The Berkeley Rep Magazine 2017–18 · Issue 4
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The 21st-century theatre-maker 12 · Moving beyond fury: An interview with Lisa Peterson 17 · The program for Office Hour21 THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE 2017–18 · ISSUE 4 OH_program.indd 1 2/1/18 2:26 PM OH_program.indd 2 2/1/18 2:26 PM OH_program.indd 3 2/1/18 2:26 PM Encore spread.indd 1 12/13/17 1:23 PM OH_program.indd 2 2/1/18 2:26 PM OH_program.indd 3 2/1/18 2:26 PM Encore spread.indd 1 12/13/17 1:23 PM IN THIS ISSUE 10 12 14 BERKELEY REP PRESENTS OFFICE HOUR · 21 MEET THE CAST & CREW · 22 PROLOGUE A letter from the artistic director · 7 Connect with us online! A letter from the managing director · 8 Visit our website berkeleyrep.org facebook.com/ @berkeleyrep You can buy tickets and plan your visit, berkeleyrep watch videos, sign up for classes, donate to vimeo.com/ @berkeleyrep REPORTS the Theatre, and explore Berkeley Rep. berkeleyrep Peet’s Coffee helps create connection berkeleyrep. berkeleyrep through shared stories · 10 We’re mobile! tumblr.com The 21st-century theatre-maker · 12 Download our free iPhone or Google Play app —or visit our mobile site —to buy tickets, read the buzz, watch videos, and plan your visit. FEATURES The Origin Story · 14 Considerations Rooted in something real: A conversation with Julia Cho · 14 Only beverages in cans, cartons, or cups with You are welcome to take a closer look, but lids are allowed in the house. Food is prohibited please don’t step onto the stage or touch Moving beyond fury: in the house. the props. An interview with Lisa Peterson · 17 Smoking and the use of e-cigarettes is prohibited Any child who can quietly sit in their own The right to bear trauma · 19 by law on Berkeley Rep’s property. seat for a full performance is welcome at Berkeley Rep. Please inquire if you have Please keep perfume to a minimum. Many questions about content or language. All CONTRIBUTORS patrons are sensitive to the use of perfumes attendees must be ticketed: please, no and other scents. babes in arms. Foundation, corporate, and in-kind sponsors · 30 Individual donors to the Annual Fund · 31 Please make sure your cell phone or watch alarm If you leave during the performance, we may will not beep. Use of recording equipment or taking not be able to reseat you until an appropriate Michael Leibert Society · 33 of photographs in the theatre is strictly prohibited. break. You may watch the remainder of the act on a lobby or bar screen. ABOUT BERKELEY REP Staff, board of trustees, and sustaining advisors ·34 THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE 2017–18 · ISSUE 4 The Berkeley Rep Magazine Editor Writers Contact Berkeley Rep is published at least seven times Karen McKevitt Ky’Lend Adams Box Office: 510 647-2949 per season. James Dinneen Groups (10+): 510 647-2918 Art Director Sarah Rose Leonard Admin: 510 647-2900 For local advertising inquiries, Nora Merecicky Arielle Rubin School of Theatre: 510 647-2972 please contact Pamela Webster at Christine Scarfuto Click berkeleyrep.org 510 590-7091 or Graphic Designer Email [email protected] [email protected]. Kendall Markley 2017–18 · ISSUE 4 · THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE · 5 OH_program.indd 4 2/1/18 2:26 PM OH_program.indd 5 2/1/18 2:26 PM IN THIS ISSUE 10 12 14 BERKELEY REP PRESENTS OFFICE HOUR · 21 MEET THE CAST & CREW · 22 PROLOGUE A letter from the artistic director · 7 Connect with us online! A letter from the managing director · 8 Visit our website berkeleyrep.org facebook.com/ @berkeleyrep You can buy tickets and plan your visit, berkeleyrep watch videos, sign up for classes, donate to vimeo.com/ @berkeleyrep REPORTS the Theatre, and explore Berkeley Rep. berkeleyrep Peet’s Coffee helps create connection berkeleyrep. berkeleyrep through shared stories · 10 We’re mobile! tumblr.com The 21st-century theatre-maker · 12 Download our free iPhone or Google Play app —or visit our mobile site —to buy tickets, read the buzz, watch videos, and plan your visit. FEATURES The Origin Story · 14 Considerations Rooted in something real: A conversation with Julia Cho · 14 Only beverages in cans, cartons, or cups with You are welcome to take a closer look, but lids are allowed in the house. Food is prohibited please don’t step onto the stage or touch Moving beyond fury: in the house. the props. An interview with Lisa Peterson · 17 Smoking and the use of e-cigarettes is prohibited Any child who can quietly sit in their own The right to bear trauma · 19 by law on Berkeley Rep’s property. seat for a full performance is welcome at Berkeley Rep. Please inquire if you have Please keep perfume to a minimum. Many questions about content or language. All CONTRIBUTORS patrons are sensitive to the use of perfumes attendees must be ticketed: please, no and other scents. babes in arms. Foundation, corporate, and in-kind sponsors · 30 Individual donors to the Annual Fund · 31 Please make