Well, dang, it finally happened. The 9th Annual Pear Slices opened at the Pear Theatre with my little epic, TOPPERS, leading off the evening. It was rather awesome to see five pages of verbosity transformed by Fred Pitts and Kelly Rinehart into something living at last. I’d sat in on a couple fo rehearsals and knew it was going to be good, but, hey, this was the preview — sets, costumes, lights, the works. And wok they did.
I am in awe of Kely Rinehart and Kimberly Gelbwasser, who transformed themselves from figures on wedding cakes to reanimated corpses to Bronze Age Scandinavian babes to maenads with nasal Californian accents, etc, all night long and every 5 to fifteen minutes or less.
If you’re in the Bay Area through early June, there are still tickets — or wer two nights ago. When word gets around about this production, I don’t think they’ll last long. IMHO, the two best plays of the evening are those by Peter Ross Nelson and Beverly Altschuler. But draw your own conclusions.