Elaine Magree’s
Other
(Previously – Pilgrimage,
Why I’m not an Indian)
In Person at The Marsh Berkeley Mainstage
Written and Performed by Elaine Magree
Directed by Kenny Yun
Developed with David Ford & Rebecca Fisher
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance,
and additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
April 13 – May 4, 2024
Saturdays at 5pm
Ticket Information
Tickets: $20 – $35 General Seating sliding scale | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance,
and additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
68 minutes | No Intermission | Ages 16+
Please do not bring infants to the show
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Masks are recommended but no longer required
About the Show
Elaine Magree’s solo show, OTHER, Previously titled- Pilgrimage: Why I’m not an Indian, is an unexpectedly funny and disturbing road trip. She returns to the reservation she visited as a child to untangle the secrets of her mixed heritage and to find the proper resting place for her mother’s ashes. Braided into that journey are flashbacks from her troubled childhood and her troubled ancestral past. The intensely personal family history reveals a fiercely ignored national history. And what the heck should she do with those ashes?
OTHER is a trip filled with irony, irreverence and forgiveness.
It’s moving fun for dysfunctionals, genealogists, historians, truth tellers, survivors, social activists, and anyone who loves their family even though…and for the deeply hopeful.
Content Advisories: Sexual abuse: teenager set up for pornographic pictures, discussion of genocidal policies and practices affecting indigenous people
About the Performer
Previous to a seven year hiatus from theatre, Magree’s work had been seen at The Magic Theatre, Theatre Artaud, The California Shakespeare Festival, SOMAR, Venue 9, The Working Women’s Theatre Festival, The National Women’s Theatre Festival, The Berkeley Piano Club, Solo Z, The Maritime Museum, BRAVA, The Peoples Theatre Festival and The 54th St. Theatre in New York as well as other left coast venues from Santa Cruz to Seattle. She was a director of The Artists in Residence Project and co-director of The New Music Theatre Project at The Z Space Studio. She taught theatre at Solano College, San Francisco City College, The East Bay Center for the Performing Arts and in jails, homeless shelters, and recovery houses. Her solos shows Holding the Edge and PussyGrabbingRevenge were nominated as Best Solo Performance by Theatre Bay Area.