tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53329670384189900062024-03-13T21:51:37.501-07:00Claire RiceWriter and Theatre PractitionerClaire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-74170133964397158422022-06-14T14:23:00.008-07:002024-01-19T16:26:08.206-08:00THEM - Awesome Theatre MovieOver the pandemic, it could have been so easy for Awesome Theatre to do nothing. To sit and wait out the pandemic and hope we could get back together to do a live show.But Awesome Theatre didn't want to do the easy thing. Awesome theatre wanted to take what small amount of money we had set aside for a live show (and anyone who does small theatre in the bay area has a good idea what our budget wasClaire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-55584385390345147912022-06-09T12:18:00.001-07:002024-01-19T16:29:25.085-08:00E-Meters are for Amateurs So, you want to know what exactly kind of art the pandemic shut down produced. Come and see Marc Abrigo's laugh-out-loud look at cults and the cult of personality. If you binge-watched every cult miniseries that Netflix could pass in front of you over the pandemic, this play is for you. It has washed up celebrities, desperate cult leaders, weird sex stuff, and so much more.I'm producing Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-70472947484432703122022-06-08T15:35:00.003-07:002024-01-19T16:29:39.266-08:00My Next ProjectThe title of my new play is "Are You Goth Enough to be Haunted, Fall in Love With the Wrong Guy, Get Revenge, and Burn Down the Mall?" And I'm in love with it. I've been struggling to write. And not just a little bit. Like...a lot. And I know during the whole pandemic everyone was putting out very kind vibes about how you don't have to create during this time. You don't have to make newClaire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-22577943576835187622020-10-21T21:30:00.003-07:002024-01-19T16:27:55.978-08:00Awesome Theatre is my home. It is the place where my work has found support and love and tender care.And these times are very very scary and strange and weird and they just keep getting stranger. THE SKY WAS RED! JUST RED! THE SKY WAS FUCKING RED!!!! Anyway, on October 28th at 7pm we are holding a fundraiser. The ways that this time has impacted small theatre is...well...incalculable. Just..Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-91163604598483293992018-11-14T01:14:00.001-08:002024-01-19T16:28:19.000-08:00I heart Awesome Theatre
The copy below is stolen from this page. You can just skip this post and go right there and donate. And you'll know that I love you so so much!
Over the last five years, Awesome Theatre has worked to create “theatre for people who didn’t know they liked theatre.” That sentiment has helped us to hone in on our true mission of producing NEW plays by LOCAL playwright that are also Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-28118844352324246862018-11-13T23:25:00.003-08:002024-01-19T16:28:42.117-08:00Unproduceable: Featuring "A History of Freaks" by Katie May
Celebrating the Bay Area’s best playwrights by reading their most impossible plays.
Featuring “A History of Freaks”
by Katie May
Directed by Claire Rice
Saturday, November 17, 8PM
Exit Theatre
$10 Online Advance – $15 at the door
Featuring Performances by Jess Thomas, Jessica Rudholm, Meg Trowbridge, Sam Bertken, Meghan Chambers, Clay Newman, Stephanie Fields, Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-15017018437669632922018-10-09T01:05:00.001-07:002024-01-19T16:29:09.740-08:00Terror-Rama 3: Dead the Whole Time | Awesome Theatre (2018)
TERROR-RAMA III:DEAD THE WHOLE TIMEDirected by Christian Haines, Hosted by Sindie Chopper
The Horror-Theatre Double Feature Rides Again with two world premiere tales of terror. TERROR-RAMA III: DEAD THE WHOLE TIME amps up the terror in Awesome Theatre’s third production of its horror series with more blood, more screams, and more thrills! Two plays are presented in a “Midnight Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-89819438413796260972018-07-05T21:54:00.000-07:002024-01-19T16:30:28.168-08:00Mercy Killing by Alandra Hileman | produced by Awesome Theatre (2018)
Mercy Killing
Love is dead, literally.
