Past Productions
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2007 – 2008
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Risk is This…
The Cutting Ball Experimental Plays Festival
Staged Readings of Three New Plays
     …and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi
       by Marcus Gardley
      Nov. 30 & Dec. 1
    Trojan Barbie
       by Christine Evans
      Dec. 7 & 8
     Lighthouse
       by Brad Chequer
      Dec. 14 & 15

2006-2007
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Woyzeck by Georg Büchner in a new translation by Rob Melrose
Risk Commissions
     Bone to Pick by Eugenie Chan
     Mr. Fujiyama’s Electric Beach by Kevin Oakes
Hidden Classics Reading Series
     Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner
     The Public by Federico Garcia Lorca in a new adaptation by Caridad Svich
     Quartet and The Task by Heiner Müller
     Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
     It is So (If You Think So) by Luigi Pinandello
     The Black Glove by August Strindberg
     The Tamer Tamed by John Fletcher
     Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry in a new translation by Rob Melrose

2005 - 2006
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World by Susan Lori-Parks
The Maids by Jean Genet
Risk Is This... The Cuttingball Experimental Play Festival
    The Girl Triptych by Janet Allard
     Alien Motel 29: The Secret Outtakes of The Ebony Lady Macbeth
          by Robert Alexander
     the evolutionist’s club by Kevin Oakes
Hidden Classics Reading Series
     The Rover by Aphra Behn
     The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg in a new translation by Paul Walsh
     Medea by Seneca
     The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
     Sphinx and Strawman and Murder, Hope of Women by Oskar Kokoschka

2004 - 2005
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, a new Translation by Rob Melrose
Avant GardARAMA! An Evening of Short Experimental Plays
     Fighter Airplanes from the notebooks of Richard Foreman
     Ajax, for Instance by Heiner Müller translated by Carl Weber
     Helen of Troy by Rob Melrose
     Pickling by Suzan-Lori Parks
     The Sandalwood Box by Mac Wellman

2003 - 2004
The Vomit Talk of Ghosts by Kevin Oakes (World Premiere)
Risk is This... The Cutting Ball New Plays Festival
     Snakewoman an opera libretto by Eugenie Chan
     Wet, or Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes
          by Liz Duffy Adams
     Infestation by Payne Ratner

2002
Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès
Risk is This... The Cutting Ball New Plays Festival
     Chain Reactions by Trevor Allen
     The Bad Math Plays by Kevin Oakes
     Begging the Eclipse by Caridad Svich

2001
Drowning Room
     conceived and designed by Jeff Becker
     directed by Rob Melrose
     text by Kevin Oakes
As You Like It by William Shakespeare

2000
The End of the World as We Know It: A Double Bill of Apocalyptic Plays
     Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy by Vladimir Mayakovsky
     Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller
The High Priest of Bad Math by Kevin Oakes, Staged Reading
      - Dancers' Group Studio Theater
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare, Staged Reading
     - Bay Area Shakespeare Marathon

1999
My Head Was a Sledgehammer by Richard Foreman - SF Fringe Festival


 
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