Cutting Ball Theater Hidden Classic Reading Series Presents WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN
By: Gabrielle Sierra
San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater presents the fourth installation in this season's Hidden Classics Reading Series, Thomas Middleton's WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN. The tragicomedy WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN by Shakespeare's contemporary Thomas Middleton sizzles and surprises with its potent blend of love, lust, adultery, incest, and murder. This Jacobean rarity, helmed by guest director Jessica Holt, feels surprisingly contemporary as it examines how love sometimes makes you do outrageous, unspeakable, and even deadly things.
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, Magic Theatre, and Z Space New Plays Initiative to commission new experimental works. The company has produced a number of World Premieres and West Coast Premieres, and re-imagined various classics. Recipient of the 2008 San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie award for outstanding talent in the performing arts, Cutting Ball Theater earned the Best of SF award in 2006 from SF Weekly, and was selected by San Francisco Magazine as Best Classic Theater in 2007.WHEN: Sunday, February 7, 1pmWHERE: The Cutting Ball Theater in residence at EXIT on Taylor 277 Taylor St., San Francisco
TICKETS: Free and open to the public. For more information, visit cuttingball.com or call(415) 419-3584
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