tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21751640979229507142024-03-19T01:52:40.953-07:00WE PLAYERS on AlcatrazENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11958424736489040239noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-53850524040935914812011-07-04T07:53:00.000-07:002011-07-04T07:55:00.977-07:00Youth Conference on Justice & Freedom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmPLCzlH0iDmE7zHYuXzy5u3avzSjb6YepjT8bqC5m6Kw3CmsjQK2mDUntw9bH9-D1MaHiWir_eg1IKJMvGOGGxPExva-lZV-3BCREWD_rg3Oh-4r9hNhLH_h6bzUw-Nnw-Gj3XBSEiKDo/s1600/JJCMasks_DSC_0066.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmPLCzlH0iDmE7zHYuXzy5u3avzSjb6YepjT8bqC5m6Kw3CmsjQK2mDUntw9bH9-D1MaHiWir_eg1IKJMvGOGGxPExva-lZV-3BCREWD_rg3Oh-4r9hNhLH_h6bzUw-Nnw-Gj3XBSEiKDo/s320/JJCMasks_DSC_0066.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>youth! (14-18ish)<br />
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<b>Join We Players for an action-packed afternoon on Alcatraz, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2011.</b> We'll <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">explore the island via a treasure hunt, view the current gallery exhibit displaying youth perspectives on the Alcatraz themes, enjoy food and drink, group conversation, and create a collective art project, which will remain on the island for public viewing in the cell house gallery through mid-August.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.weplayers.org/events/alcatraz-2011/exhibition-3">Check our website for more details</a> on this conference and the Faces We Wear exhibition currently on display in the cell house, sharing stories and artwork from teens at the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center.laurendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612990366266299629noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-41049183294793060082011-06-10T08:57:00.000-07:002011-06-10T09:09:14.099-07:00The Knotted Line<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4ya0DwEtlw4BWDrDsGIQr6dQ1S3pwCBcO-iwAMiP7zDpfBp8s85OPJmBq2TVurmox0XhDuFkeiK6BEH8JVeCkpl82ACN3a2hvA6odTzGFxzka4YonoktuHlxBdm2FAlxQcHTLvmJQ4Lh/s1600/www.theknottedline.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" >Work WE believe in.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >An important project by Evan Bissell, collaborating artist from We Players most recent Alcatraz gallery exhibition. Please check out The Knotted Line!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >
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<br /></span></p><p class="paragraph_style_1" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 36px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; "><span class="style_3" style="font-style: italic; ">The Knotted Line </span>is an interactive, online art project that looks at the historical relationships between incarceration, education and labor in the United States from 1495-2025. It combines over 75 miniature paintings of historical moments housed inside an online tactile laboratory.</p><p class="paragraph_style_1" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 36px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; ">
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At that time we were talking to Lonnie Morris, remarking on his amazing story, and our tour guide, Lt. Robinson, commented that Mr. Morgan was going to have a story real soon too. Well, the story is he got paroled. Here's the back story on that from this article where I got the foto (how did they get a camera in?). <a href="http://sfappeal.com/news/2011/02/san-quentin-inmates-serving-life-sentences-hope-for-parole-under-gov-brown.php">http://sfappeal.com/news/2011/02/san-quentin-inmates-serving-life-sentences-hope-for-parole-under-gov-brown.php</a> <br /><br />Here's the after story on Mr. Morgan. <a href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/crime/2011/05/family-greets-convicted-murderer-freed-san-quentin-after-24-years">http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/crime/2011/05/family-greets-convicted-murderer-freed-san-quentin-after-24-years</a> <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Z65ran_EWFFt-6mKzMgE7Sfd8HlC1a3Et8TQJ3qYOSHLl1mzDCmkgZdvElWKqGg6WJDvrIz5aMrZWu0wgZEsIsJCskSfr0mv27OzjeSyhC03iR7jrc_pQM0OVTqnswHu7Pch_gqxQEA/s1600/no-way-out_4359087_40.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 213px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611179012041429410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Z65ran_EWFFt-6mKzMgE7Sfd8HlC1a3Et8TQJ3qYOSHLl1mzDCmkgZdvElWKqGg6WJDvrIz5aMrZWu0wgZEsIsJCskSfr0mv27OzjeSyhC03iR7jrc_pQM0OVTqnswHu7Pch_gqxQEA/s320/no-way-out_4359087_40.jpg" /></a><br />Lonnie Morris' story is an amazing chronicle of transformation, reform, redemption, all the words we use to describe what we hope can happen to a man behind bars, it just doesn't have the same ending as Ernest Morgan's, yet. Read Mr Morris' story at the link below. <a href="http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-01-27/news/no-way-out/">http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-01-27/news/no-way-out/</a>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06452574134500762066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-69611807316497236372011-04-23T13:25:00.000-07:002011-04-23T13:26:37.373-07:00Off the Hook<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <title></title> <meta name="Generator" content="Cocoa HTML Writer"> <meta name="CocoaVersion" content="949.54"> <style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica; color: #345faa} span.s1 {text-decoration: underline} </style> <p class="p1"><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <title></title> <meta name="Generator" content="Cocoa HTML Writer"> <meta name="CocoaVersion" content="949.54"> <style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial} </style> </p><p class="p1">I killed a man. His mother’s tears and my mother’s tears</p> <p class="p1">had no place to rest. They fell upon my heart, woke up</p> <p class="p1">something inside of me. And I put down my sword.</p> <p class="p1">- - - - - </p> <p class="p1">The Aztecs say the hummingbird is a warrior. He beats back</p> <p class="p1">darkness with iridescent wings. He sucks the evil out of</p> <p class="p1">men, leaves them with a thirst for beauty.</p><p class="p1">
