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This is not a historical account of a woman who simply sat by as a dutiful spouse, raising three children in Stratford-upon-Avon as Shakespeare gallivanted through London’s seedy and bustling Elizabethan theater district. Nor is it \u003cem>Shakespeare in Love\u003c/em>, the 1998 film which portrays Anne as a loveless hindrance to Shakespeare’s quill and immortality. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/1_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker.jpg\" alt=\"A man in blue and a woman with a flower crown nuzzle up against one another\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/1_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/1_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/1_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/1_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rory Alexander and Kemi-Bo Jacobs as William and Agnes Shakespeare in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘Hamnet’ at ACT in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Kyle Flubacker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hamnet\u003c/em> is more on par with the jukebox musical \u003cem>& Juliet\u003c/em>, in which Anne directly questions the misogyny of Shakespeare’s storytelling. (A young teenage girl throwing her life away for a dithering and pathetic boy who changes his passions like he changes his underwear? What kind of hot garbage is that, Will?) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onstage at ACT, the battles between Agnes (Kemi-Bo Jacobs) and William (Rory Alexander) are filled with pain, as Shakespeare knows he has no choice but to make the four-day trek to London and continue writing plays that may someday change the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolita Chakrabarti’s adaptation from Maggie O’Farrell’s sweeping tale is a highly metaphoric jaunt through the thrill of new love — the mystery of this strange falcon girl who may have deep connections to witchcraft, and a base Latin tutor helping his father (Nigel Barrett) climb out of crippling debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1320px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/5_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1320\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988825\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/5_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker.jpg 1320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/5_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker-160x242.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/5_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker-768x1164.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/5_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker-1014x1536.jpg 1014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kemi-Bo Jacobs as Agnes (center), with Ajani Cabey as Hamnet and Saffron Dey as Judith in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘Hamnet’ at ACT in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Kyle Flubacker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Erica Whyman’s astute direction, long swatches of material become babies and pregnancies. This theatrical approach complements a grand and rustic scenic design by Tom Piper, who also designed the costumes. Simon Baker’s soundscape leans heavily into deep bass to augment whispers and wisdom that form much of the play’s mystery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti’s reimagined script veers somewhat from O’Farrell’s flashback-heavy 2020 novel. Yet it’s respectful to the novel’s great intentions (the stunning clarity in the book to describe a first tryst among the apples is staged beautifully here). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While much about ACT’s production works, it is not perfect. The initial sounds of child whispers are hard, if not impossible, to understand. While plenty of the show meets the story’s emotional demands, other moments fall toward a thinner, more unsatisfying end. Hard honesty moves through space with too much rapidity for an audience yearning for authenticity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/6_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988824\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/6_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/6_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/6_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/6_HAMNET_KyleFlubacker-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saffron Dey as Judith and Ajani Cabey as Hamnet in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s‘Hamnet’ at ACT in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Kyle Flubacker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some fantastic setups preface the second act’s more damaging moments. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of Shakespeare knows that Hamnet’s demise is near; a gentle, well-paced staging doesn’t make that any easier to digest. But take note of how Jacobs conveys the hurt. As in the Ocscar-winning 2025 film of \u003cem>Hamnet\u003c/em>, Jacobs’ cries as Agnes are guttural, produced from a place that only exists for those who’ve bore and lost a child. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While William channels his agony into his opus, unbeknownst to those mourning back home, the stoic Agnes is the face of devastation, conveyed by Jacobs using every ounce of her emotions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both John and Mary (Penny Layden) represent the issues that encompass Will as he navigates a scandalous pregnancy out of wedlock. While Barrett conveys the horror of John’s temper in O’Farrell’s novel, he’s equally delightful as the bumbling comic actor Will Kempe. 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Unlike her bookish suitor, her mystical nature — some say her mother was a forest witch! — and appetite for life lend her ready access to a seemingly volcanic array of emotions, from giddy joy to unfathomable grief, all at the tips of her earth-soiled fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13983880']And volcanic is the best way to describe Jessie Buckley’s startling performance in \u003cem>Hamnet\u003c/em>, Zhao’s unabashedly emotional adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s acclaimed novel. Also starring a magnetic Paul Mescal as Will, it’s a story that imagines the early life of the young couple from Stratford. And as O’Farrell’s readers know, it centers on a life-altering loss: the death of their 11-year-old son, Hamnet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may have heard that early viewings of the film left swaths of the audience in tears. Spoiler alert: This is no surprise. 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The Black Queen, played by Verlina Brown, is striking in all white when she narrates the opening of the play, letting the audience know to essentially freak what you heard about that \u003cem>other\u003c/em> King Lear. She then seamlessly slips into a beautiful singing voice that returns later in the play for the occasional jazzy interlude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acclaimed San Francisco-based jazz musician Marcus Shelby, who wrote the music for LEAR, plays his upright bass in an upper room of the house, alongside Scott Larson on trombone. This subtle but integral sonic backdrop aids the audience in moving from tender moments to funny exchanges to a few violent fight scenes. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/fallarts2022\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Find more of KQED’s picks for the best Fall 2022 events here\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Returning to theater regularly after the heights of the pandemic is all about getting comfortable with new normals. Showing your vax card, slapping a little sticker on your shirt as proof of checking in and masking up while taking in a staged story are all small sacrifices—ones well worth making in order to support theater companies in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall lineup of shows has something for everyone, from intimate, narrative-driven gatherings to mammoth regional and world premieres—as well as a prodigal child triumphantly returning to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are 11 shows you don’t want to miss this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918390\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"an African American man in jeans a red shirt smiles while posing in front of a wooden fence\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley-1020x681.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland native Marcus Gardley will debut his modern-day verse translation of William Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ at Cal Shakes in Orinda. \u003ccite>(Courtesy California Shakespeare Theater)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://calshakes.org/\">Lear\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 7-Oct. 2\u003cbr>\nBruns Amphitheater, Orinda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Playwright and poet Marcus Gardley has achieved an impressive national profile, and is now lending his talents to constructing a modern-day verse translation of William Shakespeare’s \u003cem>King Lear\u003c/em>. The West Oakland native is part of an incredible East Bay crew crafting the show, including fellow Oaklander Dawn Monique Williams, who’s co-directing the piece with outgoing artistic director Eric Ting, departing Cal Shakes after seven years at the helm.\u003cbr>\nThe company partnered with Oakland Theater Project to tell the story of Lear, a man whose loyalties to two of his three daughters lead to his self-destruction. San Francisco-based jazz icon Marcus Shelby lends original, live compositions to the production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"An African AMerican woman in black shirt and glasses smiles in a portrait\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina-1020x637.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina.jpg 1143w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playwright Christina Anderson \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/\">The Ripple, the Wave that Carried Me Home\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 9-Oct. 16\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Berkeley Repertory Theatre\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This long-anticipated world premiere was developed at Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work, named the Ground Floor. The show, written by Tony nominee Christina Anderson and co-produced with Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, follows Janice as she wrestles with her childhood and her parents’ activism; themes include political inheritance, racial justice and family forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"five people in a play pretend to be on a train\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 7 Fingers Creative Collective open ‘Passengers’ at American Conservatory Theater Sept. 15. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A.C.T.