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Shakespeare, Capote: Two hot tickets
Research by SF State Assistant Professor of Psychology Ryan Howell shows that experiential purchases, such as tickets to the theatre, are more likely to make people happy than material purchases. With that in mind, here are two experiential gift ideas…
In the mood for a wicked performance? One this way comes, courtesy alumnus Mark Jackson. The much celebrated playwright has reinvented Shakespeare’s Macbeths as “two young, wealthy hipsters with exceedingly sharp tastes in clothing and insatiable appetites for more of everything.” Jackson told the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this year: “For me, it’s a galloping thriller about ambition and its political and personal ramifications–which is why I wanted to go with a younger Macbeth, to get that sense of a young, energetic impulse driving this couple to climb that ladder.”
Macbeth, a Shotgun Players production, runs through Jan. 11 at Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. For more information: www.shotgunplayers.org
Fun with Fruitcake: Alumna JoAnne Winter, cofounder of Word for Word, directs a staged reading of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at Theatre Rhinoceros (2926 16th Street at South Van Ness in downtown San Francisco). In Capote’s largely autobiographical story of seven-year-old Buddy and his much older cousin Sook, “a trip to find fruitcake ingredients becomes a memorable adventure.” For tickets, call 415/861-5079 or visit www.TheRhino.org For more information, contact fellow SF State alumna/Word for Word cofounder Susan Harloe at 415/ 626-0453 x 128 or sharloe@zspace.org
To do: Check out de Young exhibit, see “Milk,” visit ilasting.com
Check out Michael Krasny’s “Forum” program on KQED today to hear him and fellow faculty members Mark Johnson and Irene Poon Anderson discuss “Asian/American/Modern Art.” Then check out the SF State-sponsored exhibit. The first of its kind at San Francisco’s de Young Museum and an accompanying book chronicle the largely forgotten 19th and 20th century art of Asian Americans.
In this Washington Post article, alumnus Cleve Jones reveals that the recently released film “Milk” is a promise kept. Cleve, the activist behind the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, was intent on bringing to the big screen the life of the late Harvey Milk, his mentor and friend. Jones, portrayed in the film by actor Emile Hirsch, was a political science major at SF State when he went to work as an intern in Milk’s office.
Meanwhile, alumnus Anthony Doctolero is helping others pay tribute to lost loved ones with a new Web site: www.ilasting.com. Beautiful in both design and sentiment, ilasting allows people to create an online memorial for friends and family members who have passed away.
