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Campo Santo, Resident Theatre Company At Intersection For The Arts2006: Celebrating 10 Years of Creating New WorksUPCOMING 10TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS & WORKSHOPS CAMPO SANTO, Intersection's Resident Theatre Company, is an award-winning multicultural ensemble committed to developing and presenting new plays, and nurturing a new audience for theatre. We cultivate playwrights, fiction writers and poets to work in an intimate, interactive community based setting to create new theatrical experiences that reflect and reinvent our society. Campo Santo is Spanish for sacred ground. Like the roots of our name, we are taking the sacred form of storytelling and using it as a tool to bond community through socially relevant plays. We want to reflect and reinvent our society; we want to show the audience the world we live in and see in the audience the world we come from so that we can live and learn. Throughout 2006, Intersection and Campo Santo will celebrate their unique collaboration through a series of new theatre projects—highlighting their innovative model for new play development; their pledge to share the process of creating new theatre with as many people as possible; their commitment to building long-term relationships with artists and audiences; their dedication to language and to writers of all genres; and their undying belief in the power of theatre to activate and promote change. UPCOMING 10TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS & WORKSHOPS2006 marks the 10th Anniversary Year of Intersection's Resident Theatre Company Campo Santo. This anniversary celebration provides abundant opportunities to interact with Campo Santo’s past, present and future. The 10 exciting events range from intimate workshops to opportunities to relive the most profound theatrical moments to first-time glimpses into brand new plays in development today. The celebration also includes the biggest party/performance Campo Santo has ever thrown. See below for details. 10th Anniversary Gala@ Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th StreetSaturday, June 3, $25, 7PM Do not miss out on Intersection and Campo Santo's biggest party of the year! Meet the playwrights, artists, collaborators, designers, directors, volunteers and audience members who have made this past decade possible. This food and wine extravaganza will feature live music by local luminaries Howard Wiley, Marcus Shelby and Scheherazade Stone, a live auction and special opportunities to win one-of-a kind gifts, a dance party with live music by DJ Sake One, and more. The celebration will also include words and new work by Jessica Hagedorn, Charles Randolph Wright, Ntozake Shange, Philip Kan Gotanda, Denis Johnson, Naomi Iizuka and Octavio Solis. Borders, Blood and Ballads: The Work of Campo Santo and Octavio SolisThursday, May 25, 7:30PM, $9-20/Sliding Scale Join us for a special evening with Solis as we travel through 10 years of working together from Santos y Santos (1996) to The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy (2005). This evening will also include a first glimpse into our next collaboration with this remarkable writer, June in a Box. Writing Workshop with Octavio SolisMonday, May 22, 6:30-9:30PM, $60This is a special opportunity to work with acclaimed playwright and director Octavio Solis, whose work encompasses struggles of identity, border, and morality in the context of modern Latino American life, specifically that of Mexican Americans and Chicanos. Solis will lead participants through his unique play development process, incorporating writing exercises, improvisational development exercises, characters sketching exercises, and more. Myths, Mysteries, and Disrupted Histories: The Work of Campo Santo and Naomi IizukaFriday, May 26, 7:30PM, $9-20/Sliding ScaleThis evening explores the unique community-based development process Iizuka and Campo Santo have nurtured through four projects from Polaroid Stories (1998) to Language of Angels (2000) to 17 (reasons why) (2002) and features revival performances by Margo Hall and Luis Saguar, among others. We will also share, through music and photography, the landscape of our current collaboration with Iizuka and California Shakespeare Theatre, Hamlet: Blood in the Brain. Jesus, Satan and the American Soul: The Work of Campo Santo and Denis JohnsonSaturday, May 27, 7:30PM, $9-20/Sliding Scale Join Campo Santo actors Danny Wolohan, Alexis Lezin, Luis Saguar and Cully Fredricksen as they explore the depth and poetry of Johnson’s fallen theatrical world from the first collaboration with Word for Word Jesus’ Son (1999) to The Cassandra Trilogy (2000 – 2002) to Soul of a Whore (2003). Weeds, Roses and Thorns: The Work of Campo Santo and Philip Kan GotandaThursday, June 8, 7:30PM, $9-$20 Join us as we celebrate one of the most prolific playwrights of our time by taking you from our first collaboration, the unsettling floating weeds (2001), to the brave and bracing fist of roses (2004) to the first public interaction with our next project exploring homosexuality in the Muslim American community. Writing Workshop with Philip Kan GotandaNEW DATE! Wednesday, May 31, 6:30-9:30PM, $60 Over the last two and a half decades, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda has been a major influence in the broadening of our definition of theater in America. This workshop provides a unique opportunity to work alongside one of the most adventurous playwrights in the Bay Area, one of the country’s leaders in bringing the stories of Asian Americans to the nation’s stages, and a writer committed to breaking down barriers between cultures and communities. Real Women, Rock ‘n Roll and Karaoke: The Work of Campo Santo and Jessica HagedornFriday, June 9, 7:30PM, $9-$20 Join Jessica Hagedorn and members of Campo Santo as we explore our current work, Fe in the Desert, a black comedy about a woman and her encounters with fate, violence, love and the movies. Created for Intersection and Campo Santo as the second part of an evolving trilogy, which began with the ever-popular Stairway to Heaven in 2005, this project is the continuation of a long history with renowned n ovelist, poet, multimedia performance artist and playwright Hagedorn. Writing Workshop with Jessica HagedornWednesday, June 7, 6:30-9:30PM, $60 Born and raised in the Philippines, Jessica Hagedorn is celebrated for her