Little Brother: Debut of a New Thriller Based on Cory Doctorow Novel
Gough Street Playhouse, Formerly The Next Stage (1620 Gough St San Francisco, CA 94109)
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The last date listed for Little Brother was Saturday February 25, 2012 / 8:00pm.
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black: A Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
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In her short life, African American playwright and author Lorraine Hansberry left behind many unfinished manuscripts along with her brilliant theater works A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. After her death in 1965 at the age of 34, her ex-husband Robert Nemiroff became her literary executor and adapted her writings into the play To Be Young, Gifted and Black which opened Off Broadway in 1969. Multi Ethnic Theater's cast of eight actors will recreate Hansberry's life, with each female actor taking turns depicting the writer at different stages of her life. Learn More
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Austin Nation
To my surprise, this was quite an enjoyable show. I loved the lead actor...he made everything seem so realistic, a great story-teller.Written on Feb 27 2012
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Gabe
The script strayed from the novel but it still felt relevant and true to the the original author's intent. The actors (each playing multiple roles) were all talented, energetic and enthusiastic.Written on Feb 17 2012
All in all, I'd say that the play is well-produced, directed, and acted. A quintessentially excellent small theatre performance which the audience (myself included) greatly enjoyed. Go see it before it closes!
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This is the second play I have gone to at the Gough Street Playhouse. I saw Underpants there. Little Brother was well done, set ups were excellent and the actors changed from one character to another seamlessly.Written on Jan 16 2012
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Elizabeth H
This is an excellent performance of a very interesting, thought provoking, tear jerking, inspirational play by a dynamic group of young talented actors who do a superb job! Bravo to all!Written on Feb 06 2012
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Custom Made Theatre Company stages the world premiere of the timely and frightening thriller, Little Brother, adapted by Josh Costello from Cory Doctorow’s New York Times best-selling novel. Little Brother has been compared to Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World for its warnings of a society controlled by a strangling bureaucracy. At the same time, it is a “techie love story” with youthful romance set against a world which forces the first-time lovers to become underground revolutionaries.
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to The Guardian, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wired and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. His New York Times Bestseller Little Brother was published in May 2008. Little Brother was nominated for the 2008 Hugo, Nebula, Sunburst and Locus Awards. It won the Ontario Library White Pine Award, the Prometheus Award as well as the Indienet Award for bestselling young adult novel in America's top 1000 independent bookstores in 2008.
Josh Costello (Adaptor and Director) is the Artist Director of Expanded Programs at Marin Theatre Company, and a founder of Impact Theatre. His other adaptations include Ubu for President with the Shotgun Players, Henry IV: The Impact Remix with Impact Theatre (where Josh was the founding Artistic Director), and The Rover, which he directed for the Chance Theatre in Orange County and for a live television broadcast on LA and Orange County's PBS affiliate. His other directing work includes the world premiere of Zayd Dohrn's Reborning at SF Playhouse, House of Lucky at Magic Theatre, and Romeo and Juliet: A Fire Ballet at The Crucible in Oakland. Josh holds a BFA in Theatre from Boston University, and an MFA in Directing from the University of Washington, Seattle.
Daniel Petzold (Marcus) makes his Custom Made debut as Doctorow’s beleaguered hero. His previous stage experience includes roles in Romeo and Juliet with Pacific Rep, Macbeth with Marin Shakespeare, Twelfth Night with Town Hall, The Tempest with SF Shakespeare on Tour, The Salt Plays: In the Wound and Of the Earth with Shotgun Players, and Forever Never Comes with Crowded Fire. He has a B.A. in Theater and Performance Studies from UC Berkeley.
Marissa Keltie (Ange) marks her first appearance with Custom Made Theatre. She has worked throughout the Bay Area, with roles at Marin Theatre Company, Cal Shakes, SF Playhouse, Shotgun Players, Crowded Fire Theater Company, Central Works, Berkeley Playhouse, and Impact Theatre, where she is a company member. Up next she will be playing Sally in A Lie of the Mind with Boxcar Theatre.
Cory Censoprano (Darryl) was last seen touring the Bay Area last summer in 2012: The Musical! with the Tony-Award-Winning San Francisco Mime Troupe. He received his degree in theatre from San Jose State in May. His acting credits include Konstantin in The Seagull, Feste in Twelfth Night, David Henry Hwang in Yellow Face and Cosme in Luis Valdez’s Mummified Deer.
About the Ticket Supplier: Custom Made Theatre Co.
The Custom Made Theatre Co. is an award-winning San Francisco-based not-for-profit theatre dedicated to ensemble-based, socially relevant productions. Custom Made is the managing company of the Gough Street Playhouse, where they present a five play season, along with numerous readings, workshops and classes. In 2010, Custom Made received seven Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle nominations, including Best Production for A Delicate Balance and Best Musical for Cotton Patch Gospel. Most recently, Custom Made produced the Bay Area Premiere of Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter and the sold-out hit rethinking of The Diary of Anne Frank.