APRIL 26—MAY 19
World Premiere
RED RED RED
by Amelio Garcia
directed by William Hodgson
performanceS
APR 26–MAY 19
THU / FRI / SAT / SUN 4/28 - 7:30 PM
SUN 5/5, 5/12, 5/19 - 2 PM
Previews: Fri 4/26 & Sat 4/27 - 7:30 p.m.
Opening Night: Sunday 4/28 - 7:30 p.m
PRIORITY TICKET
(Reserved seating)
$60
GENERAL ADMISSION TICKET
(Seating assigned upon arrival)
$35
PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN TICKET
(Or any amount at the door — contact box office for availability)
$10 / $20
Please note: Online ticket sales close 2 hours before the start of each performance. Tickets may be purchased at the door — subject to availability.
Questions? Contact the Box Office at 510.646.1126 or boxoffice@oaklandtheaterproject.org
OAKLAND Is OPENING Event
FREE tickets to the public for opening weekend! Thanks to the generous support of the Activate Oakland grant.
Find the FREE tickets for April 26, 27, and 28 performances and add them to your cart and check out. Must secure tickets in advance.
Subject to availability — shows may sell out.
Ancient myth and the post-modern present collide in the genre-bending queer love story written by Amelio Garcia, co-conceived by OTP’s William Hodgson and Lisa Ramirez and inspired by Anne Carson’s novel Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, and directed by William Hodgson.
In Greek myth, Geryon is a triple-bodied, red-winged monster, slayed by Herakles (Hercules) in one of his mythical labors. In Carson’s telling, however, “Geryon is a young boy who is also a winged red monster who begins an autobiography at age five.” Later in life, Geryon falls in love with Herakles.
Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “a profound love story... sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender,” this novel and poem is a “portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.”
LOCATION
All performances take place in Downtown Oakland:
Oakland Theater Project at FLAX art & design
1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Oakland 94612
Public Transit: The venue is a 7-10 minute walk from Oakland’s 12th Street BART Station. (Google walking estimates vary by person)
CAST
Romeo Channer
Romeo Channer (Red) is an actor from Berkeley. When not performing, Romeo teaches, stage manages, and participates in local activism. They are a recent graduate of Mills College, where they studied queer and post-colonial history.
They are beyond thrilled to return to their artistic home at the Oakland Theater Project, where past roles include Jean Dark in 'sAiNt jOaN (burn/burn/burn)', Ariel in 'The Tempest', and Mary Warren in 'The Crucible.'
Anthony Doan
Anthony (H/Etc.) is a queer, first-generation Vietnamese American theatre artist currently based in the Bay Area. Notable acting credits include Nguyen, Quang, and Sam in the world premiere of Colonialism is Terrible, But Pho is Delicious (Aurora Theatre Company, Oregon Contemporary Theatre), Christian in Cyrano de Bergerac: A Queeroic Comedy (Island Shakespeare Festival), Playwright and understudy for Nhan in Vietgone (City Lights Theater Company), and John Lee in Porcelain (Brown Bag Theatre Company). Anthony strives to viscerally entertain and challenge audiences, provoke political thoughts, and inspire people to empathetically listen to the world in a different vibration.