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Body Awareness

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Directed by Joy Carlin

By Annie Baker

Fri, 01/27/2012 - Sun, 03/04/2012

It's "Body Awareness Week" on a small Vermont college campus and feminist professor Phyllis and her partner, Joyce, are hosting a male guest artist who specializes in female nude photographs. The couple is ...

Man_out_ of_the_ Chair"The ensemble work [in Body Awareness] is exemplary, as the cast negotiates [playwright Annie] Baker's smart, provocative dialogue...Well after the laughter dies down, you'll probably keep finding echoes of Baker's world all around you."
- Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle (Read the full review)

"[Director Joy] Carlin has assembled a cast of Bay Area vets who imbue [Body Awareness'] battle of ideas with a sense of intimacy... the entire ensemble gives "Body Awareness" some real heft."
- Karen D'Souza, San Jose Mercury News/BANG (Read the full review)

Season 20

"One of the gems of the bustling Bay Area theater scene, the Aurora stands out as an institution that feeds the mind." - Karen D'Souza, Bay Area News Group (Read complete article)

Coming Soon

Anatol

Directed by Barbara Oliver

By Arthur Schnitzler

World Premiere translation by Margret Schaefer
Fri, 04/06/2012 - Sun, 05/13/2012

A gadabout living for pleasure in late 19th-century Vienna, Anatol practices the arts of seduction, adultery, infidelity, and betrayal, encountering a series of mistresses in his search for the perfect faithful lover. Paradoxically, it is the women in...

Salomania

Written and directed by Mark Jackson

World Premiere
Fri, 06/15/2012 - Sun, 07/22/2012

Recipient of an "Edgerton Foundation New American Plays" award. Award-winning Bay Area auteur Mark Jackson returns to Aurora to direct this World Premiere, specially commissioned for our 20th anniversary season. While directing Oscar Wilde's...

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