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/202223-season/passengers/\">Passengers\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 15-Oct. 9\u003cbr>\nThe Geary Theater\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 7 Fingers Creative Collective has made a strong footprint in the Bay Area, bringing back the legendary venue Club Fugazi with their love-letter production of \u003cem>Dear San Francisco\u003c/em>, focusing on mind-blowing circus acts and live music. Now, founding co-artistic director Shana Carroll has written, directed and choreographed the new production \u003cem>Passengers\u003c/em>, telling a story about transit in all its forms through circus arts, dance, song, acrobatics and theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"two women in white outfits dance in front of a brick wall in a play\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Rivka Borek and Malka Wallick in ‘Indecent,’ which opens at the San Francisco Playhouse Sept. 22. \u003ccite>(Jessica Palopoli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/\">Indecent\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 22-Nov. 5\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Playhouse\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area premiere of highly decorated and Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel (\u003cem>How I Learned to Drive\u003c/em>) explores the story of Sholem Asch and his debut of \u003cem>The God of Vengeance\u003c/em>, in 1922, which polarized Broadway, ultimately leading to the \u003ca href=\"https://web.uwm.edu/yiddish-stage/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-god-of-vengeance\">arrests of cast members and an obscenity trial\u003c/a>. The score is loaded with traditional Eastern European Jewish music, or klezmer, and is co-produced with the Bay Area’s Yiddish Theatre Ensemble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/LanguageofWildBerries.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13918381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/LanguageofWildBerries.jpg\" alt=\"two women smile in side by side portraits, one in a yellow head scarf\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/LanguageofWildBerries.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/LanguageofWildBerries-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/LanguageofWildBerries-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right, ‘The Language of Wild Berries’ translator-director Torange Yeghiazarian and playwright Naghmeh Samini. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Golden Thread)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://goldenthread.org/\">The Language of Wild Berries\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oct. 13-Nov. 6\u003cbr>\nPotrero Stage, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many performing arts groups in March of 2020, Golden Thread was forced to rethink and ultimately postpone their upcoming production—\u003cem>The Language of Wild Berries\u003c/em> is a long time in the making. Written by Iranian playwright Naghmeh Samini and translated by Torange Yeghiazarian, the play’s plot revolves around the 10th wedding anniversary of Donya and Davood, who return to their honeymoon spot on the Caspian Sea to celebrate. But there is an eerie factor, as they are now followed by a mysterious stranger who forces the couple to deeply examine their marriage both present and past. The company’s answer two years ago was to release the show as a radio play, but Golden Thread is now ready for the in-person production in its U.S. premiere, which provides a glimpse into the lives of contemporary Iranians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918382 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy Clifford-Carlos as Ida in ‘The Red Shades,’ in which a trans teen escapes her small town and finds herself among a gang of trans superheroes in the Tenderloin. \u003ccite>(Tristan Crane)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.zspace.org/\">The Red Shades: A Trans Superhero Rock Opera\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oct. 13-Nov. 5\u003cbr>\nZ Space, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe world premiere of \u003cem>The Red Shades\u003c/em> takes the thrill of musical theater and fuses it with a rock concert. The story follows transgender teen girl Ida, who escapes from her small town to a gang of trans superheroes in the Tenderloin. Leading the show are two incredible forces—the fantastic Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe co-directs with phenomenal multi-hyphenate Rotimi Agbabiaka, who is coming off performing multiple roles in a glitzy production of \u003cem>Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em> in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"a woman with dark gray hair in a gray suit poses with her chin in her hand in front of trees\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez-768x530.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez-1536x1060.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Theater Project associate artistic director Lisa Ramirez’s play, ‘Book of Sand,’ is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ 1975 short story. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland Theater Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://ci.ovationtix.com/35459/production/1092708\">Book of Sand\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oct. 28-Nov. 20\u003cbr>\nThe Oakland Theater at Flax Art & Design\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mysterious book, an unknown language, and an infinite number of pages are the backbone of the narrative, inspired by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges’ short story from 1975. The piece of magical realism is the basis for the company’s wonderful associate artistic director Lisa Ramirez and her script to ask many profound questions about beginnings, endings and the journey to achieve peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918380\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a woman with black hair in a pink top poses in a restaurant booth\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marisela Treviño Orta, playwright of ‘River Bride,’ which opens at the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa Nov. 3. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Marisela Treviño Orta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://6thstreetplayhouse.com/shows/2022-23/the-river-bride-la-novia-del-rio/\">The River Bride\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nov. 3-20\u003cbr>\n6th Street Playhouse, Santa Rosa\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The River Bride\u003c/em> is a highly produced work by Texas native Marisela Treviño Orta, who spent many years honing her craft in the Bay Area and received her MFA at the University of San Francisco; the piece was developed in San Rafael at Alter Theater’s AlterLab in 2013 before making its world premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2016. Its story takes place over three days before a wedding, when a handsome man is fished from the Amazon River, forcing two sisters into potentially dangerous choices. Amazon folklore and magical realism inform this powerful tale of love and transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre-800x465.jpg\" alt=\"a man in a colorful red and grey jacket and black hat stands looking defiant in a portrait\" width=\"800\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre-800x465.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre-1020x593.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albert Hodge plays Pierre in the Shotgun Players’ production of ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley beginning Nov. 5. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Krantz/Shotgun Players)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=75468815-60C2-4313-920F-CAF102016CFA&menu_id=48FA49FA-9662-4A5C-B77F-0D14F007E1A5\">Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ashby Stage, Berkeley\u003cbr>\nNov. 5-Dec. 30\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daring artists at Shotgun Players take on the highly acclaimed musical, which got its start in 2012 at the phenomenal Ars Nova in Lower Manhattan. A snippet of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel \u003cem>War and Peace\u003c/em> is the basis for composer Dave Malloy’s adaptation focusing on Natasha, a young woman in search of her fiancé in 19th-century Russia, and middle-aged soul Pierre, a man awash in regrets. A standard setup in the Ashby is out the window, and in its place are cabaret tables topped with Russian vodka, and a scintillating set from designer Nina Ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud-800x450.jpeg\" alt=\"a group of men dressed as the Motown group the Temptations stand around a piano and sing\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud.jpeg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Smokey Robinson (Christian Thompson), David Ruffin (Ephraim Sykes), Melvin Franklin (Jared Joseph), Otis Williams (Derrick Baskin), Eddie Kendricks (Jeremy Pope) and Paul Williams (James Harkness) build a tune in ‘Ain’t Too Proud,’ which made its world premiere at Berkeley Rep in 2017 before landing in New York City two years later. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://broadwaysf.com/Online/default.asp\">Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations\u003c/a>‘\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nov. 9-Dec. 4\u003cbr>\nGolden Gate Theatre, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A touring show might be an odd choice for a region’s top fall theatre picks, but \u003cem>Ain’t Too Proud \u003c/em>has a rich history in the Bay Area. It made its world premiere at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2017 and became the Rep’s highest grossing production before transferring to multiple cities and then Broadway. The show was nominated for 12 Tonys, but only snagged one, which honored Sergio Trujillo’s scintillating choreography. It went strong for a year in New York until COVID-19 wreaked havoc everywhere; the musical then struggled to find its footing after re-opening in October of 2021, closing for good in January. Still, a plethora of feel-good hits and some delightful insight into the story of the iconic Motown group make for a fun evening of nostalgia—and a second chance to score tickets after the Rep’s multiple sold-out extensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Thanksgiving-Play.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Thanksgiving-Play-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman dressed in grey sits in a folding chair outside a small trailer\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Thanksgiving-Play-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Thanksgiving-Play-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Thanksgiving-Play-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Thanksgiving-Play-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Thanksgiving-Play-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Thanksgiving-Play.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playwright Larissa Fasthorse, whose satirical ‘Thanksgiving Play’ opens Nov. 17 at the City Lights Theater Company in San Jose. \u003ccite>(John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://cltc.org/\">The Thanksgiving Play\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nov. 17-Dec. 18\u003cbr>\nCity Lights Theater Company, San Jose\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The venerable 40-year-old South Bay company takes on MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Larissa Fasthorse’s satirical send-up. The play focuses on a group of white teaching artists tasked with creating a Thanksgiving pageant. Their mission: honor both the holiday and Native American Heritage Month while displaying cultural sensitivity towards everyone and everything. The searing one-act play is slated for Broadway in the spring of 2023, produced by non-profit theater Second Stage, who stated that Fasthorse will be the first female Native American playwright to land on the Great White Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/fallarts2022\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Find more of KQED’s picks for the best Fall 2022 events here\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Returning to theater regularly after the heights of the pandemic is all about getting comfortable with new normals. Showing your vax card, slapping a little sticker on your shirt as proof of checking in and masking up while taking in a staged story are all small sacrifices—ones well worth making in order to support theater companies in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall lineup of shows has something for everyone, from intimate, narrative-driven gatherings to mammoth regional and world premieres—as well as a prodigal child triumphantly returning to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are 11 shows you don’t want to miss this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918390\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"an African American man in jeans a red shirt smiles while posing in front of a wooden fence\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley-1020x681.