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(Still) in America Page 21 2020 FEBRUARY—APRIL (STILL) IN AMERICA PAGE 21 PLUS Culture Clash on being chroniclers, clowns, and collaborators · New artist housing · Citizen Rep takes action CC.program.emg.v2.indd 1 2/6/20 4:40 PM Engaging and eclectic in the East Bay. Oakland is the gateway to the East Bay with a little bit of everything to offer, and St. Paul’s Towers gives you easy access to it all. An artistic, activist, and intellectual Life Plan Community, St. Paul’s Towers is known for convenient services, welcome comforts and security for the future. With classes, exhibits, lectures, restaurants, shops and public transportation within walking distance, St. Paul’s Towers is urban community living at its best. Get to know us and learn more about moving to St. Paul’s Towers. For information, or to schedule a visit, call 510.891.8542. 100 Bay Place, Oakland, CA 94610 www.covia.org/st-pauls-towers A not-for-profit community owned and operated by Covia. License No. 011400627 COA# 327 Untitled-3CC.program.emg.v2.indd 1 2 12/11/192/6/20 12:50 4:40 PMPM WELCOME TO BERKELEY REP! To ensure the best experience for everyone: 16 Food and drink: Beverages in cans, cartons, or plastic cups with lids are welcome in the house. Food is prohibited. Phones that make noise during the performance are disruptive to everyone. Ensure phones and electronic devices are turned off during the performance. Photography: Audience members may take photos in the theatre before and after the performance, and during intermission. Photos and video during the performance are not permitted. Photos posted on social media must credit the show’s designers. Late seating is not guaranteed. If you arrive late, the house manager will provide instructions about seating. If you leave during the performance, you will be IN THIS ISSUE 10 reseated at an appropriate break. From the artistic director · 5 Smoking/Vaping: Berkeley Rep’s public From the managing director · 6 spaces are smoke- and vape-free. Citizen Rep takes action · 8 One of the joys of live theatre is the “A building of exuberant repose:” collective experience. Remember Berkeley Rep breaks ground that people respond in different ways, on artist housing · 10 Engaging and eclectic and we invite you to join with other audience members and enjoy the show! FEATURES in the East Bay. Culture Clash (Still) in America origin story · 12 CONNECT WITH BERKELEY REP Chronicling comics: Investigating Oakland is the gateway to the East Bay with a little bit of everything to offer, American lives with Culture Clash · 12 Box Office: 510 647-2949 and St. Paul’s Towers gives you easy access to it all. 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Lisa Peterson is part of that grand extended family, but also someone with whom I have had the privilege of collaborating Personal attention many times during my decades at New York Stage and Film. She was thoughtful litigation one of the people I reached out to as I was planning this first season, final resolution and she told me of the work Culture Clash was doing to update their seminal piece Culture Clash in AmeriCCa for these complicated times. Our goal is to preserve our LAW FAMILY It’s no surprise, really, that we turn to our clowns to help us make client’s dignity and humanity. sense of the world as it spins ever more rapidly in ways we struggle to understand. Sixteenth-century Italians had commedia dell’arte’s Arlecchino and Pantalone sending up their societal and political structures; Lear had his Fool to illuminate for him the absurdities of FA M I LYLAW G R OUP, P. C . his behavior; and we have Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah and Tina Fey to whom we turn for escape, information, and entertainment. 575 Market Street, Suite 4000 Culture Clash sits within that grand tradition of satirists whose San Francisco, CA 94105 415.834.1120 work allows us to see ourselves, our community, our country in new www.sflg.com ways. And while Richard and Ric and Herbert are lauded all over the country, they also are so specifically Californian, their work born from the histories and the people of the Central Valley, the East Bay, the CONNECT Mission District. They have been making work all along this coast for decades, and I am proud to welcome them back to Berkeley Rep. Buckle up!! Warmly, FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ARTISTIC THE FROM Johanna Pfaelzer Find us everywhere @berkeleyrep 2019–20 · ISSUE 4 · THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE · 5 CC.program.emg.v2.indd 5 2/6/20 4:40 PM FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR MANAGING THE FROM RICHARD MONTOYA CAME TO VISIT with us weeks before he and his colleagues, Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenza, officially returned to Berkeley with Culture Clash (Still) in America, an update of Culture Clash in AmeriCCa, which we premiered in 2002. The world is certainly a different place than it was 18 years ago. Our relationship to our neighbors on the Southern border has taken a profound turn. Our national policy has moved increasingly toward isolationism with a particular antipathy to immigrants from the South. Ironically (or not!) here in California, the percentage of residents identifying as Latinx has continued to grow. When I first arrived here from Chicago, one of the aspects of living in California that was so new and so fascinating to me was this state’s relationship to our Mexican and southern neighbors.
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