Place/Settings: Berkeley

Berkeley Rep
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Berkeley Repertory Theatre is a national leader in innovative theatre known for its core values of imagination and excellence.

Épisodes

  1. Place/Settings: Berkeley: 10 - "The Character Actor" by Sarah Ruhl

    16/03/2021

    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.

    15 min
  2. Place/Settings: Berkeley: 9 - "Suicide on Telegraph" by Richard Montoya

    09/03/2021

    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.

    22 min
  3. Place/Settings: Berkeley: 8 - "night fishing" by Philip Kan Gotanda

    02/03/2021

    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.

    13 min
  4. Place/Settings: Berkeley: 7 - "The Third Sphere" by Kamala Parks, read by Denmo Ibrahim

    23/02/2021

    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.

    18 min
  5. Place/Settings: Berkeley: 6 - "West Berkeley West Indian" by Aya de León

    16/02/2021

    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.

    14 min
  6. Place/Settings: Berkeley: 5 - "The Black Mass Sonata" by Daniel Handler, read by Lance Gardner

    09/02/2021

    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.

    13 min
  7. Place/Settings: Berkeley: 4 - "For the Record" by Sean San José

    02/02/2021

    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.

    29 min
  8. Place/Settings: Berkeley: 3 - "20 Weeks" by Adam Mansbach

    26/01/2021

    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.

    12 min
  9. Place/Settings: Berkeley: 2 - "The Fundamental Kiss, With Overtones" by Eisa Davis

    19/01/2021

    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?

    20 min
  10. Place/Settings: Berkeley: 1 - "The Slide" by Itamar Moses

    12/01/2021

    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.

    13 min
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Berkeley Repertory Theatre is a national leader in innovative theatre known for its core values of imagination and excellence.

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  • Création
    Berkeley Rep
  • Années d’activité
    2018 - 2021
  • Épisodes
    10
  • Classification
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