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<br /></p>agentavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09548735013085889601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-35727344331984980162011-04-11T14:49:00.000-07:002011-04-11T15:02:28.530-07:00IN VISIBLE CATEGORIES: INVISIBLE PEOPLE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwSXu7TsHAk3vWept3GtiQxAUzA2u3C7aGz3pEksYEhRtZ1S9VpvFRK8nLNgX8yanN-YF1yPoqT6ARDd-FvszyWIWeRRZsvJitoBXwCJR5qch_UhOf7Jh8Tp3h7FFXOVA2dUsw6h_mftyv/s1600/april+9%252C+gallery.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwSXu7TsHAk3vWept3GtiQxAUzA2u3C7aGz3pEksYEhRtZ1S9VpvFRK8nLNgX8yanN-YF1yPoqT6ARDd-FvszyWIWeRRZsvJitoBXwCJR5qch_UhOf7Jh8Tp3h7FFXOVA2dUsw6h_mftyv/s320/april+9%252C+gallery.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594448145301129090" /></a>Thank you wonderful people for such a fantastic day on Saturday, April 9th at We Players' second gallery opening event on Alcatraz. <div><br /></div><div>Huge applause for artists Evan Bissell and Monica Lundy, your work is fantastic. Regular park visitors are filling the Band Practice Room to absorb your art. Very powerful to drop in these images, these ideas just before they exit through the gift shop...</div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you Patrick Gillespie for your great work curating this exhibit and moderating Saturday's panel discussion.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you Sujatha Baliga for your insights and for bringing your heart and deep knowledge to the conversation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Jim Breeden, thank you for your ongoing commitment to skillful, comprehensive interpretation on Alcatraz. </div><div><br /></div><div>Thank YOU all for joining WE and sharing in this charged conversation.</div><div><br /></div><div>More soon...</div><div><br /></div><div>* we</div><div><br /></div>agentavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09548735013085889601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-11649310456266899302011-04-07T10:14:00.000-07:002011-04-07T10:45:42.323-07:00prison island closurefascinating:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/01/last.prison.island.closes/index.html?iref=NS1">http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/01/last.prison.island.closes/index.html?iref=NS1</a>agentavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09548735013085889601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-4657586310970539162011-04-05T07:58:00.000-07:002011-04-05T08:00:20.754-07:00www.weplayers.orgIT'S HERE!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.weplayers.org/">WWW.WEPLAYERS.ORG<br /></a><br /><br /><br />LOVE<br /><br />*<br />WEagentavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09548735013085889601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-15875885719944047362011-03-31T15:47:00.000-07:002011-03-31T15:51:48.095-07:00IN VISIBLE CATEGORIES: INVISIBLE PEOPLE<div style="text-align: center;">Alcatraz Gallery Opening Event #2</div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" >IN VISIBLE CATEGORIES: INVISIBLE PEOPLE</span></b></span></div></b><div style="text-align: center;">Saturday, April 9th, 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;">1pm - 5pm</div><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We Players is proud to announce Monica Lundy and Evan Bissell as participating artists in our second 2011 exhibition on Alcatraz Island, IN VISIBLE CATEGORIES: INVISIBLE PEOPLE. </div><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Join us on April 9th for the gallery unveiling and a panel discussion on the transformation of identity, restorative justice, and the methodology of state produced portraiture. </div><div style="text-align: center;">We Players' gallery curator Patrick Gillespie will moderate the discussion with participating artists, guest speakers, and YOU!</div><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><meta charset="utf-8">Reservations for April 9th are required. Invited donation is $30. </div><div style="text-align: center;">All donations will support We Players’ performance residency on Alcatraz. </div><div style="text-align: center;">WE thank you for your contribution!</div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /></div>SEE YOU ON THE ROCK!</div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /></div><i>On display in the Alcatraz Cell House Gallery, April 9 - June 4:
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<br />- Select portraits by Monica Lundy from her Women of San Quentin series
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<br />- Select portraits by Evan Bissell from his collaborative What Cannot be Take Away: Families and Prisons Project
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<br />Please join us in continuing this conversation, inspired by the history and present life of Alcatraz.
