Playwright Mee Spends Summertime at SF's Magic Theatre, June 23-27 | Playbill

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News Playwright Mee Spends Summertime at SF's Magic Theatre, June 23-27 San Francisco's Magic Theatre and The Fifth Floor ensemble will collaborate on Summertime, a new play by Charles Mee Jr. (En Garde Arts' The Trojan Women). The production will be shown to the public in a work-in progress state, June 23 - 27, at the Magic's Northside Theatre.

San Francisco's Magic Theatre and The Fifth Floor ensemble will collaborate on Summertime, a new play by Charles Mee Jr. (En Garde Arts' The Trojan Women). The production will be shown to the public in a work-in progress state, June 23 - 27, at the Magic's Northside Theatre.

The Creative Work Fund, an organization which supports partnerships between artists and organizations to further the richness of art and inquiry, provided an essential grant to make this piece possible.

Summertime's collage of characters and scenes occurs in and around a garden where rational thought does battle with the irrationality of emotion and desire. In the play, characters abandon social, economic and political connections to become united by their shared humanity. Questions of gender roles, sexual identity and cultural definitions of what's beautiful are challenged as actors with and without physical disabilities interact. The production will be directed by Ken Watt, with Pamela Walker, a casting director for the disabled community, helping with the staging.

Playwright Mee has suffered from polio since his youth and previously explored a similar project with his landmark 1989 play, Another Person is a Foreign Country. Other works by Mee include: Trojan Women: A Love Story, The Berlin Circle (directed by Tina Landau), and Orestes. Mee's plays are typically open in structure, creating more questions than answers about a situation.

For tickets, call (415) 441-8822. -- By Sean McGrath

 
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