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Lear.Marcus-Gardley.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland native Marcus Gardley will debut his modern-day verse translation of William Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ at Cal Shakes in Orinda. \u003ccite>(Courtesy California Shakespeare Theater)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://calshakes.org/\">Lear\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 7-Oct. 2\u003cbr>\nBruns Amphitheater, Orinda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Playwright and poet Marcus Gardley has achieved an impressive national profile, and is now lending his talents to constructing a modern-day verse translation of William Shakespeare’s \u003cem>King Lear\u003c/em>. The West Oakland native is part of an incredible East Bay crew crafting the show, including fellow Oaklander Dawn Monique Williams, who’s co-directing the piece with outgoing artistic director Eric Ting, departing Cal Shakes after seven years at the helm.\u003cbr>\nThe company partnered with Oakland Theater Project to tell the story of Lear, a man whose loyalties to two of his three daughters lead to his self-destruction. San Francisco-based jazz icon Marcus Shelby lends original, live compositions to the production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"An African AMerican woman in black shirt and glasses smiles in a portrait\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina-1020x637.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/The-Ripple-The-Wave.anderson-christina.jpg 1143w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playwright Christina Anderson \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/\">The Ripple, the Wave that Carried Me Home\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 9-Oct. 16\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Berkeley Repertory Theatre\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This long-anticipated world premiere was developed at Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work, named the Ground Floor. The show, written by Tony nominee Christina Anderson and co-produced with Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, follows Janice as she wrestles with her childhood and her parents’ activism; themes include political inheritance, racial justice and family forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"five people in a play pretend to be on a train\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Passengers.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 7 Fingers Creative Collective open ‘Passengers’ at American Conservatory Theater Sept. 15. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A.C.T.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/202223-season/passengers/\">Passengers\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 15-Oct. 9\u003cbr>\nThe Geary Theater\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 7 Fingers Creative Collective has made a strong footprint in the Bay Area, bringing back the legendary venue Club Fugazi with their love-letter production of \u003cem>Dear San Francisco\u003c/em>, focusing on mind-blowing circus acts and live music. Now, founding co-artistic director Shana Carroll has written, directed and choreographed the new production \u003cem>Passengers\u003c/em>, telling a story about transit in all its forms through circus arts, dance, song, acrobatics and theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"two women in white outfits dance in front of a brick wall in a play\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Indecent.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Rivka Borek and Malka Wallick in ‘Indecent,’ which opens at the San Francisco Playhouse Sept. 22. \u003ccite>(Jessica Palopoli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/\">Indecent\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 22-Nov. 5\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Playhouse\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area premiere of highly decorated and Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel (\u003cem>How I Learned to Drive\u003c/em>) explores the story of Sholem Asch and his debut of \u003cem>The God of Vengeance\u003c/em>, in 1922, which polarized Broadway, ultimately leading to the \u003ca href=\"https://web.uwm.edu/yiddish-stage/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-god-of-vengeance\">arrests of cast members and an obscenity trial\u003c/a>. The score is loaded with traditional Eastern European Jewish music, or klezmer, and is co-produced with the Bay Area’s Yiddish Theatre Ensemble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/LanguageofWildBerries.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13918381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/LanguageofWildBerries.jpg\" alt=\"two women smile in side by side portraits, one in a yellow head scarf\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/LanguageofWildBerries.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/LanguageofWildBerries-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/LanguageofWildBerries-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right, ‘The Language of Wild Berries’ translator-director Torange Yeghiazarian and playwright Naghmeh Samini. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Golden Thread)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://goldenthread.org/\">The Language of Wild Berries\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oct. 13-Nov. 6\u003cbr>\nPotrero Stage, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many performing arts groups in March of 2020, Golden Thread was forced to rethink and ultimately postpone their upcoming production—\u003cem>The Language of Wild Berries\u003c/em> is a long time in the making. Written by Iranian playwright Naghmeh Samini and translated by Torange Yeghiazarian, the play’s plot revolves around the 10th wedding anniversary of Donya and Davood, who return to their honeymoon spot on the Caspian Sea to celebrate. But there is an eerie factor, as they are now followed by a mysterious stranger who forces the couple to deeply examine their marriage both present and past. The company’s answer two years ago was to release the show as a radio play, but Golden Thread is now ready for the in-person production in its U.S. premiere, which provides a glimpse into the lives of contemporary Iranians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13918382 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RedShades.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy Clifford-Carlos as Ida in ‘The Red Shades,’ in which a trans teen escapes her small town and finds herself among a gang of trans superheroes in the Tenderloin. \u003ccite>(Tristan Crane)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.zspace.org/\">The Red Shades: A Trans Superhero Rock Opera\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oct. 13-Nov. 5\u003cbr>\nZ Space, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe world premiere of \u003cem>The Red Shades\u003c/em> takes the thrill of musical theater and fuses it with a rock concert. The story follows transgender teen girl Ida, who escapes from her small town to a gang of trans superheroes in the Tenderloin. Leading the show are two incredible forces—the fantastic Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe co-directs with phenomenal multi-hyphenate Rotimi Agbabiaka, who is coming off performing multiple roles in a glitzy production of \u003cem>Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em> in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"a woman with dark gray hair in a gray suit poses with her chin in her hand in front of trees\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez-768x530.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez-1536x1060.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Book-of-Sand.LisaRamirez.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Theater Project associate artistic director Lisa Ramirez’s play, ‘Book of Sand,’ is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ 1975 short story. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland Theater Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://ci.ovationtix.com/35459/production/1092708\">Book of Sand\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oct. 28-Nov. 20\u003cbr>\nThe Oakland Theater at Flax Art & Design\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mysterious book, an unknown language, and an infinite number of pages are the backbone of the narrative, inspired by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges’ short story from 1975. The piece of magical realism is the basis for the company’s wonderful associate artistic director Lisa Ramirez and her script to ask many profound questions about beginnings, endings and the journey to achieve peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918380\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a woman with black hair in a pink top poses in a restaurant booth\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/River-Bride.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marisela Treviño Orta, playwright of ‘River Bride,’ which opens at the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa Nov. 3. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Marisela Treviño Orta)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://6thstreetplayhouse.com/shows/2022-23/the-river-bride-la-novia-del-rio/\">The River Bride\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nov. 3-20\u003cbr>\n6th Street Playhouse, Santa Rosa\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The River Bride\u003c/em> is a highly produced work by Texas native Marisela Treviño Orta, who spent many years honing her craft in the Bay Area and received her MFA at the University of San Francisco; the piece was developed in San Rafael at Alter Theater’s AlterLab in 2013 before making its world premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2016. Its story takes place over three days before a wedding, when a handsome man is fished from the Amazon River, forcing two sisters into potentially dangerous choices. Amazon folklore and magical realism inform this powerful tale of love and transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre-800x465.jpg\" alt=\"a man in a colorful red and grey jacket and black hat stands looking defiant in a portrait\" width=\"800\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre-800x465.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre-1020x593.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Natasha.Pierre.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albert Hodge plays Pierre in the Shotgun Players’ production of ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley beginning Nov. 5. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Krantz/Shotgun Players)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=75468815-60C2-4313-920F-CAF102016CFA&menu_id=48FA49FA-9662-4A5C-B77F-0D14F007E1A5\">Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ashby Stage, Berkeley\u003cbr>\nNov. 5-Dec. 30\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daring artists at Shotgun Players take on the highly acclaimed musical, which got its start in 2012 at the phenomenal Ars Nova in Lower Manhattan. A snippet of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel \u003cem>War and Peace\u003c/em> is the basis for composer Dave Malloy’s adaptation focusing on Natasha, a young woman in search of her fiancé in 19th-century Russia, and middle-aged soul Pierre, a man awash in regrets. A standard setup in the Ashby is out the window, and in its place are cabaret tables topped with Russian vodka, and a scintillating set from designer Nina Ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud-800x450.jpeg\" alt=\"a group of men dressed as the Motown group the Temptations stand around a piano and sing\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/ainttooproud.jpeg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Smokey Robinson (Christian Thompson), David Ruffin (Ephraim Sykes), Melvin Franklin (Jared Joseph), Otis Williams (Derrick Baskin), Eddie Kendricks (Jeremy Pope) and Paul Williams (James Harkness) build a tune in ‘Ain’t Too Proud,’ which made its world premiere at Berkeley Rep in 2017 before landing in New York City two years later. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://broadwaysf.com/Online/default.asp\">Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations\u003c/a>‘\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nov. 9-Dec. 4\u003cbr>\nGolden Gate Theatre, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A touring show might be an odd choice for a region’s top fall theatre picks, but \u003cem>Ain’t Too Proud \u003c/em>has a rich history in the Bay Area. It made its world premiere at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2017 and became the Rep’s highest grossing production before transferring to multiple cities and then Broadway. The show was nominated for 12 Tonys, but only snagged one, which honored Sergio Trujillo’s scintillating choreography. It went strong for a year in New York until COVID-19 wreaked havoc everywhere; the musical then struggled to find its footing after re-opening in October of 2021, closing for good in January. 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"content": "\u003cp>Mills College, the private liberal arts institution in Oakland, plans to sell its coveted 1623 copy of playwright William Shakespeare’s First Folio as well as a handwritten musical score by the 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, KQED has learned. [aside postID=arts_13870226,arts_12248119,arts_13389908]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an internal email Thursday, college president Elizabeth Hillman revealed the planned sale of the First Folio—one of the English language’s most influential and valuable books, expected to draw millions of dollars at auction—as part of “MillsNext,” the school’s plan to overcome a budget deficit that’s led to controversial layoffs of tenured faculty and union organizing among staff. Selling the “precious assets” will support current programs “while we build a bridge to a sustainable future,” the email reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillman’s email also mentions selling a “musical transcript,” which a source close to Mills’ F.W. Olin Library said refers to Mozart’s notation of five epistle sonatas created in the early 1770s. The source also said the First Folio will be auctioned by Christie’s, while the manuscript is being sold privately. As a private college, Mills is not obligated to publicly disclose its de-accessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first thought is disappointment,” said Thomas Goldwasser, an antiquarian book dealer in San Francisco. “It’s a shame because institutional libraries are supposed to steward and preserve cultural properties, and use them to teach and inspire, not treat them as commodities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Christie’s has no news to announce at this time,” an auction house spokesperson said. Library staff directed inquiries to the Mills administration, and a school spokesperson declined to provide information for this article. “These gifts have been treasured deeply by the Mills community and will now be sold in compliance with College regulations,” reads Hillman’s email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills, a historic private college for women and gender non-binary students, with graduate programs for all genders, enrolls some 1,200 students in East Oakland. The Olin Library’s special collections and archives includes the papers of artists such as Pauline Oliveros and Patti Smith, and as recently as Tuesday the website listed the First Folio in its Early Printed Books Collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book, which the source close to the library said has already left campus, was a 1977 gift from Mary Louise O’Brien in honor of her father Elias Olan James, a former English professor at Mills and namesake of a Shakespeare collection at the Olin Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When copies of the First Folio change hands, it tends to make headlines. Christie’s sold one in 2001 for $6.1 million, establishing a then-world record for a 17th-century book, and another copy fetched $5.1 million in 2006 at Sotheby’s. Most recently, in 2016, a newly-discovered copy of the First Folio exceeded Christie’s auctioneers expectations by garnering $2.75 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldwasser expects Mills’ First Folio to also snare millions, while the Mozart manuscript is easily worth six figures. It’s not unusual for Mills and other private institutions to quietly sell assets, he said, but the First Folio is uniquely monumental, and its sale will dissuade prospective donors from continuing to bestow important research objects and archives to Mills’ special collections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe Shakespeare’s not so important anymore at some undergraduate institutions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills’ First Folio is one of 235 extant copies of the book known worldwide, according to the Folger Shakespeare Library. Its original publication in 1623, seven years after the playwright’s death, marked the first-ever printed appearance of 18 of its 36 collected plays, including \u003cem>Macbeth\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Tempest\u003c/em>, changing the course of English literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without this particular copy, we wouldn’t have authoritative versions of many of Shakespeare’s works,” said Diana Kohnke, a librarian at the California State Library’s Sutro Library in San Francisco, one of few other local institutions possessing a First Folio. “Laws prohibit us from selling—our deed from the Sutro family says the collection can’t even leave San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Hanff, deputy director of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, another academic research library with a First Folio, said that the sale signals a smaller institution redefining or narrowing its primary purpose—and weighing a cash infusion against the book’s research value to students. “They’re going, ‘This doesn’t advance our primary mission,’ and making a challenging decision,” Hanff said. “Personally I still hate it when this happens, because I really value the accessibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sales reflect Mills’ efforts to manage a budget deficit due in part to declining enrollment. In 2017, the school declared a financial emergency, and controversially moved to lay off 11 professors, many of them tenured, including renowned composer Roscoe Mitchell. The restructuring particularly impacted the storied Center for Contemporary Music; co-directors Maggi Payne and Chris Brown retired early in the hopes of pre-empting additional cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Replacing tenured faculty with adjunct professors has become a common cost-saving strategy for college administrations, one deeply unpopular with academics and students alike. (Mills recently posted job listings for several adjunct music professors.) Brown, the former CCM co-director, said Mills selling the documents is another worrisome sign. “My impression is this is part of the pattern—things have not improved since the purge,” he said. “Now it’s the rainy day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at Mills recently launched a campaign to unionize with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021, which already represents school faculty. Members of the organizing committee previously told KQED that part of their motivation for unionizing is to attain greater representation and transparency in institutional decision-making as the administration tries to rebound financially.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>At a time when societies are increasingly fractured along tribal lines, there may be no more potent a reflection of the personal costs of these conflicts than Shakespeare’s \u003cstrong>\u003cem>Romeo & Juliet\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>. Though the tale has been reinvented in countless ways, prepare to be torn to shreds by a new film version from Britain’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.balletboyz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BalletBoyz\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XjMg1iPaZQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Directors Michael Nunn and William Trevitt have swept Kenneth MacMillan’s dramatic ballet onto the streets of Budapest, and drafted a captivating cast from a young generation of stars at the Royal Ballet. Their staging injects new realism and intimacy into the classic work without sacrificing the grandeur and drama. They’ve driven the action along at a furious pace, trimming the darkly glorious Prokofiev score to a lean, mean, fighting 90 minutes, and unleashed the heavens on a pivotal fight scene—it’s sensual, adrenaline-pumping stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869100\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scene from Romeo & Juliet. Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan. Direction: Michael Nunn and William Trevitt. Copyright Footwork Films.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>American audiences will get their first view of this \u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdancefilmfest.org/festival-films/2019-program/romeo-juliet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romeo & Juliet\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>when it opens on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, close to the time of the U.K. premiere. I caught up with Trevitt over the phone as he and Nunn prepared to fly to San Francisco for the opening. Both men danced for many years with the Royal before helming their own gutsy all-male contemporary troupe, and have earned accolades for their innovative \u003ca href=\"https://www.balletboyz.com/stage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.balletboyz.com/film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film\u003c/a> projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of ballet on the big screen, Trevitt said, “Film opens up so much potential in an art form that can seem slightly frozen in time.” Restless cameras weave in and out of market square and ballroom crowds, pry into Juliet’s balcony and bedroom, and penetrate the gloom of the Capulet clan’s underground crypt. The dancers’ taut physiques may be sheathed in tights and pointe shoes, but their barely made-up faces register deep, often conflicting emotions with a refreshing naturalness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869101\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francesca Hayward as Juliet in Romeo & Juliet. Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan. Direction: Michael Nunn and William Trevitt. Copyright Footwork Films.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cast reflects the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pointemagazine.com/new-promotions-royal-ballet-2412894276.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increasing diversity\u003c/a> of the Royal Ballet’s ranks—Francesca Hayward as Juliet, in particular, has made waves as \u003ca href=\"https://www.essence.com/articles/francesca-hayward-black-female-lead-cats/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the few black ballerinas\u003c/a> to be named a Principal dancer in a major classical ballet company. Her chemistry with William Bracewell’s boyish, impetuous Romeo is undeniable—yet at their first encounter, when he and his pals gatecrash the Capulets’ ball, the overwhelming sense from the camerawork is one of claustrophobia, as society closes in on the pair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as individual characters are finely etched, the framing of the action throughout the film reinforces the idea of the powerlessness of the individual in a monstrous feudal system. Juliet is just an impressionable teenager, and Romeo no more of a hero than his cocky pals (the exuberant Marcelino Sambé and James Hay), and they don’t fully comprehend the game in which they are pawns. The whirlwind infatuation and its deadly consequences could have been the fate of any of their peers: it’s presented as a tragedy of society more than the tragic love story of these two young people with horrible parents. That the grownups themselves feel trapped is evident in searing portrayals of the grief-stricken Lady Capulet by Kristen McNally, the chilling Lord Capulet by Christopher Saunders, the fiery Tybalt by Matthew Ball, and the conflicted Friar Laurence by Bennet Gartside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869102\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869102\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Bracewell and Francesca Hayward in Romeo & Juliet. Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan. Direction: Michael Nunn and William Trevitt. Copyright Footwork Films.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trevitt said, “We had some pushback from people early on saying, ‘You need to tell me which one is Romeo from the beginning, you need to show me a headshot so I can identify him.’ We said, ‘We don’t want to do it like that, we want to have this community where gradually one of the people is revealed because their storyline happens to be the one that you follow. But you don’t need to know which one that is until the storyline begins to reveal itself.’ So, it’s more about a bunch of three friends, and a family preparing for a marriage, and much less about the stars, the lead characters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to reflect, “But part of that is because—although Michael and I did perform Romeo, Mercutio and Benvolio in our day, all the leading male roles—we also spent a lot of time as townspeople. We know the stars can’t do it unless the community around them responds in the right way. We wanted to really respect the work of the \u003cem>corps de ballet \u003c/em>dancers and for them to end up being as important a character as the leads were. Perhaps that’s why you saw what you described as something that could have happened to any of them: it’s just a tragic sequence of events that led to it being this particular tragedy on this particular day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=0&v=EHPT8IglL0s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teenage passions and swordfights to the death aren’t the only things to look forward to at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. In 10 years, the festival has seen an explosion in submissions, across an abundance of dance forms. This year 120+ entries from 25 countries offer a wide-ranging exploration of why people dance. And they celebrate the kinds of superheroes who don’t need stuntmen to pull off extraordinary feats of artistry and daredevilry on screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/369463318\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would include the Memphis jookers in \u003cem>Lil’ Buck: Real Swan\u003c/em>, a documentary that traces the journey of Charles “Lil’ Buck” Riley from the streets of Memphis to ballet studios and international concert stages, and then back to Memphis to inspire the next generation of jookers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-800x485.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-800x485.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-768x466.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-1200x728.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-1920x1165.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ekaterina Kondaurova and Lil’ Buck. Photo: Dan Krauss. Image courtesy of Versatile Films.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lil’ Buck’s fleet-footed \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9jghLeYufQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collaborations\u003c/a> with cellist Yo-Yo Ma feel as serendipitous as the extravaganza that united French choreographer Maurice Béjart with the music of Queen and Mozart, and the designs of Gianni Versace. Though Béjart was moved to create his ballet by the deaths from AIDS of his lover and muse Jorge Donn, and Freddie Mercury, the work itself is more joyous than mournful. The making of the ballet in 1997 is recounted in the new documentary \u003cem>Queen + Béjart: Ballet For Life\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=0aXEsYAjYWE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scottish Ballet is a smallish company with an outsize digital footprint and an appetite for trying new things. This year, Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple envisioned a fine dining experience gone hilariously wrong in \u003cem>Tremble\u003c/em>. And for a piece called \u003cem>Frontiers\u003c/em>, San Francisco Ballet’s Myles Thatcher flew in to engineer an assortment of intimate grapplings by pairs of dancers of mixed- and same-sex, in the shelter of Glasgow’s colossal concrete underpasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000-800x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000-800x681.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000-160x136.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000-768x653.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000-1020x868.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000-1200x1021.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamara Rojo for English National Ballet / Akram Khan’s Giselle. Photo: Jason Bell.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Akram Khan’s\u003c/em> \u003cem>Giselle \u003c/em>is an austere and gripping reimagining of the classic 19th century ballet about class betrayal—this version set in a community of garment factory workers. The Kathak-trained contemporary choreographer has given the classically trained dancers of English National Ballet a hypnotic movement idiom, and the brigade of undead women in Act II are every bit as eerie as in the traditional rendering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869108\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valtteri Raekallio in Fram. Choreography and direction: Thomas Freundlich and Valtteri Raekallio. Photo: Thomas Freundlich\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because easy things are rarely worth doing, dancers traveled literally to opposite ends of the earth to make \u003cem>Dancing on Icebergs\u003c/em>, by New Zealand’s Corey Baker, and \u003cem>Fram\u003c/em>, by Finland’s Thomas Freundlich and Valtteri Raekallio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(In full disclosure, sticking closer to home is a pair of films from KQED’s Webby Award-winning series \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/ifcitiescoulddance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">If Cities Could Dance\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in which local dance crews Turf Feinz thread their way through the streets of Oakland, and R.O.O.T.S. The Movement imprint Richmond locales with their distinctive high-octane movement style.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wouldn’t be San Francisco without an ultra-high tech angle. Two years ago, the festival started screening \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13811546/is-virtual-reality-the-future-of-dance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">virtual reality (VR) dance films\u003c/a>. Today, festival executive director Judy Flannery notes that VR is “still outside the reach of a ‘regular filmmaker’ both in terms of costs and truly understanding how best to utilize the unique advantages the technology can bring to a dance film.” But from the handful of recent submissions, she notes that “what was purely experimental two years ago is now more thoughtful and deliberate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/289988509\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for the first time, the festival has commissioned a VR dance film, pairing a research engineer with a choreographer to produce the work in a tight timeframe. Jodi Lomask and Bhautik Joshi’s \u003cem>Into the Neural Forest\u003c/em> was inspired by actual brain imagery, and whisks viewers into a model of the brain, populated by dancers who behave like neurons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a brave new world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The San Francisco Dance Film Festival runs from Nov. 2–10 at various venues around the city. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdancefilmfest.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At a time when societies are increasingly fractured along tribal lines, there may be no more potent a reflection of the personal costs of these conflicts than Shakespeare’s \u003cstrong>\u003cem>Romeo & Juliet\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>. Though the tale has been reinvented in countless ways, prepare to be torn to shreds by a new film version from Britain’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.balletboyz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BalletBoyz\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/7XjMg1iPaZQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7XjMg1iPaZQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Directors Michael Nunn and William Trevitt have swept Kenneth MacMillan’s dramatic ballet onto the streets of Budapest, and drafted a captivating cast from a young generation of stars at the Royal Ballet. Their staging injects new realism and intimacy into the classic work without sacrificing the grandeur and drama. They’ve driven the action along at a furious pace, trimming the darkly glorious Prokofiev score to a lean, mean, fighting 90 minutes, and unleashed the heavens on a pivotal fight scene—it’s sensual, adrenaline-pumping stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869100\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-14-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scene from Romeo & Juliet. Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan. Direction: Michael Nunn and William Trevitt. Copyright Footwork Films.