Bone to Pick & Diadem
By Eugenie Chan
Directed by Rob Melrose
May 21 – June 20, 2010
Press Opening May 27 at 8pm
Gala Opening May 28 at 8pm
“Richly rewarding, right down to its marrow.”
-San Francisco Chronicle
Nominated for the 2008 Glickman Prize for Best New Play in the Bay Area, Bone to Pick is a re-telling of the myth of Ariadne, who is recon- figured as Ria the Waitress, working in a military base diner for three thousand years. After years of foreign occupation and at the end of a war- torn world, Ria enters the labyrinth again to confront her part in the murder of her half- brother, the Minotaur. Paige Rogers reprises this tour de force role in a performance that the San Francisco Chronicle dubbed “riveting.”
Diadem is a newly commissioned companion piece, a romantic retelling of the earlier parts of Ariadne’s myth, when she was young and in love. Together, these two original works tell the complete story of Ariadne’s epic romance.
Bone to Pick was commissioned by The Cutting Ball Theater and Magic Theatre / Z Space New Works Initiative.
Paige Rogers is the Associate Artistic Director and co-founder of The Cutting Ball Theater where she has appeared in My Head Was a Sledgehammer, As You Like It, The Vomit Talk of Ghosts, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew and Bone to Pick, Accents in Alsace and The Bald Soprano. She has worked locally with Berkeley Opera, Lamplighters, Sonoma Rep and on tour with Cal Shakes. Nationally, she has been seen at The Kennedy Center, McCarter Theatre, Trinity Rep and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Last year she made her professional directorial debut at Cutting Ball with the highly acclaimed Mud.
