The show goes on — as an audio play
In September 2019, four Bay Area theaters banded together to offer a “Churchill pass” to four plays by the daring, acute Caryl Churchill, all coincidentally scheduled for the same season.
The fourth, Magic Theatre’s “Escaped Alone,” didn’t get to open in spring as planned. But now, in yet another testament to the resilience and pluck of theater artists, it’s streaming as an audio play instead.
The show, which follows four older women in a series of backyard chats as apocalypse looms prominently in the background, features a gobsmacking cast, the likes of whom our limited theatrical canon would rarely permit on the same stage: Anne Darragh, Julia McNeal, Elizabeth Benedict and Anne Hallinan.
It’s also the last project directed by Loretta Greco during her tenure as the theater’s artistic director, capping 12 years of passionate advocacy for playwrights’ unique voices, of wild experimentation in what theater can be and who gets to make it.
“Escaped Alone”: Streaming through Nov. 15. $ 10. 415441- 8822. www. magic theatre. org