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Rounding out the season with Fallaci and Elizabeth (and Lowell -- oh my!)

posted by Kyle Sircus on Thu, May 3, 2012
in News , Our shows

Berkeley Rep is rounding out its 2012-13 season with two thoughtful new plays about some fascinating women. First, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright's Fallaci, a world premiere about the ferocious Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci. And last, but certainly not least, Sarah Ruhl and Les Waters (the team behind Eurydice and In the Next Room) reunite to bring Berkeley Rep audiences Dear Elizabeth, a new play about the passionate friendship between poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. 

Sarah Ruhl (above) returns to Berkeley Rep with Les Waters with
Dear Elizabeth, a new play about poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. 
Photo courtesy of Berkeley Repertory Theatre

These two selections round out a fantastic season that includes work from the world's top theatre directors: David Henry Hwang's Chinglish (directed by Leigh Silverman), An Iliad (directed by Lisa Peterson), Mary Zimmerman's The White Snake (brought to you by the same theatrical mind behind Arabian Nights and Metamorphoses), the world premiere of Dan LeFranc's Troublemaker (directed by Dexter Bullard), and Mark Wing-Davey's thrilling new adaptation of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

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