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Some sage advice from someone who saw us the last time we performed our 'antic round'.

Our Macbeth at Fort Point arrives April 11. https://www.weplayers.org/macbeth-at-fort-point-2025

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"Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble."

We're casting our best spells and cooking up something to sink your teeth into! Spectacle and catharsis combine in this relevant reflection on fate and fortune.

The play and the place as you've never seen them before - witness the Weyrd Sisters as they watch their prophecy unfold, share the moment that madness overtakes Lady Macbeth, march with Macduff into battle against our agonized antihero, all under the looming landmark of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Tickets are likely to sell out before our opening performance on April 11th, get yours today! https://www.weplayers.org/macbeth-at-fort-point-2025

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On March 18 & 19, wonderful We collaborator Julie Douglas leads a playful, hands-on introduction to the art of using the principles of masks to create compelling, physical characters. The workshop is at Counterpulse in SF, register at https://dellarte.com/product/mask-to-character-workshop/

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Dana Taylor is a dream, a dream weaver, a weaver of spells with needle and thread, a weaver of dreams in cloth and dazzlement! Dana has leant her stitiching skills to many a show over the years including our last iteration of Macbeth over a decade ago!

Dana served on We Players’ inaugural board of directors, gracing our group as our Secretary for seven full years. In addition to producing tangible magic in her sewing studio and holding the hearth-center for our fledgling board, she has hosted performances and visiting artists in her home, lent her stable shoulder to cry on at times of significant stress, and always has a long strong hug on tap.

Dana - you are We and we love You!

See our I am We article celebrating Dana

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We're bringing it back!

Fort Point once again sets the scene for an ancient Scotland and a return of our 2013/14 production of Macbeth at Fort Point with a (mostly) new, all-female cast. Whether you saw it a decade ago and can't wait to gather once again with the witches on that foggy heath or if you've only heard tell of the slamming of the sally-port that starts the show - you don't want to miss this tale for our time.

As is our practice, we'll be offering three different ticketing tiers to allow for maximum accessibility to folks with a range of incomes. Tickets, especially those at lower prices, are limited and will go very quickly - purchase yours now to ensure that you're able to see this critically-acclaimed audience favorite.

weplayers.org/Macbeth2025

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We continue our celebration of our community, this time with Lauren Matley, aka Loe. You’ve seen her captivating images on our website, in our emails, and on our stationery since 2013.

Loe's ebullience and positivity, along with her can-do, will-do, already-did-done attitude and ethic have carried us through many a challenging passage.

Read more at www.weplayers.org/news

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I am We

There are so many people that make We possible- including you! We want to introduce you to some of the amazing humans that help us perform our special brand of magic- the witches of We, if you will. We'll be spotlighting different members of our We Family throughout the year - so stay tuned!

First up, the loving Lauren Dietrich Chavez! Lauren was our first Managing Director and there would hardly be a We without her.

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We Players was born on the Stanford campus 25 years ago.

We couldn't be more grateful for the overwhelming support, the incredible opportunities, and the deep love that we've received over the last quarter of a century. We are so deeply proud of the work that we've produced, the art that we've made over that time.

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Happy New Year and the biggest "thank you"!

Thank you for donating to our Season Launch Party last February, thank you for attending our screening of Mother Lear, thank you for rocking out with us at our Sites and Sounds concert, thank you for adventuring with Alice on both coasts, thank you for your generous support of our end of year campaign. Thank you for volunteering! Thank you for laughing! Thank you for your careful attention! Thank you for donating! Thank you for all the ways, big and small, that you contribute to our community! Thank you, old friends and new! We couldn't do it without you! Happy New Year, friend. Photo by Mark Kitaoka

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"Thank you for all you create, imagine and inspire. With gratitude for your role in my world." - Audience member

Cheers! Here's to the arts! Here's to theatre that makes us think and feel, to art that awakens our senses and asks us to attend to the natural world around us, to stories that connect us to our community and remind us of our shared humanity. And cheers to you!

We couldn't make this work without your support- thank you for investing in what we make as a vital way to shape our world.

If you've already made a contribution to our end of year campaign, thank you so much. If you have yet to give, please consider a donation today. https://www.weplayers.org/we-2024

Photo by Tracy Martin

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Finally wrapping up this long list of events from our busy 2024!

We of course put on our annual Sites and Sounds concert, this time featuring the tunes of our 2015 production of Ondine at Sutro, arranged for 6-piece jazz outfit.

Here's to a solid year of sharing sense-awakening events, and to continuing to connect with our community in the coming times.

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This year, we also shared a new short film project, See Clown, a story of self-love.

See Clown for yourself at https://www.weplayers.org/see-clown-2024

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In 2024 we also premiered a new 'popup' version of our PSYCHOPOMP work, with a gathering of guardian gods to be discovered one afternoon along San Francisco's Great Highway.

Photo: David Enloe

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"Happy to support the creative and ever effervescent work of the wonderful We Players!"

We are committed to telling stories that help us make meaning of our current moment, that inspire us to invest in the natural world around us, and that connect us to our shared humanity - but we need your help. We cannot do this work alone. Please lend your hand to lift us up.

This Giving Tuesday we're asking you to give what you can in support of local theatre. We're asking you to make a contribution that represents the joy, hope, wonder, and community that We Players has provided you. Any gift is the right size!

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Fall also saw us sharing our award-winning Mother Lear at Cal Shakes.

Mother Lear is a poignant play about an irascible middle-aged scholar with dementia who communicates with her caretaker daughter using only the text of King Lear as the two struggle with aging, love and their own balance of power.

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This fall, we brought our new hybrid visual art & performance piece Our Lady of the Moon to the golden grasses and oak groves of Cal Shakes in Orinda, California.|

Photo by the amazing Lauren Matley!

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A core corp of our Adventures With Alice cast also hit the Big Apple at New York Botanical Garden for our special event, The Queen's Tea!