Shakespeare Valentine & Harlem Renaissance at Gough St Playhouse Feb 9-27

Multi Ethnic Theater returns to the Gough Street Playhouse with a two-part program celebrating true love and Black History Month. A Shakespeare Valentine and The Harlem Renaissance features eight actors, four women and four men, with the words of 47 of The Bard's Sonnets to present stories of five couples. After intermission the same actors present great words from the Harlem Renaissance, poems and a story by Langston Hughes ("Thank You, Ma'am"), a story by Zora Neale Hurston ("Spunk"), and additional poems by James Weldon Johnson and others.

The two-part program runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm, plus Saturday matinees, February 11-27 at the Gough Street Playhouse,1620 Gough Street (at Bush) in San Francisco, in the west wing of Trinity-St. Peter's Episcopal Church.

All proceeds from Shakespeare/Harlem will benefit the building and restoration fund at Trinity-St. Peter's Church and Gough Street Playhouse.

Cast of Characters for Both Acts

OLDER WOMAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sherry Hawley

OLDER MAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stuart Elwyn Hall

TRAVELING WOMAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizabeth Jones

TRAVELING MAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vernon Medearis

SINGLE WOMAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joanna Mahaffy

BACHELOR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Skillman

YOUNG WOMAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kim Jiang Dubaniewicz

YOUNG POET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gift Harris

Except for Stuart and Vernon, the cast members are new to MET.

Sherry is a parishioner at Trinity Saint Peter's who reads scripture at some services.

David has worked with Vernon at the African American Shakespeare Company.

Kim is Artistic Director of the New City Company, a project of TRI.

Gift has acted with the New City Company.

Elizabeth and Joanna responded to an audition opportunity published online

Background on Multi Ethnic Theater and Director Lewis Campbell

Over the past twenty years Lewis Campbell directed and designed twenty MET productions. During a 35-year teaching career, he directed designed, and built over 100 productions and designed and installed over 15 working theaters in various found spaces. At San Francisco's Mission High School, Campbell established Multi Ethnic Theater (MET.) Later, with a California Arts Council grant, he developed The Center for Theater Training (CTT), a city-wide program for students from various high schools. The Center became the Actor Training Program at School of the Arts (SOTA) when that alternative high school was formed. He taught full time in the Unified School District until retirement to become Artistic Director of Multi Ethnic Theater (MET).

Show Times and Tickets:

2 Previews: Tuesday/Thursday, Feb. 9 & 11, 8:00 pm
Preview: Thursday, Feb. 11, 8:00 pm
Runs Thurs-Sat 8:00 pm through Feb. 27

Tickets:

VIP Seating $40

General Admission $30

Online Discount Admission $25

Students, Seniors, TBA $20

Thursdays $10 discount below all prices above

Previews $10

Tickets and Info at www.wehavemet.org.

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