Shotgun Players’ lineup for 2018

A world premiere and a Tom Stoppard play are among the highlights of Shotgun Players’ 2018-19 season, which the company announced Saturday, Oct. 28.

Kicking off the 27th season is “Iron Shoes” (March 15-April 22), a world premiere created by Janet Kutulas, Michelle Carter and Erika Chong Shuch, directed by Shuch and co-presented with Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble. The show adapts Eastern European fairy tales into a contemporary, neo-feminist folk opera.

Contemporary plays by women make up two other shows in the lineup. After “Iron Shoes” is “Dry Land” (May 17-June 17), written by Ruby Rae Spiegel and directed by Ariel Craft in her Shotgun directing debut. The 2014 play centers on two suburban girls on a swim team, each facing obstacles of very different proportions. Later in the season comes Sheila Callaghan’s “Women Laughing Alone with Salad” (Oct. 11-Nov. 11), which was inspired by the eponymous ridiculous Internet meme (it’s worth Googling). Susannah Martin directs.

James Ijames’ “White” ( July 6-Aug. 5) is all about lenses and cultural appropriation. Directed by M. Graham Smith, the show follows a white male visual artist who learns his demographics, not his art, make him uninteresting to a museum curator. Guillermo Calderón’s “Kiss” (Aug. 23-Sept. 23) also takes on art and identity politics. Presented in association with Golden Thread Productions and directed by Evren Odcikin, it’s about a theater troupe that thinks it’s putting on a show about love, heartbreak and Syria — until the playwright appears, debunking its interpretation.

Rounding out the season is Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” (Nov. 30-Jan. 6, 2019), a time-traveling play weaving physics, gardening and Lord Byron into a love story. Founding artistic director Patrick Dooley directs.

Lily Janiak is The San Francisco Chronicle’s theater critic. Email: ljaniak@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @LilyJaniak