Tanya Barfield’s two-man play puts Lewis, a high-achieving Black mathematics professor, in conversation with three generations of his ancestors over the course of a fevered dream or night of sleepless delusion as he wrestles with his own sense of self and cultural identity. Estranged from his white wife, who accuses him of being out of touch with his heritage for refusing to attend the Million Man March, Lewis must journey through the past in order to determine his future. The ancestral visitations he receives call upon joy and pain, suffering and resiliency, music and song to situate Lewis in a long lineage of Black men in America from enslavement and Jim Crow to Black Power.
“Encapsulates more than a century of history on a very personal level… exhilarating!”
-CurtainUp
- Tanya Barfield
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MANAHATTA (2/9/24-3/10/24)
1984 (11/10/23-12/10/23)
As the storyteller for our community, Aurora Theatre Company inspires new audiences and longtime theatre lovers alike with the visceral power of live theatre. Our venues, the most intimate professional stages in the Bay Area, highlight great acting, nuanced language, and an immediacy that makes for exhilarating theatre. By telling profoundly relevant stories, we’re building a new culture of theatregoing in the Bay Area and contributing to a revitalization of theatre nationwide, challenging all of us to think deeper, laugh louder, and engage more purposefully and profoundly with our neighbors and our world.
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Daisy
Hillbarn Theatre (1/23 - 2/9) | |
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Voctave: The Corner of Broadway & Main Street
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall (1/21 - 1/22) | |
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Miguel Zenón
Lesher Center for the Arts (4/11 - 4/11) | ||
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Smuin Contemporary Ballet's
The Smuin Center for Dance (2/14 - 2/23) | |
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Annie
Saroyan Theatre (2/11 - 2/12) | |
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Ain't Too Proud — The Life and Times of the Temptations
Golden Gate Theatre (2/25 - 3/2) | |
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Back to the Future: The Musical
Orpheum Theatre San Francisco (2/12 - 3/9) | |
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The Cher Show (Non-Equity)
San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (3/18 - 3/23) | |
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Cocktails & Cabaret
Stookey's Blue Room (1/23 - 1/23) | |
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