Cutting Ball Theater’s current staging of mid-20th-century French playwright Eugene Ionesco’s “The Chairs” is probably one of the best theater of the absurd productions to be seen locally — ever.The almost-entirely-two-character tragic farce, or farcical tragedy, is blessed with numerous advantages: A new translation by artistic director Rob Melrose, who turned some of Ionesco’s nonsensical French wordplay into equally nonsensical English-language wordplay.
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For many San Franciscans, the Tenderloin is a place to pass through on the way to other neighborhoods. In “Tenderloin,” audiences have the opportunity for an extended visit.This new play by writer-director Annie Elias, which made its world premiere at the Cutting Ball Theater last week, is derived from dozens of interviews with Tenderloin residents. Their words yield a raw and often riveting evening of documentary theater.
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