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<br /><b>VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY:
<br /></b>We Players is seeking a couple additional volunteers to help things run smoothly on Saturday, April 9th. If you're available in the morning for final set up, and/or to help as an audience guide in the afternoon, please reply to info@weplayers.org and let us know.
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<br /><b>OUR PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
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<br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" >Monica Lundy’s</span></b> paintings reveal the evolution of mug shots within the California prison system. She is a frequent visitor to the Sacramento archives and researches how the correctional system files and categorizes a civilian into the prison population. Her displayed artwork, excerpts from her Women of San Quentin series, shows the evolving efficiency of mug shots - a penalty that reduces personal history to a number, date, and a crime. Monica is interested in the immense social history that catalogues those who have passed through institutional systems and out of memory. She presents this interest through a method of painting that is a kind of entropy; she allows the image to build itself through the natural movement of mediums, alluding to decay and the degrading walls of old institutions. She frames a unique moment of transformation through her paintings of fresh prisoners, first introduced into the system, and subsequently passed out of memory.
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<br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" >Evan Bissell </span></b>engages in collaborative art making, utilizing creativity to access unseen realities and generating creative expressions of personal and community truths. His contributions to this exhibition, a portion of the larger project What Cannot Be Taken Away, were created in partnership with multiple programs of Community Works West. Evan worked collaboratively with a group of prisoners and an unrelated group of youth who have parents in prison, facilitating dialogue between the two groups on the impact of incarceration on families, and developing large-scale self-portraits of each of the eight participants. Over a five month period, through writing, art making, audio conversation and meditation, each participant began to clarify the impact of the prison system on their identity and sketch out ideas for their final portraits, ultimately painted by Evan. The symbols and compositions, designed by the participants and Evan, represent reflections on transformation. The collaborative act of creating these portraits revealed a deep understanding of how prison affected the individual’s concept of self and what it means to change, for each individual involved with the project.
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<br /><b>We Players Gallery Curator, <span class="Apple-style-span" >Patrick Gillespie,</span> will engage these artists and other special guests in a panel discussion on transformation of identity, restorative justice, and the methodology of state produced inmate portraiture. This gallery opening includes informal conversation and guided walks from the ferry to the cell house gallery with We Players producers Ava Roy and Lauren Dietrich Chavez. </b>
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<br />The National Park Service and We Players are in the third year and final phase of their monumental collaboration on Alcatraz Island. This groundbreaking partnership has utilized site-specific performing arts programming to provoke critical thought and stimulate conversation on the themes of incarceration, isolation, justice and redemption. In addition to engaging the visiting public through site-specific rehearsals and performances, We Players and the National Park Service are creating lasting and transferable tools that use performance elements to augment Ranger interpretation.
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<br />After presenting a modern adaptation of the Greek Oresteia in 2009 and a traveling performance of Hamlet in 2010, this final year includes several performance events and gallery installations intended to draw connections between the Alcatraz themes and current realities of incarceration, isolation, justice and redemption in the Bay Area and beyond.
