prequel' to our April 2007 production of Judgment at Nuremberg, depicting the environment that created the defendants of that story.

Performed at
The San Francisco Theater Festival
 

The Skin of Our Teeth

June 2008
by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Glenn Havlan

The epic story of the Antrobus family's journey in time from dinosaurs and floods, through the ice age to the era of mass media, in peace and in war. Alexander Woollcott called it "a dauntless and heartening comedy which stands head and shoulders above anything ever written for our stage." Wilder himself said, "It was written on the eve of our entrance into the war and under strong emotion and I think it mostly comes alive under conditions of crisis."
 
8 Performances at
at The Randall Museum Theatre
 

The School for Scandal

April 2008
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Directed by John Hull

Sheridan's rowdy comedy about gossip, deceit and misjudgment is a fast paced romp. Two brothers seem complete opposites. One is a studious and sober while the other parties away every night spending borrowed money. When their rich uncle returns after a long sojourn in the East he assumes false identities to check up on them. Meanwhile an old man married to a young woman has suspicions about her. All the while the gossips wag their scandalous tongues. Updated from its original 1777 setting to swinging London of the 1960s, Maria Graham's costumes bring a vibrant brightness to the show, presented "arena style" for close up viewing.
 
8 Performances at
at The Randall Museum Theatre and
the Eureka Valley Recreation Center Auditorium
 

Farewell to the Tooth Fairy

January 2008
Directed by Glenn Havlan

Lynn Ruth Miller's one-woman show about everyone's power to create his own destiny. It charts Miller's quest to discover where the enchantment is hidden in the life we live. Her journey of self-discovery is one each of us must take before we accept who we are and begin to enjoy the role we have chosen as our personal destiny.
 
2 Performances at
the Eureka Valley Recreation Center Auditorium
 

The Visit

October 2007
Directed by Glenn Havlan

Our 20th production by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A comedy with a grim plot: The depressed, grimy little town of Guellen in Central Europe receives a visit from the wealthiest woman in the world, who grew up there. She offers the town $1 billion if they kill one of their leading citizens, a shopkeeper who wronged and shamed her decades before. At first the townspeople refuse, but soon they start buying things on credit - even from the shopkeeper himself. What else can they do?
 
8 Performances
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
 

Aria Da Capo

July 2005 and July 2007
Directed by Glenn Havlan

A short play by the American poet
Edna St.Vincent Millay
 
Performed at
The San Francisco Theater Festival
 

Dead Happy

June / July 2007
by Kurt Weitzmann
Directed by Glenn Havlan

"Dead Happy" is all about life, death, the hereafter and what comes after that. A man finds himself in an afterlife that he neither desires nor believes in so he is sent back - on the last night of the world. "Do you know how many people go through life without ever asking one important question?"
 
8 Performances
at The Randall Museum Theatre and
the Eureka Valley Recreation Center Auditorium

Read the REVIEW from The San Francisco Guardian
 

Judgement at Nuremburg

April 2007
by Abby Mann
Directed by Glenn Havlan

The classic film has been adapted by its Oscar-winning author for the stage. This is the great courtroom drama about the war crimes trials following World War II: The creation of an international court and the search for justice amid growing Cold War fears and political emergencies.
 
8 Performances
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
 

The Two Gentlemen Of Sonoma

December 2006
by William Shakespeare
adapted by SFFCT
Directed by Glenn Havlan

Shakespeare's early comedy about love, friendship, treachery and redemption, set in Alta California before the gold rush, in the days of the great rancheros of the early 19th Century.
 
8 Performances
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
 

The Insect Comedy

June 2006
by Josef and Karel Capek
adapted by SFFCT
Directed by Glenn Havlan
 
8 Performances
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
 

The Cave Dwellers

March / April 2006
by William Saroyan
Directed by Glenn Havlan

A small band of homeless show people are living in an abandoned theater. Can their love thrive as the wrecking ball approaches?
 
8 Performances
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
 

Agnes of God
December 2005

A powerful drama and intriguing mystery that treads the line between science and faith, confirming and defying explanations on both sides.
 
4 Performances
at The Randall Museum Theatre
 

Sleep Til Noon

June 2005
Directed by Glenn Havlan

A play based on the novel by Max Shulman
Adapted by Douglas W. High and Glenn Havlan
 
9 Performances
at The Randall Museum Theatre
 

This Lady's Not for Burning
March 2005
by Christopher Fry
Directed by John Hull
 
9 Performances
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
 

Other People's Money
November 2004
by Jerry Sterner
Directed by Glenn Havlan
 
9 Performances
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
 

The Inspector

April 2004
by Nikolai Gogol
Directed by Glenn Havlan
 
9 Performances
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
 

Cinderella Waltz
November 2003 / February 2004
by Dan Nigro
Directed by Glenn Havlan
 
12 Performances
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
 

Les Belles Soeurs
May / June 2003
A play by Michel Tremblay
Directed by Glenn Havlan
 
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
 

The Madwoman of the Castro

November 2002 and January 2003
by Jean Giraudoux

An adaptation of the 1945 play, The Madwoman of Chaillot,
 
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
 

MILK LAB

January - March 2002
 
Performance Lab/Open Mic
at Harvey Milk Center
 

WATER ENGINE & MR HAPPINESS
November 2001
Two plays written by David Mamet
Directed by Glenn Havlan
 
at The Randall Museum Theatre
 

WESTERN RULES
March 2001
A Comedy by Kevin Belncschipp
Directed by Glenn Havlan
 
at The Randall Museum Theatre
 

Flying With Ana

January 2001
Directed by Glenn Havlan
An original drama by Ignacio Mosquiera
 
at The Randall Museum Theatre