Weekend 1
Performances: Thurs-Sun May 23rd to May 26th Coup-ed Up Written and Directed by Begsy Inal Flood Conceived by Kat Brault and Kumi Maxson Directed by Kat Brault The Playboy of the Golden West Written and Directed by Isabel Cruz |
Weekend 2
Performances: Thurs-Sun May 30th to June 2nd Dear Pluto Written by Dray Bowens-Rubin and Zach Barryte Directed by Conor Stephens McGowan Carla Only Likes Things Because They're Gay Written by Joyce Lin Directed by Claire Cheung-Solow Just Home for Summer Written by Helen Everbach Directed by Xochitl Rios-Ellis and Helen Everbach |
Tickets
FREE for UCSC students $3 for students and seniors $5 for general admission |
House opens at 7:30pm.
Performances start at 8:00pm Seating is unreserved. |
About the Productions
Weekend 1
Coup-ed Up
Ayshe and their parents arrive at a hotel room in Istanbul with the news that the Bosporus bridge (tying the European and Asian sides of Turkey) has been closed to access completely, and this sends Turkish citizens into a state of panic. As Ayshe and their family get trapped inside a hotel room, they witness tanks roaming the streets, soldiers marching to the Bosporus bridge and being shot, and get several types of news from the TV reporting to them that a military coup is happening. Since a military coup is not expected whatsoever, throughout the night they go through series of emotions caused by false or accurate news that they try to figure out.
Flood
In this process, we are interrogating the possibilities of activism through art by expanding definitions and understandings of performance. We are looking at the vast complications inherent in the world we live in every day through sharing experience, filtering through metaphor, and forging connections between bodies [of flesh, of water, of knowledge]. It is a project of collective art making, a dance across mediums, boundaries, and borders, and a call for emotional investment and embodied engagement both within and outside of the performance space.
The Playboy of the Golden West
An adaptation of the Irish classic, The Playboy of the Western World, by John M. Synge, set in 19th century Monterey County. A small village receives a stranger, Christopher “Christy” Mahon, who claims to be on the run after killing his foreman. He is offered shelter at the cantina and inn owned by the father of Margarita Reynoso. Intrigue, romantic rivalries, and hilarity ensue, but is Christopher all he claims to be?
Weekend 2
Dear Pluto
Dear Pluto tells the tale of a burgeoning friendship between a jaded minor planet and an excitable space satellite, as they exchange letters. It was inspired by the events of the NASA New Horizons mission that visited Pluto in 2015
Carla Only Likes Things Because They’re Gay
A rom-com about a lesbian, Carla, trying to figure out her crush’s sexuality. The play explores the confusing gray area in determining what is hanging out versus what is dating.
Just Home for Summer
Confident, if self-absorbed, college student Jules is forced to move back home to small-town Iowa for summer break after his older boyfriend kicks him out of their shared apartment. Jules is expecting the summer to be terrible, but things start to look up when he meets Marty, a recently out of the closet high schooler with whom Jules shares an inexplicable attraction. Using kink as a way to overcome awkwardness, sexual inexperience, and their age difference, this play tries to look honestly at queer sex, vulnerability and intimacy, and the things that keep us apart even when we're drawn together.
Coup-ed Up
Ayshe and their parents arrive at a hotel room in Istanbul with the news that the Bosporus bridge (tying the European and Asian sides of Turkey) has been closed to access completely, and this sends Turkish citizens into a state of panic. As Ayshe and their family get trapped inside a hotel room, they witness tanks roaming the streets, soldiers marching to the Bosporus bridge and being shot, and get several types of news from the TV reporting to them that a military coup is happening. Since a military coup is not expected whatsoever, throughout the night they go through series of emotions caused by false or accurate news that they try to figure out.
Flood
In this process, we are interrogating the possibilities of activism through art by expanding definitions and understandings of performance. We are looking at the vast complications inherent in the world we live in every day through sharing experience, filtering through metaphor, and forging connections between bodies [of flesh, of water, of knowledge]. It is a project of collective art making, a dance across mediums, boundaries, and borders, and a call for emotional investment and embodied engagement both within and outside of the performance space.
The Playboy of the Golden West
An adaptation of the Irish classic, The Playboy of the Western World, by John M. Synge, set in 19th century Monterey County. A small village receives a stranger, Christopher “Christy” Mahon, who claims to be on the run after killing his foreman. He is offered shelter at the cantina and inn owned by the father of Margarita Reynoso. Intrigue, romantic rivalries, and hilarity ensue, but is Christopher all he claims to be?
Weekend 2
Dear Pluto
Dear Pluto tells the tale of a burgeoning friendship between a jaded minor planet and an excitable space satellite, as they exchange letters. It was inspired by the events of the NASA New Horizons mission that visited Pluto in 2015
Carla Only Likes Things Because They’re Gay
A rom-com about a lesbian, Carla, trying to figure out her crush’s sexuality. The play explores the confusing gray area in determining what is hanging out versus what is dating.
Just Home for Summer
Confident, if self-absorbed, college student Jules is forced to move back home to small-town Iowa for summer break after his older boyfriend kicks him out of their shared apartment. Jules is expecting the summer to be terrible, but things start to look up when he meets Marty, a recently out of the closet high schooler with whom Jules shares an inexplicable attraction. Using kink as a way to overcome awkwardness, sexual inexperience, and their age difference, this play tries to look honestly at queer sex, vulnerability and intimacy, and the things that keep us apart even when we're drawn together.