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All performances at:
Cue Productions Live
1835 Colfax Street
Concord, CA 94520

Ticket Prices:
$15 for seniors and students
$20 for adults
$10 for TBA and Equity members at the door only
Preview performances: $12, $18 and $7 respectively

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Continuing Our 2012-2013 Season  

Salome
by Oscar Wilde
Directed by John Butterfield

Oscar Wilde's 1891 one-act play, written in French and later translated by Wilde into English, might not be as famous as The Importance of Being Earnest, but it just might be more influential – and it's certainly more scandalous.

Banned in Wilde's native Britain for nearly 40 years, Salome still managed to inspire several movie adaptations and an immortal opera by Richard Strauss, but the original play is rarely done today. The Tetrarch, Herod Antipas, who is obsessed with his stepdaughter Salome, foolishly promises her anything, if only she will dance for him and satisfy his unsuitable prurient interests. Salome, in turn, struggles with her own obsession with the imprisoned holy man, Jokanaan (John the Baptist). She has always been able to get what she wants from any man, but Jokanann is not amenable to her desires. Unwilling to give him up, she will have him – dead or alive – and requests from Herod Jokanann’s head on a silver platter as payment for dancing the dance of the seven veils.

In this unique production Butterfield 8 will once again stretch the boundaries of our performance space by incorporating mask work and projected images. The projected images will mirror the many femme fatales of the twentieth century as the Company questions the role of female sexuality as both tool and weapon.

Join us for a special opening night event on Friday, May 3. The opening night event ticket price is the same as general ticket prices and includes admission to the production as well as a post show reception with an open bar and complimentary food.

Featuring: Nathalie Archangel, Ali Arman, Jake Breckinridge, Jean Butterfield, Beth Chastain, Jeremy Tribe Gallardo, Julian Christopher Geritz, Donald Hardy, Kathleen MacKay, Peter McArthur, Edwin Peabody, Rhianna Taylor and Jennifer Wright.

Performing May 2013
 

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5/12       5/16 5/17 5/18
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Thursday through Saturday performances at 8PM,
Sunday performances at 3PM
*Indicates Preview Performance
†Indicates Opening Night Event

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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Third Thursdays

Butterfield 8's "Third Thursdays" dramatic reading series presents a special "Fourth Thursday": An Evening of Rudyard Kipling.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a prolific and much beloved English poet and author. Although perhaps best remembered today for his enduring stories for children, including the Jungle Book and Just So Stories, he gained initial renown as a poet and short story writer. His stories, many centering on the lives and personalities of British imperialism in India, are still regarded as innovative and masterful. He began writing in his writing career in India in the 1880's, and continued to write until his death in 1936, earning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. His work has been adapted to stage and screen, and his poem "If" was listed as "England's Favorite Poem" as recently as 1995.

With the vocal talents of Deborah Black, Jake Breckenridge, Jean Butterfield, Alan Cameron, David Hardie, Peter J. MacArthur, and Edwin Peabody, we will bring a very select few stories to life. We hope to inspire you with a small sampling of Kipling's colors and textures, the majesty and the humanity, the comical and the poignant. 


 

New Works Series
Shows and Dates TBD

It's the return of the Butterfield 8 New Works Series!  This showcase will present staged readings of new works by local playwrights, and has featured several plays which have gone on to receive full productions; such as Zelda's Mama's Cookin' by Harold Smith, Abigail Dreary by Michelle Ianiro, The Beekeeper by Jennifer Roberts, and Pride and Prejudice by Donald L. Hardy.

The New Works Series will take place in July/August of 2013

 


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