Written and Performed by
Nina Wise

Photo by
Kevin Berne

Nina Wise's
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

May 7 - 22, 2010
The Marsh Berkeley
2120 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA

Fri at 9pm
Sat at 8pm
(Except Saturday, May 8 at 9pm)
The Cabaret at The Marsh Berkeley

In WHAT JUST HAPPENED, Nina Wise in her signature style builds an improvised performance from the personal and political events which have transpired over the previous 24 hours. In 2009, Nina performed this piece at The Marsh in San Francisco to a sold out audience and received standing ovations. Nina’s work is extremely funny inspiring comparisons to Lily Tomlin and Feiffer’s cartoons, yet is also surprisingly poignant. Audiences repeatedly report that they are at one instant laughing so hard they are falling off their seats and the next moment, moved to tears.

Nina is a seasoned performer and a dedicated meditator. She brings her skills at stage and spirit into always unpredictable renditions of what it is like to be human.

60-75 minutes
no intermission

All seating for this performance is first-come, first-served. 

This show is 12+.

Please do not bring infants to the show.

The Cabaret at The Marsh Berkeley

"A metaphysical vaudevillian for the new millennium."
- Bob Morris, N.Y. Times columnist

"Wise’s innovative and spontaneous approach to telling her stories has earned her praise across the country. Her point blank eloquence is astonishing. A word to the Wise would be to go see Wise when you have the opportunity."
- Ashland Theater Review

"You leave a Nina Wise performance uplifted, as if you've seen something fresh, moving and above all, deeply human."
- Ashland Tribune

"No mere talking head, Wise possesses a supple physique, prodigious energy, and nerve with which to render the shapes and souls of things. Lovingkindness abounds in her work. She makes art as fresh as the day's headlines."
- Village Voice

"Performance artists come and go and often disappear to no one’s sorrow. But Nina Wise is something else again. She shapes theater pieces that are thoroughly grounded in theatrical design, rhythmic flow, intellectual commitment and emotional depth."
- SF Chronicle

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MOVING STORIES
Performances by Nina's advanced Motion Theater Students
Amy Cranch, Sybil Meyer, AmieSpitler, Davida Taurek, Heather Marlowe and Deborah Gerson

Thur, May 20 & 27 at 8pm
The Cabaret at The Marsh Berkeley