KRCB Radio's newest foray into the world of North Bay Arts: ArtsID
ArtsID is a collaboration between KRCB, the Bohemian, and the Sonoma County Arts Council. We cover art with a small "a" but we deal with the capital letter, too.
February 2012 - Personal Stories
Three playwrights tackle ways of telling personal narratives.
Rebecca Miller's play, Faultlines, recently had its West Coast Premier at Sebastopol's Main Stage West. Her fictional story, inspired by the Polly Klass kidnapping, revolves around a reunion of three women who were at the slumber party when their friend was taken twenty years before. Miller, who knew Polly Klass in grade school, talks with writer, Susan Swartz,
about writing this play as a way of facing her own long buried grief. How do you tell a story that is yours, but not necessarily yours to tell?
David Templeton tells the story of his teenaged pursuit of his first love - Pinky. He was willing to do anything to convince her that he was the one. This story first ran in the first episode of ArtsID - the "Identity" episode. David has now written the story as a two-person stage play, opening at Main Stage West on March 9th. David plays David. Liz Jahren plays Pinky.
Dave Pokorney was a stand up comic who spent 15 years as a stay at home Dad, planning his own one-man show. The show, "Based on a True Story" opened last year. Now Dave helps other people tell their own true stories at "West Side Stories", where people sign up to present their own five minute tales in front of a live audience. Based on the popular "The Moth" in NY and other cities, "West Side Stories" happens on the second Wednesday of every month at the Pelican Art Gallery in Petaluma. The next veent is Wednesday, March 14th. The topic is "Carpe Diem".
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Past ArtsID Offerings
October 2011 - Just in time for Halloween - ArtsID celebrates the plethora of theatrical performances on the theme of death in the Bay Area - from murder and suicide, to the natural end of life - we visit the dearly departed just in time for the veil to lift.
Playwright Bill Cain's autobiographical new play at Berkeley Rep, "How to Write a New Book for the Bible", chronicles the year he spent caring for his mother at the end of her life. David Templeton spoke with him for ArtsID:
June 2011 - "Theatre Special" - Listen to the show
March 2011 - "Theatre Tour" - Listen to the show
October 2010 - "Death" - Listen to the full show
August 2010 - "Venues" - Listen to the full show
July 2010 - "Lost and Found" - Listen to the full show
Premiere show - "Identity" - Listen to the full show
