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