The Matchbox
Works In Development
The Matchbox is Crowded Fire's works in development program. It includes The Matchbox Reading Series, featuring annual readings of new plays, Matchbox Productions, producing experimental original work generated by Crowded Fire Resident Artists, and Matchbox Workshops, providing playwrights with access to directors and actors during various stages of their writing process.
2010 Matchbox Program
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The Matchbox Production Move over Mad Men, the ladies are in charge now. One play, three experiences. Performed in a beautiful Victorian-style home in Berkeley, this site-specific piece will give you the choice of following one of three individual characters through the private chambers of a house where the smell of home cooking and muffled sounds of arguments and love-making make for a true slice of life (and pie!) experience. Join Linda, Cindy, and Karen as their lives are touched, shaken, and changed by one woman’s revolution. April 8-23, 2010 |
November 8, 9, 15, and 16
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The Matchbox Reading Series During rehearsals for a play about Mao Tse-Tung, events from the actors’ real lives become the subject of their own epic propaganda play. Mirroring history, the actors blindly follow their trusted, beloved director into a strange new realm where the line between theatrics and reality is blurred, and all ownership of self is sacrificed. The Hundred Flowers Project, a story of self-generating narratives, is at once a cautionary tale of history and a parable of media’s role in the politics of today. Additional titles for 2010's Matchbox Reading Series to be announced. |
The Matchbox Reading Series is free and open to the public. To help keep this vital program alive, please donate now.
Or you can send a check to:
Crowded Fire
PO Box 7775 #33990
San Francisco, CA 94120-7775 and
Please indicate MATCHBOX DONATION in the memo.