San Francisco Playhouse will present the West Coast Premiere of Candrice Jones' "Flex", directed by Bay Area theatre titan and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre artistic director Margo Hall.
This action-packed new play set in 1998 spotlights the Lady Train high school basketball team in Plainnole, Arkansas. Following the recent formation of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the players dream of going pro. First, they must face the pressures of being young, Black, and female in the rural South as setbacks on and off the court threaten to break the team apart.
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Developed at Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Ground Floor, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of the Arts, and National New Play Network's National Showcase of New Plays, Flex made its New York premiere at Lincoln Center Theater. The New York Times gave the show a Critic's Pick, calling it "a slam-dunk. Jones excels equally in sly humor and in the swift-tongued rhythms of teenage and athletic talk." The Daily Beast said, "the whooping, sighing, applause and interactions of the audience make clear how sharply the play hits home." The New York Sun proclaimed it "as charming a portrait of female camaraderie as you're likely to see in a theater anytime soon. Poignant and humorous, Flex is infused with such a generous, buoyant spirit, you can't help being uplifted by it."
"At San Francisco Playhouse, we are drawn to stories that illuminate resilience, community, and the courage to dream," said San Francisco Playhouse Artistic Director Bill English. "The journey of this Black girls' basketball team to the state finals is thrilling, but what moves us most is the humanity behind the scoreboard--the humor, tenderness, and fierce loyalty that propel them forward. Flex celebrates young women discovering who they are and who they might become."
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This action-packed new play set in 1998 spotlights the Lady Train high school basketball team in Plainnole, Arkansas. Following the recent formation of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the players dream of going pro. First, they must face the pressures of being young, Black, and female in the rural South as setbacks on and off the court threaten to break the team apart.
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Developed at Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Ground Floor, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of the Arts, and National New Play Network's National Showcase of New Plays, Flex made its New York premiere at Lincoln Center Theater. The New York Times gave the show a Critic's Pick, calling it "a slam-dunk. Jones excels equally in sly humor and in the swift-tongued rhythms of teenage and athletic talk." The Daily Beast said, "the whooping, sighing, applause and interactions of the audience make clear how sharply the play hits home." The New York Sun proclaimed it "as charming a portrait of female camaraderie as you're likely to see in a theater anytime soon. Poignant and humorous, Flex is infused with such a generous, buoyant spirit, you can't help being uplifted by it."
"At San Francisco Playhouse, we are drawn to stories that illuminate resilience, community, and the courage to dream," said San Francisco Playhouse Artistic Director Bill English. "The journey of this Black girls' basketball team to the state finals is thrilling, but what moves us most is the humanity behind the scoreboard--the humor, tenderness, and fierce loyalty that propel them forward. Flex celebrates young women discovering who they are and who they might become."
San Francisco Playhouse will present the West Coast Premiere of Candrice Jones' "Flex", directed by Bay Area theatre titan and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre artistic director Margo Hall.
This action-packed new play set in 1998 spotlights the Lady Train high school basketball team in Plainnole, Arkansas. Following the recent formation of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the players dream of going pro. First, they must face the pressures of being young, Black, and female in the rural South as setbacks on and off the court threaten to break the team apart.
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Developed at Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Ground Floor, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of the Arts, and National New Play Network's National Showcase of New Plays, Flex made its New York premiere at Lincoln Center Theater. The New York Times gave the show a Critic's Pick, calling it "a slam-dunk. Jones excels equally in sly humor and in the swift-tongued rhythms of teenage and athletic talk." The Daily Beast said, "the whooping, sighing, applause and interactions of the audience make clear how sharply the play hits home." The New York Sun proclaimed it "as charming a portrait of female camaraderie as you're likely to see in a theater anytime soon. Poignant and humorous, Flex is infused with such a generous, buoyant spirit, you can't help being uplifted by it."
"At San Francisco Playhouse, we are drawn to stories that illuminate resilience, community, and the courage to dream," said San Francisco Playhouse Artistic Director Bill English. "The journey of this Black girls' basketball team to the state finals is thrilling, but what moves us most is the humanity behind the scoreboard--the humor, tenderness, and fierce loyalty that propel them forward. Flex celebrates young women discovering who they are and who they might become."
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This action-packed new play set in 1998 spotlights the Lady Train high school basketball team in Plainnole, Arkansas. Following the recent formation of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the players dream of going pro. First, they must face the pressures of being young, Black, and female in the rural South as setbacks on and off the court threaten to break the team apart.
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Developed at Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Ground Floor, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of the Arts, and National New Play Network's National Showcase of New Plays, Flex made its New York premiere at Lincoln Center Theater. The New York Times gave the show a Critic's Pick, calling it "a slam-dunk. Jones excels equally in sly humor and in the swift-tongued rhythms of teenage and athletic talk." The Daily Beast said, "the whooping, sighing, applause and interactions of the audience make clear how sharply the play hits home." The New York Sun proclaimed it "as charming a portrait of female camaraderie as you're likely to see in a theater anytime soon. Poignant and humorous, Flex is infused with such a generous, buoyant spirit, you can't help being uplifted by it."
"At San Francisco Playhouse, we are drawn to stories that illuminate resilience, community, and the courage to dream," said San Francisco Playhouse Artistic Director Bill English. "The journey of this Black girls' basketball team to the state finals is thrilling, but what moves us most is the humanity behind the scoreboard--the humor, tenderness, and fierce loyalty that propel them forward. Flex celebrates young women discovering who they are and who they might become."
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