365 Days/Plays

Week 2: Thanksgiving Week

Mrs. Lincoln (Acquenetta Summers-Wong) shares a secret about President Lincoln with her dressmaker Mrs. Keckley (Lizzie Calogero)

What on earth is 365 Days/365 Plays?!?!

In November 2002, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks committed to writing a play a day for the next 365 days. The world premiere of this play cycle will be performed as a yearlong national festival. From November 13, 2006 to November 12, 2007, simultaneous and separate performances of the cycle by over 600 theaters will take place all across the United States, creating the largest theater collaboration in U.S. history. Each week one theater company will produce one week (seven plays) in the 365 Days/365 Plays cycle.

And Woman's Will is doing what, now?

Woman's Will sets its all-female cast loose on Week 2: Thanksgiving week, presenting a family-friendly, site-specific event. that invites audiences to add their voices to the proceedings through a short togetherness observance (bring hand instruments if you like) and post-play food and conversation. Part play, part family gathering, 365 Week 2 is the antidote for the post-turkey blahs. And Week 2 even has a bonus 8th play in honor of the holiday!

Wow! Where can I get the whole year's schedule?

The San Francisco component of 365 Days/365 Plays is coordinated by the Z Space Studio, the Playwrights Festival, and Cutting Ball Theater. For the entire year's schedule, please see www.zspace.org/365plays.htm. For more on the nationwide project, see the Public Theatre's website at www.publictheater.org/365.

Where & When:

Oakland Public Conservatory of Music
1616 Franklin (downtown Oakland near 19th St BART)

November 24th - November 26 (Thanksgiving weekend ONLY!)
Friday & Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm

All performances are Pay-what-you-can, with $15 - $25 suggested

Reservations are recommended

For more information or reservations, please call: (510) 420-0813