Festival runs April 19 – May 12 in the Cabrillo Black Box Theater
Cabrillo College Theatre Arts Department Presents Festival of Local Theatre Groups
Aptos, CA— Cabrillo College’s Theatre Arts Department will present a festival of plays, storytelling and improvisation from the local theatre community in collaboration with Cabrillo students.
With over 30 local theatre companies in Santa Cruz County producing plays on a regular basis, Cabrillo Theatre Arts is celebrating the theatre community by bringing some of these companies onto campus to work with students and perform in Cabrillo’s Black Box Theater, which is an intimate theatre-in-the-round that is rarely, if ever, experienced in Santa Cruz theatre.
The Cabrillo Theatre Festival will present nine different shows, each performing multiple times between April 19 and May 12. These shows include:
Friends of Gus presents “Eleanora Duse Dies in Pittsburgh” by Don Nigro, directed by Robin Aronson
Lampshade Productions presents “Handy Dandy” by William Gibson, directed by Scott Kravitz
“Believe It Or Not,” storytelling written and performed by Erica Lann-Clark and Olga Loya
SEETheatre presents “Turn of the Screw” by Jeffrey Hatcher from story by Henry James, directed by Brian Spencer Van Antwerp Theatre Company presents “Blackbird” by David Harrower, directed by Joan Van Antwerp
“Death,” by Woody Allen, directed by Cabrillo Theatre student Adam Stanton
Improv Troupe UM GEE UM
Rainbow Theatre Company presents “Breath, Boom” by Kia Corthron, directed by Karmina Mendez and Dondre Coleman
SideReal Theatre Company presents “A Contemporary American’s Guide to a Successful Marriage circa 1959” by Robert Bastron, directed by Davis Banta (Cabrillo graduate).
Cabrillo Theatre Arts Department presents Cabrillo Theatre Festival 2013 April 19 – May 12 Fridays at 7:30 PM and 9:20 PM
Saturdays at 2:00 PM, 3:20 PM, 7:30 PM and 9:20 PM
Sundays at 2:00 PM and 3:20 PM
Cabrillo College Black Box Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos
Tickets: 831-479-6154 or www.cabrillovapa.com
Ticketing options: • Single performance tickets: $10 general, $7 Cabrillo SAC holders • Two different performances: $18 general, $12 Cabrillo SAC holders • Group rates: $80 (10 tickets to same show) • Membership Pass: $50 (choice of 9 different shows, individually ticketed)
PHOTO Caption: The directors of the nine plays performed at the Cabrillo Theatre Festival.
