The Cutting Ball presents The Rover

Tue, Sep 6
7:00-10:00
free

The Cutting Ball Theater Presents
The Hidden Classics Reading Series
The Rover by Aphra Behn

Man and woman. Nun and courtesan. The Rover shocked audiences at its
1677 premier and promises to provoke today's audiences just as fully.
Aphra Behn, the first woman to make her living as a playwright,
creates a vivid, humorous, and often poignant world where essential
maleness challenges and is challenged by essential femaleness.
Through timeless stage devices still effective today, Behn forces her
audience to examine not only how gender is defined onstage, but how
it is defined in their own world. Through an elaborate and
quintessentially Restoration framing, the world of conqueror, lover,
trickster, and indeed, of rover, come together in a sometimes
beautiful, sometimes violent clash of personalities and desires.

Directed by Adriana Baer
With:
Kelsey Bergstrom --- Callis, Moretta, Lucetta, Others
Leticia Duarte-Tratner --- Angelica Bianca
Yasmine Jackson --- Valeria, Don Pedro
Carolyn Lenske --- Florinda
S. Parker Leventer --- Frederick, Biskey, Others
Mistyann Loeterle --- Hellena
Brian Reiser --- Blunt, Don Antonio
Daniel Riviera --- Belvile
David Sinaiko --- Willmore

The Hidden Classics Reading Series is a chance for The Cutting Ball
to share lesser-known classics with the Bay Area community. After
each reading, there will be an opportunity to discuss the plays and
consider how a future production might impact its audience.

Venue:

Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street
San Francisco

Additional Info:

510-684-0303
http://www.cuttingball.com