- ABSURDIST SEASON 2001, MARCH - JUNE 2001
- Each year EXIT Theatre presents a series of classic and new plays from the Theatre of the Absurd. This year EXIT Theater presented a modern classic of magical realism, a new play from a local playwright, and abi-coastal adaptations of stories.
- MARISOL by Jose Rivera, directed by Jonathan Gonzalez. Mar 20 - Apr 11, 2001.
- This fierce and funny work from celebrated playwright Jose Rivera (Cloud Tectonics, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot) asks the question: What if our guardian angels waged a war in Heaven against a senile old God who is "dying and taking the rest of us with him?" Marisol tackles spiritual crisis, social issues, American angst at the turn of the Millennium and new visions of a hopeful future. Incorporating a bold and daring "magical realism" style, this play contains some of the most powerful and original writing in modern America theater. Directed by Jonathan Gonzalez with Cat Thompson, Kathleen Antonia, Jan Rogge, Anna Maria Luera, & Francis McGuire.
- VINCENZIA'S TALKING MACHINE created and performed by Erica Blue. Mar 20 - Apr 11, 2001.
- A love story, a tragedy, an unveiling of the human imagination and a magical surreal encounter with the super natural. Using text excerpts from Italo Calvino, images from the Decameron, classic Italian erotica, and inspiration from Felini, Erica Blue unfolds a tale of solitude, depicting a young imprisoned woman. Having disgraced her family she is cloistered away, to live alone in a room, for what seems an eternity. Her hope for escape has left her. As she moves even more inward she begins to reveal a world far more compelling than the bland reality of captivity. When she receives the talking machine, things happen. Occasional visitations and magical occurrences manifest themselves, as it becomes clear to her that she carries something quite miraculous within her. This new work, half in Italian half English, depicts aspects of early Italian American's struggle with scandal, the power of Mal Occio (The Evil Eye), Catholic mysticism.
- GOGOL adapted by Jason Craig and Sean Owens.
- Novelist Nikolai Gogol had a nose, owned an overcoat and was undoubtedly a madman. Celebrating this is GOGOL, his three famous short stories adapted by awardwinning playwrights Jason Craig and Sean Owens. With rich, rusty music and a labrinth of clowns, kings and ghosts, GOGOL tracks muddy foorprints across the pristine EXIT on Taylor. directed by Merdith Eldred. music by Dave Malloy. Jun 8 - Jun 30.
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- ABSURDIST SEASON 2000 *** ABSURDIST SEASON 1999 *** IONESCO PLAYS
- EXIT THEATRE
- 156 Eddy Street
- San Francisco, CA 94102
- email: mail@sffringe.org
EXIT Theatre, EXIT Stage Left, EXIT Cafe
EXIT Theatre is an experimental theater with a bohemian cabaret atmosphere
with three venues. EXIT Theatre is also the producer of the annual San Francisco
Fringe Festival. The EXIT Theatreplex includes EXIT Theatre, EXIT Stage
Left, and EXIT Cafe (at 156 Eddy Street) and EXIT on Taylor (at 277 Taylor),
all near the corner of Eddy & Taylor Streets in downtown San Francisco.
There is adjacent parking and a short walk to the cable car and major public
transportation.
- EXIT THEATRE
156 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
BOX OFFICE: (415.673.3847)
EMAIL: mail@sffringe.org