Aurora Theatre Company Hosts The 1st Aurora Script Club Meeting of The Season With Shepard's Buried Child 9/21

Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company presents the first Aurora Script Club meeting of the season with Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Buried Child. Aurora Theatre Company Education Director Michael Mansfield begins his second season as host for this moderated discussion series. The focus for this evening will be the American family dream, examining Aurora Theatre Company's upcoming 18th season opener, Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! written in the 1930s in light of Shepard's Midwestern family drama, penned in the1970s.

The Aurora Script Club was conceived and developed by Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Tom Ross.

Aurora Theatre Company sets the tone for its 18th season with Clifford Odets' classic Depression-era drama Awake and Sing! Written at the height of the Depression, this stirring family portrait depicts the too true-to-life economic hardships confronted by working-class families during the 1930s, documenting their dreams and disappointments, hopes, fears, and follies in the face of the American dream. Joy Carlin (Jack Goes Boating, Hysteria, The Price), who first directed this play for Berkeley Repertory Theatre 24 years ago, revisits this landmark drama for Aurora, featuring Charles Dean, Rod Gnapp, Ellen Ratner, and Ray Reinhardt, along with Victor Talmadge, Anthony Nemirovsky, Rebecca White, and Patrick Russell. Awake and Sing! plays August 21 -September 27 at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley.

DATE: Monday, September 21, 7:30pm

Aurora Theatre
2081 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94704

TICKETS: Aurora Script Club is free and open to the public; for more information about Script Club or Awake and Sing!, the public can call (510) 843-4822 or visit auroratheatre.org.