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WORLD PREMIERE
February 18–March 14, 2010

by Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Domenique Lozano
Directed and designed by John Doyle
Original music by Nathaniel Stookey

Visionary director John Doyle (Sweeney Todd, Company on Broadway) returns to A.C.T. to stage a spectacular new interpretation of Brecht's masterpiece of hope, humanity, and justice. Featuring Doyle's signature theatricality and original music from acclaimed avant-garde composer Nathaniel Stookey (The Composer Is Dead, Junkestra), this must-see production finds an intrepid company of actors creating the play from the rubble of a war-torn society. Objects turn into set pieces, discarded articles of clothing become costumes, and shrapnel is transformed into musical instruments. In this brand-new translation, The Caucasian Chalk Circle soars with humor, romance, unexpected plot twists, and high-stakes intensity.

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A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program performs at Hastings

February 10–20, 2010

Hotel Paradiso

by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres
English translation by Peter Glenville
Directed by Stephen Buescher

In this fast-paced farce from French playwright Georges Feydeau, a scheming builder plots a tryst with his best friend's wife at a sleazy by-the-hour hotel. Their plans are interrupted when her husband checks into the room next door, and the straightforward attempted affair turns into full-blown chaos. Featuring three demonic little girls, a Bollywood dance sequence, and a madcap chase scene involving police dogs, Christmas penguins, and bondage enthusiasts, the hallways of Hotel Paradiso brim with wit and wordplay in this presentation from the second-year class of A.C.T.'s world-renowned Master of Fine Arts Program.

Join us in A.C.T.'s newly opened Hastings Studio Theater, found at 77 Geary Street, to enjoy the performances of our rising stars and to play an essential role—that of the audience—in their education.

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