2023, The Mother Lear film screened online, followed by panel discussions

In April-May 2023, SRT presented three free online screenings of the Mother Lear film, followed by a Zoom discussion with experts on theatre, aging, dementia care, and Shakespeare.

After several years of We Players' producing this original award-winning play by Courtney Walsh and Ava Roy, SRT helped to transform Mother Lear into a powerful 50 minute film - the story of an irascible middle-aged Shakespeare scholar with dementia who communicates with her caretaker daughter using only the text of King Lear.

A panel discussions followed each screening of the film, hosted by SRT Artistic Director Rush Rehm: Best Practices in Dementia Care (April 23), with Courtney Walsh (co-writer/ director, and performer, Mother Lear), Dr. Dawn Gross (Ph.D, MD, Palliative Care Physician, UCSF), and Nader Shabahangi (Ph.D., Vice President, Codirector of Clinical Training, at Oakland’s Existential-Humanistic Institute); Shakespeare on Aging (April 30), with Courtney Walsh, Linda Paulson (Associate Provost and Director, Stanford Master of Liberal Arts Program), and Dr. Philippa Kelly (Resident Dramaturg, California Shakespeare Festival); and Adapting Shakespeare (May 7), with Courtney Walsh and Ava Roy (co-writers/directors, and performers, Mother Lear) and Amy Freed (Artist in Residence, Stanford University, Pulitzer Prize Finalist playwright).

Recordings of the panel discussions are available:

Click here for ‘Best Practices in Dementia Care’

Click here for ‘Shakespeare on Aging’

Click here for ‘Adapting Shakespeare’

For more information about the Mother Lear film, visit https://www.motherlearfilm.com/, or contact producer Courtney Walsh at motherlearfilm@gmail.com

2021-2022, Voices of the Earth: From Sophocles to Rachel Carson and Beyond

SRT presented Voices of the Earth at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, on November 7, 2021.

Compiled by Charles Junkerman and Rush Rehm, Voices of the Earth brings together some of the greatest environmental voices from across the centuries. A multitude of perspectives on the natural world and our relationship to it come together, often in concert, sometimes in collision. With a cast of 90 different characters – poets, naturalists, scientists, politicos, deniers, and heroes – all of them real, most of them sane, Voices of the Earth presents a kaleidoscope of views on the earth we inhabit, and the existential crisis we face.

JULY-AUGUST 2019, THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Stanford Repertory Theater joined with Planet Earth Arts, PlayGround, and the National Center for New Plays to present a festival dedicated to the Environment and Social Justice.

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Voices of the Earth: From Sophocles to Rachel Carson and Beyond, compiled by Rush Rehm and Charles Junkerman, directed by Rush Rehm, with Gianna Clark, Thomas Freeland, Jake Harrison, Sequoiah Hippolyte, Brenna McCulloch, Emma Rothenberg, Gabriel Wieder.

Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie-Fringed Orchids, by Vincent Terrell Durham, directed by Rush Rehm, with Gianna Clark, Joshua Frazier (voice), Thomas Freeland, Jake Harrison, Sequoiah Hippolyte, Brenna McCulloch, Victor Ragsdale, Emma Rothenberg, Gabriel Wieder.

Review of Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids in the Stanford Daily: https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/07/23/polar-bears-black-boys-prairie-fringed-orchids-boldly-explores-race-class-and-environmental-themes/
Feature on SRT's Environment and Social Justice summer festival! https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2019/07/10/listening-to-the-voices-of-the-earth
SRT Artistic Director Rush Rehm discussing the 2019 festival on KALW's "Open Air"

Anna Considers Mars (produced by PlayGround and Planet Earth Arts), by Ruben Grijalva, directed by Susi Damilano, with Melissa Ortiz, Wilma Bonet, Christian Haines, Søren Oliver, Katie Rubin, Aaron Wilton.

Review of Anna Considers Mars: http://www.aislesaysanfrancisco.com/2019/08/superb-acting-in-anna-considers-mars-at.html

FEBRUARY 2019, DEMOCRATICALLY SPEAKING (MARINES MEMORIAL THEATER, SF).

