A production of Wintertime by Special Lecturer Charles L. Mee is in production at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California. The production is directed by Les Waters and runs until December 19, 2021.
In Wintertime, members of a gloriously eccentric family arrive at their summer house in the winter woods for a supposedly secret rendezvous—and soon bodies collide, doors slam, dishes fly, and everyone’s perfect plans go fantastically awry. With a wink to Magritte, a nod to Shakespeare, and a toast to the Greeks, this poetic and hyper-kinetic voyage through the human heart never lets us forget that love, like life, is eternal, messy . . . and wondrous.
Playwright Charles L. Mee has written Big Love, True Love, First Love, bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, Orestes 2.0, Trojan Women: A Love Story, Summertime and Wintertime among others. His plays have been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, as well as in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Vienna, Istanbul and elsewhere. He was honored with a full season of his plays at the Signature Theatre. He is the recipient of the Award of Merit in Drama from the Academy of Arts and Letters, two Obies, a Laura Pels Award, the Booth Award, and the Richard B. Fischer Award. He is also the author of books including Meeting at Potsdam, The Marshall Plan, The End of Order. Mee was the former editor-in-chief of Horizon, a magazine of history, art, literature, and the fine arts. He is a lifetime trustee of the Washington Think Tank and The Urban Institute. His work is made possible by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher.
For tickets and more information about ‘Wintertime’ visit the Berkeley Rep website.
