Two Against Thebes
African-American Shakespeare Company and the Cutting Ball Theater each reinvent Antigone.
Here an Antigone, There an Antigone
Three Bay Area companies adapt the same Greek tragedy at the same time.
Read all about it in my Theatre Bay Area magazine feature. Read more
Fractured Fairy Tale
Cutting Ball cut its teeth (or, I suppose, its ball) on experimental theater, so the only real surprise about the company dabbling in ensemble devised theater is that it hasn’t done it before. Codirected by associate artistic director Paige Rogers and Annie Paladino, the commissioned world premiere Tontlawald is inspired by the work of Poland’s Teatr Zar, which came to the city last year as part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival (although this piece has been in the works a few years longer than that).
