MILL VALLEY, CALIF.: Marin Theatre Company has announced its 2018-19 season, featuring six new plays, including two world premieres.
“This season is a diverse journey of brave stories of everyday people struggling to make the world a better place,” said MTC artistic director Jasson Minadakis in a statement. “From the unknown heroes of the Oslo Accords to the everyday men and women of 1920s Harlem to the story behind August Wilson’s Century Cycle, this season will lift your spirits and inspire your imagination.”
Added MTC managing director Keri Kellerman in a statement, “The brilliant poet and activist Audre Lord said ‘[I]t is not difference which immobilizes, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.’ We hope the playwrights and plays in our 2018-19 season begin to answer that call by lifting up urgent and necessary stories that help illuminate what it means to live in America today.”
The season kicks off with the Bay Area premiere of Oslo by J.T. Rogers (Sept. 27-Oct. 21). This Tony-winning play follows the clandestine, high-stakes efforts of two Norwegian academics to make peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Next, for the holidays, is the world premiere of The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (Nov. 15-Dec. 9), by MTC playwright-in-residence Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, a companion piece to the duo’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, itself a sequel to Pride and Prejudice.
Following is the Bay Area premiere of August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned (Jan. 10-Feb. 3, 2019). Co-conceived by Todd Kreidler, this solo show tells the story behind Wilson’s craft and career, and is here produced in partnership with African-American Shakespeare Company and Ubuntu Theater Project.
Next is the Bay Area premiere of The Who & The What by Ayad Akhtar (Feb. 28–March 24, 2019), a comedy about a Pakistani-American writer whose novel about women and Islam ruffles feathers with her conservative family and a young convert she meets.
The West Coast premiere of Nambi E. Kelley’s Jazz follows (April 25-May 19, 2019). Based on the book by Toni Morrison, and featuring music composed by Marcus Shelby, the play follows a middle-aged women set on revenge against her husband and his young lover in 1920s Harlem.
The season concludes with the world premiere of Wink by Jen Silverman (June 13–July 7, 2019), a dark comedy about an unhappy housewife, her breadwinning husband, their strange psychiatrist, and their anthropomorphic cat Wink.
Marin Theatre Company, founded in 1966, is a mid-sized theatre dedicated to producing new American plays.