Originally developed before the disastrous 2016 US elections, SRT's Democratically Speaking featured Gabriella Grier, Thomas Freeland, Gianna Clark, and Rush Rehm.

Hear SRT Artistic Director Rush Rehm discuss Democratically Speaking on KALW's Open Air, broadcast January 17, 2019:

November 2018, Four-Sided Triangle (SRT's adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country), Bolshoi Drama Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Adapted and directed by Rush Rehm, with Gabriella Greer (Natalya), Benoit Monin (Mikhail), Gabe Wieder (Aleksey), and Emma Rothenberg (Vera); Costumes by Connie Strayer; Stage Manager, Brendon Martin.

Four-Sided Triangle was presented as part of the TURGENEV FEST, celebrating the bicentennial of Ivan Turgenev, at St. Petersburg University, Russia.

December 13th, 2018. Stanford News.

September 2018, Euripides' Hecuba (Hekavi), Michael Cacoyannis Foundation Theater, Athens, Greece

In September 2018, SRT mounted a production of Euripides' Hecuba (Ekavi), translated and directed by Rush Rehm, adapted by Rush Rehm and Courtney Walsh, with choreography by Aleta Hayes, at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation theater in Athens, Greece. SRT was proud to bring this great tragedy back to the city of its origin. Based on SRT's original production of Hecuba/Helen, which starred Courtney Walsh in both title roles, Hecuba (Ekavi) was performed in English, with Greek supertitles. Kerasia Samara starred as Hecuba and Socrates Alafouzos as Odysseus and Polymnestor, joined by an all Greek professional cast. For more information, see https://www.mcf.gr/index.php/en/events/event/0/68-theatre/3705-euripides-hecuba-stanford-repertory-theater

Television interview: https://webtv.ert.gr/ert1/themata/ekavi-sto-michalis-kakogiannis-me-tin-kerasia-samara/

See video trailer of the Athens production:

Greek press coverage:

For background on this exciting initiative, please see here.

For more information, see: http://www.mcf.gr/index.php/en/pages/joomla-content/all-categories/1468-euripides-hecuba-stanford-repertory-theater.

JULY - AUGUST 2018, Nevertheless They Persisted: Euripides' Hecuba/Helen

Translated and directed by Rush Rehm; adapted by Rush Rehm and Courtney Walsh.

With Courtney Walsh, Joe Estlack, Douglas Nolan, Jenny Brick,Benoît Monin, Lea Claire Zawada, Brennan Pickman-Thoon, Shayan Hooshmand, Amber Dale Levine, Gianna Clark, Brenna McCulloch, Emma Rothenberg, and Regan Lavin.

07.29.2018 San Francisco Chronicle
07.28.2018 A Good Review
https://windswaves.wordpress.com/tag/greek/
https://www.myscience.org/news/wire/stanford_repertory_theater_brings_legendary_women_of_ancient_greece_to_the_stage-2018-stanford
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TVSCO1W77wUgGJ_WSQ8dH3Czt5onVd7w/view
https://www.uop.gr/ekdilosis/27-panepistimio-peloponnisou-ekdilosis/1216-stanford-university-stanford-classics-in-greece
REVIEWS for SRT's Hecuba/Helen, which played July 26 - August 19, 2018 at Stanford's Roble Studio Theater
SRT's 2018 Hecuba/Helen received great reviews, including the following from Lily Janiak the San Francisco Chronicle:
"Aleta Hayes’ choreography ... keeps Hecuba/Helen ceaselessly dynamic ... This group of young women is constantly darting about the space, pitching, heaving and lunging their limbs, arranging and rearranging themselves like electrons that then pause for an instant to blossom into a kaleidoscopic pattern."
"The script demands that Walsh mine symphonic range out of grief ... A few bold choices, like a foray into song, lend new shading to suffering; she’s like Shakespeare’s Ophelia, at once fathoming too much and not fathoming at all, the song both a veil over a clouded gaze and a clear-eyed immersion into sadness, the likes of which those who hold onto sanity can never know."
"It’s always invigorating to witness one of Western theater’s titanic women, but to see two of them in implied dialogue with one another opens up a new range of possibilities, both for classic drama and for our own."

