A Knight at the Baths
We Players stage a bittersweet fairytale romance at the ruins of the Sutro Baths.
Render Unto Cesare an Audience
Central Works does nothing but new plays developed collaboratively between the cast and creative team, most but not all of them written by company codirector Gary Graves. Every show is either a premiere or a revival of one of the group’s previous original plays. Its latest show, The Lion and the Fox, is a relative rarity—a sequel, or rather a prequel, to another Graves play from past seasons, Machiavelli’s The Prince. It’s not quite without precedent: In 2012 the company presented its first trilogy, Richard the First, the middle part of which was Graves’s 2003 play Lionheart.
Location, Location, Location
A site-specific Macbeth in a Civil War-era fort right under the Golden Gate Bridge succeeds more with the spectacle than the sense. My review (or a greatly edited-down version thereof) is in today’s Marin Independent Journal.
