Phone +1 415-547-0189 Productions Hamlet, Macbeth | Opened 2009 | |
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Address 1462 14th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA Similar Fort Point, ACT's Geary Theater, Z Space, Clay Theater, Boxcar Theatre Profiles | ||
We Players is a site-integrated theater company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company was founded in 2000 by Ava Roy, its Artistic Director, while she was a student at Stanford University.
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Site-integration venue
We Players programs are interactive, taking place at typically outdoor locations rather than inside a theatre building. The intent is to use the physical environment to affect the audience's perception of the play and allow viewers to get involved in the production as it is performed in and around the audience.
Partnership with National and State Park Services
In November 2008 Amy Brees, the National Park Service’s Alcatraz site supervisor, invited Ava Roy, We Players’ Artistic Director, to be the first artist-in-residence on the island. Since then, the theater company has co-operated with the National Park Service and California State Parks by bring their performances into these areas turning public park spaces into "impromptu playhouses". In 2012 the theatre company entered into a five-year cooperative agreement with San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park to perform in the park.
Past Performances
Past performances of We Players are Ondine (play) at Sutro (2015), Macbeth at Fort Point (2013, 2014), King Fool(2014), Twelfth Night on Hyde Street Pier (2012), The Odyssey on Angel Island State Park (2012), The Odyssey on Alma (2011), Hamlet on Alcatraz (2010), Iphigenia & Other Daughters (2009), Macbeth (2008), The Tempest at the Albany Bulb (2006), House of Will (2004), Jabberwocky (2003), Portrait of a Fool (2001), Hamlet (2001), Romeo and Juliet (2000), amongst other presenting series and collaborations