MARIUS at Fort Mason Center: A Provençal Evening in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2013 – GenerationTheatre will première Marius, by Marcel Pagnol, in a new English translation by R. David Valayre. The production will open on August 8 and run through August 25, 2013 at the Southside Theatre, at Fort Mason Center. Curtain time is 8:00pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 3:00pm on Sunday. GenerationTheatre’s production of Marius has been selected and is sponsored by Fort Mason Center as part of its annual arts festival, Fort Mason Center Presents.
Marius is the first play in Marcel Pagnol’s celebrated and heart-warming “Marseille Trilogy” composed of Marius, Fanny, César. Together, the three plays tell the story of a small bar on Marseille’s Old Harbor over an entire generation. In the endearing style of Marcel Pagnol’s dramas (My Father’s Castle, Manon of the Springs, The Baker’s Wife, etc.) the Trilogy invites us into the cycles of love, heart break, and joy that fill the lives of now famous characters: Marius, César, Fanny, Panisse, Monsieur Brun, Escartefigue.
“All French kids and all true Francophiles have a soft spot in their heart for Pagnol’s characters,” says GenerationTheatre’s Artistic Director, David Valayre, who also directs Marius. “A constant feature of Marcel Pagnol's work is the way it is rooted in Southern France. Yet, eluding the traps of regionalism, he turned that region into the centre of the world, giving his characters and themes a universal dimension, as he did with Marius, a young man in search of his own self, attracted by remote places and held back by love; with Fanny, sacrificing her life to bring happiness to the man she loves,” wrote Nicolas Pagnol, Marcel’s grandson and a wholehearted supporter of GenerationTheatre’s Trilogy project.
GenerationTheatre will offer its Bay Area audience, not only Pagnol’s entire Trilogy, which will be staged at the pace of one play per season, but an entire evening of Provençal celebration, at the Southside Theatre at Fort Mason Center – now the company’s permanent home. With the collaboration of the French Consulate, the Berkeley Alliance Française and French and local sponsors, the Southside Lobby and the House will be open to the public one hour before curtain, for live music and presentations on Provence, Marcel Pagnol and Marius, a Provençal café, and French books, records and products.
Marius, by Marcel Pagnol, translated and directed by Roland David Valayre, interpreted by Alan Badger, Lisa Carlson, Jim Gasperini, Nastassia Maltsava, Nicolas Poler, Nathan Putnam, Matthew Surrence, and Ket Watters.
August 8-25, 2013 - Southside Theatre, Fort Mason Center, Bldg D, San Francisco
Information: http://generationtheatre.com
Ticket Prices: $35 - $20; school and group rates upon request
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Generation Theatre is an ensemble theater company and a California non-profit corporation.
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