Cutting Ball Theatre Begins Season with THE TEMPEST, 11/5-28

San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater opens its 11th season with THE TEMPEST, one of Shakespeare's most magical and romantic plays. The exiled Duke of Milan uses sorcery to cause a shipwreck to take his treacherous brother to an enchanted isle. But magic works both ways in this tale when the creatures of the island turn against the Duke and his daughter falls in love with his enemy's son. In the tradition of Cutting Ball's uniquely San Franciscan version of The Bard's The Taming of the Shrew and expressionistic Macbeth, this three-person chamber version of THE TEMPEST promises to give an up close and personal look at the monsters lurking inside all of us.
 
Cutting Ball Artistic Director Rob Melrose helms THE TEMPEST. Cutting Ball Associate Artists David Sinaiko (Prospero), Caitlyn Louchard (Miranda), and Donell Hill (Ferdinand), who were featured in last season's hit production of Tbe Bald Soprano, return to the company in THE TEMPEST.
 
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 recently featured in the February 2010 issue of American Theatre Magazine.
 
WHEN:
Previews: November 5, 6 at 8pm, November 7 at 5pm
Opens November 11 at 8pm
Press opening: Thursday November 11 at 8pm; Gala opening: Friday, November 12, 8pm
Closes: November 28 at 5pm
 
All performances Thursday-Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 5pm
No performance on Thanksgiving Day (November 25)
 
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 www.cuttingball.com or call
800-838-3006; discounts available for students and seniors