Reservations Open for We Players' MACBETH at Fort Point

We Players (Artistic Director, Ava Roy; Managing Director, Lauren Dietrich Chavez), in partnership with the National Park Service/ Golden Gate National Recreation Area begin ticket sales for the site-integrated production of Shakespeare's Macbeth at Fort Point, the civil war era fortress located beneath the Golden Gate bridge on August 1, 2013. The production previews August 30 -September 1, then runs September 5 through October 6, 2013, Thursday through Sunday. For tickets and more information please call 415.547.0189 or visit www.weplayers.org.

Calendar Listing Information

We Players presents Macbeth at Fort Point
By William Shakespeare, co-directed by Ava Roy and John Hadden

Performance Dates:

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays Sept 5 - Oct 6, 2012

Previews August 30, 31 & September 1
Opening Reception September 5

Performance Times:

All performances begin at 6pm

Tickets:

Previews: $30
Thursdays: $45
Fridays - Sundays: $60
Tickets sales open August 1 at www.weplayers.org

Information, group sales and educational opportunities:

415.547.0189, reservations@weplayers.org, www.weplayers.org

ABOUT WE PLAYERS

Honored with San Francisco Magazine's "Best of the Bay" for their unique site-specific performance work - "We Players didn't just break the fourth wall, it toppled the whole playhouse. " - We Players' mission is to create art that transforms public spaces into realms of participatory theatre, in an effort to remember history, build community, and inspire personal relationship with place. We Players' past productions include Twelfth Night aboard the historic ships at Hyde Street Pier, The Odyssey on Angel Island State Park, Hamlet on Alcatraz Island, and many more. According to Managing Director Lauren Chavez, "We Players' mission is to create art that transforms public spaces into realms of participatory theatre, in an effort to engage the environment, build community, and inspire personal relationship with place."

We Players and Artistic Director Ava Roy is currently featured in American Theatre Magazine's July 2013 cover article on immersive theatre. The article quotes Roy: "We're challenging audiences to expand their awareness and perspectives and look above and behind them, below them, off in the distance...We want you to experience the show with all of your senses activated...We're not just watching the actors and listening to the story-we're feeling the wind, the sun, the rain...We're becoming intimate participants with the environment."

For more information, please visit www.weplayers.org.

MACBETH AT FORT POINT AND EXPERIENCING THE BAY AREA WITH WE PLAYERS

As with recent performances on Alcatraz and Angel Islands, We Players hopes to entice locals to visit places often left to out-of-town guests, and to experience them anew -- while offering all visitors a unique way to explore Bay Area sites. "An essential goal of our work is to inspire in our audience personal relationships with the places in which we play," says Ava Roy, the company's Artistic Director. At Fort Point, the Golden Gate bridge soars overhead, the city skyline flickers - giving audiences a full sensory immersion into Macbeth's Scotland as it collides with Civil War era and modern day San Francisco. Multiple performance trajectories wind through the dark stone corridors, narrow passageways, expansive brick casemates, and inner chambers of the fort. On the parade ground, in the direct onslaught of the billowing fog and relentless wind, the weird sisters work their charms. Ms. Roy describes Fort Point as "the closest we can get to foggy, stark, blustery Scotland and still be in San Francisco", and considers the site a natural fit for the intensity of the play.

ABOUT FORT POINT

Fort Point was completed in 1861 and sits directly below the southern anchor of the Golden Gate's entry point to the San Francisco Bay. Now a National Historic Site, Fort Point was built to defend the San Francisco Bay against hostile warships. Fort Point is a beautiful example of masterful masonry work, and thanks to Joseph Strauss, Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge, who re-designed the construction of the bridge to preserve Fort Point, this monument still stands and is open to all. More information on Fort Point is available at www.nps.gov/fopo/.

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