Mercy is a barista in San Francisco. She's also a serial killer. The only one who knows is a Grim Reaper named Thana, her girlfriend, sort of, it's complicated. The two of them navigate a tenuous romance while trying to evade detection by the authorities on either side of morality.
Featuring: Olivia Brown, Stephanie Whigham, Noe Flores, and Haley Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-59117990241654804542017-11-14T23:18:00.001-08:002024-01-19T16:30:45.986-08:00Let's Fast Forward to 2018There have been so many wonderful things that have happened in 2017, but at the moment I can not remember a single one of them. Mostly it's all lost in an adrenalin haze that I got from refreshing the NPR home page over and over and over again.
Maybe your drug of choice was CNN or the Google News Page or Twitter. Whatever it was, 2018 will be the antidote you andClaire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-90004214237386196902017-06-22T14:13:00.002-07:002024-01-19T16:31:03.145-08:00Never-Ever Land by Sang S. Kim | produced by Awesome Theatre (2017-2019)
Never-Ever Land by Sang S. Kim
Twenty Bay Area playwrights have fought for comedic supremacy over four preliminary rounds, and a semi finals, now just two remain. On Wednesday April 11, Sang S. Kim and Bridgette Dutta Portman will battle for the title of FUNNIEST PLAY EVER! Both plays have been expanded and will be scored by our panel of Celebrity Judges. The winning play will be produced byClaire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-89895794181554205622017-06-14T18:00:00.002-07:002024-01-19T16:31:21.469-08:00Purity by Claire Rice | produced by Awesome Theatre (2016)
Purity, takes place in the basement of a small church in rural Kansas. Two young people prepare for a Purity Ball and share the dark pasts that brought them back to the church. But outside a storm rages and a killer is stalking the streets. Will the locked door keep them safe? Are they pure enough to survive the night?
Adam Niemann and Laura Peterson (photo by Claire Rice)Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-62431219812332912642017-06-13T17:05:00.002-07:002024-01-19T16:31:49.148-08:00Beware the Killer Bees, by Spencer Bainbridge | produced by PianoFight (2017)<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-62533746160472144222016-09-22T11:49:00.001-07:002024-01-19T16:32:06.065-08:00Stupid Ghost by Savannah Reich | produced by San Francisco Theatre Pub (2016)
San Francisco Theater Pub Presents Stupid Ghost
This funny, charming, touching, dreamy little play was given to me to
direct by Theater Pub Co-Artistic Director Tonya Narvaez and I fell in
love with it before I finished it. Playwright Savannah Reich described
the play to me as a "ghost story told by a ghost." There is love, there
is loss, there is fear and there are all kinds of wonderfulClaire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-59289760635890497922016-07-04T17:35:00.001-07:002024-01-19T16:32:22.392-08:00Choose Your Own Apocalypse, by Claire Rice | produced by AmiosWest (2016)A reunion. Two women meet out in the woods. Someone has escaped. Someone has come to make amends. Someone wants to bring an end to the pain and suffering. Someone wants to bring an end to the world.
Featuring Katie Whitcraft and Jaime Lee Currier
Directed by Christian Haines
Produced as part of AmiosWest's LongShotz: Collateral Damage.
Look them up here: http://www.amioswest.org/
Here is the Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-86039674496524305602014-03-15T13:43:00.001-07:002024-01-19T16:48:52.557-08:00Claire Rice's Enemy's List - The List
photo by Claire Rice
For a year I wrote for San Francisco Theater Pub, a blog that focuses on the experiences of independent theatre artists. Most of the writers are based in San Francisco, though there are bloggers from all around. It was really fun writing for TheaterPub. It has been a unique challenge.
To subscribe to Theater Pub go to the site: http://Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-83229239017609784842013-08-28T22:47:00.002-07:002018-07-06T02:09:53.419-07:00Project List 2013-14All of my emails from my phone have a note on them that says they came "via paper airplane" because I think that's funny.
