The Pelican

Paige Rogers in Macbeth

Paige Rogers in Macbeth

Part IV of The Chamber Plays
by August Strindberg
in a new translation by Paul Walsh
December 7
2:00pm

Based on the belief that a Pelican sheds its own blood to feed its young, The Pelican shows a family where the exact opposite is true. The widow Elise steals her children’s inheritance while they starve in their own house. When the children discover the truth, it sparks a small revolution.

This is Part IV in Strindberg’s series of five chamber plays he wrote for the Intimate Theater in Stockholm. Paul Walsh is translating all five plays for The Cutting Ball’s reading series working towards a future festival of all five plays in full productions.

Our reading of The Pelican will feature Paige Rogers as the mother, Elise.

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.