Best of 2007

The Bay Times picked our production of The Taming of the Shrew as one of the top ten productions of 2007 in the Bay Area. They also mentioned Adriana Baer’s “dazzling” production of Woyzeck.

“Taming of the Shrew, produced by Cutting Ball Theater and directed by Rob Melrose, received a vivid, visually stunning production of one of the Bard’s more prickly plays. Shrew featured generous jaunts of gender-play, including some steamy girl-on-girl action, and powerful performances from Paige Rogers and David Sinaiko. Also visually dazzling was Melrose’s direction of Woyzeck [sic Melrose’s translation, Adriana Baer’s direction] by Georg Büchner. Cutting Ball always delivers striking stagings of challenging works.”

-Tom Kelly, Bay Times

Next up for The Cutting Ball:

Samuel Beckett’s
Endgame
Directed by Rob Melrose

February 22 – March 16
Thursdays - Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 5pm

at Traveling Jewish Theatre, SF
470 Florida Street (between 17th and Mariposa)
click here for tickets
or call 800-838-3006

Sharper and more satirical than Waiting for Godot, this absurdist masterpiece takes place as civilization is about to end. Based on the last moves of a chess game, the play follows the attacks and parries of the world’s four remaining inhabitants, two of whom are in garbage cans. (This is the play that actually inspired Oscar the Grouch!)

David Sinaiko and Avery Monsen, last seen in Cutting Ball’s acclaimed The Taming of the Shrew, return to the company as the comedic pair, Hamm and Clov, in this inspired Beckett one-act.

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

The Cutting Ball’s production of Endgame is made possible in part by grants from Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, Mental Insight Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.