Central Works Presents Machiavelli's THE PRINCE 8/22-9/19 at The Berkeley City Club

Central Works presents Machiavelli's The Prince a new play based on the infamous "handbook for tyrants" written & directed by Gary Graves August 22 - September 19 (pay what you can preview August 21.)

A Central Works Method Play developed in collaboration with Richard Frederick, Michael Navarra & Jan Zvaifler

This fascinating new drama based on the infamous "handbook for tyrants" puts Niccolo Machiavelli's precepts to the test. Are human beings essentially good or fundamentally untrustworthy? Does the end always justify the means? What practical alternative is there to the ruthless efficiency of tyranny?

"He who considers it necessary to secure himself in his new principality, to win friends, to overcome either by force or fraud, to make himself beloved and feared by the people, to be followed and revered by the soldiers, to exterminate those who have power or reason to hurt him, to change the old order of things for new, to be severe and gracious, magnanimous and liberal, to destroy a disloyal soldiery and to create a new one, to maintain friendship with kings and princes in such a way that they must help him with zeal and offend with caution, cannot find a more lively example than the actions of Duke Duke Cesare Borgia."--Machiavelli, 'The Prince', Chapter VII.

When: August 22-September 19; Thursday, Friday, Saturday at p.m. & Sunday at 5p.m. with a special 5p.m. performance Saturday, September 19. Pay-what-you-can preview performance Friday, August 21 at 8p.m.

The Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley.

Who: Written and directed by Gary Graves and featuring Richard Frederick* and Michael Navarra* (*members AEA). Costumes by Tammy Berlin & sound design by Gregory Scharpen.

Tickets: $21 online at centralworks.org or $25 - $14 sliding scale at the door.

Reservations/Info: 510 558 1381 or centralworks.org

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