<br />agentavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09548735013085889601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-20840843752448904542011-03-29T12:29:00.000-07:002011-03-29T12:40:55.921-07:00Grotowski's Workcenter comes to SF!<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <title></title> <meta name="Generator" content="Cocoa HTML Writer"> <meta name="CocoaVersion" content="949.54"> <style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} span.s1 {font: 8.5px Arial} span.s2 {color: #0000ff} </style> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Dear Friends, </b></span></p><p class="p1"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">This is very exciting! The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards is coming to the Bay! </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Below is some info about the group and listing of their Bay Area Events.</span></span></b></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Hope to see you there! * AVA </b></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span">
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<br /></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards invites you to a series of </i><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>performances, master classes, work demonstrations and film screenings during its </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>month-long Bay Area residency in April 2011. These events have been organized by the </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>generous and tireless efforts of Michael Hunter, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities, </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Stanford University; Frank Smigiel, Associate Curator of Public Programs at SFMOMA; </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Stephen Tourell, President of the Board of the Performance Art Institute; and Julia </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Ulehla, Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards.</i></span></span></p><p class="p2"><span class="Apple-style-span">
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<br /></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span">EVENTS:
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<br /></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Friday April 8<span class="s1">th </span>8pm, <i>Performance Art Institute, 575 Sutter Street, San </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Francisco</i></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i></i>West Coast premiere of <i>I Am America</i>, based on the writings of </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Allen Ginsberg and songs from the American South. Seating is limited, </span><span class="Apple-style-span">please contact <span class="s2">reservations@theworkcenter.org </span>to reserve. $20 suggested </span><span class="Apple-style-span">donation.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sunday April 10<span class="s1">th</span>, 1-6pm, <i>Performance Art Institute, 575 Sutter Street, </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>San Francisco</i> </span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Master Class for Actors and Directors, led by Associate </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Director of the Workcenter, Mario Biagini. For more information and to </span><span class="Apple-style-span">apply for the workshop, please write to workshops@theworkcenter.org.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sunday April 10<span class="s1">th</span>, 7-9pm, <i>Performance Art Institute, 575 Sutter Street, </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>San Francisco</i> </span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Work demonstration by the Workcenter’s Open Program. </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Work demonstrations may include elements of Workcenter’s current </span><span class="Apple-style-span">research and practice, or a performance of any one of the Open Program’s </span><span class="Apple-style-span">four current opuses.</span></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Thursday April 14<span class="s1">th</span>, 7pm, <i>San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Third Street </i></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i></i>Screenings of Jerzy </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Grotowski’s <i>The Constant Prince </i>and Workcenter’s <i>Action in Aya Irini</i>, Q &</span></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">A with Frank Smigiel, Associate Curator of Public Programs at SF MoMA, </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Mario Biagini, Associate Director of the Workcenter, and Actors of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Open Program.</span></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Thursday April 14<span class="s1">th</span>, 10pm, <i>Viracocha, 998 Valencia @21</i><span class="s1"><i>st </i></span><i>Street, San </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Francisco</i> </span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">A chamber performance of <i>Electric Party Songs </i>based on the </span><span class="Apple-style-span">poetry of Allen Ginsberg and songs from the American South. Seating is </span><span class="Apple-style-span">extremely limited. Tickets are $15 at the door.</span></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Friday April 15<span class="s1">th</span>, 1pm-4pm, <i>Piggott Theatre, Memorial Auditorium, </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Stanford University, Palo Alto </i></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i></i>Symposium/Panel Discussion on the </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Workcenter’s Open Program and Allen Ginsberg. At 3pm, symposium </span><span class="Apple-style-span">participants may move to Special Collections in Green Library, where </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Annette Keogh, curator of British and American literature, will give a </span><span class="Apple-style-span">guided tour of selected materials form the Allen Ginsberg archive.