JULY - AUGUST 2017, The Many Faces of Farce - Chekhov’s The Bear, The Proposal, The Anniversary and 33 Swoons

Directed by SRT Associate Artistic Director Alex Johnson, written by Anton Chekhov with the SRT company ensemble.

European Workshops 2017

In 2017, SRT presented workshops on performing Samuel Beckett at L’école normale superièure in Paris, and on Greek tragic choruses at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, Greece.

http://www.mcf.gr/en/events/?ev=mcf_rush_rehm_courtney_walsh_workshop

October 2016, DEmocratically Speaking

A co-production of SRT, Ethics in Society, Stanford Peace + Justice Studies Initiative, and TAPS, Democratically Speaking explored the idea and realities of "democracy," from ancient Greece to the disastrous 2016 US election.

Directed by Lindey Manoan; script assembled by Rush Rehm

with David Arrow, Christopher Carter, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Charlotte Dubache-Reinold, Thomas Freeland, David Koppel, and Lauren Stagger

JULY - AUGUST 2016, Theater Takes a StaND - Waiting for Lefty and Slaughter City

Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty, directed by Marty Pistone

with Thomas Freeland, Austin Caldwell, Tess McCarthy, Louis McWilliams, Andre Amarotico, Fiona Maguire, Dante Belletti, Christopher Carter, and Levi Jennings.

Waiting for Lefty Press:

Fiona Maguire, Louis McWilliams, and Leontyne Mbele in Slaughter City — Fiona Maguire, Louis McWilliams, and Leontyne Mbele in *Slaughter City*

Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City, Directed by Alex Johnson

with Leontyne Mbele, Nora Tjossem, Louis McWilliams, Fiona Maguire, Thomas Freeland, Dorian Lockett, and Austin Caldwell.

Slaughter City Press:

Symposium, "Theater and Labor." Keynote: Barry Witham, Shannon Jackson

Spring 2016, Words and Images to End All Wars

Words (and Images) to End All Wars commemorated the centenary of World War I, at Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building, Friday April 29 - Sunday May 1. A revised version of SRT's earlier Words to End All Wars, the production included projections of visual art produced during the Great War. Directed by Rush Rehm, the cast included Austin Caldwell, Thomas Freedman, Emma Jackson-Smith, Alex Johnson, Shelly Johnson, Kathleen Kelso, and Cody Stocker (saxophonist).

The production received a Noel Coward Society Endorsement for including sections from Coward's anti-war play Post Mortem.

Spring 2016, Clytemnestra: Tangled Justice

Clytemnestra: Tangled Justice, adapted from Aeschylus' Oresteia by Rush Rehm, with Courtney Walsh.

Performed at:

Hellenic American College Theater, Athens, Greece
Trianon Theater, Nafplion, Greece
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, Wesleyan University

Media and Press:

JULY - AUGUST 2015, Noel Coward Festival - Hay Fever and Cowardy Custard

Andre Amarotico in Hay Fever — Andre Amarotico in *Hay Fever*

Noël Coward’s Hay Fever, Directed by Lynne Soffer
with Courtney Walsh, Deb Fink, Austin Caldwell, Kiki Bagger, Bruce Carlton, Catherine Luedtke, Kathleen Kelso, Andre Amarotico, and Rush Rehm.

Media and Press:

Symposium, "Noël Coward: Art, Style, and Decadence." Keynote by Nicholas Jenkins

Cowardy Custard, Compiled and directed by Brendon Martin
with Andre Amarotico, Samantha Williams, Ellen Woods, and Dante Belleti.

Cowardy Custard Reviews:

May 2015, Galileo

Bertolt Brecht’s The Life of Galileo, Directed by SRT Artistic Director Rush Rehm
with Alex Johnson, Christopher Carter, Ryan Hunter, Shelley Lynne Johnson, Tom Freeland, Alex Cheng, Emma Jackson-Smith, Paul Rosenfeld, Victor Verdejo, Publio Adrianza, Sage Behr, Matt Smith, Jeffrey Abbidor, and Shu Chen Ong.

