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2024-2025
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24-7 PLAY FESTIVAL
WRITTEN, REHEARSED AND PERFORMED ON AUGUST 16-17, 2024
TWO SHOWS - AUGUST 17TH, 2024 ONLY
Sponsored by Shawn Burke
Our 24/7 Play Festival returns with seven brand-new short plays, all written, rehearsed, and performed in a 24-hour creative bonanza! On Friday night, seven playwrights receive a common prompt and must complete a 10-minute play by 4:00 AM. On Saturday morning, 7 directors and 28 actors discover their scripts and roles. Tech at noon, first performance at 7 p.m. Join us for this one of a kind celebration of the theatrical process and our Tucson theatre community!
THIS PERFORMANCE WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
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THE WOBO SHOW
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY WOLFE BOWART
FOUR SHOWS: SEP 13-15, 2024 | NOV 8-10, 2024 | FEB 14-16, 2025 | MAY 9-11, 2025
Wolfe Bowart’s The WoBo Show returns to the S&S! Join us for four very different shows featuring the hilarious Wolfe Bowart and Xochitl Martinez plus special guests - catch one or see all four in our Season 8 series. Wolfe Bowart brings us another enchanting theatre creation, the creator and actor behind such zany, magical works as Cloud Soup, LaLaLuna, OAF, and One Twig at a Time. Enjoyed by audiences the world over, Wolfe’s shows are theatrical experiences that evoke thought, wonder, and laughter — a joyful celebration of oddity, creating dreamlike sequences that inspire delight.
THIS SERIES WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
ALEBRIJES
OR RIDICULOUS BEAUTIFUL BEASTS
BY GEORGINA ESCOBAR
RUNS OCT 17 - NOV 3, 2024
DIRECTED BY MARC PINATE
Sponsored by Clay Shirk
When a young couple discovers the largest Día de los Muertos altar they’ve ever seen, magic begins to permeate their world. A little creature (an alebrije) sweeps into the room and takes the bride’s imagination, merging past and present in this playful homage to Pedro Linares, the creator of the alebrije. Set in present-day San Luis Potosí, in Xochimilco in 1936, and in an afterlife that looks rather like a psychedelic Oaxacan jungle, young Pedro realizes his artistic potential and creates a cultural legacy. Alebrijes celebrates the beauty and absurdity of life, art, and love, and invites us to consider death not as a severing, but an evolution.
THIS PERFORMANCE WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
THE MACFESTIVAL
RUNS MARCH 6TH - APRIL 27TH, 2025
This two-month event will feature plays and events tied to the dark Shakespearean tale about magic, desire, power, and corruption. We will kick off the festival with a Lady Macbeth centered retelling of the tale, lean and fast-paced, followed by a site-specific journey to the depths of our beloved Historic Y to present It Is Magic. The festival will include other Macbeth-inspired plays, readings, lectures, and activities, concluding with Five Acts, Five Macs, a mini-festival in which various performing arts companies, including Saguaro City Music Theatre, Winding Road Theater Ensemble, and Unscrewed Theater, will present their interpretation of an act through their unique expertise, whether puppets, improv, music, or physical theater.
MACBETH
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
THE FIRST PLAY OF THE MACFESTIVAL
RUNS MAR 6TH - MARCH 23, 2025
DIRECTED BY LISA WOLPE & BRYAN RAFAEL FALCÓN
We will kick off the festival with a Lady Macbeth centered adaptation of Shakespeare’s darkest and most powerful work, in a cutting that is lean and fast-paced. A tale of witchcraft, prophecy and political ambition, the S&S production will explore the corruption of the trappings of power on the ambitious in a production focused on gender and the systematic forces that bend the individual.
THIS PERFORMANCE WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
macbitches
BY SOPHIE MCINTOSH
THE SECOND PLAY OF THE MACFESTIVAL
RUNS APR 4 - 13, 2025
DIRECTED BY ANNIKA MAHER AND ZAC AUSTIN
When a freshman is unexpectedly given the coveted role of Lady Macbeth, a few upperclassmen actresses invite her over to “celebrate” her casting and reassert their positions at the top of the theater department’s hierarchy. As the Fireball and Svedka flow, the girls interrogate their own sense of ambition as well as the power structures that have shaped their theatrical education.
THIS PERFORMANCE WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
PEERLESS
BY JIEHAE PARK
A READING OF THE MACFESTIVAL
RUNS MAR 29 - 30, 2025
DIRECTED BY MATT DENNEY
Peerless is sponsored by Ed and Carol Burke
This play is a comedy… until it’s not. Asian-American twins M and L have given up everything to get into The College. So when D, a one-sixteenth Native American classmate, gets “their” spot instead, they figure they’ve got only one option: kill him. A clever, incisive, and darkly comedic take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth about the very ambitious and cut-throat world of high school during college admissions.
