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RECKLESS
OCTOBER 2009
by Craig Lucas
directed by Glenn Havlan
An adult comedy. On Christmas Eve Rachel's husband admits that he has taken out a contract on her life. She barely escapes and begins a strange journey to make a life for herself.
8 Performances
at The Randall Museum Theatre and
the Eureka Valley Recreation Center Auditorium
"ARIA DA CAPO"
JULY 2009
by Edna St.Vincent Millay
directed by Glenn Havlan
1 Performance at the
6th Annual
San Francisco Theater Festival
WESTERN RULES
June 2009
Adapted by SFFCT from the 1966 film
"A Big Hand for the Little Lady,"
written by Sidney Carroll and directed by Fielder Cook.
In Laredo, in 1875, the four richest men in West Texas are playing their annual high-stakes poker game.
A family passes through town on their way to their new homestead, and the father is tempted to join the game
with the family's entire, but meager, savings.
And that's just the first five minutes.
This 90-minute one act was a revival from our first season and we are proud to have been able to bring this this entertaining
show to a larger audience.
8 Performances at
at The Randall Museum Theatre and
the Eureka Valley Recreation Center Auditorium
CHAINS OF DEW
April 2009
by Susan Glaspell
Our annual Classic American Theatre selection. "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 in 1922!
8 Performances at
at The Randall Museum Theatre and
the Eureka Valley Recreation Center Auditorium
Sunday Salon Presentes...
January 2009
Sunday Salon is a local group of theatre artists engaged in play reading and the development of their new works. The one-act plays "Every Witch Way" by Kristin Anundsen and "Housebroken" by Frank Gigliotti will receive their first performances, directed by JeNeal Granieri.
1 Performance at
the Eureka Valley Recreation Center Auditorium
All's Well That Ends Well
December 2008
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Glenn Havlan
costumes by Maria Graham
This late "problem" comedy is the story of Helen, the orphaned daughter of a famous doctor, who falls in love with the noble Count Rossillion. She must earn her marriage to him and then gain his loyalty to herself by a series of difficult and arduous tasks. Half fairy tale and half folk tale, this unconventional play has intrigued scholars and theatre artists for centuries. Is the Count worth the ordeals Helena must endure to secure her marriage to him? Why does she do it? Is she a resourceful, determined heroine or a ruthless schemer? We presented this lesser known masterpiece as a Gothic fairy tale.
8 Performances at
at The Randall Museum Theatre and
the Eureka Valley Recreation Center Auditorium
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
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
March 2005
by Christopher Fry
Directed by John Hull
9 Performances
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
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
November 2003 / February 2004
by Dan Nigro
Directed by Glenn Havlan
12 Performances
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
May / June 2003
A play by Michel Tremblay
Directed by Glenn Havlan
at Mission Recreation Center and
The Randall Museum Theatre
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
January - March 2002
Performance Lab/Open Mic
at Harvey Milk Center
November 2001
Two plays written by David Mamet
Directed by Glenn Havlan
at The Randall Museum Theatre
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
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