How Berkeley Can a Play Be?
Turns out Berkeley means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Dan Wolf wrote a play about it for Shotgun Players.
My review of Daylighting: The Berkeley Stories Project is in the Marin Independent Journal. And you can read my interview with Wolf in the East Bay Monthly! Read more
A Fracking Shame
Shotgun Players has doubled down on its commitment to new plays lately. Last year’s 20th-anniversary season was entirely made up of commissioned world premieres, and after an impressively solid production of Tom Stoppard’s Voyage this spring, Shotgun unveils another commission. The Great Divide is a modern take on Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An Enemy of the People, updated to focus on current hot-button environmental issues. The playwright is Adam Chanzit, whose play Down to This closed in a Sleepwalkers Theatre production in San Francisco the same weekend this show opened in Berkeley.
