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 Intersection for the Arts & Resident Company Campo Santo present the World Premiere of Fuku Americanus EXTENDED AGAIN! Through JULY 12th! Hurry and get your tickets now! Created from the Pulitzer Prize winning book "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz May 14 � July 05| $15�$25 Thursday�Sundays | 8pm Purchase tickets here>>> INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS and Resident Theatre Company CAMPO SANTO is proud to present the highly anticipated world premiere of Fuk� Americanus inspired by Junot D�az's Pulitzer Prize Winning novel 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'. Developed and directed by Campo Santo's Sean San Jos�, and co-directed by The Living Word Project's Marc Bamuthi Jos�ph, Fuk� Americanus is a simultaneously epic and intimate tale about family histories, ancient curses, migration and ill-starred love. This stage creation inspired by Junot D�az's unique fiction comes alive with endearing characters, an unforgettable story and authentic language - living proof that languages, like cultures, are fluid and alive, and evolves with history and each new generation. Featuring; Carlos Aguirre, Maria Candelaria, Vanessa Cota, Biko Eisen-Martin, Anna Maria Luera, Brian Rivera 'Oscar Wao' gets ready for its S.F. stage debut - Fuku Americanus in SF Chronicle's DATEBOOK>>> San Francisco Chronicle Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene - Campo meets Diaz "Novelist and short-story writer Junot Diaz is the latest author to be turned into a playwright through the innovative open-process format practiced by Campo Santo. Material from Diaz's 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,' winner of the 2008 Pulitzer and many other prizes for fiction, has been adapted for the next Intersection for the Arts-Campo Santo project and will open May 14 as a play called 'Fuku Americanus.' Project director and Campo founder Sean San Jos�, who used one of Diaz's stories in a performance collage called 'Haze' in '06, developed the new project and is co-directing it with choreographer Marc Bamuthi Joseph. The play uses Afro-Haitian, hip-hop influenced movement as it follows three of the novel's characters through the porous cultural borders of the American melting pot, tracing their ancient Dominican family curse (or "fuku"). Get tickets ($15-$25) and information at (415) 626-2787, Ext. 109, or www.theintersection.org." - Robert Hurwitt, SF Chronicle |
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| About ESP Project The ESP Project (Erika Shuch Performance Project), inaugurating a new residency at Intersection, is a group of dancers, actors, musicians, and designers who create new performance experiences that expose the extraordinary in ordinary human experience. The ESP Project has presented work at ODC (two invitational residencies), The Magic Theatre, 848 Community Space, Venue 9, the Justice League, the San Francisco Public Library, and the 418 Project. About Campo Santo Campo Santo is an award-winning ensemble committed to developing and presenting new plays, and nurturing a new audience for theatre. We cultivate playwrights, fiction writers and poets to work in an intimate, interactive community based setting to create new theatrical experiences that reflect and reinvent our society. Campo Santo is Spanish for sacred ground. Like the roots of our name, we are taking the sacred form of storytelling and using it as a tool to bond community through socially relevant plays. We want to reflect and reinvent our society; we want to show the audience the world we live in and see in the audience the world we come from so that we can live and learn. Margo Hall, Luis Saguar, Sean San Jose, Michael Torres ~ ARTISTIC BOARD ~ Denis Johnson ~ Resident Playwright Jessica Hagedorn, Philip Kan Gotanda, Naomi Iizuka, Greg Sarris, Octavio Solis, Erin Cressida Wilson "Campo Rules. Spend an evening with Campo Santo and you'll see why this troupe is electrifying local theatre. They create the kind of living, breathing theatre that makes you want to stand up and shout." - J.H. Tompkins, San Francisco Magazine |
