In Front of Your Eyes 2024
Performance Festival Presents:
Candace Johnson’s
Scat-er Brain: The Music of ADHD
at The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage
Written & Performed by Candace Johnson
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Saturday, August 3 at 5:30pm
Opener: Elizabeth Zitrin
Thursday, August 8 at 7:30pm
Opener: Elena Kobylina
Sunday, August 11 at 4:00pm
Opener: Ipeleng Kgositsile
About the Festival
In Front of Your Eyes Performance Festival will feature developing works from women and nonbinary performers and playwrights. The festival will take place in both San Francisco and Berkeley. San Francisco will feature solo shows, and Berkeley will feature ensemble shows.
About the Show
Diagnosed with inattentive attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) after 40, CJ—a multi-talented woman—embarks on a profound journey of self-discovery to finally understand her true worth. With the power of music, community, and faith, she conquers her deepest fears and begins to build the life she always dreamed of. This show illuminates both the joy and challenges that people with ADHD bring to the world and offers a transformative glimpse into the world of those living on the neurodivergent spectrum.
Ticket Information
Tickets: $15 – $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.
No Intermission | Ages 16+
Please do not bring infants to the show
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About the Artist
Candace Johnson (Playwright & Performer) is a multifaceted artist, serving as a singer, actress, poet, voice instructor, and director of the University of California Berkeley’s Gospel Choir. She is also a voice coach for the Formally Incarcerated People’s Performance Project (FIPPP), a theater organization supporting artists impacted by incarceration. Johnson excels in opera, musical theater, gospel, and jazz. In 2018, she premiered her first one-woman show, VOX in a BOX, a musical biography about discovering her voice. Since then, she has written and performed seven original shows and continues to create new works.
Openers
August 3 – Elizabeth Zitrin’s Second Wave
Fifty years ago, women couldn’t spend money without a husband or father – a warning.
August 8 – Elena Kobylina’s From Siberia with Love, for Tomatoes
Delves into the tangled feelings of shame stemming from domestic violence. It tells a heartfelt story of discovering love through the land and a family tradition of growing tomatoes, lovingly passed down from a grandmother amidst the chaos of a hostile environment shaped by the trauma and repercussions of World War II and its aftermath. The journey follows the path of breaking free from these tough dynamics through the creative outlets of theater.
August 11 – Ipeleng Kgositsile’s Pizzazz: A Serious AF Love Story for Daughters, Black, Beloved & Coo-Coo
A coming-of-rage story about exile, identity (or is it cultural dissonance?), and family, rooted in the global anti-apartheid movement of the late 20th century. Set in New York City, six months after the Soweto Youth Uprisings of June 1976, the play’s opening scene introduces Ipeleng, a second grader at P.S. 154 in Harlem, USA. It’s the protagonist’s 7th birthday, an occasion which sets the tone for her life from Soweto through Truth and Reconciliation, disrupting and fortifying her soul during South Africa’s first 30 years of freedom and democracy.