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>American audiences will get their first view of this \u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdancefilmfest.org/festival-films/2019-program/romeo-juliet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romeo & Juliet\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>when it opens on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, close to the time of the U.K. premiere. I caught up with Trevitt over the phone as he and Nunn prepared to fly to San Francisco for the opening. Both men danced for many years with the Royal before helming their own gutsy all-male contemporary troupe, and have earned accolades for their innovative \u003ca href=\"https://www.balletboyz.com/stage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.balletboyz.com/film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film\u003c/a> projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of ballet on the big screen, Trevitt said, “Film opens up so much potential in an art form that can seem slightly frozen in time.” Restless cameras weave in and out of market square and ballroom crowds, pry into Juliet’s balcony and bedroom, and penetrate the gloom of the Capulet clan’s underground crypt. The dancers’ taut physiques may be sheathed in tights and pointe shoes, but their barely made-up faces register deep, often conflicting emotions with a refreshing naturalness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869101\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-6-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francesca Hayward as Juliet in Romeo & Juliet. Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan. Direction: Michael Nunn and William Trevitt. Copyright Footwork Films.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cast reflects the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pointemagazine.com/new-promotions-royal-ballet-2412894276.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increasing diversity\u003c/a> of the Royal Ballet’s ranks—Francesca Hayward as Juliet, in particular, has made waves as \u003ca href=\"https://www.essence.com/articles/francesca-hayward-black-female-lead-cats/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the few black ballerinas\u003c/a> to be named a Principal dancer in a major classical ballet company. Her chemistry with William Bracewell’s boyish, impetuous Romeo is undeniable—yet at their first encounter, when he and his pals gatecrash the Capulets’ ball, the overwhelming sense from the camerawork is one of claustrophobia, as society closes in on the pair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as individual characters are finely etched, the framing of the action throughout the film reinforces the idea of the powerlessness of the individual in a monstrous feudal system. Juliet is just an impressionable teenager, and Romeo no more of a hero than his cocky pals (the exuberant Marcelino Sambé and James Hay), and they don’t fully comprehend the game in which they are pawns. The whirlwind infatuation and its deadly consequences could have been the fate of any of their peers: it’s presented as a tragedy of society more than the tragic love story of these two young people with horrible parents. That the grownups themselves feel trapped is evident in searing portrayals of the grief-stricken Lady Capulet by Kristen McNally, the chilling Lord Capulet by Christopher Saunders, the fiery Tybalt by Matthew Ball, and the conflicted Friar Laurence by Bennet Gartside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869102\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869102\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Romeo-and-Juliet-5-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Bracewell and Francesca Hayward in Romeo & Juliet. Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan. Direction: Michael Nunn and William Trevitt. Copyright Footwork Films.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trevitt said, “We had some pushback from people early on saying, ‘You need to tell me which one is Romeo from the beginning, you need to show me a headshot so I can identify him.’ We said, ‘We don’t want to do it like that, we want to have this community where gradually one of the people is revealed because their storyline happens to be the one that you follow. But you don’t need to know which one that is until the storyline begins to reveal itself.’ So, it’s more about a bunch of three friends, and a family preparing for a marriage, and much less about the stars, the lead characters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to reflect, “But part of that is because—although Michael and I did perform Romeo, Mercutio and Benvolio in our day, all the leading male roles—we also spent a lot of time as townspeople. We know the stars can’t do it unless the community around them responds in the right way. We wanted to really respect the work of the \u003cem>corps de ballet \u003c/em>dancers and for them to end up being as important a character as the leads were. Perhaps that’s why you saw what you described as something that could have happened to any of them: it’s just a tragic sequence of events that led to it being this particular tragedy on this particular day.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/EHPT8IglL0s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/EHPT8IglL0s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Teenage passions and swordfights to the death aren’t the only things to look forward to at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. In 10 years, the festival has seen an explosion in submissions, across an abundance of dance forms. This year 120+ entries from 25 countries offer a wide-ranging exploration of why people dance. And they celebrate the kinds of superheroes who don’t need stuntmen to pull off extraordinary feats of artistry and daredevilry on screen.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>That would include the Memphis jookers in \u003cem>Lil’ Buck: Real Swan\u003c/em>, a documentary that traces the journey of Charles “Lil’ Buck” Riley from the streets of Memphis to ballet studios and international concert stages, and then back to Memphis to inspire the next generation of jookers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-800x485.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-800x485.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-768x466.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-1200x728.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Kondaurova-and-Lil-Buck-1920x1165.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ekaterina Kondaurova and Lil’ Buck. Photo: Dan Krauss. Image courtesy of Versatile Films.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lil’ Buck’s fleet-footed \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9jghLeYufQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collaborations\u003c/a> with cellist Yo-Yo Ma feel as serendipitous as the extravaganza that united French choreographer Maurice Béjart with the music of Queen and Mozart, and the designs of Gianni Versace. Though Béjart was moved to create his ballet by the deaths from AIDS of his lover and muse Jorge Donn, and Freddie Mercury, the work itself is more joyous than mournful. The making of the ballet in 1997 is recounted in the new documentary \u003cem>Queen + Béjart: Ballet For Life\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0aXEsYAjYWE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0aXEsYAjYWE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Scottish Ballet is a smallish company with an outsize digital footprint and an appetite for trying new things. This year, Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple envisioned a fine dining experience gone hilariously wrong in \u003cem>Tremble\u003c/em>. And for a piece called \u003cem>Frontiers\u003c/em>, San Francisco Ballet’s Myles Thatcher flew in to engineer an assortment of intimate grapplings by pairs of dancers of mixed- and same-sex, in the shelter of Glasgow’s colossal concrete underpasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000-800x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000-800x681.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000-160x136.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000-768x653.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000-1020x868.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000-1200x1021.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/jb-giselle-tamara-rojo-stylised-publicity-image_1000.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamara Rojo for English National Ballet / Akram Khan’s Giselle. Photo: Jason Bell.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Akram Khan’s\u003c/em> \u003cem>Giselle \u003c/em>is an austere and gripping reimagining of the classic 19th century ballet about class betrayal—this version set in a community of garment factory workers. The Kathak-trained contemporary choreographer has given the classically trained dancers of English National Ballet a hypnotic movement idiom, and the brigade of undead women in Act II are every bit as eerie as in the traditional rendering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869108\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/fram_valtteri_on_shore_photo_by_t_freundlich-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valtteri Raekallio in Fram. Choreography and direction: Thomas Freundlich and Valtteri Raekallio. Photo: Thomas Freundlich\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because easy things are rarely worth doing, dancers traveled literally to opposite ends of the earth to make \u003cem>Dancing on Icebergs\u003c/em>, by New Zealand’s Corey Baker, and \u003cem>Fram\u003c/em>, by Finland’s Thomas Freundlich and Valtteri Raekallio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(In full disclosure, sticking closer to home is a pair of films from KQED’s Webby Award-winning series \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/ifcitiescoulddance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">If Cities Could Dance\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in which local dance crews Turf Feinz thread their way through the streets of Oakland, and R.O.O.T.S. The Movement imprint Richmond locales with their distinctive high-octane movement style.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wouldn’t be San Francisco without an ultra-high tech angle. 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"content": "\u003cp>In these politically charged times, the impetus to draw parallels with similarly fraught occasions in history becomes an irresistible pastime. This month, it’s We Players’ turn, with a timely adaptation of Shakespeare’s \u003cem>Julius Caesar\u003c/em> that recalls the origins of Senate obfuscation and the long struggle to distinguish between political and personal ambition within the various seats of office and leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set at the music concourse in Golden Gate Park, with its grand bandshell, the gracious Rideout Fountain, and several pedestrian underpasses, the actors’ Gilded-Age top hats and waistcoats (designed by Brooke Jennings and Kathleen Qiu) lend a raffish, robber-baron aesthetic to the production, neatly fusing Old San Francisco to Old Rome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13839773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839773\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley-800x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley-768x499.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley-240x156.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley-375x244.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley-520x338.