Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts Presents
The History of Stone

Appeared at JSC April, 2006

by Ian Walker

directed by Alice Shikina

Best Play of the 2006 Bay One-Acts Festival
Two months after Ian Walker’s The History of Stone moved audiences in San Francisco’s Eureka Theatre, it is back to tell the story of oppression and redemption with South Africa’s racial divide serving as backdrop.

The History of Stone takes place one year after the fall of apartheid in South Africa. An American anthropologist (Sylvia Kratins) and her black South African colleague (Fred Pitts) are traveling together studying cave paintings when they cross paths with a white South African (Kirk Crist), who is tormented by his past. Can the men’s pasts be reconciled and can either man learn to see the other in a different light in this new world?

Ian Walker (Playwright), winner of the John Golden Prize in playwriting, a Drama Logue award for Outstanding Sound Design, and three Best of Fringe Awards. His plays have been performed by The Actor's Collective (CA), The Pear Avenue Theatre (CA), Second Wind (CA), Luna Stage (NJ), Tabia (CA), The Deptford Players (NY), and Theaterfest (NJ) among others. He is the author of seven full length plays: Killing Time, Black Lies, Vigilance, Ghost in the Light, The Stone Trilogy, A Beautiful Home for the Incurable, and The Gravedigger's Tango.

Ian Walker's webpage

Alice Shikina (Director), Artistic Director of Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company. She has directed Being on the Outside, How High the Moon, a dance version of A Doll’s House and The Prima Mommas in Stretch Marks - most recently.

www.threewisemonkeys.org

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