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Aces Wild Theatre

Rich language. Strong acting. Pure storytelling.

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  • Location:Hayward, California, United States

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Aces Wild Theatre is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Aces Wild Theatre must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Aces Wild is currently developing a new performance piece, Unruly Mujeres, for international touring and we need your help. We are hoping to raise $1500 for a workshop presentation of the latest draft to take place in the summer of 2011.

This original piece, written/adapted by dramaturg Megan McClain, and directed by Dawn Monique Williams,  examines the lives of four real Spanish and Latin American nuns during Spain's Golden Age. These are not merely cloistered women, but also a self-taught scholar, a devout prankster, an audacious playwright, and a cross-dressing rogue who serves as a soldier.


"Upon entering a convent, nuns were perceived as dead to the world. Yet it is the liveliness in their writing and the fierceness of their intelligence that captured my imagination," McClain said. "Unruly Mujeres weaves together a variety of texts created by four women from different convents to create a rich portrait of the imagination that thrived in their works despite the gender and religious hierarchies of the age," says McClain. "This piece is a celebration of four womens talents and daring. These are their stories in their own words."

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Aces Wilds mission is to address the gap between what are valued as cultural artifacts such as classic texts, and who is valued as culturally significant. To that end, we seek to demarginalize the voices of women and people of color, calling for them to participate in the telling of compelling and resonant human stories. Through invigorating productions of classic and contemporary stage plays (and musicals) that employ heightened language, music, and call for complete physical embodiment, we maintain a commitment to perpetuating theatres cultural significance through bold theatrical story telling; that which fuels passions while engaging the mind, and nourishing whole communities and individuals alike.


Aces Wild is a diverse, international, company located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Aces has a rich history of successes, most recently including Glass Menagerie (2000), Twelfth Night (2004), Scapin the Cheat (2006), and Anna Bella Eema (2008). Starting with A Dream Play in 1990, Aces Wild producer, Tom Hird, has overseen a dozen works that have played locally and abroad, including Perebanez, The Masque of Beauty and the Beast, Open House, The Honorable Urashima Taro, Taming of the Shrew, and now, The Tempest. This longevity is proof of our firm commitment to embracing and innovating theatrical traditions.

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