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One of the most beautiful Now in my 15th year as your artistic director, I remain and rare aspects of the steadfast in the promise I made to the board when they Bruns is how much space hired me (back in those salad days): I couldn’t promise there is. The lobby is that everything they’d see would be right, or great, but nearly endless, certainly in what I could (and continue to) promise is to bring all of its views. It’s open and the imagination to bear on telling the stories of these available to all. And our immense and wooly plays. staff has been working diligently to make sure our But something I’ve learned along the way involves the space is, more than space to tell our stories through the productions of anything, welcoming to Shakespeare, Hansberry, Dickens, Chekhov, Neale all. You’ll see changes, Hurston. No matter what anyone says, there is no from our “Welcome production that does not interpret a play; traditional Center” to our “Story Hub” (next to our café counter), a or experimental, all productions reveal the stories of place to sit and learn about all the work we do in the artists who make them. At Cal Shakes we not only classrooms and with communities, as well as to admit that—we revel in it. I believe that the greatest interact. Plus, our Triangle Lab wall has become several gift we give artists is the space to tell their stories, to walls scattered throughout our grounds, where you can give them the freedom of expression that allows for one share your experiences and tell your own stories. of the most delightful aspects of what theater can offer: surprise. We have space for diverse audiences to come together. And we have space for artists to dream. Our stage is I’m sure we surprised many when we made Hans- nearly 80 feet wide, and is essentially a blank slate. berry’s story come to life in the Orinda hills. To do When a director and designer come to it, they are given Shakespeare is not a surprise to anyone familiar with a tabula rasa to dream big, to embrace or deny nature, Cal Shakes. But to do it with more than a twist, but a to sculpt a visual landscape that is as bold and brave as shaker and ingredients you may not have expected is the play they are working on. You saw it most acutely what makes everything here—on stage and throughout with Dede Ayite’s set design for A Raisin in the Sun, the Bruns—surprisingly alive. which was at once epic and intimate, a brilliant response that butted our natural world up against the cramped We live in a cramped world—literally, as our cities grow urban world of Southside Chicago in the late ‘50s. denser and denser—and in the world of our minds, where we have more information thrown at us daily Tonight, the slate is wiped clean and we enter into a than we used to have in a week or even a month (I’m wildly different world than Raisin playwright Lorraine showing my age here). Our theater remains dedicated Hansberry’s—this, a brightly colored landscape for to giving you space: to wander through nature, to tell Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity to your stories, to listen to new ones, to be surprised, come to vibrant, smartly silly life. and—we hope—to laugh. Perhaps the most thrilling defi nition of space at Cal Enjoy Aaron Posner’s production of Shakes is the space we aim to give for artists to boldly Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. imagine their responses to the great works of world literature. From Shakespeare to Hansberry, our plays this year are not historical documents. They are not complete without the artists who come to them, and because they all carry with them big ideas about the world, they give space for artists to enter into them with big imaginations. Being safe in your thinking doesn’t JONATHAN MOSCONE pay off with these plays. They demand risk. And they Artistic Director provide the space for the brave exploration and expres- sion that mark our work. Photos by Kevin Berne. encoreartsprograms.com 3 July 2014 Volume 23, No. 2 Entertain, enrich, engage Since 1974, Cal Shakes has been building community through inclusive, authentic, and joyful theater Paul Heppner Publisher experiences. 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Call to fi nd out if we accept yours. altabatessummit.org/lafayette Untitled-3 1 4/21/14 9:44 AM CELEBRATE CAL SHAKES OUR STORY: PART TWO AT SEARCHING FOR A NEW HOME 40 BY RESIDENT DRAMATURG PHILIPPA KELLY In the halcyon days of the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival (the then-name of Cal Shakes) in the ‘70s and ‘80s, audience members had filled John Hinkel Park to capacity with their sleeping bags, bongs, and Bun- sen burners, many arriving over an hour ahead of time to set up camp. It was difficult to imagine a setting for the Shakespeare Festival other than this beautiful, vernal amphitheater, scents wafting from the bay and eucalyptus trees standing patiently by.