Media and Press:

January 2015, Words To End All Wars

Words To End All Wars, Compiled and Directed by Rush Rehm
with Thomas Freeland, Shelley Lynn Johnson, Alex Johnson, Rush Rehm, Ian Anstee, Emma Jackson-Smith, Patrick O'Hare, Ellen Woods, and Tasneem Nanji (saxophone).

Media and Press:

The Stanford Daily

December 2014, Samuel Beckett - Happy Days/O les beaux jours, Paris, France

Directed by Rush Rehm, with Courtney Walsh as Winnie, Théâtre de l'École normale supérieure, Paris, France

June – August 2014, Orson Welles: Substantial Shadows - War of the worlds and Moby Dick: Rehearsed

War of the Worlds, Directed by Rush Rehm
with David Arrow, Courtney Walsh, Thomas Freeland, Don DeMico, Monica Cappuccini, Weston Gaylord, Sarah Gage, Dante Belletti, Noemi Berkowitz, Brigitte Wittmer, Elizabeth Knarr, Angela Yeung, and Kristen Dekker

David Arrow in War of the Worlds — David Arrow in *War of the Worlds*

Rod Gnapp in Moby Dick - Rehearsed — Rod Gnapp in *Moby Dick - Rehearsed*

Moby Dick - Rehearsed, Directed by Rush Rehm and Courtney Walsh
with Rod Gnapp, Peter Ruocco, Courtney Walsh, David Raymond, Christopher Carter, Ryan Hunter, Louis McWilliams, Maia Kazin, Kaya McGruder, Tim Borgerson, Weston Gaylord, Dante Belletti, Andre Amarotico, Sarah Gage, and Noemi Berkowitz

Symposium, “Transformative Stages: Sea Change in Welles and Melville." Keynote: Steve Vineberg

May 2014, J.B. Priestley - An Inspector Calls

Andre Amarotico in An Inspector Calls — Andre Amarotico in *An Inspector Calls*

An Inspector Calls, Directed by Rush Rehm
with James Carpenter, Courtney Walsh, Weston Gaylord, Kiki Bagger, Ethan Wilcox, Andre Amarotico, Jenna Wisch

Media and Press:

October – November 2013, **Beckett- Happy Days/O les beaux jours (Montpellier, France and San Francisco)**

Courtney Walsh in Happy Days — Courtney Walsh in *Happy Days*

Happy Days, Directed by Rush Rehm
with Courtney Walsh and Rush Rehm, at Théatre La Vignette, Montpellier, France, and at Alliance Française, San Francisco.

Media and Press:

Summer 2013, He’s Funny That Way: Wilde and Beckett - THe Importance of Being Earnest and Happy Days

Austin Caldwell and Jessica Waldman inThe Importance of Being Earnest

Happy Days, Directed by Rush Rehm
with Courtney Walsh and Don DeMico

The Importance of Being Earnest, Directed by Lynne Soffer
with Kay Kostopoulos, Marty Pistone, Courtney Walsh, Austin Caldwell, David Raymond, Jessica Waldman, Ruth Marks, Don DeMico

Symposium, “He’s Funny That Way: Wilde and Beckett.” Keynote: Charles Junkerman

Media and Press:

April - July 2013, Brecht - The Exception and the Rule

Tom Freeland and Courtney Walsh in The Exception and the Rule — Tom Freeland and Courtney Walsh in *The Exception and the Rule*

The Exception and the Rule, Directed by Rush Rehm
with Tom Freeland, April Green, Carolyn MacDonald, Courtney Walsh, and Basel Al-Naffouri
at Stanford University, Eastside College Preparatory School (East Palo Alto), Gunn High School (Palo Alto), Vi in Palo Alto, and the San Francisco Labor Council/Bay Area Labor Fest, Plumbers Local 38 Union Hall, 1621 Market Street, San Francisco (July 22, 2013, at 7:30 pm).

Media and Press:

4.24.2013 - "'Learning play' pushes Stanford scholars and actors to explore the contradictions of capitalism" - Stanford Report

Fall 2012, **Re-staging Wanderings of Odysseus (Athens, Greece and Palo Alto, CA)**

Angela Farr Schiller in Wanderings of Odysseus — Angela Farr Schiller in *Wanderings of Odysseus*

The Wanderings of Odysseus, Translated by Oliver Taplin, Directed by Rush Rehm
with Jeffrey Bihr, Peter Ruocco, Courtney Walsh, Paul Baird, Angela Farr Schiller, Ariel Mazel-Gee, Taylor Brady

Michael F. Cacoyannis Foundation Mainstage, Athens, Greece
Nitery Theater, Stanford University

Media and Press:

Summer 2012, Sam Shepard Festival - Curse of the starving class

Max Sosna-Spear in Curse of the Starving Class — Max Sosna-Spear in *Curse of the Starving Class*

Curse of the Starving Class, Directed by Rush Rehm
with Marty Pistone, Courtney Walsh, Jessica Waldman, Max Sosna-Spear, Ben Fisher, Keith C. Marshall, Don DeMico, Michael Vang

Symposium, "Sam Shepard and the American West." Keynote: Frank Murray

Media and Press:

2011, Memory Play Festival - Betrayed, Under the Milk wood, Old Times, Oedipus, Poetics of Aging, Copenhagen

Rush Rehm and Cristina Anselmo in Old Times — Rush Rehm and Cristina Anselmo in *Old Times*

Betrayed, Directed by Rush Rehm
with Tomer Perry, Basel Al-Naffouri, Paul Princen, Zahar Habib Ghazi, Ranjita Chakravarty

Under Milk Wood, Directed by Rush Rehm
with Jeffrey Bihr, Patrick Jones, Kay Kostopoulos, Courtney Walsh, Tom Freeland, Roselyn Hallett, Rachel Kayhan.

Old Times, Directed by Jeffrey Bihr
with Cristina Anselmo, Courtney Walsh, Rush Rehm

Oedipus, Directed by Matt Moore
with Tom Freeland, Courtney Walsh, Leigh Marshall, Raine Hoover, Max Sosna-Spear, Anneka Kumli, Sukanya Chakrabarti.

Poetics of Aging (scenes from Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Beckett), Poetics of Aging Conference, San Francisco
with Tom Freeland, Peter Ruocco, Ariel Mazel-Gee, Courtney Walsh

Copenhagen, Directed by Rush Rehm
with Peter Ruocco, Julian Lopez-Morillas, Courtney Walsh

Media and Press:

Summer 2010, Around the Fire: Homer in Performance - The Wanderings of Odysseus, Embers of War: The Iliad Onstage, Omeros

The Wanderings of Odysseus, Directed by Rush Rehm, translated by Oliver Taplin
with L. Peter Callender, Alex Ubokudom, Courtney Walsh, Paul Baird, Ariel Mazel-Gee, Bronwyn Reed, Luke Taylor, Madhulika Krishna

Embers of War: The Iliad Onstage, Translated by Rush Rehm, directed by Foivos Karachalios and Rush Rehm

Omeros by Derek Walcott, Arranged by Matt Moore, directed by Matt Moore and Rush Rehm

Symposium, "Homer in Performance." Keynote: Oliver Taplin

Media and Press:

Summer 2009, Electra Festival - Electra, Libation Bearers, Electra

Courtney Walsh in Sophocles' Electra — Courtney Walsh in Sophocles' *Electra*

Sophocles' Electra, Directed by Rush Rehm, translated by Anne Carson
with Valentina Conde, L. Peter Callender, Kay Kostopoulos, Katharine Hawthorne, Luke Taylor, and Courtney Walsh

Aeschylus' Libation Bearers, Translated and directed by Rush Rehm

Euripides' Electra, Translated and directed by Rush Rehm

Symposium: "Public and Private Vengeance—Electra and the Trojan War." Keynote: Richard Martin

Media and Press:

2009 Eudora Welty at 100

SRT presented an evening of Eudora Welty stories, followed by a lecture by Welty scholar and Suzanne Marrs, sponsored by Stanford Continuing Studies, starring Aleta Hayes, Courtney Walsh, and Rush Rehm. The performance toured Mississippi in 2013, with performances at Millsaps College, Mississippi State University, and Alcorn State University in 2013, featuring Angela Farr Schiller, Courtney Walsh, and Rush Rehm.

https://events.stanford.edu/events/200/20035/
Video of the Performances

Summer 2008, Brian Friel - Translations and Faith Healer

Andy Robinson in Faith Healer — Andy Robinson in *Faith Healer*

Translations, Directed by Ed Iskandar, with Geoff Hoyle, Maggie Mason, Will Brill

Faith Healer, Directed by Rush Rehm, with Andy Robinson, Courtney Walsh, Jeffrey Bihr

Symposium: "Brian Friel and Other Irish Voices", Keynote: Ingrid Craigie

Media and Press:

Summer 2007, Africa on Stage: Let Us Tell You a Story - Tings they happen, Les Blancs, Farewell to a cannibal rage, Oak Oak Oracle, Miracle in Rwanda

Anthony J. Haney and Anne Hallinan in Les Blancs — Anthony J. Haney and Anne Hallinan in *Les Blancs*

Tings Dey Happen, Developed and performed by Dan Hoyle, Directed by Charlie Varon

Les Blancs, Directed by Harry J. Elam, with Anthony J. Haney, Rush Rehm, Courtney Walsh, Kieleil Deleon, Aleta Hayes

Farewell to a Cannibal Rage, Directed by Rachel Anderson

Oda Oak Oracle, Adapted by Rush Rehm, directed by Aika Swai

Miracle in Rwanda, Created and performed by Leslie Lewis Sword

Media and Press

Summer 2006, Wicked Wit: Rakes and Rebellion in the Restoration - Restoration Comedy and Don Juan in Hell

Leith Burke and Kay Kostopoulos in Restoration Comedy

Restoration Comedy, Directed by Amy Freed, with Leith Burke, Jenn Erdmann, Kay Kostopoulos, Jeffrey Bihr, Sarah Moser, Mary Pistone

Don Juan in Hell, Directed by Ed Iskandar

Symposium, "The Bawdy Politic: Stages in the Restoration." Keynote: Amy Freed

Media and Press

Summer 2005, Harold Pinter Festival - Night, The Lover, The Applicant, The Collection, Press Conference, Special Offer, The New World Order

Rush Rehm and Kay Kostopoulos in The Lover — Rush Rehm and Kay Kostopoulos in *The Lover*

Night and The Lover, Directed by Jeffrey Bihr
with Kay Kostopoulos, Rush Rehm, Nick Allen

The Applicant and The Collection, Directed by Ed Iskandar and Rush Rehm
with Maggie Mason, Nick Allen, Justin Liszanckie, Chris Denton

Press Conference, Special Offer, and The New World Order, Directed by Ed Iskandar and Rush Rehm

Symposium, "Pinter—Plays and Politics." Keynote: Alice Rayner

Media and Press:

2003, Serious Laughter - Lysistrata

Musical mayhem in Lysistrata — Musical mayhem in *Lysistrata*

Lysistrata, Directed by Rush Rehm, adapted by Amy Freed, with Ann Gregory, Kay Kostopoulos, Geoff Hoyle, Annie Abrams,
Geoff Sobelle, Zack, Stephen Pratt, Jordan Kaplan

Symposium, "Serious Laughter." Keynote: Bruce Barthol, Geoff Hoyle

Media and Press:

2002, Theater and Politics - Biedermann and the Firebugs

Scene from Biedermann and the Firebugs — Scene from *Biedermann and the Firebugs*

Biedermann and the Firebugs, Directed by Aleksandra Wolska, with Rush Rehm, Kay Kostopoulos, Jarek Truszczynski, Annie Abrams

Symposium, "Theater on Fire—Politics, Pyrotechnics, and Performance." Keynote: Rush Rehm