</span></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sunday April 17<span class="s1">th</span>, 1-6pm, <i>Performance Art Institute, 575 Sutter Street, </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>San Francisco</i> </span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Master Class for Actors and Directors, led by Associate </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Director of the Workcenter, Mario Biagini. For more information and to </span><span class="Apple-style-span">apply for the workshop, please write to workshops@theworkcenter.org.</span></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Monday April 18<span class="s1">th</span>, 7-9pm, <i>Performance Art Institute, 575 Sutter Street, </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>San Francisco</i></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i></i>Work demonstration by the Workcenter’s Open Program. </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Work demonstrations may include elements of Workcenter’s current </span><span class="Apple-style-span">research and practice, or a performance of any one of the Open Program’s </span><span class="Apple-style-span">four current opuses.</span></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tuesday April 19<span class="s1">th</span>, 7-9pm, <i>Performance Art Institute, 575 Sutter Street, </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>San Francisco</i> </span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Work demonstration by members of the Workcenter’s </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Open Program. Work demonstrations may include elements of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Workcenter’s current research and practice, or a performance of any one</span></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span">of the Open Program’s four current opuses.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Thursday April 21<span class="s1">st </span>6-10pm: <i>San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Third Street </i></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Performance of <i>Electric Party </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Songs. </i>Drawing from their investigation of Allen Ginsberg's poetry, 11 </span><span class="Apple-style-span">actors animate SFMOMA with a cycle of song, action and movement that </span><span class="Apple-style-span">challenges the conventions of theater-based performance. Ginsberg's </span><span class="Apple-style-span">words flow through blues, rock, pop, opera, and even punk idioms as the </span><span class="Apple-style-span">performers themselves flow through the audience. <i>Electric Party Songs </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span">creates a social space for new encounters with Ginsberg, American music, </span><span class="Apple-style-span">and the space of the museum. The program also includes a screening of </span><span class="Apple-style-span">films by and about Ginsberg, and <i>Meatpaper </i>magazine welcomes spring </span><span class="Apple-style-span">with an edible flowers-themed "Food & Thought" event in the Rooftop </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Garden. The event is free with museum admission.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Saturday April 23<span class="s1">rd </span>7pm: <i>Henry Miller Memorial Library, Highway 1, Big </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Sur</i>:</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Performance of <i>I Am America </i>followed by a Q & A with Director Mario </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Biagini and the Actors of the Open Program, screening of <i>Action in Aya </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Irini. </i>Tickets are $15 presale/$20 at the door.</span></span></p> <p class="p3"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></b></p><p class="p3"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Please visit </b><span class="s2"><b>www.theworkcenter.org </b></span><b>for more information about the upcoming</b></span></p> <p class="p3"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">events or to be added to the Workcenter’s mailing list.</span></b></p>agentavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09548735013085889601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-70583120960514380152011-03-15T07:49:00.001-07:002011-03-15T07:49:53.109-07:00support friends of We Players - LoCura<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></span><br />
<div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Please visit </span></span>LoCura's Kickstarter Campaign <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">to help our incredibly talented friends and collaborators finish their 2nd album:</span></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/locuramusica/locura-new-album-project" style="color: #114170;" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/<wbr></wbr>projects/locuramusica/locura-<wbr></wbr>new-album-project</a></span></b></div>laurendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612990366266299629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-43740383578623011302011-03-10T08:44:00.000-08:002011-03-10T08:51:34.835-08:00scouting for heroes<i><b>Some of the early responses to our question about Heroes.</b></i><div><i><b>Thank you March Forth dinner guests for helping us begin to gather...</b></i></div><div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">* "heroes: Mothers" </p><p class="MsoNormal">* "first thoughts: although it’s inspiring to look up to heroes, I think we focus too much on putting a few people up above the rest of us as almost “superhuman”, which actually may keep the majority of us not acting, because we separate ourselves from them. They (the heroes) are great and able to make change, to lead, but we’re just everyday people without such power/ability/courage. I like looking at communities who worked together for positive change, to stand up against injustice and think creatively, act collectively, to accomplish heroic tasks. Ex: Bolivians fighting against the privatization of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I love “heroes” who lead from behind too. It’s important to recognize the ones in the shadows, but making sure everything is organized and the movement goes on."</p><p class="MsoNormal">* "A hero follows the Manifesto of DONE"</p> <p class="MsoNormal">* "A hero overcomes: fear, uncertainty, doubt, obstacles, tradition"</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal">* "A hero - in literature is: perfect. unrealistic. