Room for Living

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Part 2 of UCSB Theater & Dance’s New Works Lab presented two very different plays about breaking bonds, by playwrights studying with the Department. There was a kind of claustrophobia in Andalusia Kear’s “The Couch” as a seemingly happy couple falls apart over one of the women’s desire to have…

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Bullies and Bungles

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UCSB Theater & Dance’s “New Works Lab” featuring plays by four UCSB student playwrights took flight in the Performing Arts Theater in mid May. First up were “Gang Sines” by Malique Guinn and “The Last Video Game” by Tristan Newcomb, 2 very different takes on life in the early aughts. Mr. Guinn’s…

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All About Eggs

Elaine Gale's "One Good Egg" 5/4/17 Center Stage Theater

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Elaine Gale’s one-woman show “One Good Egg,” directed by Rod Lathim, is touching, funny and perfectly paced. It’s a highly entertaining journey through Ms. Gale’s struggle to create a family, going from her fantasies about having children with Mr. Right to actually finding him, a Cox Cable guy, in the…

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Trial by Chalk

UCSB Dept. of Theater & Dance - publicity photos for Berthold Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" 5/11/17 UCSB Studio Theater

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Berthold Brecht’s “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” is a multilayered exploration of human nature. The good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, all wrapped in a wide-ranging play that covers revolution, corruption, politics, and the power of compassion and love. Informed by the aftermath of the Russian revolution and the…

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