- OTHER MEDIA
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- San Francisco Bay Guardian December 22, 2010 (Nicole Gluckstern)
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- In a city that boasts literally hundreds of theatrical world premieres
per year, it's astounding how few make it to the printed page. Bravo, then,
to EXIT Press, new publishing arm of the venerable EXIT Theatre, for helping
to ensure that at least some of our local play-writing talents will be
preserved for posterity. And who better to inaugurate the series than Mark
Jackson, whose professional development has been closely tied to the EXIT,
and to the San Francisco Fringe Festival, which it produces? Far from being
merely a collection of "Fringe-y" experimentation, Ten Plays
(EXIT Press, 492 pages, $19.95) is a testament to the tenacity of vision.
From reimagined Shakespearean classics (R&J, I Am Hamlet) to
Jackson's breakout hit The Death of Meyerhold, the bleakly comedic
American $uicide, and the stirring Kurosawa-esque epic The Forest
War, what these plays have in common is an audacious commitment to
the illimitable possibilities of live theater. Of which, giving these works
an opportunity to reach a wider audience is but one.
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