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The Peripatetic Players present a Port Costa Flux Fest
Happening just a moment from this writing, the Peripatetic Players will conclude their 2016 tour of Shakespeare or Space Wars with a weekend-long mini-festival in Port Costa, Flux Fest ’16. We’re just pleased as punch that the Players are now officially fictionally Port Costa’s resident traveling troupe of thespians, and we’re looking forward to creating all kinds of lore and faux ephemera to document our years in that fantastic hamlet.
Here’s a collage from last fall’s performance of Romeo & Juliet in Port Costa, featuring Reece Santos’s fabulous painted proscenium in the alleyway of the Bull Valley Roadhouse:
Theater Around The Bay: An Interview With Joan Howard and Rebecca Longworth
A behind-behind-the-scenes look at the inspirations for AESOP AMUCK and O BEST BELOVED…
Sam Bertken steps in to guest write and interview Joan Howard and Rebecca Longworth, the producing/directing team behind “Aesop Amuck.”
A few weeks ago, I took some time after a weekend rehearsal to sit down with Rebecca Longworth and Joan Howard, the collaborative force that founded Samuel Peaches’ Peripatetic Players, winners of the 2013 Best of SF Fringe Award for “O Best Beloved,” a devised adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. Sprawled cross-legged on the mats at the Main Street Theater in the Excelsior, I got to know more about what drove them to start the company, the source of their passion for children’s theater, and why audience participation might not be something to dread.
SB: What in particular draws you to staging children’s literature, adapting them for the stage?
RL: What draws me to children’s literature… I think, because it’s imaginative and kind of magical without necessarily…
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Aesop Amuck!
Aesop Amuck opens this Saturday, August 1 at DeFremery Park in Oakland — then we travel to seven more parks and public spaces throughout the Bay Area until August 23.
Come along and join the fun! All shows are free of charge — though donations are gratefully accepted!
Enjoy this video the Samuel Peaches Peripatetic Players created for their Kickstarter campaign:
A precursor to our Fluxwagon
Check out this article on the WPA’s mobile stage:
Free Theatre! (Courtesy of Uncle Sam).
With many thanks to Nikloas for sending along this link!
FluxWagon
We’ve received a 2014 Theatre Bay Area CA$H Grant to build FluxWagon, our mobile stage, for the summer tour of O Best Beloved. Here’s Joan’s model of FluxWagon, unfolded as the OBB stage… and below, the story of its unfolding!
Idiot String 