Place/Settings: Berkeley: 10 - "The Character Actor" by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Les Waters
Read by Charles Shaw Robinson
From a perch beyond this life, an actor observes as a group of masked people finally return to the courtyard of Berkeley Rep — to the theatre, the place we made to gather, breathe together, and share the stories that remind us of our humanity.
9 Mar 2021
Place/Settings: Berkeley: 9 - "Suicide on Telegraph" by Richard Montoya
It's 1959, and tobacco smoke snakes across the bustling café from its prized corner table, where artists and students debate political treatises, muse on philosophy, and share thrilling new poetry.
2 Mar 2021
Place/Settings: Berkeley: 8 - "night fishing" by Philip Kan Gotanda
Read by Steven Anthony Jones and BD Wong
On a chilly autumn night, an old fisherman makes his way to the lake in the dark. He casts a line...and reels in the ghost he's been seeking.
23 Feb 2021
Place/Settings: Berkeley: 7 - "The Third Sphere" by Kamala Parks, read by Denmo Ibrahim
Straddling the worlds of her divorced parents, Yasmine doesn't feel fully at home in either. Desperate to see her best friend in San Francisco, she embarks on the voyage across the Bay alone, exhilarated at her newfound independence.
16 Feb 2021
Place/Settings: Berkeley: 6 - "West Berkeley West Indian" by Aya de León
How do you find your people in middle school — especially when you don't quite fit the mold? A girl experiments, assimilates, adapts, and journeys towards genuine self-love and community.
9 Feb 2021
Place/Settings: Berkeley: 5 - "The Black Mass Sonata" by Daniel Handler, read by Lance Gardner
Bored, lost, and lonely, a teenager stumbles into a café. While eating a cup of soup, he hears a wondrously inscrutable sonata, and begins to sense that being lost might not be such a lonesome condition after all.
2 Feb 2021
Place/Settings: Berkeley: 4 - "For the Record" by Sean San José
Sometimes music becomes indelibly linked to specific memories, invoking the people with whom we shared them. Songs by Isaac Hayes, Peter Tosh, Stevie Wonder, the Doors, the Knight Brothers, and Patti LaBelle conjure a deep friendship, one that began on a hot night in 1986 outside Leopold's Records.
26 Jan 2021
Place/Settings: Berkeley: 3 - "20 Weeks" by Adam Mansbach
Hope, fear, excitement, and a dizzying array of possibilities unspool across an expectant dad’s imagination, as he and his partner navigate medical uncertainties and rediscover each other as almost-parents.
19 Jan 2021
Place/Settings: Berkeley: 2 - "The Fundamental Kiss, With Overtones" by Eisa Davis
A young oboist kisses a pianist on a street corner. At long last! But the kiss unlocks pressures, expectations, dreams, and fears. Can we learn to live with uncertainty? To ask for what we need?
12 Jan 2021
Place/Settings: Berkeley: 1 - "The Slide" by Itamar Moses
A neighborhood park — its playground, sloping hillside, and basketball court; its tunnel to a rose garden and many paths — bears witness to a boy, growing up and growing old.
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