THIS STAGED READING WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
IT IS MAGIC
BY MICKLE MAHER
THE BASEMENT PLAY OF THE MACFESTIVAL
RUNS APR 10 - APR 20, 2025
DIRECTED BY BRYAN RAFAEL FALCÓN
It Is Magic is sponsored by Ed and Carol Burke
From the brilliantly twisted mind of Mickle Maher (There is A Happiness That Morning Is) comes a new dark comedy that challenges the limits of the theatre’s magic while mashing up the curse of the audition, The Three Little Pigs and, curiously enough, Macbeth. At a community theatre audition for a new ‘adult adaptation’ of the Three Little Pigs, two sisters set out to search for an actor to play the role of the Wolf. As they struggle to cast the right actor, they are quickly confronted with the darkness inside the audition room– and themselves.
PERFORMANCE WILL BE HELD IN THE DARK, SPOOKY BASEMENT OF THE THEATER WHERE WITCHES MAY ABIDE.
Note: This play is site-specific and will be held in the basement of the Historic Y. It is only accessible via stair. Please consider that accessibility may be a factor in your attendance of this play. Please contact the Box Office for more information.
5 ACTS 5 MACS
AFTER SHAKESPEARE
THE GRAND FINALE OF THE MACFESTIVAL
RUNS APRIL 25-27, 2025
Five Tucson performing arts companies join the S&S to do an MacBeth inspired evening of creative interpretation! Saguaro City Music Theatre, Winding Road Theater Ensemble, Borderlands Theater and Unscrewed Theater each take one act for a wickedly magical evening of music, improv and theater!
Wolfe Bowart and Xochitl Martinez of the WoBo show will join to host the event with the WoBo Show’s unique blend of magic, mystery and wonder.
THIS EVENT WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
All performances are FREE
($8 Recommended donation).
All shows are on Saturdays at 2pm.
No tickets necessary. General admission seating.
Red Herring Puppets Series
BY LISA STURZ
FOUR SHOWS: AUG 31, 2024 | SEP 21, 2024 | JAN 11, 2025 | FEB 22, 2025
Puppeteer Lisa Sturz, a veteran of Jim Henson Productions, Lucasfilm, Walt Disney Engineering returns again with her Red Herring Puppets series of puppet shows for young audiences In Season 8 we will offer four shows to delight Scamp and Scoundrel alike including:
Hansel and Gretel (Aug 31)
The Barking Mouse and The Blue Frog (Sep 21)
Adventures in Folklore (Jan 11)
The Friendly Chupacabra (Feb 8th)
All shows are recommended for Scamps and Scoundrels 4+
THIS SERIES WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
TUCSON PUPPET CABARET (for Adults)
CURATED AND DIRECTED BY LISA STURZ
THREE SHOWS ONLY! DEC 6-8, 2024
Join us for the fourth annual Tucson Puppet Cabaret. Enjoy a variety of vignettes for adults performed by musicians, actors, and puppeteers. Be prepared to laugh, reflect, shed a few tears, ponder the uncertainty of existence… and laugh some more! The cabaret is a weekend of curated short-form puppetry acts intended for adult audiences. The Tucson Puppet Cabaret is part of a global PUPPET SLAM NETWORK sponsored in part by Heather Henson's IBEX Puppetry.
Puppets of all shapes, styles, and sizes will take to the stage in acts created by artists from not only our local Tucson community, but from across the United States!
Late Night Radio Hour Series
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY SAMANTHA SEVERSON
The Late Night Radio Hour is sponsored by Bryan and Elizabeth Falcón
The Late Night Radio Hour returns to the S&S as produced and directed by Samantha Severson. The three-play series takes place in front of a live audience and is presented in a “Golden Age of Radio” style. The experience is augmented by an on-stage Sound Artist performing foley live in front of the theater audience.
“SORRY, WRONG NUMBER” & “WHO’S ON FIRST”
SEP 21, 2024 @ 9pm
In Sorry, Wrong Number the suspenseful thriller, Mrs. Stevenson accidentally intercepts a phone call and overhears the plot of a murder to take place that night. In her panic, she tries to enlist the help of the telephone operator, the police and a nearby hospital to save the intended victim's life, unaware she is the target of this terrible plot. Paired with the Abbott and Costello comedy classic Who’s On First?, it will be a delightful and thrilling evening of classic radio!
“SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE BLUE CARBUNCLE”
& “OUR MRS BROOKS: THE CHRISTMAS GIFT MIX-UP”
RUNS NOV 16, 2024 @ 9pm
Two holiday radio treats! The legendary duo of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a surprising secret within an abandoned Christmas goose. In the comedy Our Mrs. Brooks: The Christmas Gift Mix-up, Connie Brooks wants to be generous at Christmas but finds herself broke. As she starts receiving her own gifts, she decides to gift them to her friends, who gift them to their friends, who gift them to their friends, and so on.
TREASURE ISLAND
RUNS JAN 11, 2025 @ 9pm
A young boy named Jim Hawkins who goes on a dangerous adventure to recover a buried treasure. Along the way, he encounters mutinous pirates, marooned castaways, frightening tales of ghosts, and much more.