LAUREN HAYES

Cutting Ball Variety Pack!

10/9/2018

I'm excited to announce that I'll performing in the new short play Vally of the Dead by playwright Chris Steele and an excerpt of Ibsen's Lady from the Sea as a part of Cutting Ball Theater's Variety Pack: Short Cuts!

CAESAR MAXIMUS opens this weekend!

8/26/2018

CAESAR MAXIUMUS opens this weekend at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park. Here's what audiences have been saying from our previews...

CAESAR MAXIMUS starts rehearsals!

7/2/2018

I'm so excited to announce that I'll be performing in We Players' next show, CAESAR MAXIMUS, in the role of Calpurnia. Directed by the incredibly talented Ava Roy and featuring an amazing ensemble of creatives, the show is shaping up to be a exciting take on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

ROMAN WOMEN extends to June 3rd!

5/19/2018

We're a few weeks into our run and it's be so interesting and fun to share this show with audiences. People have been sharing wonderful, moving feedback, and Jean Schiffman from the Examiner gave us a lovely review:

There’s an incantatory, mesmerizing quality to We Players’ “Roman Women,” which, with Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” as a gossamer framework, comprises original songs (score by Charlie Gurke); circular, choreographed movement; grave prophecies and existential musings; and excerpts from the tragedy itself.

The production features an excellent chorus of five women (Micael Bogar, Julie Douglas, Lauren Hayes, Baily Hopkins and Emily Stone) plus the Roman goddess of wisdom, Minerva (Britt Lauer), who presides majestically over the activities. [...]

[Director Ava] Roy intends for “Roman Women” to represent a cycle, a ritual that, as she writes in the program, weaves through time as the women search for, and re-create among themselves, some version of the emperor Caesar, the all-powerful male figure.

Accordingly, don’t expect a clear narrative arc, or to actually see the emperor assassinated in the space, which at times represents the Roman forum.

The women’s singing voices are lovely within the rotunda’s acoustics, their monologues from “Julius Caesar” and other text impassioned and clear, and the steady repetitions of movement and choral chants (some in Latin) are hypnotic.

Site-specific work this sensorial, this well done, is its own raison d’être.

Read the full article here.

There are only a few more weekends left to see this distinctive piece of theater! For more info an tickets, visit We Player's website.

Cutting Ball Variety Pack!

CAESAR MAXIMUS opens this weekend!

CAESAR MAXIMUS starts rehearsals!

ROMAN WOMEN extends to June 3rd!

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