Play On Workshop

Last month we kicked off our 3 year residency with Play On with a week long workshop returning award winning writer Naomi Iizuka back to the Bay Area as we explored her translation of Richard II and! started working on two new plays of hers!

We held a public sharing and event putting the Shakespeare translation side by side with the new plays and read excerpts from all. We are most interested and excited in experiencing these two worlds together the new translations of Shakespeare (NOT adaptations) and ! these new plays

We are pushing to premiere a Repertory Premiere of a new Shakespeare translation from Play On with a new play developed by the Magic Theatre by the SAME WRITER with the same performance company for both productions embodying them both with the bodies historically not featured in Shakespeare productions- POC, WOC, QPOC- but pure Shakespeare text.

Join us for an intimate evening where will share for the first time 3 of the writers Play On Shakespeare and the Magic Theatre are working with together on their new Shakespeare translations and! their new plays.

Thursday January 12, 7pm

the Magic Theatre new lobby

Come join our hosts and talk with Play On's CEO Lue Douthit, the Magic's Sean San José and Liam Vincent as they lead us through a discussion about this New Residency. Have Free drinks and food while watching actors:

Catherine Castellanos, Daniel Duque-Estrada, Britney Frazier, Mia Tagano, & Liam Vincent

read portions from:

Naomi Iizuka's Richard II translation and her new play Garuda's Wing

Migdalia Cruz' Macbeth and her new play Fishtank

Virginian Grise's All's Well That Ends Well and her new play Their Dogs Came With Them

7pm- drinks

7:15- 8pm- readings

8pm- discussion and food and more drinks