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SEPTEMBER 2019 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 EXPLORE page Letter from the 5 Managing Director Letter from the 7 Artistic Director Postscript: House of Joy 8 Community Night 10 In Process 14 Dramaturgy Company & 16 Creative Team Cast & 17 Synopsis Engaging and eclectic Who’s Who: 18 Company Bios in the East Bay. Donors, Funders Oakland is the gateway to the East Bay with a little bit of everything to offer, 24 & Partners and St. Paul’s Towers gives you easy access to it all. An artistic, activist, and Mission & intellectual Life Plan Community, St. Paul’s Towers is known for convenient 28 Important Info services, welcome comforts and security for the future. 2019 Company & Staff With classes, exhibits, lectures, restaurants, shops and public transportation 30 within walking distance, St. Paul’s Towers is urban community living at its Thank You 2019! best. 31 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. Cal Shakes would like to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is traditional Chochenyo Ohlone territory. For those of us who are not Indigenous to this land, the Shuumi Land Tax is a way to acknowledge the history of the land we live on, facilitate the return of Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone lands in the San Francisco Bay Area to Indigenous stewardship, and contribute to the Ohlone community’s current work to create a vibrant future. 100 Bay Place, Oakland, CA 94610 sogoreate-landtrust.com/shuumi-land-tax www.covia.org/st-pauls-towers A not-for-profit community owned and operated by Covia. License No. 011400627 COA# 327 encorespotlight.com 3 Encore Spotlight: September 2019 | Volume 28, No. 4 Your backstage pass to each performance. encorespotlight.com PAUL HEPPNER President MIKE HATHAWAY Senior Vice President KAJSA PUCKETT Vice President, Sales & Marketing GENAY GENEREUX Accounting & Office Manager Production SUSAN PETERSON Vice President, Production JENNIFER SUGDEN Assistant Production Manager ANA ALVIRA, STEVIE VANBRONKHORST Production Artists and Graphic Designers FALL IN LOVE WITH FILOLI! Sales MARILYN KALLINS, TERRI REED San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives Harvest Festival Bluegrass at the Barn BRIEANNA HANSEN, AMELIA HEPPNER, ANN MANNING Seattle Area Saturday, September 28 Sundays, October 13, 20 & 27 Account Executives 10:00am – 5:00pm 1:00pm – 3:00pm CAROL YIP Sales Coordinator Adult: $30 | Youth 5-17: $13 $10 Adults | $5 Children, plus the Marketing SHAUN SWICK Senior Designer & Digital Lead Child 3-4: $5 | 2 and under: Free cost of Filoli admission CIARA CAYA Marketing Coordinator Orchard Day NEST: Creating Home Encore Media Group Saturday, October 12 Now through November 10 425 North 85th Street • Seattle, WA 98103 800.308.2898 • 206.443.0445 10:00am – 5:00pm Learn about the people, plants, [email protected] $10 Adults | $5 Children, plus the and animals that have created a encoremediagroup.com cost of Filoli admission home on the Filoli estate. Encore Arts Programs and Encore Stages are published monthly by Encore Media Group to serve performing arts For details, visit: filoli.org/fall. Use code SHAKES to get $2.00 OFF events in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Seattle Area. All rights reserved. ©2019 Encore Media Group. General Admission. Restrictions apply. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. 86 Cañada Road, Woodside, CA 94062 www.filoli.org | 650-364-8300 | [email protected] 4 WWW.CALSHAKES.ORG FROM THEFROM Dear Friends, Macbeth may be our last show of the season, but for me it’s just the beginning of my adventures with Cal Shakes! There are many things I’m looking forward to now that I’m offi cially on board. I’m particularly excited to welcome over 2,500 young people to the Bruns to see Macbeth as part of our Student Discovery Matinees. I remember attending student matinees when I DIRECTOR MANAGING was growing up. While I participated in lots of theater activities, it wasn’t often that I attended performances as an audience member. Every moment—from the bus ride to downtown Kansas City to the buzz of energy as my classmates and I settled into our seats to that anticipatory moment as the lights dimmed—felt exciting to me. And that was indoor theater—there wasn’t even the possibility of a cow sighting! To