DIVAfest

DIVAfest is a festival dedicated to new works by women writers.

Featured in DIVAfest 2006 is the world premiere of Beauty and the Breast, a found object theatre piece by Liebe Wetzel, commissioned and produced by EXIT Theatre. It examines the difficult decisions facing women with breast cancer.

Playwright Sarah McKereghan premieres Guns and Ammunition, a play about communication among women under the pressures of family tragedy.

Comic writer-performers Karen Ripley and Annie Larson, with live musical back-up, present Waiting for FEMA, about “two octogenarians living through a recent natural disaster.”

DIVA favorite, celebrated Beat poet Diane di Prima, reads from the latest version of her classic Revolutionary Letters.

Sean Owens, who starred in Girlesque, an “8-1/2 women and one man show” at the first DIVAfest, returns to host the DIVA Cabaret at Original Joe’s, the original downtown retro bar and grill founded in 1937. Among the guest star Divas are Bay Area favorites Beth Wilmurt, Libby O’Connell, and others performing in a salute to “a century’s-worth of Divas.”

Locations

EXIT Theatre, EXIT Stage Left, the EXIT Cafe (all at156 Eddy St.), EXIT on Taylor (277 Taylor St.), and in the cabaret room at San Francisco’s historic Original Joe’s restaurant (144 Taylor St.).