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">in real life is: a good example. real people with flaws." </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">* "Greg Mortenson, building schools in Afganistan and Pakistan"</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">* "My hero is my 21 month old son. He arrived here a 6lb 8oz baby, vulnerable and not knowing the world. he has blossomed into a beautiful, proud, loving, person, He lives fearlessly, purely and in the moment. he is an inspiration every day. He makes me love more and more, I see more love in the world because of him."</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">* "The hero endures, so in this regard the title refers equally to those who compose our social fabric (I think of immigrants, mothers, the working class) as much as those we elevate or recognize as leaders. Vision of the inspired or higher kind is another aspect - this is the fuel for heroic effort. Finally, the hero serves, reaches others, expresses our common, if latent desires, dreams."</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>And at least one of you posed more questions! (we like your style :)</b></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal">- What does he do after? post hero!</p> <p class="MsoNormal">- Where does the hero come from?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">- What culture, people, environment, produces the hero?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">- Why is he a hero? Glory of self? Betterment of world?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">- Do base motivations deny him of his status?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"> </span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--></div>agentavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09548735013085889601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-41500081912946497362011-03-06T10:28:00.000-08:002011-03-06T10:28:47.970-08:00a feast to remember...thank you all who attended our March 4th dinner theater fundraiser!<br />
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what a great gathering of old friends and new... It's always a joy for WE to host our supporters, share performance sequences, offer appreciation for our collaborators, and share our excitement for projects on the horizon. This year was extra special for us; thank you for sharing the evening as We Players marches forth into our second decade.<br />
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tremendous gratitude for the skill and generosity of our head chef, Paul Plotkin (<a href="http://herbnpalate.com/">Herb'n Palate)</a>.<br />
I don't know how you do it, Pauly, but your food is spectacular. Thank you for donating your time for the second year in a row.<br />
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thanks to <a href="http://www.jhevents.com/">Jane Hammond Events</a> for allowing us to borrow all those place settings, vases, bread baskets... the scene was elegant.<br />
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and thanks to <a href="http://www.tinyspuds.com/">Small Potatoes Catering & Events</a> for letting us use their kitchen and borrow all sorts of kitchen essentials for the evening.<br />
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Ava and I are going to take a couple days rest, and we'll send an update to <a href="http://weplayers.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8a30a66057969e397f699b2df&id=b46077512c">our mailing list</a> soon, to share the performance planning details we revealed on Friday with our larger community.laurendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612990366266299629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-65532730489741109982011-01-28T12:46:00.000-08:002011-01-28T12:50:25.905-08:00The Great Feast of March Fourth<span class="Apple-style-span" >Join We Players as we MARCH FORTH </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >into a new decade of site-specific performance adventures!<br /><br />We Players annual Dinner Theater Fundraiser<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Friday, March 4th, 2011<br /></span><br />Let us tantalize your taste buds with five courses of delicious local fare, while you enjoy performance sequences, live jazz, an open bar, a silent auction, <i>and the unveiling of exciting performance plans for 2011 and beyond.</i><br /><br />Garden opens at 6:45; doors open at 7; dinner at 7:30.<br /><br /><a href="http://weplayersdinner2011.eventbrite.com/">TO MAKE A RESERVATION, CLICK HERE!</a></span></div>agentavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09548735013085889601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-70884923470025020032011-01-26T17:28:00.000-08:002011-01-26T17:31:57.937-08:00Join WE on Alcatraz this Saturday 1/29/11<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " ><h1 style="color: rgb(176, 119, 38); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0px; ">Upcoming Events</h1><h2 style="color: rgb(102, 128, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0px; clear: both; ">The National Park Service and
<br />We Players present:</h2><p style="clear: left; line-height: 1.3em; ">The National Park Service and We Players are beginning the third year and final phase of our monumental collaboration on Alcatraz Island. This groundbreaking partnership has utilized site-specific performing arts programming to provoke critical thought and stimulate conversation on the themes of incarceration, isolation, justice and redemption. In addition to engaging the visiting public through site-specific rehearsals and performances, We Players and the National Park Service are creating lasting and transferable tools that use performance elements to augment Alcatraz interpretive themes as presented by the Rangers.</p><p style="clear: left; line-height: 1.3em; ">On Saturday, January 29th, We Players and the National Park Service will present live music, a presentation titled “ Proliferation” that includes screenings, and talks by the artist, Paul Rucker, in a gallery space inside the Alcatraz Cell House. Please join us to continue this conversation, inspired by the history and present life of Alcatraz.</p><h3 style="color: rgb(176, 119, 38); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0px; clear: both; ">PROLIFERATION</h3><p style="clear: left; line-height: 1.3em; ">In May of 2009, Paul was honored to be part of a Prison Issues residency at the Blue Mountain Center, a working community of writers, artists, activists and musicians in the heart of the Adirondacks. Amazing artists and activists from around the world provided over two weeks of inspiration, knowledge, and camaraderie.