Developed at Z SPACE
YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE
SEPTEMBER 10 - SEPTEMBER 27, 2009
Thursdays at 7pm
Friday, Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 5pm

directed by Jayne Wenger
written and performed by Anne Galjour

*SYNOPSIS

EXPLORE THE LAST GREAT TABOO.  You Can’t Get There From Here exposes the reality of class and cultural divide in contemporary America.  In this riveting one-woman show, Bay Area performer Anne Galjour takes us on a journey through a New England community, where she reveals the basic fears, frustrations, and aspirations that tie together everyday life. 

*SPECIAL EVENTS
OPENING NIGHT OPEN HOUSE
The public is invited to join us from 5pm-7pm for a free open house with refreshments to celebrate the Z Space's new home at Theater Artaud. Tickets to that evening's performance are just $20, and can be purchased online or at the door.

THURSDAY NIGHT TALKBACK
Audiences are invited to stay after the performance on Thursday evenings for a session of cross-class dialogue and discussion led by Ms. Galjour

*CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
Originally from Cajun French speaking Southeastern Louisiana, ANNE GALJOUR has been a resident of San Francisco for 29 years.   You Can't Get There From Here was commissioned by the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College and the Flynn Performing Arts Center in Burlington VT.  The work was developed and produced by Z Space Studio.  It had its world premiere at the Hop and toured New England at The Flynn, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro, VT.

Additional solo performance credits include Alligator Tales - Hurricane and Mauvais Temps which premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and went on to Manhattan Theatre Club, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Actors Theatre of Louisville.  The Krewe of Neptune and Alligator Tales (4 Dramatic Short Stories)  both premiered at Climate Theatre in San Francisco.   Her playwriting credits include Okra  which premiered at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco in 2004, then moved to Southern Rep and later to True Brew Theatre, where it continued to play to sold out houses in New Orleans up until the night before Hurricane Katrina hit. It recently played to a sold out run at the Bayou Playhouse in Louisiana. Bird In The Hand  was commissioned by Z Space and produced by Central Works Theatre Company in Berkeley. Her children's play The Queen of the Sea was commissioned and produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Awards for her work include the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award - Best Original Script for Okra,  the Will Glickman Playwriting Award and Bay Area Theater Critics Award - best original script for Mauvais Temps (Part Two of Alligator Tales) in 1997.  For Hurricane she received theAmerican Theatre Critics Association Osborn Award for Emerging Playwright.   The ATCA  selected it as one of the best 3 plays in regional  theatre, 1994. Additional honors for Hurricane include Bay Area Theater Critics Circle  - best solo performance, SF Solo Mio Festival - outstanding solo artist, SF Bay Guardian “Goldie” for outstanding performance artist - 1993. She is a lecturer in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.

JAYNE WENGER is a director and dramaturge whose exclusive focus is on original material. Throughout 25 years of professional theater experience, she has been dedicated to the development, direction and production of original plays and solo performances. She is the past Artistic Director of the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation and was the Artistic Director of Women's Ensemble of New York.  She has developed the emerging work of acclaimed playwrights such as David Adjmi, Brenda Wong Aoki, Kate Bornstein, Nilo Cruz, Sara Felder (June Bride and Shtick! both tour the country), Julie Hebert, Dan Hoyle, Lauren Yee, Holly Hughes, Naomi Iizuka, Sherry Kramer, Brighde Mullins, Naomi Newman, and Laura Shamus among many others. She has collaborated with Claire Chafee on numerous projects, including the original direction of the world premiere of Why We Have a Body at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco.

Her work has been recognized with many awards.  Current projects include dramaturgy for a new play by Brian Thorstenson, to be produced this fall by AlterTheater, dramaturgy   and co-direction for Men Think They Are Better Than Grass, a dance/theater piece with The Deborah Slater Dance Theater of San Francisco; and dramaturgy for All At Sea, a new musical by Pamela Winfrey and Christie Winn, which will be presented on board the Liberty Ship, S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien in San Francisco. 

Projects in 2008 included dramaturgy for the world premier of Arlitia’s Jones Make Good The Fires at Cyrano’s in Anchorage, Alaska; direction and dramaturgy for Hard Laughter, an adaptation of Ann Lamott’s first novel, produced by AlterTheater of San Rafael, CA; direction for Anne Galjour’s world premier, You Can’t Get There From Here, at Dartmouth College; direction for Deke Weaver’s The Crimes and Confessions of Kip Knudson, A Hockey Way of Knowledge at the Station House Theater in Urbana, Illinois; as well as dramaturgy for Justin Warner’s American Whupass produced by AlterTheater.   Jayne collaborates on productions throughout the country, works with playwrights and solo performers in her studio in Marin County, and leads workshops for writers around the country and in Assisi, Italy. (www.artworkshopintl.com) She is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturges of the Americas, and the Dramatists Guild.

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