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Barbecue by Robert O'Hara

Barbecue by Robert O'Hara

Bay Area Premiere

September 26 – November 11, 2017

Tickets: from $35

Run time: 1 hour, 30 minutes plus one intermission

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Barbecue

Written by Robert O’Hara

Directed by Margo Hall

“A smokin’ satire! A wildly entertaining Bay Area premiere at San Francisco Playhouse.” – Jean Schiffman, San Francisco Examiner

“SF Playhouse’s Barbecue sizzles … this cast pulls off this whole audacious enterprise beautifully and keeps the flames of Barbecue high and hot.” – Chad Jones, Theaterdogs

“Clever, loads of fun, with plenty of jaw-dropping moments.” – Gilly Lloyd, Arts Preview

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PLAY DETAILS

The hard-partying, foul-mouthed O’Mallery family is staging an intervention for their drug-addicted sister, Barbara. With a plan inspired by reality TV, they have disguised their meeting as a family barbecue in the park—but soon it’s the whole family’s problems that are in the spotlight. Barbecue overturns our presumptions about race, poverty, and the American family in hilarious and incisive fashion.

THE CAST

Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe
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Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe
ADLEAN
Jennie Brick
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Jennie Brick
ADLEAN
Margo Hall
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Margo Hall
BARBARA
Susi Damilano
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Sally Dana
BARBARA
Clive Worsley
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Clive Worsley
JAMES T
Adrian Roberts
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Adrian Roberts
JAMES T
Anne Darragh
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Anne Darragh
LILLIE ANNE
Halili Knox
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Halili Knox
LILLIE ANNE
Kehinde Koyejo
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Kehinde Koyejo
MARIE
Teri Whipple
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Teri Whipple
MARIE (u/s Lillie Anne)
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PRODUCTION PHOTOS by Jessica Palopoli

BILL ENGLISH talks Barbecue

Bill English Barbecue interview

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

THE CREATIVE TEAM

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Robert O’Hara has recently released his Film Writing and Directing debut, THE INHERITANCE. He received the 2010 NAACP Best Director Award for his direction of Eclipsed by Danai Guiria. He received 2010 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play for ANTEBELLUM and an OBIE Award for his Direction of the World Premiere of the critically acclaimed In The Continuum at Primary Stages. He wrote and directed the World Premiere of Insurrection: Holding History at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the piece received the Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Play and was subsequently published by both TCG and Dramatist Play Service. He Directed the World Premiere of Brother/Sister Plays (Part 2), Co-Production at McCarter Theater/ New York Shakespeare Festival. His recent Stage Directing: Tough Titty, Magic Theater. Eclipsed, CTG/Kirk Douglas Theater. A Life In The Theater, Alliance Theater. Brother Size, City Theater. His new play Etiquette of Vigilance was produced in the Steppenwolf First Look Festival 2010. ACT/Zeum recently produced his play, Good Breeding. His play, BOOTYCANDY, under his direction, was presented at the Woolly Mammoth Theater. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at NYU/TISCH School of the Arts.

San Francisco Playhouse’s production of Barbecue is made possible by Executive Producer William J. Gregory; Producers Fred Karren & Leslie Karren, Morgan & Michael Callahan, and their parents Sharon & Samuel Muir, and Arne & Gail Wagner; as well as Associate Producers Linda Brewer, Harry & Kay Rabin, Loni & Bob Dantzler, Margaret Sheehan, Valerie Barth, Janet & William McAllister, Michael Levy & Michael Golden.

This production is dedicated to the memory of Beth Karren, a longtime patron, and friend to San Francisco Playhouse

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