Those Women Productions presents the world premiere of Carol S. Lashof’s Witch Hunt, a new drama that explores the origins of the Salem witch panic and compels us to consider the ties between that infamous era and our present moment in history. Witch Hunt begins preview performances on July 12, opens on Friday, July 19, and runs through August 4 at La Val’s Subterranean Theater in Berkeley. Those Women Productions practices “Radical Hospitality”: the suggested price for tickets is $30 but all tickets for all shows are choose your own price with no minimum. Advance tickets are available at witchhunt.brownpapertickets.com or can be purchased at the door subject to availability.

“I make plays to change the stories we believe in, because it’s the best way I know to change the world we live in,” said playwright Lashof. “When I began research for this project, I was shocked to discover how much of what I thought I knew about the witch trials and Puritan New England turned out to be made up out of a tissue of myth, prejudice, and outright lies. Girls dancing naked in the woods? In February? During one of the coldest winters in New England history? Not likely.”

Read more at Broadway World San Francisco: https://www.broadwayworld.com/san-francisco/article/Those-Women-Productions-Announces-the-World-Premiere-of-WITCH-HUNT-20190611

THOSE WOMEN PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS SHIFTING SPACES

MARCH 23-APRIL 8, 2018

 Coming this spring to the Live Oak Theater in Berkeley, Those Women Productions presents Shifting Spaces, a trio of new one-act plays about individuals fighting to claim their full human identities. The program includes the world premieres of They/Them by Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko and vessels by Kim Yaged, as well as the west coast premiere of Revelation by Shirley Barrie.

These three plays reflect a wide spectrum of feminist perspectives. Each tells a unique story in a bold and captivating voice. Stylistically very different, they all feature characters who fight passionately for and believe courageously in their right to be themselves.

When & Where:

Shifting Spaces will preview on March 23 and open on Saturday, March 24, 2018 (press opening); it plays Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm through April 8 (no performance on Easter Sunday, April 1) at the Live Oak Theater, 1301 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley.

Tickets:

Those Women Productions is committed to making theater accessible to audiences regardless of ability to pay. All shows are “choose your own price” with prices ranging from $00.00 to $35.00. All seating is General Admission.

Tickets are available in advance through Brown Paper Tickets:

https://shiftingspaces.brownpapertickets.com/

and at the door beginning one-half hour before performances.

The plays of Shifting Spaces are:

• vessels (World Premiere)

It’s Germany—1944. Are you a bitch or a whore? Is she your lover, friend, sister, acquaintance, colleague, or occasion for sin?

Commissioned for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, this poetic drama reveals the little-known stories of lesbians in Nazi Germany, written by Kim Yaged, directed by Those Women Productions’ Artistic Director Elizabeth Vega.

Cast

12-17 … Elliot Stanley

25-54 … Jean Cary

AGED … GiGi Anber

•  They/Them (World Premiere)

On the eve of surgery, Sam comes home to pack and to fight for his mother’s love.

A high-stakes, lyrical encounter between an African-American mother and her transgender son, by Bay Area playwright Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko, directed by Those Women Productions’ Associate Artist Norman Patrick Johnson.

Cast

SAM … Gabby Momah

MOM … Jasmine Williams

CHOCOLATE … Troy Rockett

Understudy for SAM … Jennifer McNeal (playing the role of SAM on March 30)

• Revelation (West Coast Premiere)

It’s judgment day, and John finds himself buried next to Mary. She claims to recognize him, but she is nothing like any woman John has ever known.

 A darkly comic tour through changing gender roles and social expectations, by Canadian playwright Shirley Barrie, directed by Those Women Productions’ Associate Artist Lily Tung Crystal.

Cast

MARY … Jeannie Barroga

JOHN … Lijesh Krishnan

The Production & Design Team is:

CO-PRODUCERS … Carol Lashof & Elizabeth Vega

STAGE MANAGER … Aurelia Moulin

PROPS DESIGNER … Lindsay Krumbein

COSTUME DESIGNER … Lindsay Krumbein

SCENIC DESIGNER … Celeste Martore

SOUND DESIGNER … Samuel Raskin

LIGHTING DESIGNER … Bert van Aalsburg

Performance schedule:

Friday, March 23: 8 PM (Preview)

Saturday, March 24: 8 PM (Press Opening)

Sunday, March 25: 2 PM

Friday, March 30: 8 PM

Saturday, March 31: 8 PM

Friday, April 6: 8 PM

Saturday, April 7: 8 PM

Sunday, April 8: 2 PM

This production is made possible by the generous support of the Berkeley Civic Arts Commission and Civic Arts Program, the Theatre Bay Area CA$H Grants Program,  the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and the generous donations of many individual supporters. Those Women Productions is a Fractured Atlas sponsored project.