Main Stage Season
Attempts on her Life
by Martin Crimp
Directed by Scott Wallin
Zellerbach Playhouse
October 7-16, 2011
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm
Her name is Annie. Or Anya. Or is it Annushka? Those who know her describe an artist, a physicist, a mother, a terrorist, dead, or alive. Martin Crimp’s groundbreaking experimental play asks who has the right to name us, and what power does that naming have? Do attempts to represent Annie turn her into a victim? Or do they reveal her own complicity in acts of brutality? You decide.
ASL Interpreted performance on October 15th at 8:00pm, provided by Stage Hands of the Bay Area.
Audio description for the blind and visually impaired available for all performances.
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An Ideal Husband
By Oscar Wilde
Directed by Christine Nicholson
Durham Studio Theater
November 11-20, 2011
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm
Sir Robert Chiltern is a rising political star with a good heart – and a soft spot for money and power. When his past comes back to haunt him, it will be a race to see who can blackmail whom to keep it quiet! Will his relationships with his family, friends and colleagues suffer? Will he come out of this a better man, or worse? Wilde’s trademark biting wit has as much resonance today as it did in 1895.
Ishi: The Last of the Yahi
Written and Directed by John Fisher
Zellerbach Playhouse
March 2-11, 2012
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm
On the centennial of his arrival at UC Berkeley, a story about the last remaining member of the Yahi tribe by acclaimed playwright and director John Fisher. After his discovery in 1911, Ishi lived and worked in UC’s Anthropology Museum as an object of study, where he helped reconstruct Yahi culture for his “keepers” before his death in 1916. A touching, revealing and tender look at the effect of “civilized” life on Ishi, and a key moment in UC Berkeley’s history.
Berkeley Dance Project 2012
Directed by Lisa Wymore
With works by Amara Tabor-Smith, Lisa Wymore, and Stephanie Sherman
Zellerbach Playhouse
April 20-29, 2012
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm
Three new choreographic works explore the theme of transformation. Amara Tabor-Smith will use the Sabar dance form as a metaphor for personal growth and cultural shifts; Stephanie Sherman will explore assimilation using costumes to challenge traditional ideas of identity; and Lisa Wymore will experiment with ritual and heightened physical states.
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