The Play:
Using elements of personal narrative, live beat boxing and movement, Fist of Roses explores the definition of masculinity in our culture and its relationship to violence, primarily violent acts in relationships. Developed through interviews, open readings and public discussions with audience members and community groups, Fist of Roses investigates what pushes a person to hurt, even kill, someone they love. The work has a bold structure addressing the subject matter with the use of an MC, live music and dance in addition to scenes, characters and a volatile psychological environment influenced by actual case studies.

The Company:
Campo Santo's aim is to produce and present new work simply and directly letting the power of the words and the intimacy of the experience tell the story. Campo Santo is Spanish for graveyard, sacred ground or family of saints. Like the roots of its name, Campo Santo, takes the sacred form of storytelling and uses it as a tool to bond community - form a family and pass the flame.
Campo Santo cultivates writers not just playwrights, but also fiction writers and poets to work in a small, community-based space with actors, designers, directors and audiences to create new theatrical experiences that reflect and reinvent our society as it is today, its sins and saints, to live and learn from it.

The Reviews:
"Campo Rules. Spend an evening with Campo Santo and you'll see why this troupe is electrifying local theatre. They create the kind of living, breathing theatre that makes you want to stand up and shout."
San Francisco Magazine

"The cultural, class, and ethnic characteristics traded freely among the multicultural cast universalize the experience of domestic violence, without necessarily revitalizing it or sacrificing nuance."
The San Francisco Bay Guardian

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