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cast of Caesar Maximus stroll through Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse. \u003ccite>(Lauren Matley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Frequent proponents of cross-casting, We Players has Libby Oberlin in the role of Caesar, which she plays to the hilt with brash swagger, clad in high boots and breeches and brandishing a riding crop. It is her stance as a woman in power that has turned her conspirators against her, We Players suggests, her self-assuredness mistaken for tyranny. As Caesar, Oberlin helps her conspirators set their case at certain moments—particularly when mocking a soothsayer (Emily Stone) come to warn her (not a good look, as one might say in today’s vernacular). But is such careless ego truly a mark of a tyrant? We Players forces us to consider the spectrum of self-absorption, neither excusing Caesar’s behavior nor explicitly condemning it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More compact than certain past We Players productions, \u003cem>Caesar Maximus\u003c/em> (adapted by Nick Medina and director Ava Roy) practically zooms by in just a couple of hours. The action is limited to just a few locations, all within a brief stroll of each other. The cast, too, is streamlined, with most actors doubling their roles, and several characters serving as composites—such as Chris Steele’s impish Casca (who arrives to the Lupercalia on roller skates) speaking lines to woo Caesar to the Senate House originally intended by Shakespeare to be spoken by Decius Brutus. In effect, it plays like a greatest-hits reel of the play, the minutiae mostly not missed as the San Francisco fog settles in for the evening and blankets are passed out to the audience. (Pro tip: do not neglect to bring your layers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13839772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Alan-Coyne-Hunter-MacNair-Chris-Steele_credit_LaurenMatley-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Alan-Coyne-Hunter-MacNair-Chris-Steele_credit_LaurenMatley-800x475.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Alan-Coyne-Hunter-MacNair-Chris-Steele_credit_LaurenMatley-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Alan-Coyne-Hunter-MacNair-Chris-Steele_credit_LaurenMatley-768x456.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Alan-Coyne-Hunter-MacNair-Chris-Steele_credit_LaurenMatley-240x142.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Alan-Coyne-Hunter-MacNair-Chris-Steele_credit_LaurenMatley-375x223.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Alan-Coyne-Hunter-MacNair-Chris-Steele_credit_LaurenMatley-520x309.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Alan-Coyne-Hunter-MacNair-Chris-Steele_credit_LaurenMatley.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Coyne, Hunter MacNair and Chris Steele as the conspirators in the plot to kill Caesar. \u003ccite>(Lauren Matley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The only really disconcerting jolt in the pacing is the swiftness with which Caesar is dispatched to her death. It happens early in the production, before it feels as if enough momentum or acrimony has gathered against her to justify the boldness of the deed. The death itself is curiously bloodless, built up with some neat, slow-motion fighting choreographed by Chris Steele, but leaving the actors in their frozen positions for much too long after. Only Antony’s mellifluous monologue, expertly delivered by Rotimi Agbabiaka, cements the moment with the appropriate solemnity. Agbabiaka anchors Caesar’s funeral scene as well, inciting a too-small mob in a too-large playing area to enact some too-staged violence, setting the stage, as it were, for the eventual downfall of Brutus (Joseph Schommer) and Cassius’ (Hunter Scott MacNair).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In every We Players show, there is a concentrated effort to mold the piece visually into its staging ground. For \u003cem>Ondine\u003c/em>, ocean spray crashing against the ruins of Sutro Baths provided an essential backdrop; for \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> on Alcatraz, even the ferry boat on the way to “The Rock” was used for an introductory scene. Here at the music concourse, the actors playing the conspirators lounge against the towering pillars of the bandshell, the vaulted ceiling of which lends architectural gravitas, and high-spirited parades are led through the central promenade. Less immediately intuitive are moments when the audience is led from scene to scene as actors pose in the distance at street level with fluttering red scarves in hand, or the curious choice to eschew the conveniently located seating which already faces the bandshell stage, opting instead to arrange its audience on folding stools a few feet closer to the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13839771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Timekeeper (Emily Stone) assists Brutus (Joseph Schommer) with his suicide, as the ghost of Caesar watches from the background. \u003ccite>(Mark Kitaoka)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the decision to end the play in the dark confines of a low tunnel arching over a pedestrian path at the far end of the concourse is an inspired one. By the beam of a single amber light—framed from behind by the bars of an iron gate, a diaphanous furl of fabric, and the unbowed ghost of Caesar—Cassius and Brutus face their final moments, assisted silently by the production’s audience guide and chief wrangler, the Timekeeper (Emily Stone).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walking back into the light, flanked by overgrown foliage and a burst of pink amaryllis, feels like a triumph. For a moment, everything seems possible: the dispatching of would-be tyrants, the power of a well-turned oratorical phrase to inspire action, and the continual evolution of the “classics” in their ability to reveal modern concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Caesar Maximus’ runs through Sept. 30 in Golden Gate Park. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.weplayers.org\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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This month, it’s We Players’ turn, with a timely adaptation of Shakespeare’s \u003cem>Julius Caesar\u003c/em> that recalls the origins of Senate obfuscation and the long struggle to distinguish between political and personal ambition within the various seats of office and leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set at the music concourse in Golden Gate Park, with its grand bandshell, the gracious Rideout Fountain, and several pedestrian underpasses, the actors’ Gilded-Age top hats and waistcoats (designed by Brooke Jennings and Kathleen Qiu) lend a raffish, robber-baron aesthetic to the production, neatly fusing Old San Francisco to Old Rome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13839773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839773\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley-800x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley-768x499.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley-240x156.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley-375x244.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Hunter-MacNair-Rotimi-Agbabiaka-Zoltan-DiBartolo-Joseph-Schommer-Alan-Coyne-Oscar-Velarde-Britt-Lauer_credit_LaurenMatley-520x338.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cast of Caesar Maximus stroll through Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse. \u003ccite>(Lauren Matley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Frequent proponents of cross-casting, We Players has Libby Oberlin in the role of Caesar, which she plays to the hilt with brash swagger, clad in high boots and breeches and brandishing a riding crop. It is her stance as a woman in power that has turned her conspirators against her, We Players suggests, her self-assuredness mistaken for tyranny. As Caesar, Oberlin helps her conspirators set their case at certain moments—particularly when mocking a soothsayer (Emily Stone) come to warn her (not a good look, as one might say in today’s vernacular). But is such careless ego truly a mark of a tyrant? We Players forces us to consider the spectrum of self-absorption, neither excusing Caesar’s behavior nor explicitly condemning it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More compact than certain past We Players productions, \u003cem>Caesar Maximus\u003c/em> (adapted by Nick Medina and director Ava Roy) practically zooms by in just a couple of hours. The action is limited to just a few locations, all within a brief stroll of each other. The cast, too, is streamlined, with most actors doubling their roles, and several characters serving as composites—such as Chris Steele’s impish Casca (who arrives to the Lupercalia on roller skates) speaking lines to woo Caesar to the Senate House originally intended by Shakespeare to be spoken by Decius Brutus. In effect, it plays like a greatest-hits reel of the play, the minutiae mostly not missed as the San Francisco fog settles in for the evening and blankets are passed out to the audience. 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It happens early in the production, before it feels as if enough momentum or acrimony has gathered against her to justify the boldness of the deed. The death itself is curiously bloodless, built up with some neat, slow-motion fighting choreographed by Chris Steele, but leaving the actors in their frozen positions for much too long after. Only Antony’s mellifluous monologue, expertly delivered by Rotimi Agbabiaka, cements the moment with the appropriate solemnity. Agbabiaka anchors Caesar’s funeral scene as well, inciting a too-small mob in a too-large playing area to enact some too-staged violence, setting the stage, as it were, for the eventual downfall of Brutus (Joseph Schommer) and Cassius’ (Hunter Scott MacNair).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In every We Players show, there is a concentrated effort to mold the piece visually into its staging ground. For \u003cem>Ondine\u003c/em>, ocean spray crashing against the ruins of Sutro Baths provided an essential backdrop; for \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> on Alcatraz, even the ferry boat on the way to “The Rock” was used for an introductory scene. Here at the music concourse, the actors playing the conspirators lounge against the towering pillars of the bandshell, the vaulted ceiling of which lends architectural gravitas, and high-spirited parades are led through the central promenade. Less immediately intuitive are moments when the audience is led from scene to scene as actors pose in the distance at street level with fluttering red scarves in hand, or the curious choice to eschew the conveniently located seating which already faces the bandshell stage, opting instead to arrange its audience on folding stools a few feet closer to the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13839771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Emily-Stone-Joseph-Schommer_credit_MarkKitaoka-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Timekeeper (Emily Stone) assists Brutus (Joseph Schommer) with his suicide, as the ghost of Caesar watches from the background. \u003ccite>(Mark Kitaoka)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the decision to end the play in the dark confines of a low tunnel arching over a pedestrian path at the far end of the concourse is an inspired one. By the beam of a single amber light—framed from behind by the bars of an iron gate, a diaphanous furl of fabric, and the unbowed ghost of Caesar—Cassius and Brutus face their final moments, assisted silently by the production’s audience guide and chief wrangler, the Timekeeper (Emily Stone).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walking back into the light, flanked by overgrown foliage and a burst of pink amaryllis, feels like a triumph. For a moment, everything seems possible: the dispatching of would-be tyrants, the power of a well-turned oratorical phrase to inspire action, and the continual evolution of the “classics” in their ability to reveal modern concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Caesar Maximus’ runs through Sept. 30 in Golden Gate Park. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.weplayers.org\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The magic doesn’t really begin at SF Shakes’ production of \u003cem>A Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em> until the staged rise of an enormous crescent moon, above the festival’s most inventive set piece, designed by Neal Ormond: a massive, hollowed-out tree trunk fitted with charming “mushroom” platforms for the play’s fairies to gambol and sleep upon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s when the fairies enter, in a blur of sequins and chatter, that the play settles into itself. With their presence, they signal its fantastical core, a realm where disbelief must be willingly suspended. It’s a realm where Amazons wed, lovers’ messy quadrangles become sport for mischief-makers, and a loud blowhard might become a literal ass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13836796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13836796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-Shakes_Midsummer_Oberon_Puck-800x770.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-Shakes_Midsummer_Oberon_Puck-800x770.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-Shakes_Midsummer_Oberon_Puck-160x154.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-Shakes_Midsummer_Oberon_Puck-768x740.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-Shakes_Midsummer_Oberon_Puck-960x924.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-Shakes_Midsummer_Oberon_Puck-240x231.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-Shakes_Midsummer_Oberon_Puck-375x361.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-Shakes_Midsummer_Oberon_Puck-520x501.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-Shakes_Midsummer_Oberon_Puck-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-Shakes_Midsummer_Oberon_Puck.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Muterspaugh as Oberon and James Lewis as Puck plot some mischief. \u003ccite>(Jay Yamada)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here is “proud Titania” (Livia Gomes Demarchi) and her overbearing consort Oberon (Stephen Muterspaugh) arguing over the fate of a changeling boy in her charge. Here is the impish Puck (a long-limbed, green-haired James Lewis) and a cacophony of fairy folk to accompany the proceedings and score it with their drums. There is little nuance in the action. The outdoor setting, the multi-generational audience, the still-persistent light of the sun (Free Shakespeare in the Park’s evening shows start at 7pm this year) all demand a less-than-light touch by the performers onstage, even when inhabiting the characters of woodland sprites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The works of William Shakespeare mean many things to different people, but love them or hate them, it’s hard to argue with their staying power. And while seeing them in the pomp and grandeur of a well-appointed theater can be a rich sensory experience, to see them outdoors in the company of anyone who can afford the price of “free” is an experience more akin to Shakespeare’s Elizabethan times, where theater was often performed in low-cost public houses and served as entertainment for audiences far more diverse than just the monied elite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13836860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-3-800x444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13836860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-3-800x444.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-3-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-3-768x426.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-3-960x533.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-3-672x372.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-3-240x133.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-3-375x208.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-3-520x289.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Rosemarie Kingfisher as Cobweb, Julie Douglas as Mote, James Lewis as Robin Goodfellow (the Puck), Sean Garahan as Mustardseed, and Melanie Marshall as Peaseblossom in San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s 2018 Free Shakespeare in the Park production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. \u003ccite>(Jay Yamada)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em> is a perfect example of this kind of multi-purpose, populist comedy: allusion to ancient mythology (the central human characters include Athenian hero Theseus and the Amazon Queen Hippolyta, played respectively by Muterspaugh and Demarchi), roles for musicians and acrobats, moments of lewd “low” humor, and a willingness to not let finer plot points stand in the way of a mostly happy ending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>True, San Francisco Shakespeare Company’s version, directed by company Artistic Director Rebecca J. Ennals, is hardly a flawless production. Even with the roles doubled, the cast numbers close to 20, not all of whom deliver as polished a performance as seasoned SF Shakes veteran Michael Ray Wisely as the bombastic Bottom. During the July 8 performance there were persistent sound issues as actors wandered in and out of range of the mics, and a nearby spontaneous fireworks display threatened to steal focus from the pending onstage celebration of the joint weddings of Theseus and Hippolyta, Hermia and Lysander (Patricia Austin and Akaina Ghosh), Helena and Demetrius (Lauren Spencer and Ed Berkeley).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the sun falls enough for John Bernard’s production lights to be added into the mix, and the fairy conspiracy to meddle in the tiresome love lives of mortals finally works to everyone’s advantage, it becomes easier to surrender to the production’s inherent charms: the musicality of the language, the clever asides, and the colorful costuming (designed by Hyun Sook Kim) inspired by forest floor and regal tapestry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each performer in a doubled role has a way of conveying the underlying similarities between the mortal and fairy counterpart. Demarchi’s regal disdain imbues both her Hippolyta and Titania with a do-not-mess-with attitude, Muterspaugh’s oratory tone serves both his Theseus and Oberon, and the Rude Mechanicals, a droll bunch of artisans trying their hand at playacting before the Athenian court, double aptly as the attendant fairies in Titania and Oberon’s magical realm, performing for the amusement of the greater court—that is to say, the assembled audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13836861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13836861\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-768x503.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-960x629.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-520x341.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rude Mechanicals: (L to R) Rosemarie Kingfisher as Robin Starveling, Melanie Marshall as Tom Snout, Michael Ray Wisely as Nick Bottom (playing Pyramus), Sean Garahan as Francis Flute (playing Thisbe), and Michael J. Asberry as Peter Quince in San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s 2018 Free Shakespeare in the Park production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. \u003ccite>(Jay Yamada)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking of the Rude Mechanicals, the often-broad cuts to their earnest play-within-a-play generally reduce their efforts to a single scene involving a wall and crude innuendo, but Ennals instead chooses to let them have their full moment in the spotlight, a choice received enthusiastically by the younger members of the audience, as wigs fly off, a lion meows coquettishly, and an over-the-top \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCOzKufIIzs\">Paul Ruebens-as-Amilyn-worthy\u003c/a> death scene sends up “serious theater” much as the entire plot of the play-without does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Best of all, as a touring production, \u003cem>A Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em> can be seen not only in Pleasanton’s Amador Valley Community Park where it plays through July 15, but also in Cupertino, Redwood City, San Francisco’s Presidio, and McLaren Park—giving ample opportunity to see Shakespeare as Shakespeare might have seen it: under an open sky and in the company of “honest neighbors” and “gentles” all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ runs through Sept. 23 at various venues in Pleasanton, Cupertino, Redwood City, and San Francisco. No tickets required. More information and details \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfshakes.org\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>True, San Francisco Shakespeare Company’s version, directed by company Artistic Director Rebecca J. Ennals, is hardly a flawless production. Even with the roles doubled, the cast numbers close to 20, not all of whom deliver as polished a performance as seasoned SF Shakes veteran Michael Ray Wisely as the bombastic Bottom. During the July 8 performance there were persistent sound issues as actors wandered in and out of range of the mics, and a nearby spontaneous fireworks display threatened to steal focus from the pending onstage celebration of the joint weddings of Theseus and Hippolyta, Hermia and Lysander (Patricia Austin and Akaina Ghosh), Helena and Demetrius (Lauren Spencer and Ed Berkeley).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the sun falls enough for John Bernard’s production lights to be added into the mix, and the fairy conspiracy to meddle in the tiresome love lives of mortals finally works to everyone’s advantage, it becomes easier to surrender to the production’s inherent charms: the musicality of the language, the clever asides, and the colorful costuming (designed by Hyun Sook Kim) inspired by forest floor and regal tapestry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each performer in a doubled role has a way of conveying the underlying similarities between the mortal and fairy counterpart. Demarchi’s regal disdain imbues both her Hippolyta and Titania with a do-not-mess-with attitude, Muterspaugh’s oratory tone serves both his Theseus and Oberon, and the Rude Mechanicals, a droll bunch of artisans trying their hand at playacting before the Athenian court, double aptly as the attendant fairies in Titania and Oberon’s magical realm, performing for the amusement of the greater court—that is to say, the assembled audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13836861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13836861\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-768x503.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-960x629.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4-520x341.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/SF-SHAKES-Midsummer-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rude Mechanicals: (L to R) Rosemarie Kingfisher as Robin Starveling, Melanie Marshall as Tom Snout, Michael Ray Wisely as Nick Bottom (playing Pyramus), Sean Garahan as Francis Flute (playing Thisbe), and Michael J. 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No tickets required. More information and details \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfshakes.org\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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