The Antipodes

The Actors’ Reading Collective presents

the West Coast premiere of

The Antipodes

by Annie Baker

directed by Alyson Schacherer

A play about people telling stories about telling stories.

In Annie Baker’s The Antipodes, a group of people sit around a table telling, cataloging, and theorizing stories. Are they brainstorming ideas for a TV show? A film? A mythology? This is a world where ghostly fables co-exist with mundane discussions of snacks and sexual exploits, where the vague instruction to tell stories about “something monstrous” though “it might not be a literal monster” becomes maddeningly impossible. Part satire, part sacred rite, The Antipodes asks what value stories have for a world in crisis.

1h55m, no intermission

Cast: Samuel Ademola*, Harry Davis*, Anthony Fusco*, Isabel Langen*, Robert Parsons*, 

Timothy Roy Redmond*, Rajiv Shah*, David Sinaiko*, Liz Sklar*

November 8 - December 1, 2024

514 Fourth St.

San Rafael, CA 94901

*Member, Actors' Equity