</p><p style="clear: left; line-height: 1.3em; ">While doing individual research, he happened upon some maps created by GIS and CAD consultant Rose Heyer that showed the growth of the US Prison system. With that information, he was inspired to create Proliferation, an animated mapping of the US Prison system set to original music.</p><p style="clear: left; line-height: 1.3em; ">If you would like to receive a free copy of the Proliferation DVD, email your name and address to <a href="mailto:paulrucker@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(176, 119, 38); ">paulrucker@gmail.com</a>. You may also view Proliferation on YouTube and copies will be available on Alcatraz.</p><p style="clear: left; line-height: 1.3em; ">Rucker is an interdisciplinary artist (cellist-bassist-composer-visual artist-creator of interactive sound/video installations) who has released two critically acclaimed CDs of his compositions. He composes new music presented in a way that allows the viewer-listener the opportunity to interact with the work (participants can trigger sounds with the wave of a hand, touch of a finger, or press of a button). Ruckers’ s pieces have been on display at high-profile galleries and conventions, and he has received numerous grants and has been awarded residencies to several prestigious arts centers worldwide. As a musician and director, Rucker plays in various situations from solo cellist to leading his large ensemble of twenty-two musicians.</p><p style="clear: left; line-height: 1.3em; ">Visit <a href="http://www.paulrucker.com/" style="color: rgb(176, 119, 38); ">www.paulrucker.com</a> for more information.</p><p style="clear: left; line-height: 1.3em; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Saturday, January 29, 2011 @ 1pm
<br />Guided walk with We Players and Artists talk with Paul Rucker</span></b></p><p style="clear: left; line-height: 1.3em; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Meet at 1pm at Pier 33, Alcatraz Landing
<br />Ferry departs at 1:20pm
<br />Return to Pier 33 at 4:40pm</span></b></p><p style="clear: left; line-height: 1.3em; "><strong>Reservations required</strong>; no charge; ferry passage included with reservation. For more information, please visit </p><p style="clear: left; line-height: 1.3em; "><a href="http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8a30a66057969e397f699b2df&id=3206d5d23c&e=bc966835e6" style="color: rgb(176, 119, 38); ">We Players’</a>.</p><p style="clear: left; line-height: 1.3em; ">
<br /></p></span></div><a href="http://www.alcatrazcruises.com/website/pprog-upcoming-events.aspx"><span class="Apple-style-span" >http://www.alcatrazcruises.com/website/pprog-upcoming-events.aspx</span></a>agentavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09548735013085889601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-35146323056993364852011-01-16T10:08:00.001-08:002011-01-19T08:53:50.944-08:00slideshows of Hamlet on Alcatraz<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Enjoy photos! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">We Players' production of<i>:</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Hamlet on Alcatraz </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-style:italic;"></span>(October and November, 2010) </span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/weplayers.inspire/">Photos HERE!</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">love, WE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>agentavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09548735013085889601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-65526082976372947012011-01-12T09:51:00.000-08:002011-01-12T09:51:26.236-08:00collaboration with artists through SF Sheriff's Department<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Below is summary text explaining the puppets and banners that Anna Martine Whitehead created with artists on probation, parole, or supervision through the San Francisco Sheriff's department, in collaboration with We Players' production of <i>Hamlet</i>. Their work is presently on display in We Players' gallery in the cell house on Alcatraz.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> --</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">While We Players rehearsed <i>Hamlet</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> lines beat by beat over the demanding Alcatraz terrain, new and returning artists at the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department spent Summer 2010 building giant puppets and banners that address </span><i>Hamlet’s</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> themes - including isolation, redemption, and loss. Over the course of Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet finds himself more and more alone within a court of panderers, backstabbers, adulterers, andmurderers. He struggles with the moral question of how to avenge his father’s death, increasingly aware of the cycle of violence and limitations of reason. He becomes morose, and in the process loses not only his father, but his mother, a sense of family, <span> </span>his love, and ultimately his own life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span></span>These same themes of loss, isolation, and redemption are felt keenly by the 260,000 people incarcerated in California jails and prisons, and the over 446,000 California residents on probation, parole, or supervision. Setting the trend for the nation, incarceration has become an epidemic in California. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The artists who designed the work presented in the gallery are all on probation, parole, or supervision and a few have served time at San Quentin State Prison, directly across the Bay. They have experienced the loss of friends, family, childhood, social standing or a sense of self to violence, drugs, AIDS, and incarceration.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">For those who repeatedly showed up to make artwork, several times a week for over twelve weeks, the manipulation of raw material into identifiable images of salvation and remembrance (ghosts, fists raised in the air, and crosses, among other things) was a critical step in their ongoing process of redemption and self-forgiveness. Their lived experience of these themes, as well as their commitment to the art of personal expression, was an important part of We Players’ generative process.