James S. Craft & Danielle O’Hare in
Helen of Troy by Rob Melrose
by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Directed by Paige Rogers
February 6
One of the most important plays from Spain’s Golden Age of Drama, Life is a Dream explores what shapes one Prince’s identity by exploring the life that he actually led versus the life he could have led. It is a wonderful companion to our production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew because the question of identity is at the core of both.
The Cutting Ball Theater’s 2015-16 season is made possible in part by Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Fleishhacker Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mental Insight Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The RHE Charitable Foundation, The San Francisco Arts Commission, The San Francisco Foundation, and The Zellerbach Family Foundation, and Season Producers John and Paula Gambs, Ken Melrose, and Velia Melrose.
