By Ande Jacobson
Well known British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, born Tomáš Straüssler in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, has a reputation for his writing and romances not unlike Henry’s, the main character in his play The Real Thing currently running at the Pear Avenue Theatre in Mountain View.
In the partially autobiographical story, Henry (Michael Champlin) is an extremely witty playwright who is fixated on the proper and exacting use of language. Continue reading
By Ande Jacobson
As has become the tradition since The Pear’s second year, spring welcomes a collection of new one-Act plays from the Pear Avenue Theatre Playwrights Guild in its annual presentation of Pear Slices. This year, instead of the usual eight, there are nine of them, each adding to the running themes surrounding that metaphysical fuzzy ground between faith and magic while showing us new beginnings in a variety of circumstances. As usual, this year’s Slices installment has something for everyone. Continue reading
By Ande Jacobson
What could be better than a new adaptation of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court to continue Pear Avenue Theatre’s Americana celebration? Twain, published his work in 1889. The book is as much a commentary on his current society as it is a work of science fiction given its time-travel bent. Continue reading
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