Garuda’s Wing is a new play by Naomi Iizuka.  This is a ghost play of interpersonal intimacy and international investigation.  This mystery, intergenerational, global spellbinder is  an exploration, shrouded in mystery, entangled in the effects of colonization. Garuda’s Wing is magical in that it is a play that is both a spellbinding trance and one that spans continents and time.  This play begins in Borneo.  It takes us to Jakarta.  And in the midst, we travel through generations, histories, and bloodlines.  The play involves a search, unearthing, murder, on the personal familial intimate level as well as connecting to the large global colonial plane.  Iizuka possesses the ability to create intimate human portraits, while simultaneously evoking the layers of revolution and colonial effects - a stunning and magnetic feat, even in reading alone. 

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Garuda's Wing

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture

A brand new music theatre piece from Richard Montoya of the iconic satire group Culture Clash. Richard Montoya continues his years-long collaboration with new performances group Campo Santo, creating this new performance piece especially for the Magic Theatre and Presidio Theatre. This is an original creation uncovering the roots of Jerry Garcia in the Mission.  A Tribute to the formative years in our own City of an American Icon and local legend- Jerry Garcia.  A special piece of storytelling and live music, San Francisco history, Grateful Dead Lore wrapped into an intimate theatre concert. The performance will be surrounded by video in the former movie theatre space of the beautifully refurbished Presidio Theatre!  This theatrical exploration goes to the earliest roots (1947-48) of this hero, Jerry Garcia. We go on a time trip journey into Garcia's early life as it plays out in our City, in the Mission District of yore. Before the Dead, we reach back to Jerry, an imaginative and sensitive child who witnesses the drowning of his Spanish father and must now navigate the length of Mission Street and his memory of a strong Irish Mother, owner of a Merchant Marine and Navy saloon, right in the heart of the Lower Mission.  

Jerry Garcia in the Lower Mission

Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center

ichard II" class="css-u850">Richard II" class="css-u850">Richard II is Shakespeare’s examination of the destructive powers of privilege. In the second half of the Iizuka Repertory - the company from the world premiere of Garuda's Wing will perform a new, lean production of Iizuka’s Play On version of Richard II shaped to this company. Not modernized, just new. This will be the first Shakespeare produced by the Magic Theatre" class="css-u850">Magic Theatre" class="css-u850">Magic Theatre" class="css-u850">Magic Theatre" class="css-u850">Magic Theatre in decades, but this is new! Play On Shakespeare has created an entire library of new versions of the entire Shakespeare canon with some of the greatest living writers! But these are “pure” they are translated line for line.  This new chapter for Play On will be about making new productions! The Magic Theatre are matching these translations with a new version embodying it entirely with a POC cast- filled with the folx typically outside of Shakespeare text and productions. This will feature POC, Women, and Queer folx throughout and rightfully centered, embodying the original story and context- no adaptation- created for now! 

Magic Theatre

5 - 23 Jun, 2024

Garuda's Wing

11 - 21 Jul, 2024

Jerry Garcia in the Lower Mission

Aug 21 - Sep 8, 2024

Richard II

Magic Theatre

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