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The Secret in the Wings at Berkeley Rep

Berkeley Repertory Theatre (2025 Addison Street Berkeley, CA 94704)
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See the West Coast premiere of Tony Award winning writer/director Mary Zimmerman's The Secret in the Wings, a vivid staging of five fairy tales including "Beauty and the Beast," retold in an imaginative and colorful style for adult audiences.

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The last date listed for The Secret in the Wings was Sunday October 17, 2004 / 7:00pm.

2025 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
510-647-2949 Box Office
7151853berkeleyrep

More Information About The Secret in the Wings

Website

http://www.berkeleyrep.org/HTML/CurrentSeason/SW_description.html

Quotes & Highlights

  • "Captivatingly simple, disturbingly evocative and richly transgressive...a theatrical feast of compelling interplays between set, lights, costumes and sound." San Francisco Chronicle
  • "Hauntingly beautiful." Chicago Sun-Times
  • "Imaginative, highly theatrical, compact, and complex." Theater Mania

Description

After enthralling Berkeley Rep audiences with her stunning adaptations of Wu Ch'eng-en's Journey to the West, Ovid's Metamorphoses<'I> and Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks, writer/director Mary Zimmerman returns to her Bay Area home with The Secret in the Wings.

A captivating voyage into our collective childhood subconscious, The Secret in the Wings weaves elements from "Beauty and the Beast" with four lesser-known stories into a dream-like exploration of the darker side of human impulses. Punctuating the tales' haunting truths with breathtaking visual moments and poignant snatches of song, Zimmerman's latest endeavor challenges the belief that fairy tales are only for children; The Secret in the Wings is her invitation for adults to immerse themselves in a rare and magical storybook experience.

Runs 90 minutes with no intermission.

About the Ticket Supplier: Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Known for its amazing and adventurous audience, the nonprofit has provided a home for emerging and established artists since 1968. With two stages and a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, Berkeley Rep premieres exhilarating new plays and reimagined classics. In the last five years alone, the company has helped send five shows to Broadway: Green Day's American Idiot, Bridge & Tunnel, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), Passing Strange and Wishful Drinking. Come see tomorrow's plays today at Berkeley Rep.

Berkeley Rep operates two performance spaces: the Roda Theatre, a state-of-the-art 600-seat proscenium theatre, and the intimate, 400-seat Thrust Stage. The Theatre is located in the heart of downtown Berkeley's arts district, just a half block from the Berkeley BART station, near lots of restaurants, cafe, pubs, and cool retailers.