Future Ten 4: Good Buddy

ten playwrights, ten plays, ten minutes each

November 2-3, 9-10, 2007

Doors at 7:30 PM, show starts at 8:00 PM

Though the venue has moved, one thing remains the same: Ten new short works by playwrights from Pittsburgh and beyond will be featured November 2-10, 2007, in this fourth installment of a new Pittsburgh theater tradition.   Future Tenant, an alternative art space recently relocated to 819 Penn Avenue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Cultural District, and Thank You, Felix Productions will present Future Ten 4: Good Buddy. Split into two weekends (Fridays and Saturdays), the festival will feature a varied collection of plots and characters.

This year’s festival will also feature a trucker theme and a “Trucker Challenge,” during which audience members will challenge each other for the illustrious designation of “Mother Trucker.”  

The festival will be presented as follows:   

Future Ten 4: Program A – Nov. 2-3 at 8 PM

Ballad of the Sad Gungan by Lissa Brennan
The Unbearable Lightness of Eating by Joseph Lyons
Memory Lane by Josh McIlvain
Safe by Matthew Rohner
Paper Shuffler by Pamela Raia

Future Ten 4: Program B - Nov. 9-10 at 8 PM

12 Sided Die by Fred Betzner
post-script by Robert Isenberg
Viewers Like You by Gayle Pazerski
Tex/Sex by Sloan MacRae
The Cell by Kelly DuMar
  
Future Ten 4 will also feature the work of six directors, each of whom will helm one or two of the plays. Overseeing the shows are Lissa Brennan, Tami Dixon, Erica Highberg, Joseph Lyons, Brad Stephenson and Stacey Vespaziani.

Future Tenant will open at 7:30 PM each evening during the run of Future Ten 4 and free drinks will be available. There will be a $10 suggested donation collected at the door. Contact brad@thankyoufelix.com for more information. PLEASE NOTE: Seating is limited, and there will be no advance ticket sales.

Thank You, Felix partners with businesses and organizations to create exciting theatrical events in unconventional environments. Thank You, Felix premiered in February 2005 with Kukic’s stage adaptation of Dream for an Insomniac (screenplay by Tiffanie DeBartolo) and has since produced George Eastman’s Bitter Exchange and Chris Bondi’s The Party for the Pittsburgh New Works Festival; Robert Isenberg’s Jetlag at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company; A. R. Gurney's Sylvia at the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society; Laundry & Bourbon/Lone Star and Fool for Love at Brillobox in Bloomfield; and Mr. Marmalade at the Gemini Theater in Point Breeze. Visit the company’s Web site at www.ThankYouFelix.com.

For more information about…

Future Tenant, visit www.FutureTenant.org.
Thank You, Felix, visit www.ThankYouFelix.com.
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, visit www.pgharts.org.
The H. John Heinz, III School of Public Policy and Management, visit www.heinz.cmu.edu.