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international director of theater, TV, and film who is currently on UCSB’s faculty. They’ll be enacting Jones’ work that reframes the stories of heroic gods and men in mythology to illuminate their cruelty and violence, thereby creating pathways for escaping cycles of abuse. But her own healing isn’t why Jones wrote the play, she said. “Sure, every time I share my story with individuals who have gone through the same thing, it’s part of a healing. There is some kind of release, an acknowledgement of pain and growth. But I wouldn’t have begun writing it if I didn’t already feel some sense of being healed. [Rather] the call to action here is for individuals to explore ways in which consent is given and/or taken away, not just with sexual assault, but with any situation.” A Medusa Thread performs May 16-25 at UCSB’s Performing Arts Theater. Visit Theaterdance.ucsb.edu.
Vincent & Theo: Through Charles’ Eyes Ensemble Theatre Company is bringing back its production of Vincent, the critically-lauded one-man show created by Leonard Nimoy, who spent years researching the hundreds of letters exchanged between the artist Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo, to fashion the intimately-scaled 1980 play in which the actor portrays both brothers. Veteran thespian Charles Pasternak takes on the dual roles in ETC’s reprise of its March production at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in conjunction with the current exhibit Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources. The remount takes place a stone’s throw away from the museum, at ETC’s home of the New Vic for matinee and evening performances on Sunday, May 15 only.
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Anacapa School Performing Arts revisits Potterville via Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic, the 2015 original play by Matt Cox that serves as a comedic retelling of the Harry Potter book series from the perspective of the Puffs, a group of well-meaning, loyal rejects, who are decidedly not Harry. Out of the Box founder Samantha Eve directs the school’s three performances at Center Stage Theater May 13-15. Visit centerstagetheater.org.
Jazz Trio & Orchestra: Roberts’ Outrageous Range Jazz is about a lot of things, not the least of which is the ability to improvise in connection with both the music and the other instrumentalists. That’s a Marcus Roberts Trio specialty, as the long-term partnership featuring pianist Roberts, drummer Jason Marsalis, and bassist Rodney Jordan share equally in shaping performances via changes in tempo, form, harmonic or rhythmic contrast, or energy. It’s a process that comes from expertise and experience.“We improvise in the moment based on many forces of music that are happening and that we can’t really predict,” he said. “But you have to have some understanding of history as well as virtuosity in your instrument.” The trust also comes from respect for each other. “Those guys are geniuses, and in order to keep them engaged and interested in playing together, they have to be able to do things that are of actual interest based on their own agendas. And for me, playing what I love is fine, but I gain inspiration from welcoming and listening to others, even if what they want to do might come from an opposing view. Invariably, when the piano, bass, and drums are really sharing in forming the direction of the music with vision and respect, it always sounds bigger than just three instruments.” When the trio returns to the Lobero on May 18, they’ll be focusing on selections from a forthcoming CD called Rhythm in Blue, which showcases the trio’s varied rhythmic approaches to jazz standards, Roberts said. That includes pieces from Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Coltrane – songs that deserve to be venerated as classics, not degraded because they’re old.
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