Cutting Ball Theater Presents SF Premiere Of LADY GREY 3/11-4/10

Cutting Ball Theater welcomes the spring with the Bay Area Premiere of LADY GREY (in ever lower light) and other plays, three short plays by acclaimed contemporary playwright Will Eno. Hailed by The New York Times as "a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation," Eno is the inaugural recipient of the Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play. In Lady Grey, an ordinary young woman relives a painful childhood memory of show-and-tell in this vividly revealing monologue. Intermission is a meta-theatrical wonder. The fourth wall is broken as Cutting Ball audiences watch the actions of another audience during the intermission of a mysterious play. Finally, in his brief time on the world's stage, Mr. Theatre lives out the seven ages of man in a playful manner that echoes Shakespeare as much as it does Beckett in Mr. Theatre Comes Home Different. An intimate, hilarious, and ultimately searing confrontation of actor and audience, LADY GREY (in ever lower light) and other plays is the perfect follow-up to Cutting Ball's 2009 hit production of Eno's Thom Pain.

Co-founded in 1999 by theater artists Rob Melrose and Paige Rogers, Cutting Ball Theater presents avant-garde works of the past, present, and future by re-envisioning classics, exploring seminal avant-garde texts, and developing new experimental plays. Cutting Ball Theater has partnered with Playwrights Foundation, the Magic Theatre, and Z Space New Plays Initiative to commission new experimental works. The company has produced a number of World Premieres, West Coast Premieres, and re-imagined various classics. Voted "Best Theater Company" in the 2010 San Francisco Bay Guardian Best of The Bay issue, Cutting Ball Theater also earned the Best of SF award in 2006 from SF Weekly, was selected by San Francisco Magazine as Best Classic Theater in 2007, and received the 2008 San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie award for outstanding talent in the performing arts. Cutting Ball Theater was featured in the February 2010 issue of American Theatre Magazine.

WHEN:
Previews: March 11, 12 at 8pm, March 13 at 5pm
Opens: March 17, 8pm
(Press opening: Thurs., March 17, 8pm; Gala Opening: Fri., March 18, 8pm)
Closes: April 10

All performances Thursday-Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 5pm

WHERE:
The Cutting Ball Theater in residence at EXIT on Taylor, 277 Taylor St., San Francisco

TICKETS:
For tickets ($15-50) and more information, the public may visit cuttingball.com or call
800-838-3006; discounts available for students, seniors and groups.

The Cutting Ball Theater's 2010 - 11 season is made possible in part by The Compton Foundation, The W.A. Gerbode Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Magic Theatre / Z Space New Works Initiative, Mental Insight Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The San Francisco Arts Commission, The San Francisco Foundation, Theatre Bay Area New Works Fund, United Business Media LLC, The Zellerbach Family Foundation, and by individual donors.