La Jolla Playhouse

Platonov

A live cinema performance that mixes the experience of Shakespeare in the Park with the nostalgia of a drive-in movie.

Tickets: $25

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Venue: Lawn in front of Galbraith Hall, UCSD

100% San Diego

A customized, reality-based piece in which San Diego County’s population is represented on stage by 100 San Diegans.

Tickets: $15

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Venue: Festival Village, Forum Theatre

The Car Plays: San Diego

Back by popular demand after a sold-out run in Spring 2012, The Car Plays: San Diego are intimate ten-minute plays, each taking place in a car.

Tickets: $25

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Venue: Festival Village, Valet Lane

We Built This City

An interactive play space for families which celebrates absolute simplicity and the power of children’s imaginations.

Tickets: $5

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Venue: UCSD, Revelle Plaza

Our Town

Thornton Wilder's classic is faithfully re-imagined as an intimate backyard gathering with live, original music and all the free soda-pop you can drink.

Tickets: $25

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Venue: Festival Village, Rear of the Forum Theatre

Seafoam Sleepwalk

A performance of specially-constructed puppets enchant and invite us to dream awake before they return from whence they came.

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Venue: La Jolla Shores Beach, below Scripps Seaside Forum

Kamchàtka

Eight characters, lost in a city. They move together, each carrying a suitcase and a souvenir, and show us how to view everything as if it were the first time we saw it.

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Venue: Festival Village and various other San Diego locations

Counterweight: An Elevator Love Play

Take a ride on Betty Jean’s elevator, where she’ll offer up voyeuristic peeks into three couples’ stories across three different floors.

Tickets: $15

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Venue: Festival Village, Potiker Theatre Elevator

Carpe Minuta Prima

This acclaimed installation playfully explores themes of economy, the value of our time and what it means to sign away your soul.

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Venue: Festival Village

Cornerstone

A short play in which the audience becomes engineers working at The Central Facilities Plant located at the Center of Civilization.

Tickets: $15

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Venue: UCSD, Central Facilities Plant

Hedda'ing

A cross cultural, dance theatre exploration investigates the polarities that exist between the role of home as a sanctuary and as a prison.

Tickets: $15

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Venue: UCSD, at the “Fallen Star” Sculpture, Jacobs Hall

La Perfezione di uno spirito sottile

A ritual of music to be performed in the open, in the vicinity of precipices, cliffs, strange rock formations or boundless upland plains.

Tickets: $15

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Venue: Festival Village, Wegman Overlook

The Myth Project: Altar

A dance theatre work highlighting UC San Diego’s Che Café on the site-specific historical, radical and youth-driven iconic institution.

Tickets: $25

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Venue: UCSD, Che Café

PAUSE (for world creation)

This generative dance theatre experience brings artists and audiences together on a real-time journey into our collective imagination.

Tickets: $25

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Venue: UCSD, Galbraith Hall West

Our Star Will Die Alone

Through sound, light, projection, and a death metal band, this performance will articulate the productive and destructive aspects of stellar evolution.

Tickets: $15

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Venue: UCSD, Galbraith Hall South

A Willow Grows Aslant

An immersive, ambulatory experience, the labyrinthine corridors of Galbraith Hall’s basement will transform uniquely for each audience member.

Tickets: $15

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Venue: UCSD, Galbraith Hall Basement

Futuristic Retro Ritual

Celebrated performance and conceptual artist James Luna takes up the iconic image of the American Indian storyteller.

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Venue: Festival Village, West side of the Weiss Theatre

Off the Old Block

A group of women chip away at cast plaster cubes over the course of many hours, addressing themes of change and social structures.

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Venue: Festival Village, Mark Taper Plaza

Orifice II

In this site-specific, performative video installation, Satterwhite performs as one of the avatars that appear in his 3-D computer animations.

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