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July 8–Aug 2 BRUNS AMPHITHEATER, ORINDA 510.548.9666 Eapfull-Page Template.Indd1 BY PEDRO CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA TRANSLATED AND ADAPTED BY NILO CRUZ DIRECTED BY LORETTA GRECO July 8–Aug 2 BRUNS AMPHITHEATER, ORINDA 510.548.9666 www.calshakes.org “ City National helps keep my financial life in tune.” So much of my life is always shifting; a different city, a different piece of music, a different ensemble. I need people who I can count on to help keep my financial life on course so I can focus on creating and sharing the “adventures” of classical music. City National shares my passion and is instrumental in helping me bring classical music to audiences all over the world. They enjoy being a part of what I do and love. That is the essence of a successful relationship. City National is The way up® for me. Michael Tilson Thomas Conductor, Educator and Composer Hear Michael’s complete story at Findyourwayup.com/Tuned2SF. Find your way up.SM Call (866) 618-5244 to speak with a personal banker. 15 City National Bank 15 City National 0 ©2 City National Personal Banking CNB MEMBER FDIC EAP full-page template.indd 1 5/29/15 1:57 PM FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Reading Nilo Cruz’s adaptation of Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, I feel like I am in a dream. Not a theatrical dream, but a real one— fevered, strangely logical, at times terrifying, and then swiftly and surprisingly funny. And like all dreams that are especially vivid, it’s exhilarating as it vibrates in the mind long after the script is put down. I’ve read earlier translations of Calderón’s play, and while they all capture the original ideas of this great writer from the Spanish Golden Age, none are as immediate, as urgent, as muscular or as beautiful as Cruz’s adaptation. While Calderón set the play in Poland, Cruz’s landscape for the action is unspecified. It could be anywhere where an oppressive state imprisons individuals who are deemed threats to the ruling order. And as the play pits father against son, the politics of the nation are the politics of the family, which makes Life Is a Dream, at its heart, deeply human and deeply charged. What I find most striking about Cruz’s language is how it is able to infuse the heady notions of fate versus self-determination, and illusion versus reality, with the palpable feelings of repressed desires for love, revenge, and freedom. Cruz, a Pulitzer Prize-winner for his play Anna in the Tropics, grips the heart from the first line, only to release it into a transcendent state of clarity and peace at the final stage direction (which I won’t spoil here). There are only a few directors I could imagine taking on this masterful piece of theater, and at the top of that very short list is Loretta Greco, whom I consider one of our country’s most gifted artists. Her work is at once sexy, powerful, and rigorous in feeling, and thought. She has assembled a cast of richly diverse actors, including the superb Sean San José and the venerable Julian López-Morillas, who represent the best of actors from the past and present of our great theater. I am thrilled to bring Calderón, a near-contemporary of Shakespeare’s, to our stage for the first time in my fifteen-year tenure. After reading Cruz’s superb adaptation, I can’t help but wonder why it took me so long. Enjoy. Jonathan Moscone July 2015 ASHLAND Volume 24, No. 2 2015 Get in on the Act! 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JUL 14–AUG 2 The world premiere of Amélie, Mary DISCOVER THE Zimmerman’s Treasure Island, the Tony Award– nominated Disgraced, a thrilling Macbeth, a fantastical Pirates of Penzance, and 2 15–16 more—your adventure awaits! SEASON TICKET PACKAGES ON SALE NOW SEASON SPONSORS Call 510 647-2949 Click berkeleyrep.org EAP full-page template.indd 1 5/29/15 1:59 PM HONOR A LIFE IN THE PAST, ENSURE THE FUTURE WITH CAL SHAKES Legacy Circle Donor Profi le: Peter Fisher LEGACY CIRCLE. By Philippa Kelly, Resident Dramaturg “One of my roles in Cal Shakes‘ fi rst production, Hamlet, was Osric and, like Osric, I am ‘spacious in MOSCONE PERMANENT the possession of dirt.’ If Berkeley ENDOWMENT LEAD DONORS property values continue to rise, my legacy will be six fi gures, which Ellen & Joffa Dale pleases me.” Barclay & Sharon Simpson Thus speaks Peter Fisher, actor, LEGACY CIRCLE CHARTER musician, director, and resident of MEMBERS the Bay Area since 1968 when he arrived from Philadelphia, spending Mary Jo & Bruce Byson his fi rst nights here in his VW bus at Phil & Chris Chernin the scenic lookout on Grizzly Peak. Debbie Chinn Peter soon established himself Pictured: Peter Fisher. Photo by Ellen Dale. Ellen & Joffa Dale Peter Fisher as the leader of a baroque quartet, and later joined the staff of the Douglas Hill School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He Xanthe & Jim Hopp has been a part of the Cal Shakes story from the very beginning, as a David Ray Johnson co-founder of the company in 1973 (then the Emeryville Shakespeare Mark Jordan Company). He organized the fi rst Berkeley Shakespeare Festival Debby & Bruce Lieberman season in 1974 at Cal Shakes’ early home in John Hinkle Park and, Tina Morgado during his 27 years on the board, helped design and build the Bruns Richard Norris Amphitheater. Shelly Osborne James & Nita Roethe What Peter loves most about Shakespeare is the all-round way in Laura & Robert Sehr which the Bard wrote his plays: “Shakespeare didn’t just write his Barclay & Sharon Simpson plays—he built them,” he observes. “Pick up a copy of The Complete Jean Simpson Works and notice, for example, the way that Shakespeare’s scenery is Valerie Sopher embedded in his characters’ responses to their situations: ‘But, soft! Kate Stechschulte & David Cost, What light through yonder window breaks?’ [from Romeo and Juliet] In Memory of Margaret Cost or ‘What bloody man is that?’ [from Macbeth]. You’ll also notice the M.J. Stephens & Bernard Tagholm beauty of his iambic pentameter at work, with its soft/strong meter: Janis Turner ‘And I do love thee: therefore go with me,’ [from A Midsummer Night’s Carol Jackson Upshaw Dream] or ‘If music be the food of love, play on,’ [from Twelfth Night].” Arthur Weil Jay Yamada Peter recently adjusted his will so that a portion of his estate will go Monique Young to the Moscone Permanent Endowment, established to ensure Cal Shakes’ future as a vibrant and valued cultural resource to the Bay INTERESTED IN JOINING Area. “Shakespeare left the world a legacy,” Peter says. “What I can THE CIRCLE? CONTACT leave to Cal Shakes is just a small contribution to this legacy—but it [email protected] counts. Everything counts.” FOR MORE INFORMATION. 6 CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER WWW.CALSHAKES.ORG COMING NEXT! SAVE THE DATES! Meet the artists, save money on tickets, and sample local food and drink during the runs of Life Is a Dream and The Mystery of Irma Vep. By Charles Ludlam WITH Directed by Jonathan Moscone LIFE IS A THE MYSTERY CAL SHAKES EVENTS LEGACY CIRCLE. August 12—September 6 DREAM OF IRMA VEP Inside Scoop These special events provide an insider’s view of 6/22 7/27 Cal Shakes’ outgoing artistic director Jonathan Moscone has chosen an upcoming production, Charles Ludlam’s uproarious 1984 comedy for his fi nal bow at the Bruns. featuring directors, cast, and artists up close. In an unparalleled theatrical feat, Cal Shakes favorites Danny Scheie and Liam Vincent will make 35 costume changes to play eight different Lower-priced previews characters, ranging from a nobleman to an Egyptian princess. Taking Be part of the process by 7/8, 7/9, 8/12, place at a sinister estate near Hampstead Heath, where Lord Edgar and seeing the show before Opening, at a discounted 7/10 8/13, 8/14 his nervous new wife Enid fi nd themselves haunted by werewolves, price.
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