bold, energetic, and tragicomic examinations of Filipino and Filipino-American experience in a wide variety of genres, including fiction, theater, poetry, and performance art. In this workshop, Hagedorn will speak to her experiences working in a multiple of genres and take you through a series of exercises designed to further develop and explore your writing. Finale: Finding the FutureSaturday, June 10, 7:30PM, $9-20 Ntozake Shange’s relationship with Intersection began in the 1970's when she was experimenting with and laying the groundwork for her seminal fusion of poetry, music, dance and theatre . Join us for an extroardinary opportunity to work with this legendary artist today to locate the next ground to break. This experimental evening will fuse live music, poetry and theatre visioned by one of the most adventurous artists of our times, reaching into the future of theatre and performance. HISTORY & BACKGROUNDFounded in 1996 by Margo Hall, Luis Saguar, Sean San Jose, and Michael Torres, Campo Santo is an award-winning multicultural ensemble that now consists of more than 30 artistic collaborators. Together, Intersection and Campo Santo have developed and premiered more than 30 new performance works — more world premiere works than any theatre of comparable size in the Bay Area in the last 10 years. In the last decade, Intersection and Campo Santo have created a highly regarded collaborative model for new play development, involving tens of thousands of artists and members of the community in the creation of new theatre from conception to fruition. Through Intersection and Campo Santo’s trademark Open Process Series, a program designed to create opportunities to share the process of making new work, thousands of people have participated in the development of new works through work-in-progress events, storytelling sessions, readings, community writing projects, forums and more. These works have ranged from award-winning new plays by internationally known playwrights, novelists, and poets, to hybridized multi-generational performance projects, to groundbreaking musical and dance theatre. This unique model for new play development has prompted internationally heralded writers within and beyond the theatre world to make Intersection their home for creating bold, new work. The first theatre productions by acclaimed novelist and journalist Denis Johnson; memoirist Dave Eggers; and poet Jimmy Santiago Baca have all been developed produced and premiered by Intersection and Campo Santo. Established playwrights who are produced in major theatres throughout the country actively choose to create new works with Campo Santo and Intersection. Philip Kan Gotanda, Naomi Iizuka, Octavio Solis, and Jessica Hagedorn are examples of playwrights being produced at American Conservatory, the Public Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival at Ashland, and La Jolla Playhouse, while maintaining long term working relationships to make new plays with Campo Santo at Intersection. In addition writers who have moved beyond theatre, such as screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson and Greg Sarris have made a special effort to stay connected to theatre by making new work with Campo Santo and Intersection. “Campo Santo is one of those rare groups working with such intensity that everything it presents seems fiery and undiluted. The San Francisco theater collective has grit and grace, soul and swagger. Like a bottomless cup of coffee, it keeps on giving. The group . . . is like an adventurous globe-trotting friend who every so often comes home to recount the vibrant experiences of the heart that bedevil, woo and enchant us.” (Mark De La Vina, San Jose Mercury News.) “Make no mistake: Campo Santo productions are first-rate by any standard, as thrilling, original, and important as anything you’ll find on stages anywhere in the country.” —JH Tompkins, San Francisco Magazine. NEW WORK DEVELOPMENT FUNDThis year also marks the launch of Intersection and Campo Santo's New Work Development Fund, a new fund that will create opportunities for people to be involved and invested in new theatre projects from conception to fruition. This fund is designed to ensure the future Campo Santo's tradition of developing new plays over long periods of time with our community. For more information about the fund, please contact Intersection's Executive Director, Deborah Cullinan at deborah@theintersection.org. MORE PRODUCTIONS IN 2006ALSO IN CAMPO SANTO’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR at INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS HazeA World Premiere Performance Created from Writing byJunot Diaz, Dave Eggers, Denis Johnson, Vendela Vida Directed by Sean San José Featuring Catherine Castellanos, Donald Lacy, Anna Maria Luera and Danny Wolohan Thursdays through Saturdays, April 13-29, 2006 This unprecedented evening brings together acclaimed writers to explore the intersection between A new performance work created from the writings of Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, Denis Johnson and Vendela Vida. This daring new work unites Campo Santo's distinctive vision with four of the country's most acclaimed fiction writers to explore the intersection between the written word and live performance. Haze seamlessly connects distinct and powerful American stories, fusing lighting, soundscape, a new video installation, and individual narrative voices to forge a new theatrical experience that explores how we live with ourselves - how we own up, hold on, let go, step forward. Blood in the BrainA World Premiere Play by Naomi Iizuka October 26-November 25, 2006 In winding down the 10 th Anniversary Year, Intersection and Campo Santo present the World Premiere of Blood in the Brain, a new play by Naomi Iizuka and one of our largest projects to date. Developed over the last six years as part of the Hamlet Project, in collaboration with California Shakespeare Theater and Oakland based community organizations and residents, Blood in the Brain relocates Shakespeare’s kingdom of Elsinore to the drug-ravaged world of an impoverished Oakland, CA community in the late 1980’s Blood in the Brain captures the tensions within families and between territorialized, shattered communities – tensions that result from unbearable secrets, blood oaths, corrupted ideals, glorified notions of honor, and sudden, mythic shifts in power. |
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