BETWEEN US
Repertory begins February 18. Runs through March 10.
Live Oak Theater, Berkeley
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The personal is political in seven intimate portraits over two programs in repertory.

BETWEEN US invites you to meet a leader of the Delano Grape Strike, a woman attending her first protest, a voodoo queen, the Uruguayan woman who will fight her government to get justice for her murdered sister, a black woman contemplating the first MLK day, a US general who foils a coup on Roosevelt and one of the woman who led the redress movement for the over 100,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII.

PROGRAM A

LAVEAU: A Conjuring of Marie Laveau
By Brit Frazier
Directed by Margo Hall
Dezi Solèy/Marie Laveau

SEVEN FINGERS: The Story of Larry Itliong
Written and directed by Jeffrey Lo
Mike Sagun/Larry Itliong

PUSSY HAT: The Story of One Woman’s March
By Katie May
Directed by Phoebe Moyer
Jennie Brick/Sharon

JUST ONE DAY: A Story of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy
Written by Cleavon Smith
Directed by Elizabeth Carter
Sam Jackson/Esther

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PROGRAM B

LA PROFESORA: The Story of Nibia Sabalsagaray
Written and directed by Noelle Viñas
Virginia Blanco/Nibia Sabalsagaray

THE RACKET: The Story of Smedley Butler
By James Tracy and Jon Tracy
Directed by Robert Parsons
Aaron Murphy/Smedley Butler

TURNING THE PAGE: The Story of Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga
By Jeanne Sakata
Directed by Jeffrey Lo
Heidi Kobara/Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga