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“White Noise” (Suzan-Lori Parks ’85) at the Berkeley Rep
October 19, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
$52
Join us for a performance of “White Noise”
When: Saturday, October 19, 2019 | 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
Where: Berkeley Repertory Theatre 2025 Addison Street, Berkeley
Point Person: Hannah Fairbanks ’03
Please join the Mount Holyoke Club of Northern California on Saturday, October 19, 2019, for an evening at Berkeley Rep to see the West Coast premiere of “White Noise” by Suzan-Lori Parks ’85. Berkeley Rep is the only regional theatre outside New York to present “White Noise” this year.
Note on tickets:
Berkeley Rep has generously offered our group 20% off regular ticket prices. If you are able, we are accepting donations to help sponsor alums for whom the ticket price is prohibitive. If you’re interested in attending and unable to purchase a ticket, email us at mountholyoke@gmail.com. Please RSVP by Sept. 15 at 6 pm.
About the play:
NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 01: Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks attends HBO’s “Native Son” screening at Guggenheim Museum on April 1, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for HBO)
Leo, Dawn, Ralph, and Misha are old friends. The two 30-something couples are educated, progressive, and cosmopolitan. But when a racially motivated incident with the police leaves Leo shaken, he makes a radical proposition to Ralph that forever alters the relationship between these four friends — and their view of the world.
Named among Time magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next Wave,” Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most acclaimed playwrights in American drama today. She is the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, is a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, and in 2015 was awarded the prestigious Gish Prize for Excellence in the Arts. Other grants and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also a recipient of a Lila-Wallace Reader’s Digest Award, a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts, and a Guggenheim Foundation Grant.
Critical acclaim:
• An uncompromising new drama.
• Racism is a virus. And we’ve all got it. Ok, some more than others, ok. The workings of the virus are getting more complicated and the rewards are getting more sophisticated.
• When I saw the world premiere of White Noise at The Public Theater this winter, I knew before the intermission that I wanted to bring it to Berkeley Rep. It is poetic, challenging, timely, and sure to provoke the kinds of conversations that theatre is uniquely poised to enable, and that Berkeley Rep audiences do better than anyone! —Johanna Pfaelzer, Berkeley Rep’s new Artistic Director
• Brave, intelligent, and eviscerating, White Noise by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most talked-about new plays tackling our rapidly unraveling social contract.
• Uncompromising…complex…ravishing…enthrallingly thought-provoking —New York Times
• Radical…brilliant…eviscerating —New York Magazine
We hope to see you for this very special event in October!
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