our season
THE WINDOW AGE
a guided tour of the unconsious
a new play written by Christopher Chen—winner of the 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival for his play Into the Numbers
directed by Gary Graves
A Central Works Method Play
developed in collaboration with Richard Frederick, Gary Graves, Joel Mullennix, Gregory Scharpen & Jan Zvaifler
February 21 – March 22
“…a psychological thriller, a suspenseful, intriguing, multi-level thought-evoking work that will leave you spellbound!”
Charles Jarrett, Rossmoor News
“…a triumph of their [Central Works] particular style of collaboration between author, actors, director and designers developing a show.”
Ken Bullock, Berkeley Daily Planet
“…a probing, intimate and rewarding theatrical experience.”
George Heymont, myculturallandscape.com
“Una obra excelente, muy recomendable para jóvenes y adultos. The Window Age es un tour al inconciente humano”
Mario Echevarria, SF Tribune
“Under Gary Graves’ superb direction, The Window Age re-imagines the emergence of modernist thought in the aftermath of World War I…with guffaw-producing humor, uncanny third dimension sub-consciousness and moving passion...”
Kathryn Abajian, The Piedmont Post
“Chris Chen on the Central Works Method”: an interview with Chloe Veltman of the SF Weekly
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 5pm
pay-what-you-can Feb 20 (preview), 26 & Mar 5
Tickets: $25 – $14 sliding scale (at the door) $21 online
Call 510 558 1381 for information and reservations or
1920's, England in the aftermath of World War 1. The conception of the human mind is being reframed by the Modernist Movement in art and literature, the burgeoning field of psychoanalysis, and the emergence of a strange new affliction: the War Neurosis ("shell shock"). A Modernist writer, not unlike Virginia Woolf, and her troubled war veteran husband receive a visit from an old friend, an expert psychoanalyst not unlike Sigmund Freud. As the evening unfolds, we go deeper and deeper and deeper into the unconscious minds of this mysterious trio—a husband, a wife and a rival.
I suddenly saw this scene in front of me—this path, these four trees, this part of the mountainside—as a single window I was looking through, and nothing more, nothing more beyond my field, this field, of vision.
Featuring Richard Frederick*, Joel Mullennix* and Jan Zvaifler with costumes by Tammy Berlin, sound by Gregory Scharpen and stage management by Kristen Fitch.
