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Marin Theatre Company

Waste

February 12, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds

Waste Harley Granville-Barker Adapted by Carey Perloff Marin Theatre "Oh what practical, sentimental children you men are, you and your consciousness, you and your laws.  You drive us to distraction and sometimes death by your stupidities.  Poor women!" Is it any wonder that in an England with its toes still in the deeply moralistic waters  of the recently … [Read more...] about Waste

Bees & Honey

February 22, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Bees & Honey Guadalís Del Carmen Marin Theatre Company “Love me as I love you, Give me your love beyond measure, Find me like a bee to a honeycomb, Long live the honey of my life!”  Inspired by this chorus from “Como Abeja al Panal” (“Like a Bee to a Honeycomb”) by the Latin song writer Juan Luis Guerra, Guadalís Del Carmen has penned a sweet-and-sour, … [Read more...] about Bees & Honey

Where Did We Sit on the Bus?

May 12, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Where Did We Sit on the Bus? Brian Quijada (Book and Music); Satya Chávez (Additional Compositions) Marin Theatre Company When he was in the third grade, Brian Quijada sat in a classroom during a lesson about Rosa Parks contemplating the bus where she took her seat.  In the front, he heard, was where the whites normally sat; in the back were the Blacks.  Brown-skinned, … [Read more...] about Where Did We Sit on the Bus?

Justice: A New Musical

February 24, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Justice: A New Musical Lauren M. Gunderson (Book); Bree Lowdermilk (Music); Kait Kerrigan (Lyrics) Marin Theatre Company “Equal Justice for All.” For 191 years, half of the U.S. population could justifiably question if that welcoming sign above the U.S. Supreme Court entrance really applied to them because from its founding in 1789 until September 21, 1981, no woman … [Read more...] about Justice: A New Musical

Hotter than Egypt

April 6, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Hotter than Egypt Yussef El Guindi Marin Theatre Company, in Co-Production with A Contemporary Theatre Wisconsinites Jean and Paul are in exotic Egypt to bask in the winter sun, sail on the Nile on feluccas, and relish the history of the museums – all as part of their twenty-fourth wedding anniversary celebration.  Engaged and soon to be married, Cairenes Maha and … [Read more...] about Hotter than Egypt

Pass Over

February 9, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Pass Over Antionette Chinonye Nwandu Marin Theatre Company “I got plans to get off this block.” … “How we get off this block?” … “Are we fixin’ to get off this block?” … “Let’s do this shit.  Pass over.” On a desolate, dark street where we see only a metal guard rail; a crumbling concrete curb with a few weeds poking through; and a lone, oft flickering … [Read more...] about Pass Over

Noura

January 15, 2020 by Eddie Reynolds

“I don’t want to forget.  I’m trying desperately to remember who the hell I am.” Forced by a life-threatening siege to leave her home in Mosul as a member of the Iraqi Christian community, immigrant and now American citizen Noura wants this Christmas Eve to be perfect in every respect, recalling the foods and family times of those Christmases spent in her homeland – a … [Read more...] about Noura

Mother of the Maid

November 21, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

A girl in her late teens announces to her Ma, “Saint Catherine bin’ appearin’ to me,” to which her mother glances up from cleaning burrs from sheep wool and says sweetly, “Oh, she’s a lovely saint; that’s lovely, Joanie.”  When the girl describes how the Saint “fills me up … slays me … takes me apart” and that she can feel Saint Catherine “here and here” (her hands cupping her … [Read more...] about Mother of the Maid

“Sovereignty”

October 2, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Sovereignty Mary Kathryn Nagle Marin Theatre Company Elizabeth Frances, Adam Magill, Kholan Studi, Scott Coopwood, Andrew Roa, Robert I. Mesa Beginning in the 1830s, Native Peoples were forced to leave their ancestral lands in the Southeastern United States and walk thousands of miles to resettle on barren lands in the West, with many thousands dying along the way.  … [Read more...] about “Sovereignty”

“Jazz”

May 1, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

JazzAdapted by Nambi E. KelleyBased on the Book by Toni MorrisonMarin Theatre CompanyDezi Solèy & C. Kelly WrightAs mourners audibly sob and somewhere a choir sings the gospel hymn “Steal Away,” a stunned-looking, steely-eyed woman approaches the rectangle of flowers guarding the unseen corpse of the young girl whose portrait we see near-by.  With increasing snarl, she … [Read more...] about “Jazz”

“The Who and The What”

March 6, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Who and The WhatAyad AkhtarMarin Theatre CompanyDenmo Ibrahim & Alfredo HuerecaAfzal has about all a man could want in life, save his precious wife whom he lost to cancer a few years ago.  As a Pakistani immigrant and now U.S. citizen, he owns a commanding thirty per cent of the Atlanta, taxi industry.  He has two beautiful, grown daughters who adore … [Read more...] about “The Who and The What”

“How I Learned What I Learned”

January 16, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

How I Learned What I LearnedAugust Wilson (Co-Conceived with Todd Kreidler)Marin Theatre (in co-production with Lorraine HansberryTheatre and Ubuntu Theatre Project)Steven Anthony JonesAs the elderly man walks across the stage carrying his aged limp with dignity and purpose, we are immediately struck by eyes that twinkle with humor and a face beautifully burrowed with a … [Read more...] about “How I Learned What I Learned”

“The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley”

November 30, 2018 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Wickhams: Christmas at PemberleyLauren Gunderson & Margot MelconMarin Theatre CompanyNeiry Rojo & August BrowningIn late December 1815, two years have passed since four of the five sisters of the Longbourn estate traversed many complicated webs and winding routes to land husbands in Jane Austin’s much beloved Pride and Prejudice.  Now as December arrives in … [Read more...] about “The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley”

“Oslo”

October 3, 2018 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

OsloJ.T. RogersMarin Theatre CompanyJ Paul Nicolas, Ashkon Davaran, Ryan Tasker, Brian Herndon & Paris Hunter PaulOn September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Liberation Organization negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed a Declaration of Principles in which the PLO recognized the legitimacy of the State of Israel and the Israelis recognized the PLO … [Read more...] about “Oslo”

“Marjorie Prime”

May 9, 2018 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Marjorie PrimeJordan HarrisonMarin Theatre CompanyJoy Carlin & Tommy GorrebeeckMemory is a tricky proposition for any of us.  Is that story I am now recalling really the way it happened, or am I providing a slightly embellished version with details that have been added in the past twenty tellings in order to make it more interesting?  Was the event really as … [Read more...] about “Marjorie Prime”

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