“The Syringa Tree,” Pamela Gien’s one-woman show now at the Pasadena Playhouse, is said to have begun as an exercise in a Los Angeles acting class taught by the show’s director, Larry Moss.

BIDDEFORD —The Syringa Tree, a one-woman play by Pamela Gien, returns to Engine for two performances on Friday, Aug. 18 and Saturday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. The play will be performed by Courtney ...

The Pasadena Playhouse production of “The Syringa Tree” will move to the Canon Theater in Beverly Hills for four weeks beginning Dec. 5. A hit in New York and London — and winner of the 2001 ...

Gin Hammond is remarkable as Elizabeth, as she tells her story and that of the two dozen characters who people her world. The imaginative and clever child considers herself a "lucky fish," one who ...

The latter is the stirring effect Gin Hammond creates in "The Syringa Tree," Pamela Gien's ferociously heartfelt memory play about growing up white and privileged (and conscience-racked) in ...

Pamela Gien's "The Syringa Tree," about life in South Africa, won the best play award at the 46th annual Village Voice Obie Awards, which honor achievement in Off Broadway theater.

The novel has only extended its hold on the writer, who now lives in Los Angeles. A film version of "The Syringa Tree" is scheduled to follow. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad.