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KIMBERLY KING* - George Sand DOROTHY BRYANT - Playwright |
ANNIE SMART** - Scenic Designer |
Dear Master
By Dorothy Bryant | Directed By Joy Carlin
The flagship play upon which Aurora Theatre Company was built, Dear Master by prize-winning Berkeley author Dorothy Bryant was originally produced at the Berkeley City Club in 1991. A dialogue in letters between the two great 19th-century French novelists, George Sand and Gustave Flaubert, Dear Master is an elegantly orchestrated play, providing flesh-and-blood portraits of these famed intellectual writers and revealing their fears, desires, heated opinions and friendship during an era marked by violence and political polarization.
RUN TIME: 2 HOURS | PRICE RANGE: $36-$55
Generosity and affection underlie every exchange.
San Francisco Chronicle
ARTISTS
KIMBERLY KING* (GEORGE SAND) has worked in theatres coast to coast for decades. Last fall she appeared at TheatreWorks with The Country House. At Seattle Rep she played Aoife in Outside Mullingar directed by Wilson Milam. For the Aurora she played the title role in Candida, appeared with husband Ken Grantham in Intimate Exchanges and as Agnes and Tobias in A Delicate Balance. She was a leading resident ensemble member with The Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, Hartford Stage, and the Alley Theatre in Houston. She created the role of Becky in Steven Dietz's Becky's New Car at ACT Seattle, the role of Dolores in Craig Lucas's A Prayer for My Enemy at the Intiman, the role of Agatha in Amy Weissman's Hold, Please at South Coast Rep, and Miss Minchin for Susan Schulman's Little Princess. She was Mary Tyrone in San Jose Rep's critically acclaimed production of Long Days Journey in to Night. Kimberly is a mezzo soprano with an opera, jazz, and musical theatre repertoire. She and Ken make their home in Poulsbo, Washington. www.greencatbb.com.
MICHAEL RAY WISELY* (GUSTAVE FLAUBERT) is honored to be opening the 25th season at Aurora having appeared in The Letters, The Arsonists, Trouble in Mind, The Devil’s Disciple, and The Birthday Party. Michael Ray recently returned from the Off-Broadway premiere of Ideation, by Aaron Loeb, directed by Aurora’s artistic associate, Josh Costello. Other recent roles include: Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at CenterRepertory, Buckingham in Richard III at Marin Shakespeare and the title role in Macbeth for the SF Shakespeare festival. Other Credits: TheatreWorks (Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird), Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Heartbreak House), Magic Theatre (The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, The American in Me) CenterRepertory Co. (Arms and the Man), Marin Theatre Co. (Seagull, Misalliance, Fugitive Kind), as well as many appearances with American Musical Theatre, San Jose Repertory, San Jose Stage Co., Shotgun Players, and others. Michael Ray has also starred and guest-starred in film, television and on the radio. Find out more at www.michaelraywisely.com
SPONSORS
Carol Emory & The Wingate Foundation,
Trudy & Gary H. Moore
ASSOCIATE SPONSORS
Gennaro "Gerry" DeVito & Merrill J. Meltz
