Anton's Well Theater Company and Actors Ensemble of Berkeley are proud to present the Bay Area premiere of Sam Shepard's last play, A PARTICLE OF DREAD: OEDIPUS VARIATIONS.
The play brilliantly fractures the Oedipus myth into the times of both then and now--with many of the actors playing both the roles of the myth's central characters: Oedipus, Jocasta, Laius, Antigone, Tiresias, and their modern counterparts: Otto, Jocelyn, Langos, Annalee, and Uncle Del. As the play delves deeply into the mysteries of family and fate, Shepard's signature rambunctious language is gorgeously present in numerous monologues, and, in the searing, conflicted encounters between the mythic characters.
The cast includes the accomplished local actors Amanda Artru, Bruce Avery, Zoe Curzi, Clay David, Leticia Duarte, Francisco Rodriguez, and Don Wood. The play is directed by Robert Estes, who previously helmed Anton's Well's Bay Area premiere production of Sam Shepard's AGES OF THE MOON, which the San Francisco Chronicle praised for its "great feeling in the stillness."
Performed at Berkeley's Old Finnish Hall on 10th Street in Berkeley, built in 1908 just after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, it is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Price: $20 - $25
$20 (seniors and students)
$25 regular Not Wheelchair Accessible
Media Links:
http://www.aeofberkeley.org/productions/upcoming-shows/165-old-finnish-hall/313-a-particle-of-dread-oedipus-variations
http://www.aeofberkeley.org/productions/photo-gallery/2019/a-particle-of-dread-oedipus-variations/publicity-photos-by-jane-shamaeva
show less
The play brilliantly fractures the Oedipus myth into the times of both then and now--with many of the actors playing both the roles of the myth's central characters: Oedipus, Jocasta, Laius, Antigone, Tiresias, and their modern counterparts: Otto, Jocelyn, Langos, Annalee, and Uncle Del. As the play delves deeply into the mysteries of family and fate, Shepard's signature rambunctious language is gorgeously present in numerous monologues, and, in the searing, conflicted encounters between the mythic characters.
The cast includes the accomplished local actors Amanda Artru, Bruce Avery, Zoe Curzi, Clay David, Leticia Duarte, Francisco Rodriguez, and Don Wood. The play is directed by Robert Estes, who previously helmed Anton's Well's Bay Area premiere production of Sam Shepard's AGES OF THE MOON, which the San Francisco Chronicle praised for its "great feeling in the stillness."
Performed at Berkeley's Old Finnish Hall on 10th Street in Berkeley, built in 1908 just after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, it is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Price: $20 - $25
$20 (seniors and students)
$25 regular Not Wheelchair Accessible
Media Links:
http://www.aeofberkeley.org/productions/upcoming-shows/165-old-finnish-hall/313-a-particle-of-dread-oedipus-variations
http://www.aeofberkeley.org/productions/photo-gallery/2019/a-particle-of-dread-oedipus-variations/publicity-photos-by-jane-shamaeva
Anton's Well Theater Company and Actors Ensemble of Berkeley are proud to present the Bay Area premiere of Sam Shepard's last play, A PARTICLE OF DREAD: OEDIPUS VARIATIONS.
The play brilliantly fractures the Oedipus myth into the times of both then and now--with many of the actors playing both the roles of the myth's central characters: Oedipus, Jocasta, Laius, Antigone, Tiresias, and their modern counterparts: Otto, Jocelyn, Langos, Annalee, and Uncle Del. As the play delves deeply into the mysteries of family and fate, Shepard's signature rambunctious language is gorgeously present in numerous monologues, and, in the searing, conflicted encounters between the mythic characters.
The cast includes the accomplished local actors Amanda Artru, Bruce Avery, Zoe Curzi, Clay David, Leticia Duarte, Francisco Rodriguez, and Don Wood. The play is directed by Robert Estes, who previously helmed Anton's Well's Bay Area premiere production of Sam Shepard's AGES OF THE MOON, which the San Francisco Chronicle praised for its "great feeling in the stillness."
Performed at Berkeley's Old Finnish Hall on 10th Street in Berkeley, built in 1908 just after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, it is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Price: $20 - $25
$20 (seniors and students)
$25 regular Not Wheelchair Accessible
Media Links:
http://www.aeofberkeley.org/productions/upcoming-shows/165-old-finnish-hall/313-a-particle-of-dread-oedipus-variations
http://www.aeofberkeley.org/productions/photo-gallery/2019/a-particle-of-dread-oedipus-variations/publicity-photos-by-jane-shamaeva
read more
The play brilliantly fractures the Oedipus myth into the times of both then and now--with many of the actors playing both the roles of the myth's central characters: Oedipus, Jocasta, Laius, Antigone, Tiresias, and their modern counterparts: Otto, Jocelyn, Langos, Annalee, and Uncle Del. As the play delves deeply into the mysteries of family and fate, Shepard's signature rambunctious language is gorgeously present in numerous monologues, and, in the searing, conflicted encounters between the mythic characters.
The cast includes the accomplished local actors Amanda Artru, Bruce Avery, Zoe Curzi, Clay David, Leticia Duarte, Francisco Rodriguez, and Don Wood. The play is directed by Robert Estes, who previously helmed Anton's Well's Bay Area premiere production of Sam Shepard's AGES OF THE MOON, which the San Francisco Chronicle praised for its "great feeling in the stillness."
Performed at Berkeley's Old Finnish Hall on 10th Street in Berkeley, built in 1908 just after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, it is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Price: $20 - $25
$20 (seniors and students)
$25 regular Not Wheelchair Accessible
Media Links:
http://www.aeofberkeley.org/productions/upcoming-shows/165-old-finnish-hall/313-a-particle-of-dread-oedipus-variations
http://www.aeofberkeley.org/productions/photo-gallery/2019/a-particle-of-dread-oedipus-variations/publicity-photos-by-jane-shamaeva
show less
Date/Times:
1819 10th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
The Best Events
Every Week in Your Inbox
From Our Sponsors
UPCOMING EVENTS
Great suggestion! We'll be in touch.
Event reviewed successfully.