UC San Diego Theatre and Dance to Present THE GREEN COCKATOO

The UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance presents The Green Cockatoo, by Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Carl R Mueller, and directed by Marco Barricelli.

About the play: It's July 14th, 1789, Paris. The city is in an uproar and the political/social life is on the very brink of enormous changes ...changes that will effect the entire world from then on. A rag-tag theatrical group is performing their improvised show for some of the aristocracy. At a certain moment no one is sure if the frenzied performers are screaming real insults at the nobility as part of the show, or if they are finally telling them their cathartic truth about the burgeoning revolution and the overthrow of the aristocracy.

The preview for The Green Cockatoo is on November 15 at 7pm. The show runs November 17, 18, and 20 at 7:30pm with a 2pm matinee on November 18 and a 7pm performance on November 19. Performances are at the Mandell Weiss Forum in the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theatre District on UC San Diego's campus: 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA. For information about parking, please see the website.

Tickets are $20 for regular performances. Subscriptions and group rates are available. Student tickets are $10 for regular performances. Faculty, staff, alumni and senior citizens discounts available as well. Tickets can be purchased online or by calling the box office at (858) 534-4574.

The cast features Xavier Clark (Scaevola), Hannah Finn (Prospère), Andrew Gallop (Rollin), Yonatan Gebeyehu (François), Amara Granderson (Michette), Assata Hefner (Flipotte), Sidney Hill (Maurice), Volen Iliev (Grain), Enrico Nassi (Henri), Brandon O'Sullivan (Grasset), Christine Penn (Georgette), David Price (Marquis de Lansac), Michael Rishawn (Police Sergeant), Claire Roberson (Séverine), Garrett Schulte (Émile, Duke de Cadignan), Max Singer (Albin), Danielle Wineman (Léocadie), Hayden Albert Emmerson (Lebrêt), Brennen Mahon (Balthasar), Ryan Martinez (Jules), Andrew Olson (Guillaume), Isabella Calabrese (Ensemble), Emma Langton (Ensemble), Zach Ring (Ensemble), and Masato Watanabe (Ensemble).

The production staff includes Marco Barricelli (Director), Yi-Chien Lee (Scenic Designer), Annie Le (Costume Designer), Minjoo Kim (Lighting Designer), Justin Livengood (Sound Designer), Kristen Tregar (Dramaturg), Jacqueline Mullen (Production Stage Manager), Nicholas Rapp (Assistant Director), Samuel Keamy-Minor (Assistant Scenic Designer), Dorottya Vincze (Assistant Costume Designer), Justin Beets (Assistant Lighting Designer), Stephen Jensen (Assistant Sound Designer), Bryan Runion (Assistant Stage Manager), Nicholas Lambros Smith (Assistant Stage Manager), Sami Squires (Production Assistant), and Sam Bedford (Production Assistant).

About the playwright: Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist. Schnitzler's works were often controversial, both for their frank description of sexuality and for their strong stand against anti-Semitism, represented by works such as his play Professor Bernhardi and his novel Der Weg ins Freie. Schnitzler's works were called "Jewish filth" by Adolf Hitler and were banned and burned by the Nazis in Austria and Germany.

About the director: Marco Barricelli was artistic director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz from 2008 to 2014. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he has been an actor, director and educator since 1982. He spent eight seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as an actor performing the title roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Hamlet, Richard III, and Henry V, among many others. From 1997 to 2005, he was an Associate Artist at The American Conservatory Theatre (A.C.T.) in San Francisco, acting on the Geary stage, as well as directing and teaching in the Master of Fine Arts program. His A.C.T. performance credits include roles in A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Real Thing (Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Award), American Buffalo (Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Award), Enrico IV (Dean Goodman Award), Glengarry Glen Ross (Dean Goodman Award), The Invention of Love (Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Award; Dean Goodman Award), A Streetcar Named Desire, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Three Sisters, Night and Day, Buried Child, Hilda, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Beard of Avon, Celebration & The Room, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Mary Stuart, Insurrection: Holding History, Hecuba, The Rose Tattoo (Drama-Logue Award), andVigil, among many others. He has also worked on Broadway, and with Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, the Old Globe Theatre, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Actors' Theatre of Louisville, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, the Intiman Theatre, the Huntington Theatre Company, Virginia Stage Company, Center Stage Portland, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Kenyon Festival Theatre, and the California, Utah, and Illinois Shakespeare Festivals, among others. Television appearances include "L.A. Law" and a recurring role on the NBC series "Book of Daniel." Directing credits include Hamlet at Utah Shakespeare Festival, Glengarry Glen Ross at Denver Center Theatre Company (Henry Award), Miracle Worker at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Twelfth Night at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Betrayal at USC, Twelfth Night at UMKC, and many productions at the A.C.T. MFA Conservatory and the OSF school visit program, among others. He has performed voice-over work on many national commercials and several computer games, including "11th Hour," "Clandestiny," and "Manhunt 2." Teaching acting has also taken him abroad to work with Accademia Silvio D'Amico in Rome, as well as Prima del Teatro in Tuscany, where along with his teaching duties, he created an exchange program between the MFA Conservatory at ACT and Prima del Teatro. He has translated Pirandello's The Mountain Giants and Right You Are If You Think You Are, as well as co-translating and acting in a one-man adaptation of the Pirandellian novel One, No One ... Mr. Barricelli is also a Fox Fellow, the recipient of a Cherashore Foundation grant and L.J. Skaggs grant, and has been awarded an honorary MFA from American Conservatory Theatre.

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