2019 \ Nov 7 -17
Cutting Ball Variety Pack
A Festival of Exploration and Collaboration
Cutting Ball's signature festival dedicated to exploration and collaboration returns!
What is the Cutting Ball Variety Pack?
Before a production gets its polish, there's process: the vigorous, messy playground of the imagination. This November, Cutting Ball's signature festival – half shindig, half artistic salon – returns and invites you to revel in process with a small army of fired-up artists. This eleven-day festival delivers a sumptuous line-up of director-driven shorts, new play workshops, roundtable readings, and special presentations that's sure to delight the creatively curious.
Save with an All-Festival Pass!
Our Variety Pack is all about sampling: for only $30, our all-festival pass will grant you admission, with drink in hand, to any or all of the festival offerings.
SINGLE TICKETS: $15 - $20
ALL-FESTIVAL PASS: $30
short
cuts
Short Cuts is an anthology performance of four short works helmed by four different directors. Watch as these visionary artists stretch and flex their directorial muscles in unprecedented ways! Short Cuts is divvied by three jovial mini-intermissions featuring the music of local bands, free snacks, and raffles.
The Short Cuts line-up features . . .
The Yellow Wallpaper, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's early feminist story, examines how women are trapped and minimized by society's restrictions and the fight to break free. Directed by Karina Fox.
Rappaccini's Daughter takes Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic short story and flips it on its head to ask: how far will we go to protect our daughters from this violent world? Directed by Maya Herbsman.
How to be a Failure in San Francisco is an original devised work about all that we don't reach or achieve when we succumb to a fear of failure. Directed by Kayla Kaufman.
Decolonize Your Sex Life features a group of POC femme-bodied artists exploring the intersections of love and race through humor and joy. Directed by May Liang.
Thursday, November 7 / 7:00 pm
Wednesday, November 13 / 7:00 pm
Friday, November 15 / 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 17 / 2:00 pm
Karina Fox
A Bay Area-based director. Karina has worked on productions such as Top Girls, Rhinoceros, and The Wolves at American Conservatory Theater and Visible From Four States, The Gangster of Love, and The Eva Trilogy at Magic Theatre. Karina graduated from Muhlenberg College with degrees in Directing and Business.
Maya Herbsman
A Bay Area director, intimacy director, and teaching artist whose work has been seen onstage at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Shotgun Players, TheatreWorks, Aurora Theatre Company, San Francisco Playhouse, Crowded Fire Theater, Custom Made Theatre Co., and New Conservatory Theatre Center. Maya is Cutting Ball Theater's Associate Artistic Director.
Kayla Kaufman
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Kayla is a director who enjoys having her fingers in many pies and has been lucky enough to work with American Conservatory Theater, PianoFight, Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, and Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Kayla strives to admire one tree per day, minimum. For more about Kayla: kaylamkaufman.com
May Liang
A female stage director and theater artist of color establishing a career in the San Francisco Bay Area. May has worked at theaters such as American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Ground Floor, California Shakespeare Theater, Crowded Fire Theater where she is a Resident Artist, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, and many more.
Unproduced
Unpublished
Got a taste for in-progress plays? Take part in the creative process with two staged readings of unproduced, unpublished plays by visiting playwrights.
PIDOR and the Wolf uses Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf as a framework to tell a true story about the government-sanctioned atrocities being committed against queer Chechens: violations of human rights that are still actively occurring. Written by Sam Max, a Brooklyn-based playwright who is also a Chesley/Bumbalo Playwriting Award winner, a 2019 O’Neill NPC finalist, and recently named on the Young & Hungry List, tracking Hollywood’s Top 100 New Writers.
import speech_memory asks: what bodies are being targeted by surveillance systems? What cultural amnesia is embedded inside the idea of home? What is authentic in a world of ubiquity? import speech_memory is a story about San Francisco natives affected by the ongoing housing crisis. Written by Lucas Baisch, a Guatemalan-Mexican-American playwright and visual artist who has worked with institutions including American Theater Company, DeYoung Museum, Playwrights Horizons, and many more.
PIDOR and the Wolf
Saturday, November 9 / 8:00 pm
import speech_memory
Saturday, November 16 / 8:00 pm
THE
STRONGER
August Strindberg's rarely seen The Stronger is re-envisioned in a solo performance, directed by Anna Pettersson. Two nights only, The Stronger is a special presentation in cultural exchange with Strindberg's Intima Theater in Sweden.
Anna Pettersson is an acclaimed Swedish director and actor, now leading the historic Strindberg's Intima Theater in Stockholm. Pettersson's past productions include Vildanden and Hedda Gabler at the Dramaten in Stockholm and Bernarda's House at Stockholm City Theater.
Friday, November 8 / 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 10 / 2:00 pm
ROUNDTABLE
READINGS
Artists and audiences alike gather together around a communal table to read and discuss lesser-known plays.
Selected Works by Chuck Mee
Tuesday, November 12 / 7:00 pm
The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Thursday, November 14 / 7:00 pm
SNAPSHOTS FROM PREVIOUS VARIETY PACKS
Artwork:
The Girl With The Blue Toy Lizard by Yukari Sakura
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