"The Bay Area is like no other place on earth. I worked all over the country before I came to the Magic. Leaving after 12 years has not changed what I know, it's only cemented it. There's an ecology here around what's next and art leads the way. Here, appreciation for the new is baked into the bones of people leading theaters and their audiences. Most satisfying; I get to come back, do new, and reimagine old."
"Hills also is a blend of old and new, with the action bouncing jauntily from 1976 to 1955-and back and forth throughout. In the earlier time period, we discover the four Webb sisters growing up in a single-mom led household in a small English seaside town. Veronica, the mother who envisions them as heiresses to The Andrews Sisters, is a force of nature; pushing them to sweat, sing, and soar to fame under her ambitious machinations."
A theater director first encountered The Hills of California in 2024 in London and was profoundly affected. The director returned to the Bay Area to stage the play's West Coast debut at Berkeley Rep from Oct. 31 to Dec. 7, embracing its complex matrix of elements. The director, formerly artistic director at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, emphasized the Bay Area's appetite for new, muscular theatrical voices and an ecology that prioritizes innovation. The play shifts between 1955 and 1976, following four Webb sisters raised by a single mother in a small English seaside town; in 1976 they reunite to say goodbye to their dying matriarch, exposing estrangement, resentment, and jealousy.
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