Letter from Managing Director and CEO

Welcome to the dynamic and riveting opening production of our 2022–2023 season, Dunsinane. When we began to conceptualize this year’s works and our hopes for their impact, the words that spoke to us included: collaboration, a year where new works necessitated deep involvement from ensembles and individuals in order to manifest fully; community, a season that excited our friends and neighbors to join us in the theatre and experience profound storytelling together; hope, where each work and artist exemplified the light that cuts through darkness, and opportunity, from apprenticeships to a new festival, a season that brings young artists and seasoned artists into a single space to build professional work that stimulates minds and hearts of today’s—and tomorrow’s—arts appreciators.

With Dunsinane, specifically, we charge out of the gate to open our season with the vigor of David Greig’s vibrant, dark, and witty imagined continuation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. As our dramaturg Scott Horstein shares, Dunsinane not only continues the story but also creates a “counter-history” of the tale where misinformation from Shakespeare’s Scottish play is challenged and refuted as the characters of Dunsinane move forward and make discoveries.

The pace of the text gallops forward, and the choreography in scenes of love and war propels the action in this race to the top of Scotland’s famous hill of the same name. Conversations in the rehearsal room revolved around the hold that power, politics, and propaganda have over people conditioned to fight for their country as a moral imperative.

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Scenes of tenderness were essential in revealing the vulnerability of characters dehumanized by the enemies surrounding them, a true exercise in empathy and insight amidst chaotic events.

Partnering with the talented students of Conservatory Theatre Ensemble (CTE) at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley heightened awareness in the room of the intergenerational impact of war, both on the battlefield and in the minds of people raised on war stories of their country. As a company, and with the care of fight, dance, movement, and intimacy director Zoë SwensonGraham, we worked to create a productive and safe space for student professionals to thrive, and the student professionals themselves brought the highest levels of work ethic, integrity, and creativity to their work.

As the lights begin to dim, I hope you are moved to make this attendance a regular part of your year. We consider your experience year-round with great care, regularly asking how we can create theatre that excites our community to join us in the space not only for one play, but also for the full arc of a season. I want to invite you to collaborate with us as a season subscriber, sharing with us the fulfillment of new work over time and its impact not only on stage but also in ourselves.

We hope you enjoy the thrill of the sword fights and narrative twists and turns worthy of Game of Thrones but pulsing with the presence and humanity only experienced through live theatre. Sheath your sword of disbelief and transcend with us to the Scottish highlands where lies are uncovered, lives are lost, love is found, and hills are saved.

On with the adventure, for Dunsinane!

Meredith Suttles, Managing Director and CEO

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Wendy Feng Chair Matthew Purdon Vice-Chair John Chesley Secretary Robert Reynolds Assistant Treasurer Naima Dean Kipp Delbyck Denmo Ibrahim Jennifer McEvoy Vera Meislin Christian Mills Kathryn Olson Josh Rafner Barbara Roberts Stacy Scott Tara Sullivan Penny Wright