10 episodes

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

Place/Settings: Berkeley Berkeley Rep

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    • 4.7 • 15 Ratings

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

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

    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.

    • 14 min
    Place/Settings: Berkeley: 9 - "Suicide on Telegraph" by Richard Montoya

    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.

    • 21 min
    Place/Settings: Berkeley: 8 - "night fishing" by Philip Kan Gotanda

    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.

    • 12 min
    Place/Settings: Berkeley: 7 - "The Third Sphere" by Kamala Parks, read by Denmo Ibrahim

    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.

    • 17 min
    Place/Settings: Berkeley: 6 - "West Berkeley West Indian" by Aya de León

    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.

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

    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

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
15 Ratings

15 Ratings

makfan ,

Place/Settings is Great

The recent Place/Settings series of original stores about something meaningful in Berkeley have been great. Still wondering if someone will beat out the first episode as my favorite, but all have been worth the listen.

Stoked on Repisodes ,

Excellent!

So excited to have access to Berkeley Rep’s dramaturgy, even though I can’t get to every show. Thanks for this!

jeffanon ,

Just reading the program

If you just want the program read out loud, here you go, but there's nothing more.

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