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MACHINAL trailer (2008)

MACHINAL Written by Sophie Treadwell Directed by Mark Jackson Produced by San Francisco State University Scenery Elena Childs. Costumes Courtney Flores. Lights Jacqueline Steager. Sound Matt Stines. Photos Benjamin Privitt. Performed by Joseph Brunicardi, Allison Combs, Charlotte Gulezian, Will Hand, Neil Higgins, Megan Hopp, Victoria Rose, Rob Siminoski, Kenny Toll, and Dara Yazdani. In 2008, eighty years after its premiere, Sophie Treadwell’s snappy, scary, funny, disturbing Jazz Age play smacked very much of the present moment. Directing it felt like working on a brand new, contemporary script. Still one of the Twentieth Century's great feminist plays, MACHINAL is ultimately not about any one woman or man. It's about an entire society’s growing anxiety in an abrasive time of change marked by escalating economic pressures, dizzying accelerations in technology, and mounting moral conundrums. Sensationalist tabloids and legitimate journalism melded in their reportage of it all, and modern American history was off and running. PRESS: “Even if you haven't haunted a college production in a while, here's a show well-worth beating an unbeaten path for. Mark Jackson directs a seriously talented cast of students at SF State's College of Creative Arts in this absorbing production… Its series of distinct, shrewdly constructed scenes — showcasing sardonic, devilishly staged caricatures of everyday automatonia, delicately modulated tension, deft humor, and understated horror — offers a penetrating portrait of modernity...” – SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN “Jackson’s 2008 production of Sophie Treadwell’s MACHINAL remains among the highlights of my theatergoing career.” – NEW YORK TIMES (March 2009, feature article) “Treadwell's brutal-satirical view of a life lived according to the rules of 'the machine' and the destructive effects of that life on a young woman, assault the theatre-goer with a primordial snarl in Mark Jackson's stomach-clenching, gob-smacking, eye-opening production… The director manages to take what many would consider to be an intimidating play and turns it into something scary, intimate and irresistible… Jackson's cast of physically bold, textually astute undergraduate performers belie their relative inexperience. I came away from the theatre with my head spinning, wondering why ‘professional’ companies rarely produce work as intelligent, emotionally disturbing and fresh as this.” – CHLOEVELTMAN.COM