ACT, Magic and Marin Theatres Team Up for THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS

Tarell Alvin McCraney's trilogy, which has taken New York and Chicago by storm, receives its West Coast premiere in the fall of 2010 at three of the Bay Area's leading companies. The American Conservatory Theater, Magic Theatre, and Marin Theatre Company will each present one of the plays in McCraney's trilogy, BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS.

Grand and universal in scope, yet intimate and heartfelt, McCraney's plays combine an authentic exploration of a gritty and urban reality alongside magical flights of the imagination, exploding modern sexuality in provocative and poetic ways.

The Marin Theatre will present Part One, IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER, The Magic Theatre will present Part Two, THE BROTHERS SIZE, and the American Conservatory Theater will present Part Three, MARCUS, OR THE SECRET OF SWEET.

Tarell Alvin McCraney's other plays include WIG OUT! (developed at The Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, produced in New York by Vineyard Theatre and in London by The Royal Court Theatre) and WITHOUT/SIN and RUN, MOURNER, RUN (adapted from Randall Kenan's short story), both of which premiered at the Yale Cabaret.

In the summer of 2006, McCraney, Catherine Filloux, and Joe Sutton wrote THE BREACH, a play about Katrina, the Gulf, and our nation, commissioned by Southern Repertory Theater, where it premiered in August 2007 to mark the two-year anniversary of the tragedy in New Orleans. THE BREACH also played at Seattle Repertory Theatre in the winter of 2007.

McCraney attended the New World School of the Arts High School in Miami, Florida, receiving the Exemplary Artist Award and the Dean's Award in Theater. He holds a B.F.A. in acting from DePaul University. McCraney is a May 2007 graduate of Yale School of Drama's playwriting program, headed by Richard Nelson, where he received the Cole Porter Playwriting Award upon graduation. He is the Royal Shakespeare Company's international writer in residence, the 2009 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, and the recipient of Vineyard Theatre's 2007 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award. He is currently under commission at Manhattan Theatre Club and Berkeley Repertory Theatre and is a member of New Dramatists and Teo Castellanos D-Projects in Miami. In 2008, McCraney was the recipient of London's Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright.

The three plays can be seen in any order, with each reflecting, echoing, and creating a poetic conversation with the others. All subscribers to A.C.T., Magic Theatre, and Marin Theatre Company will have access to $40 tickets to the other two parts of the trilogy. Please check each company's website for more information on subscribing.

For more information, visit brothersisterplays.org.

 

 

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