sure your cell phone or watch alarm If you leave during the performance, we may will not beep. Use of recording equipment or taking not be able to reseat you until an appropriate Michael Leibert Society · 33 of photographs in the theatre is strictly prohibited. break. You may watch the remainder of the act on a lobby or bar screen. ABOUT BERKELEY REP Staff, board of trustees, and sustaining advisors ·34 THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE 2017–18 · ISSUE 4 The Berkeley Rep Magazine Editor Writers Contact Berkeley Rep is published at least seven times Karen McKevitt Ky’Lend Adams Box Office: 510 647-2949 per season. James Dinneen Groups (10+): 510 647-2918 Art Director Sarah Rose Leonard Admin: 510 647-2900 For local advertising inquiries, Nora Merecicky Arielle Rubin School of Theatre: 510 647-2972 please contact Pamela Webster at Christine Scarfuto Click berkeleyrep.org 510 590-7091 or Graphic Designer Email [email protected] [email protected]. Kendall Markley 2017–18 · ISSUE 4 · THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE · 5 OH_program.indd 4 2/1/18 2:26 PM OH_program.indd 5 2/1/18 2:26 PM February 2018 Volume 50, No. 4 music dance theater 2017/18 Cal Perform ances SEASON UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Alvin Ailey Paul Heppner American Dance Theater Publisher Robert Battle, artistic director Masazumi Chaya, associate artistic director Susan Peterson Design & Production Director Celebrating 50 years Ana Alvira, Robin Kessler, with Alvin Ailey American Stevie VanBronkhorst Dance Theater! Production Artists and Graphic Design Mike Hathaway April 10–15 Sales Director ZELLERBACH HALL Amelia Heppner, Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives Boston Pops at the Greek Brieanna Bright, Joey Chapman, Ann Manning Lights, Camera...Music! Seattle Area Account Executives Six Decades of John Williams Carol Yip Keith Lockhart, conductor Sales Coordinator Featuring selections from some of Williams’ most iconic Hollywood film scores, including music from Star Wars, Jaws, E.T., and the Indiana Jones and Harry Potter films. Paul Heppner April 21 President GREEK THEATRE Mike Hathaway Vice President Genay Genereux Accounting & Office Manager Ex Machina Sara Keats 887 Marketing Manager Written, designed, directed, Shaun Swick and performed by Robert Lepage Senior Designer & Digital Lead Acclaimed Canadian director, Barry Johnson Digital Engagement Specialist actor, and playwright Robert Lepage focuses his latest work Ciara Caya down to the most intimate Customer Service Representative & scale—a one-man show steeped Administrative Assistant in his own childhood memories. “Touching, intimate, powerful” Corporate Office 425 North 85th Street Seattle, WA 98103 —The Guardian (London) p 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246 May 4 & 5 [email protected] ZELLERBACH HALL 800.308.2898 x105 www.encoremediagroup.com Performed in English and French with English supertitles. Season Encore Arts Programs is published monthly by Encore Media calperformances.org Sponsor: Group to serve musical and theatrical events in the Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay Areas. All rights reserved. ©2018 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. 6 · THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE · 2017–18 · ISSUE 4 OH_program.indd 6 2/1/18 2:26 PM PROLOGUE from the Artistic Director We all want to feel safe. Now, more than ever. The threat of violence, from a terrorist attack to a random shoot- ing, has now lodged itself deep into our collective conscious- ness. At the workplace we now undergo training to establish protocol in the event of an “active shooter.” The sight of armed police officers on our streets, an image that not long ago may have evoked feelings of shock or repulsion, now brings us feelings of relief. To add to our anxiety, even in their aftermath these mass attacks remain largely incomprehensible. Our TV screens are filled with an assort- ment of relatives or neighbors of the assailant expressing no knowledge of any nefar- ious intentions. “He kept to himself.” “He was always friendly.” “He never showed any signs of being dangerous.” Sometimes there are hints of trouble. He was “angry,” “a loner,” “socially awkward…” But the jump from writing angry comments on Facebook to pulling the trigger is huge, and identifying when/if an individual moves from words to action seems virtually impossible to predict. In her latest play, the intrepid Julia Cho enters into this arena. Office Hour imagines an encounter between a concerned teacher and troubled kid, the teacher trying to break through the armor of the student, the student fighting for his very identity. The stakes are desperately high and the protagonists unreliable, precisely because they mirror our current situation. The theatricality of the action is embed- ded in a host of possibilities, which keep us riveted to our seats and our minds on high alert.