Fefu and Her Friends

Name: Fefu and Her Friends
Start: 2022-03-24T19:30:00
End: 2022-05-08T23:59:00
Location: The Strand Theater

Written by María Irene Fornés

Directed by Pam MacKinnon

Mar 24–May 1, 2022

The Strand Theater

Celebrate Fornés

2 hours and 30 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission

This production contains loud noises including gunshots, mature themes, and stylized violence. For more specifics, please contact the Box Office at tickets@act-sf.org or 415.749.2228.

Fefu and Her Friends

Mar 24–May 1, 2022

Celebrate Fornés

“After two years of artistic scarcity, Fefu and Her Friends offers abundance, daring and vision”

HIGHEST RATING!–San Francisco Chronicle

“Highly pleasurable . . . nothing short of sublime”

Mercury News

“Captivating . . . a seriously good time”

Theater Dogs

“Much of the credit for the evening and its tour’s success must be given to the directorial prowess of A.C.T.’s Artistic Director, Pam MacKinnon”

Rating: Must See!–TheatreEddys

“Crisp and cogent . . . fun and funny . . . top-notch cast”

BroadwayWorld

Hailed as game-changing, provocative, and genius, Fefu and Her Friends is one of the most influential—and invisible—plays of the 20th century. An innovation of immersive theater, Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés’s rapturous comedy-drama allows the audience to be a fly on many walls in this unconventional tale of eight women gathering at a New England country home in 1935.

Utilizing the multi-storied, multi-roomed Strand Theater as non-traditional theater space, audiences will be broken up into four groups that independently tour Fefu’s home. Stories and histories come into play as you happen across conversations as Fefu’s bohemian and raucous cohorts gossip, question, flirt, provoke, and ultimately reveal (or hide?) the universal understandings between women. As muscular and searing in her deliberate use of language as Albee and Miller at their best; as acidic as Clare Boothe Luce’s iconic play The Women; and patron saint to blockbuster hits like Sleep No More—Fornés’s Fefu and Her Friends is an invitation to a theatrical experience like none other.

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There is more for teachers and students in the Fefu and Her Friends Educator Guide

A.C.T. audiences can save 15% on La Bande restaurant and their legendary Tea Service. Just show your A.C.T. ticket stub to receive the discount.

Leave a Plant/Take a Plant

We invite you to bring a plant to contribute to Fefu's garden in the Strand. For each performance, we'll create a collective garden of plants contributed by the audience.

After the show, we invite everyone who has brought a plant to take home a plant left by a neighbor—a living reminder of the experience you shared.

We recommend you bring a plant that is:

Portable. Since you'll be traveling with your plant to the theater, we recommend that you bring something easy to carry.

Durable. This is the perfect job for one of your hardy plants—succulents, pothos, snake plants.

Shareable. This is a great chance to bring something you would happily share with a stranger, with the knowledge that it may be exchanged for a mystery plant from another patron.

In addition to mature plants, we encourage you to consider potted cuttings or seedlings. Thank you for engaging in A.C.T.'s very first plant swap!

Preshow and Postshow Discussion

Before you watch María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends at the Strand Theater, check out this preshow discussion between A.C.T.'s Director of New Works Joy Meads, and artist Lisa Ramirez for some context around the play and a little bit of dramaturgical prepwork.