Pear Slices 2025
Various Playwrights
Pear Theatre
Since Season Two of its now twenty-three, Pear Theatre each year has reaped a delicious harvest of world premiere, one-act playlets offered as Pear Slices — six to eight, ten-to-fifteen-minute pieces, each written by members of an ongoing Pear Playwrights’ Guild who meet every two weeks to discuss and provide support for ongoing, new work projects. Pear Slices 2025 continues this rich tradition with yet again a wide array of subjects including a film noir parody, a farcical mystery involving a cracked egg, a timely slice-of-life story of two sisters struggling both to survive and to thrive, a time-traveling Shakespeare, a stark look at AI and truckers, and more.
Under the clever and creative co-direction of Jasmine Lew and Bryan Moriarty, a cast of six shifts quickly and impressively in repertory fashion among the eight plays, developing in fast fashion characters ranging from whimsical to bizarre, cartoonish to starkly real, heart-warming to heart-breaking. As can be expected of any set of world premieres, not every work is quite ready for prime time; but be assured, the one-hour, forty-five minute (including intermission) evening of Pear Slices 2025 is overall highly engaging and thoroughly entertaining.
Please continue to Talkin’Broadway for the rest of my review.
Rating: 3.5 E
Pear Slices 2025 continues through June 6, 2025, in a one-hour, forty-five-minute (one intermission) production by The Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida, Suite A, Mountain View, CA. Tickets are available at https://www.thepear.org/.
Photo Credit: Tim Garcia and The Pear Theatre
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