Media and Press:

2001, Theater of the Absurd - The Chairs and The Bald Soprano

Geoff Hoyle in The Chairs — Geoff Hoyle in *The Chairs*

The Chairs, Directed by Aleksandra Wolska with Geoff Hoyle, Jarek Truszczynski, Rush Rehm

The Bald Soprano, Directed by Roisin O'Gorman

Symposium, "Fool's Gold—Ionesco and the Absurd." Keynote: Martin Esslin, Herbert Blau

Media and Press:

2000, Beckett Festival - Waiting for Godot, Act Without Words, Quad, Footfalls

Geoff Sobelle in Waiting for Godot — Geoff Sobelle in *Waiting for Godot*

Waiting for Godot, directed by Aleksandra Wolska
with Geoff Hoyle, Jarek Truszczynski, Geoff Sobelle, Rush Rehm

Act Without Words and Quad, Directed by Jarek Truszczynski

Footfalls, Directed by Jaime Lyons

Symposium, "Inspiring Prospects—On the Lookout for Samuel Beckett." Keynote: Marjorie Perloff

Media and Press:

1998, A Brecht Centennial

When the Shark Bites— A Brecht/Weill Cabaret, Directed by Aleksandra Wolska
with Jarek Truzczynski, Joya Martucello, Margaret Allen, Jeff Schwartz, Rush Rehm, and John Wright

Symposium, "Bert Brecht and Kurt Weill - The Collaboration." Keynote: James Sheehan

Media and Press:

1997, **Chekhov Festival - Uncle Vanya and The Bear**

Uncle Vanya, Directed by Jarek Truzczynski,
with James Shelby, Aleksandra Wolska, Rush Rehm, John Allen, Lucja Kwasniak, Ada McDaniel

The Bear, directed by Aleksandra Wolska and Rush Rehm

Symposium, "Brother Anton—The Life and Theater of Anton Chekhov", Keynote: Simon Karlinsky

Media and Press:

The Roots of Stanford Repertory Theater

1993 Democracy 2500: Euripides’ Suppliant Women

Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University; Union Square, San Francisco; Folger Library Theater, Washington, DC.

Directed by Rush Rehm, with Kathleen Turco-Lyon, Mark Capri, L. Peter Callender, Sandy Kelly Hoffman, Jeffrey Bihr, Steven Anthony Jones, David Arrow, Stacey Zonka, and Anna Deavere Smith

Choreography by Ze’eva Cohen, Original Music by Michael Keck, Set, Costume, and Projection Design by John B. Wilson, Lighting by Michael Ramsaur, Masks designed by Winter Mead)

Democracy 2500 Keynote speakers: Martha Nussbaum, Benjamin Barber, Orlando Patterson. Video can be seen here

Media and Press:

2.20.1993 San Jose Mercury News

2.19.1993 San Francisco Examiner

2.18.1993 San Francisco Chronicle

2.18.1993 Peninsula Times Tribune

2.14.1993 San Jose Mercury News

2.11.1993 Stanford Daily

2.10.1993 Palo Alto Weekly

2.10.1993 Campus Report

2.5.1993 Stanford Observer

**1992 The Wanderings of Odysseus, Getty Villa, Malibu, California**

Directed by Rush Rehm, Translated by Oliver Taplin, with Andy Robinson, Bairbre Dowling, Josh Clark, Paige Leong, Michael Santo, Tony Amendola, and John Fitzgerald (musician)

Set Design by John B. Wilson, Costume Design by Mark Wendland, Lighting Design by R. Stephen Hoyes, and Sound Design by Jon Gottlieb.