</span></div>laurendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612990366266299629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-84357536168653771812010-11-25T16:23:00.000-08:002010-11-25T16:23:50.172-08:00Ava Roy speaking at the Commonwealth ClubF<a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/10/10-10roy.php">ollow this link</a> to hear Ava Roy speak about site specific theater and Hamlet on Alcatraz, in conversation with Stuart Bousel. Recorded at the Commonwealth Club on October 20, 2010.laurendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612990366266299629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-51345524876230266492010-11-16T14:31:00.000-08:002010-11-16T14:31:40.126-08:00Hamlet on Alcatraz final weekend waiting listI just want folks to know that we have given waiting list pre-placement priority to folks who had reservations to shows that were canceled due to inclement weather back in October. As a result, our waiting lists for the final three performances of Hamlet on Alcatraz (Friday @ 3:10, Saturday @ 3:10, and Sunday @ 11:35) already have approximately 15 names at the top of each list.<br />
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Additional names will be taken starting 1 hour prior to performance start time. Come to Pier 33 to add your name to the list.laurendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612990366266299629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-56149919591688832232010-11-08T17:19:00.000-08:002010-11-08T17:27:24.301-08:00WE in Stanford Magazine, November/December 2010<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixW9tZjAFu5ewoooI1tLvFjFJgv7xzWpkXFLnPW0aVwKkoyTvY2TBo3-NBDhmPulpdYttktg-l1idkQYOHQShUIwHbpiUNnQPJpEZ-54CO-PZbCtU25hDDwrVmcXxkOmX99jZV3AVcmf22/s1600/index-7.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixW9tZjAFu5ewoooI1tLvFjFJgv7xzWpkXFLnPW0aVwKkoyTvY2TBo3-NBDhmPulpdYttktg-l1idkQYOHQShUIwHbpiUNnQPJpEZ-54CO-PZbCtU25hDDwrVmcXxkOmX99jZV3AVcmf22/s320/index-7.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537354398757141122" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Stanford Magazine November/December 2010 issue:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">"All the prison's a stage"</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2010/novdec/pc/alcatraz.html">Check out the article online HERE!</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br /></div></span>agentavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09548735013085889601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-71522144510510730452010-11-03T17:36:00.001-07:002010-11-05T13:42:40.849-07:00Not much I can say that hasn't been said ("All You Need Is Love") just appreciation to have been part of the Hallowe'en Hamlet audience (thanks A&A). I couldn't imagine at the beginning of the project how it would be accomplished, but it was and so well. The scene where Claudius tried to repent and Hamlet wouldn't kill him since he thought he might get into Heaven made me think of the prisoners and their struggle to exculpate themselves. I thought of all those men in their cells and wondered how many repeated that agony and how many broke under the weight of it. The themes of the Play and the Park seemed to join so smoothly. Anyway, I posted a review on FB that I hoped sounded like some kind of 'telegraphed in' piece, which a 'Friend' said reminded him of the Fat Guy/Skinny Guy movie review TV show. Here's the post and my reply:<br /><br />I saw the We Players production of Hamlet on Alcatraz yesterday, Hallowe'en. The foreboding emotionally intense action propels the audience forward, anticipation building, toward the ultimate horror. The play reanimates the hopelessly guilty karmic soaked landscape and the ghostly grim abandoned architecture with the murderous motives and methods that landed men on the forbidding Rock in the first place. It is Alcatraz as nothing else could be.<br /><br />and a comment:<br /><br />Ha, I was goin for somethin, Fat Guy Critical maybe, got off track by the win fireworks, mini riot, cop cars outside, and it turned out kinda cryptic, tortured syntax, grammatical violence - hah, cryptic - hallowe'en - tortured - violence - Alcatraz - hah hahDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06452574134500762066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175164097922950714.post-48220638830006981932010-11-02T12:39:00.001-07:002010-12-08T17:34:17.115-08:00WE on West Coast Live, streaming here!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiISh0y8_HndXEUAr03ZyrHR6yJWHm9VNukBUdHfOAQtxAkorO65yBMeRmyECi8ZtQfB-lEDwCTvO5gDrYf7auTxLpXuFT4rsnkZitSa-3z_ipKcIyR4m3SlXqP_uv-b-NmqZShMURd9e_g/s1600/index_2.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiISh0y8_HndXEUAr03ZyrHR6yJWHm9VNukBUdHfOAQtxAkorO65yBMeRmyECi8ZtQfB-lEDwCTvO5gDrYf7auTxLpXuFT4rsnkZitSa-3z_ipKcIyR4m3SlXqP_uv-b-NmqZShMURd9e_g/s320/index_2.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535040611310654210" /></a>
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The typhoon blew us off the Rock yesterday, and our magic wand seems to be on the fritz...<br />
Some conditions are beyond even the powerful charms of WE.<br />
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Thank you for your patience and understanding the nature of site-specific work. <br />
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WE are entirely booked for all performances of Hamlet on Alcatraz.<br />
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If you don't already have reservations, the waiting list is a good option!<br />
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We begin taking names for our waiting list 1 hour prior to performance start time/ ferry departure.<br />
Come to Pier 33 and look for the Hamlet on Alcatraz signs and the crew in red t-shirts. <br />
We release unclaimed reservations 15 minutes before departure. <br />
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Remaining shows as follows:<br />
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Friday, October 29, 3:10pm<br />
Saturday, October 30, 3:10pm<br />
Sunday, October 31, 11:35am<br />
Saturday, November 6, 3:10pm<br />
Sunday, November 7, 11:35am<br />
Saturday, November 13, 3:10pm<br />
Sunday, November 14, 11:35am<br />
Friday, November 19, 3:10pm<br />
Saturday, November 20, 3:10pm<br />
Sunday, November 21, 11:35am <br />
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See you on the Rock!<br />
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