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Alebrijes: Or Ridiculous Beautiful Beasts
ALEBRIJES: OR RIDICULOUS BEAUTIFUL BEASTS
BY GEORGINA ESCOBAR
runs OCT 17 - NOV 3, 2024
DIRECTED BY MARC PINATE
When a young couple discover the largest Dia de Muertos altar they’ve ever seen, magic begins permeating their world. A little creature, known as 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 that death is not a severance, but a shift.
The MacFestival
Runs March 6th - April 27th, 2025
A celebration of Shakespeare’s Scottish play and its myriad reimaginings, all of which examine the nature of power – and to what lengths we’ll go to attain and keep it.
With nearly 50 Broadway revivals since 1768, the New York Times writes “Macbeth is the most instantly accessible of Shakespeare’s tragedies: violent, elemental, familiar, short. No matter which way the story is bent, it maintains its recognizable human core of ambition and regret. Directors can emphasize its witchy aura, its bloodthirsty politics, its marital drama or critique of masculinity without endangering its essential stageworthiness.”
Over the last few years, plays about Macbeth, alluding to Macbeth, invoking Macbeth and even the play Macbeth itself, have been on the S&S Short List for plays to do. At long last, rather than choose one, we have instead decided to take an innovative approach - and go all in. We are holding the first ever, to our knowledge, MacFestival -- two months of plays and events, lectures and artwork, that are tied to the dark and tormented Shakespearean tale about magic, desire, power and corruption.
We will kick off the festival with an all-female and non-binary topical telling of the tale, lean and fast-paced. We then will morph into 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. We will wrap up the festival with Five Acts, Five Macs, a mini-festival in itself in which we invite other performing arts companies including Saguaro City Music Theatre, Winding Road Theater Ensemble, and Unscrewed Theater to present their interpretation of an act via their expertise whether puppets, improv, music, physical theater, and more.
MacBeth
MACBETH
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
THE FIRST PLAY OF THE MACFESTIVAL
RUNS MAR 6TH - MARCH 23, 2024
Directed by Lisa Wolpe & Bryan Rafael Falcón
We will kick off the festival with an all-female and non-binary topical telling 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.
It is Magic
BY MICKLE MAHER
THE SECOND PLAY OF THE MACFESTIVAL
RUNS MAR 20 - MARCH 30, 2024
DIRECTED BY BRYAN RAFAEL FALCÓN
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.
THIS PERFORMANCE WILL BE HELD IN THE DINGY, DANK 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..
MacBitches
BY SOPHIE MCINTOSH
THE THIRD 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 (a staged reading)
BY JIHAE PARK
THE FOURTH PLAY OF THE MACFESTIVAL
RUNS APR 12 & 13, 2025
DIRECTED BY MATT DENNEY
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.
5 Acts 5 Macs: 5 Theater Companies Riff on Macbeth
AFTER SHAKESPEARE
THE FINAL EVENT 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.
Returning Series & Events
The 24-7 Play Festival: Redux
WRITTEN, REHEARSED AND PERFORMED ON AUGUST 16-17, 2024
TWO SHOWS - August 17th, 2024 Only
The festival returns for a second season! Seven brand-new short plays, all written, rehearsed, and performed in a 24-hour creative bonanza! On Friday night, seven playwrights are given a common prompt for plays (a starting line, a prop, a situation) and the gender/age compositions of their assigned cast. Their coffee cups will be filled and they will be given the directive that they can leave the writing chambers only when handing over a completed 10-minute play — or the arrival of 6:00 AM, whichever comes first.
On Saturday morning the other artists — 7 directors and 14+ actors — arrive to discover their new scripts, roles, and assignments. At noon, we begin the tech process. Performances will then take place at that night. A delightful celebration of the complete theatrical process.
THIS PERFORMANCE WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
The WoBo Show
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 shows in our Season 8 series for an enchanting theatre creation from Wolfe Bowart, 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.
Acrobatics, juggling, magic, and all of Wolfe's tricks of the trade will surprise and charm audiences of all ages. Newly created physical theater using mime, clown, circus arts and all of Bowart's tricks of the trade with feature next to beloved scenes from Wolfe’s award-winning theater works that have toured to 25 countries worldwide.
THIS SERIES WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
Red Herring Puppets’ Puppet Series
BY LISA STURZ
FOUr SHOWS: Aug 17, 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 24, 2024 ), The Barking Mouse & The Blue Frog (Sep 21, 2025 ), Adventures in Folklore (Jan 11, 2025 ) and The Friendly Chupacabra (Feb 22, 2025).
THIS SERIES WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
Late Night Radio Hour
Produced and Directed by Samantha Severson
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
RUNS SEP 20 & 21, 2024
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 15-16, 2024
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 10-11, 2025
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.