Watch an intense play take shape in festival reading The main event of the 38th Bay Area Playwrights Festival (besides the panels and workshops) is, as always, the second round of staged readings of the seven new plays — after the writer, director and other principals have had a chance to see how it went at its first reading and had a week to work on the script. Among the other six plays getting second readings this weekend are noted local playwright Lauren Gunderson’s comedic “The Revolutionists,” being developed with Cincinnati Playhouse (noon Saturday, July 25) and up-and-comer Geetha Reddy’s “On a Wonderverse” (6 p.m.