Theatre Rhinoceros to Present DRUNK ENOUGH TO SAY I LOVE YOU?, 5/30-6/16
By: BWW News Desk May. 28, 2013
Theatre Rhinoceros presents... Drunk Enough To Say I Love You? by Caryl Churchill, directed by John Fisher and featuring Sam Cohen, Rudy Guerrero* and Kim Stephenson, May 30 - June 16, 2013.
This Bay Area Premiere will be presented in a limited engagement alongside 2 controversial one-act plays: SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN: A Play for Gaza by Caryl Churchill and SEVEN PALESTINIAN CHILDREN by Deborah S. Margolin. These plays "talk to one another" about the crisis in contemporary Palestine.Performances run Wed. - Sat. - 8:00 pm / Sun. - 3:00 pm. Previews - May 30 & 31 (Thurs. & Fri.) - Opens Sat. June 1 - 8:00 pm. All performances play The Costume Shop in SF. For more information, go to www.TheRhino.org. *Member Actor's Equity Association
Do countries really behave like gay men? In Drunk Enough To Say I Love You? you'll meet Sam and Jack and watch as they fall in love and become obsessed as only gay men can become obsessed. This provocative play comes from one of Britain's most controversial and profound playwrights.
Drunk Enough To Say I Love You? will have its Bay Area premiere in this exclusive Theatre Rhinoceros production in San Francisco for a limited engagement .The show plays MAY 30 - JUNE 16, 2013, Wed. - Sat. - 8:00 pm / Sun. - 3:00 pm. Previews are May 30 & 31 (Thurs. & Fri.) at 8:00 pm. (No Press at Previews please.) Opening night is Sat., June 1 - 8:00 pm. Individual performance dates are: May 30 & 31 (previews), June 1, 2, / 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 / 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 2013. Shows are at The Costume Shop (through special arrangement with The American Conservatory Theatre), 1117 Market St. (at 7thSt., Civic Center BART) San Francisco, Calif.
Tickets are $15 - $30 - available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/363970 or 1-800- 838-3006. (First two previews are "pay what you wish.")
Live Events associated with Theatre Rhino production of Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?:
Pre-show Presentation on the Plays - Every night and every Sunday matinee - one half hour before curtain (7:30 - 745 pm nightly; 2:30 - 245 pm Sunday matinees)
Director John Fisher will present a historical-political context for the plays nightly before the show.
Talkbacks Nightly - There will be a talkback after each performance with the director and/or cast members.
BIOGRAPHIES
Sam Cohen (Jack in "Drunk Enough to say I Love You?"/Man in "Seven IsraeLi Children") Sam Cohen was born and raised in San Francisco, CA. He majored in Theater Arts at UCSC. He then graduated from the Clown Conservatory, a one-year training program. He is currently studying acting in the Meisner technique, movement and voice at the Waterfront Conservatory in Berkeley. Recent roles include Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet: A Musical Comedyand The Stringsters in Clown Cabaret. Sam is also a musician, singer and songwriter. He has plans to release his first album this year. He is also a certified yoga teacher. Sam has deep roots in yoga and meditation. Sam would like to thank his acting teacher Rachael Adler, his mom Brigitte, and his dad Steve for all their warm support.
Rudy Guerrero* (Sam in "Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?"/Man in "Seven Palestinian Children") Regional theater credits include performances at 42nd St. Moon, Alcazar Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Connecticut Repertory Theater, Foothill Music Theater (winner of the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for his Principal Performance as the "Leading Player" in Pippin), Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Magic Theatre, Marin Shakespeare Company, Marin Theatre Company, Pacific Alliance Stage Company, SF Playhouse, TheatreWorks, Willows Theater Company, and Word for Word. Television credits include the principal role in the Emmy Award Winning Tele-Play, Secrets. Rudy has a BFA in Musical Theater from the Boston Conservatory and a MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater. *The Actor appears through the courtesy of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Kim Stephenson (Woman in "Seven Jewish Children" and "Seven Palestinian Children") is happy to be returning to Theater Rhinoceros, where she was last seen as Abby in 100 Saints You Should Know. Other Bay Area credits include Missy in The Marvelous Wonderettes (New Conservatory Theatre), Mom/Sophie W in Ivy and Bean (Bay Area Children's Theater), Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Vallejo Shakespeare), and Cathy in Vigilance (Second Wind). Favorite roles include Hope in Urinetown, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Abigail in The Crucible (Abigail). Kim received her training at LAMDA, BYU, ACT (STC), and will be entering the MFA program at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory in the Fall.
Caryl Churchill ("Drunk Enough to Say I Love you?", "Seven Jewish Children") is an English dramatist known for her use of non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes, dramatization of the abuses of power, and exploration of sexual politics. She is acknowledged as a major playwright of the English language and one of world theatre's most influential writers. Her early work developed Brecht's modernist dramatic and theatrical techniques of "Epic Theatre" to explore issues around gender and sexuality. From A Mouthful of Birds (1986) onwards, she began to experiment with forms of dance-theatre, incorporating techniques developed from the performance tradition initiated by Artaud with his "Theatre of Cruelty." This move away from a clear Fabeldramaturgy towards increasingly fragmented and surrealistic narratives characterizes her work as postmodernist. Famous works include Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Serious Money, Mad Forest and A Number.
Deborah S. Margolin ("Seven Palestinian Children") is an American performance artist and playwright. Coming to prominence in the 1980s in the feminist political theatre troupe Split Britches (of which she was a founding member), Margolin has since created a string of one-woman shows. A compilation of her texts, Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO, was published in 1999 by Cassell/Continuum Press. Margolin was the recipient of a 1999-2000 Obie Award for "Sustained Excellence in Performance." In 2005, Margolin won the Kesselring Prize for her play, Three Seconds in the Key, a multi-character play which reflected her own experiences with Hodgkin's Disease. She currently teaches playwrighting and performance as an associate professor at Yale University. Margolin was forced to revise her 2010 play Imagining Madoff after legal threats from Elie Wiesel, who is one of Bernard Madoff's victims and had called Madoff a "scoundrel" but refused to allow a character representing him to be used in the play.
John Fisher (Director) Fisher's plays include The Joy of Gay Sex, which was produced Off-Broadway, and Medea: The Musical, which was produced as a part of the HBO Comedy Arts Festival and ran for eighteen months in its original San Francisco production. John is a two-time winner of the Will Glickman Playwright Award, and a recipient of an NEA Project Grant, a GLAAD Media Award, two L.A. Weekly Awards, a Garland Award, two Cable Car Awards, a San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award, and five Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Awards. He holds a Ph.D. in Dramatic Art from UC Berkeley and has taught at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, ACT and at the Yale School of Drama. Recent work includes SexRev: The José Sarria Experience, a Theatre Rhino production at CounterPULSE.
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