Below is a picture of my project list for 2013-14. I'm sure other people's lists are fuller, better planned out, and are full of correct spellings. But this one is mine and I think it represents me and the things I like, the people I love, the art I want to do, Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-9238707900457599602013-08-20T15:51:00.002-07:002018-07-06T01:34:02.684-07:0031 Plays in 31 Days: Death by Stabby Stab
Death by Stabby Stab
(Phyllis, a delightful looking
woman in her forties in a flower dress and perfectly quaffed hair, sits across
from Flora who would be Phyllis’s mirror image except that she is disheveled,
bloody, and tied to a chair. She does, however, seem to be in good spirits.)
Flora &Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-42855631351283720982013-08-19T23:46:00.003-07:002018-07-06T01:36:24.053-07:0031 Plays in 31 Days: Death by Death
Death by Death
(Mike Death, cloaked in his black cloak with his face obscured, sits in
a break room drinking coffee and playing on his phone. Cory Death enters
dressed the same. He pours himself some
coffee and sits across from Mike.)
Cory Hey
Mike, what’s up?
Mike &Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-42695466489352341822013-08-19T22:29:00.000-07:002018-07-06T01:39:28.402-07:0031 Plays in 31 Days: Death by Baby
Death by Baby
&Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-90502005892894785012013-08-18T00:46:00.001-07:002018-07-06T01:42:55.701-07:0031 Plays in 31 Days - User Agreement
User Agreement
By Claire Rice
CHARACTERS
Camille A
woman at the top of the food chain.
Neil A man who doesn’t know where he is.
TIME AND PLACE
The near possible future.
Camille sits in a plush old office in Washington DC.&Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-58824475056521344102013-08-15T00:35:00.003-07:002013-08-15T00:35:50.052-07:0031 Plays in 31 Days - Ten One Page PlaysThis year I am very happy to be participating in 31 Plays in 31 Days. Hundreds of writers from all over are writing and submitting plays. It feels good to feel so connected to so many writers.
I plan on writing several kinds of plays (I had even hoped to get in a full length), but I really didn't go into this with much of an attack plan. Of course, I'm not sure why. Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-85392355714132142162013-08-15T00:17:00.002-07:002018-07-06T01:40:45.879-07:0031 Plays in 31 Days - Family Drama Story
Family Drama Story
Maggie, a graying and sagging woman in her forties, vacuums her living
room with an old and angry vacuum.
Jillian, a good looking woman in her late thirties who is fighting the
ageing process with all her might and every penny, enters. She has a suitcase with her. She waits for Maggie to see her. Once she does, Maggie stands and stares at
her a moment,Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-86273711197717566132013-08-14T23:56:00.000-07:002018-07-06T01:44:05.611-07:0031 Plays in 31 Days - Thriller Story
Thriller Story
Scott, a man in his early fifties, runs through the woods. He is dressed like a poor accountant, but his
clothes are in tatters. He has been
running through the woods clutching his brief case for hours. His body has finally started to give up. He stumbles.
He tries to recover, but he stumbles again. He falls.
He tries to stand, but fails.Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-81920358576941105142013-08-14T23:17:00.000-07:002018-07-06T01:43:14.711-07:0031 Plays in 31 Days - Space Opera Story
Space Opera Story
Lord Nero stands alone looking out over a great expanse of stars and
planets from his personal observation deck aboard his deadly command space
ship. The room itself is cold and
dark. Three servants in red enter,
before they can advance too far Lord Nero addresses them with a booming voice
and without turning to look at them.
Lord Nero &Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-59364914426581431412013-08-14T22:49:00.003-07:002018-07-06T01:41:03.230-07:0031 Plays in 31 Days - Gay Romance Story
Gay Romance Story
Two men stand across from each other looking at music in a well-appointed
music store. Anthony is in his mid-twenties
and is enjoying a new height of attractiveness and a disposable income. Richie is in his early thirties and has grown
comfortable in his body and his sense of self.
They sense each other and are possibly looking longer at the records Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0