June 3 - 14: Preview June 3 @ 8pm Opening night June 4 @ 8pm Performances Thursday @ 7pm Fridays @ 8pm Saturdays @ 2:30pm and 8pm Sundays at 3pm
Actor, dancer and clown Ananda Bena-Weber returns to her hometown San Francisco this June in a two-week engagement of her original solo show FANCIFOOL!. Influenced by the clown work of Bill Irwin and the interview-based character acting style of Anna Deavere Smith, Fancifool! capitalizes on Bena-Weber's versatility to present a series of portraits, many drawn from the people she has met during her time in New York City. A graffiti artist, a janitor and an ethnobotanist are just a few of the characters who rub elbows with figures taken from literature and film. Bena-Weber embodies them all in a performance that affirms the joys of a life lived with an open heart. Film projection of Bena-Weber on the streets of New York created by JoAnn Sieburg-Baker and Christie Dennis Negri serves to link the vignettes together.
As a founding member and principal dancer with the Sierra Nevada Ballet, Bena-Weber has performed numerous roles. As a dancer she has also performed with the Jazz Tap Ensemble including Jason Samuels-Smith, Michelle Dorance, Derek Grant and Sam Weber in a touring production of American Tap Masterpieces. Her acting credits include the Iranian housewife, Sholeh, a role she created for The Butcher, which premiered earlier this year at the Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples, Florida Sabine in T. Schreiber Theatre's award-winning production of The Fallen Marguerite in Ten Blocks on the Camino Real at Medicine Show Theatre Daisy Bates in the world premiere of Daisy in the Dreamtime at San Francisco State University the paired roles of Ophelia and Horatio in a Nevada Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet and a featured monologue in a National V-Day production of The Vagina Monologues.
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