Media and Press:

10.15. 1992 The Hellenic Journal

10.2.1992 http://articles.latimes.com/1992-10-02/entertainment/ca-101_1_director-rush-rehm-s-staging

10.2.1992 http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-10-02/news/9203300022_1_rush-rehm-actors-monster

10.2.1992 Los Angeles Daily News

10.2.1992 Long Beach Press-Telegram

10.2.1992 Antelope Valley Press

9.30.1992 Claremont Courier

9.13.1992 http://articles.latimes.com/1992-09-13/entertainment/ca-1514_1_fall-theater-season

8.26.1992 Beverly Hills Today

2023, The Mother Lear film screened online, followed by panel discussions

2021-2022, Voices of the Earth: From Sophocles to Rachel Carson and Beyond

JULY-AUGUST 2019, THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

FEBRUARY 2019, DEMOCRATICALLY SPEAKING (MARINES MEMORIAL THEATER, SF).

November 2018, Four-Sided Triangle (SRT's adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country), Bolshoi Drama Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia

September 2018, Euripides' Hecuba (Hekavi), Michael Cacoyannis Foundation Theater, Athens, Greece

Greek press coverage:

JULY - AUGUST 2018, Nevertheless They Persisted: Euripides' Hecuba/Helen

REVIEWS for SRT's Hecuba/Helen, which played July 26 - August 19, 2018 at Stanford's Roble Studio Theater

JULY - AUGUST 2017, The Many Faces of Farce - Chekhov’s The Bear, The Proposal, The Anniversary and 33 Swoons

European Workshops 2017

October 2016, DEmocratically Speaking

JULY - AUGUST 2016, Theater Takes a StaND - Waiting for Lefty and Slaughter City

Spring 2016, Words and Images to End All Wars

Spring 2016, Clytemnestra: Tangled Justice

JULY - AUGUST 2015, Noel Coward Festival - Hay Fever and Cowardy Custard

May 2015, Galileo

January 2015, Words To End All Wars

December 2014, Samuel Beckett - Happy Days/O les beaux jours, Paris, France

June – August 2014, Orson Welles: Substantial Shadows - War of the worlds and Moby Dick: Rehearsed

May 2014, J.B. Priestley - An Inspector Calls

October – November 2013, Beckett- Happy Days/O les beaux jours (Montpellier, France and San Francisco)

Summer 2013, He’s Funny That Way: Wilde and Beckett - THe Importance of Being Earnest and Happy Days

April - July 2013, Brecht - The Exception and the Rule

Fall 2012, Re-staging Wanderings of Odysseus (Athens, Greece and Palo Alto, CA)

Summer 2012, Sam Shepard Festival - Curse of the starving class

2011, Memory Play Festival - Betrayed, Under the Milk wood, Old Times, Oedipus, Poetics of Aging, Copenhagen

Summer 2010, Around the Fire: Homer in Performance - The Wanderings of Odysseus, Embers of War: The Iliad Onstage, Omeros

Summer 2009, Electra Festival - Electra, Libation Bearers, Electra

Summer 2008, Brian Friel - Translations and Faith Healer

Summer 2007, Africa on Stage: Let Us Tell You a Story - Tings they happen, Les Blancs, Farewell to a cannibal rage, Oak Oak Oracle, Miracle in Rwanda

Summer 2006, Wicked Wit: Rakes and Rebellion in the Restoration - Restoration Comedy and Don Juan in Hell

Summer 2005, Harold Pinter Festival - Night, The Lover, The Applicant, The Collection, Press Conference, Special Offer, The New World Order

2003, Serious Laughter - Lysistrata

2002, Theater and Politics - Biedermann and the Firebugs

2001, Theater of the Absurd - The Chairs and The Bald Soprano

2000, Beckett Festival - Waiting for Godot, Act Without Words, Quad, Footfalls

1998, A Brecht Centennial

1997, Chekhov Festival - Uncle Vanya and The Bear

The Roots of Stanford Repertory Theater

1993 Democracy 2500: Euripides’ Suppliant Women

1992 The Wanderings of Odysseus, Getty Villa, Malibu, California

October – November 2013, **Beckett- Happy Days/O les beaux jours (Montpellier, France and San Francisco)**

Fall 2012, **Re-staging Wanderings of Odysseus (Athens, Greece and Palo Alto, CA)**

1997, **Chekhov Festival - Uncle Vanya and The Bear**

**1992 The Wanderings of Odysseus, Getty Villa, Malibu, California**