SITE PACIFIC PRESENTS
FORK
A multi-media production using film, projection, puppetry and mask, FORK explores domestic violence and incest from the perspective of the idolized virgin. Comprising community members and students from UCSB and SBCC, the cast and crew are a highly motivated and talented group of theatre artists.

Subjects such as domestic violence, child abuse, and incest have been explored by a handful of modern American playwrights such as: Paula Vogel, Erin Cressida Wilson, Maria Irene Fornes and Ntozake Shange. Yet no American playwright has dealt with domestic violence from the perspective of the child victim. FORK reaches even further: it explores the repercussions a violent childhood on the adult survivor.

FORK explores the unspeakable from an unraveling woman's perspective, as she attempts to run from the gritty artifacts of her past and present lives. An expressionistic and absurd glimpse of female construction and deconstruction, FORK is a wild ride through a daughter's relationship with her younger self, her family and her dead father. FORK is both an internal and external journey play that illuminates the secret truths of the choices for those left behind.

Site Pacific, a local non-profit theatre company, has signed on to produce FORK as the premiere work of their 2004 -2005 season:

Marc E. Shaw and Kate Al-Shamma, PhD candidates at UC Santa Barbara, formed Site Pacific in Santa Barbara in 2002. Their productions have included Twelfth Night, The House of Bernarda Alba, and Swimmer. Honors include three Independent Awards (Santa Barbara Critics' Awards), participation in the internationally acclaimed Lit Moon Theatre Festival (2003), and an invitation by internationally renowned Playwright, Naomi Iizuka, to create a new work at the inaugural Summer Theater Lab (2004). Site Pacific also hosts a site-specific theatre festival on UCSB's campus each year.

A portion of the profits from the Santa Barbara performances of FORK will be donated to Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County:

Domestic Violence Solutions works to end the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence by providing prevention and intervention services and by challenging society's attitudes, beliefs and behaviors to effect social change. For more information, go to www.dvsolutions.org.

The benefits from FORK don't stop here. We are actively submitting the show to both national and international festivals, giving our actors, designers and technicians an opportunity to take their work to the next level of professional theatre artistry.

Most importantly, FORK will show the unspeakable as a tool for healing.

"If we cannot confront domestic violence on our stages, we will not be able to eliminate it from our living rooms."

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BOX OFFICE INFORMATION
The Center Stage Theater Box Office is open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 5:00 P.M., and one hour before each performance. See below for location.

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LOCATION AND DIRECTIONS
Center Stage Theater is located in the Paseo Nuevo Center, upstairs at the intersection of Chapala and De la Guerra Streets, Santa Barbara, California.

Take Highway 101 to Carrillo Street, exit and turn toward the mountains (northbound turns right, southbound turns left). Proceed to Chapala Street (fourth light) and turn right. Proceed 1-1/2 blocks and turn left into either of two entrances to Paseo Nuevo. Park near the elevator, or proceed to roof-level parking.