A biting drama about homelessness and displacement in post-apartheid South Africa. by Michael Scott Moore Clive Chafer’s semihomeless Theatrefirst company turns the elegant patio room of the Berkeley City Club (where Aurora Theatre once played) into a laundry-and-shoebox-cluttered squat for a biting drama about homelessness and displacement in post-apartheid South Africa. Mooi Street Moves shows [...]

‘Love’ finds hope amid loss Local premiere at new TheatreFIRST by Robert Hurwitt San Francisco Chronicle There’s little room for idealism or even romantic daydreaming in Joe Penhall’s world of stressed-out doctors and mythomaniac drifters. Ethics are compromised. Love dies. Friendship is badly abused. “Cynics,” says a disillusioned emergency room doctor, “are realists surrounded by [...]

“A surprisingly intimate drama about a child with cerebral palsy.” BY MICHAEL SCOTT MOORE The girl’s name is Josephine, but her English parents call her Joe Egg after a saying of her very English, very suburban-provincial grandmother’s: “Just sitting around like Joe Egg.” Young Josephine does nothing but sit around; she has cerebral palsy. The [...]