watch a young person watch a play is a palpable experience. I love observing what they react to, what resonates, and hearing the questions they ask at the post-show talkback. It’s a beautiful reminder to continue to cultivate my own curiosity. To listen in a different way. To be expressive in my responses. To ask more questions every day. Which leads me to something else I’m excited about: asking questions. There’s so much to know about Cal Shakes. I look forward to speaking with everyone— our talented staff and artists, our committed board of directors, our generous supporters, and our amazing audiences. What excites you about Cal Shakes? What shows have resonated with you? There are so many of you who have been attending shows and supporting Cal Shakes for a long time—what keeps you coming back? How do you describe Cal Shakes to your friends? I really look forward to learning from—and learning with—you. There is one thing I already know: that we couldn’t make the work onstage or produce the myriad programs that happen offstage without the support of all of you. Thank you for making the choice to be here with us tonight. Thank you for choosing to support programs like the Student Discovery Program and for dropping a few (or more than a few!) dollars into the buckets at the end of the show as part of the Pay it Forward Campaign. Thank you for engaging with the work and being a part of the Cal Shakes community. Your support matters deeply, and this I know without even having to ask. Yours Sincerely, Sarah encorespotlight.com 5 SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGES AND SINGLE TICKETS NOW ON SALE! Dianne Wiest in the Yale Repertory Theatre production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days PHOTO BY JOAN MARCUS JOIN US FOR THE SEASON KICKS OFF WITH AN EPIC NEW THRILLER AND AN UNCOMPROMISING NEW DRAMA Spanning over 20 years and the 2019–20 ALSO FEATURES two vastly different countries THE GREAT WAVE of Japan and North Korea, THE AVETT BROTHERS The Great Wave is at once a BY FRANCIS TURNLY riveting geopolitical thriller JOCELYN BIOH DIRECTED BY MARK WING-DAVEY and a powerful story of the RODA THEATRE unshakable bonds between a CULTURE CLASH SEP 12–OCT 27 mother, a daughter, and a sister AMERICAN PREMIERE who refuse to give up hope. SARAH RUHL LEAD SPONSOR “Timely. Gripping. DIANNE WIEST A fascinating story.” Mechanics Bank AND MORE SPONSOR Wealth Management GUARDIAN (UK) PLUS SPECIAL EVENTS INCLUDING Francis Turnly THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX Leo, Dawn, Ralph, and Misha are CHOOSE 3+ PLAYS AND GET old friends. The two 30-something THE BEST SEATS AT THE BEST PRICES WHITE NOISE couples are educated, progressive, and cosmopolitan. But when a FREE TICKET EXCHANGES BY SUZAN-LORI PARKS racially motivated incident with DIRECTED BY JAKI BRADLEY the police leaves Leo shaken, he SPECIAL ACCESS TO SPECIAL EVENTS PEET’S THEATRE makes a radical proposition to Ralph BENEFITS FOR FRIENDS SEP 26–NOV 10 that forever alters the relationship WEST COAST PREMIERE between these four friends — and DISCOUNTS ON CLASSES their view of the world. AND SO MUCH MORE “Uncompromising…complex…ravishing… CALL 510 647-2949 enthrallingly thought-provoking.” NEW YORK TIMES CLICK BERKELEYREP.ORG Suzan-Lori Parks PHOTO BY TAMMY SHELL BE A SUBSCRIBER. BE A REP. SEASON SPONSORS Untitled-3 1 8/19/19 4:30 PM SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGES AND SINGLE TICKETS NOW ON SALE! THEFROM Friends, If there has been for me a thread connecting our Dianne Wiest in the Yale Repertory Theatre production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days season of stories, it’s been the complexities (and PHOTO BY JOAN MARCUS contradictions) of being human. From the inversions JOIN US FOR of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the banal concerns of play-making in the face of a natural world in chaos; to the schism of the selfl ess and selfi sh in the bodies of Shen Te and Shui Ta in Brecht’s Good Person of Szechwan; to Madhuri Shekar’s young ARTISTIC DIRECTOR bodyguard embracing her responsibility, not just to her job, not just to herself, not just to another person, but to the whole community of people in the House of Joy that surrounded her, raised her, defi ned her; and now, here, fi nally, to Macbeth. 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