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Meet the Cartozians

Single tickets on sale Nov 18
Fri, May 21, 2027 - Sun, Jun 27, 2027

By Talene Monahon
Directed by Loretta Greco
A co-production with The Huntington
West Coast premiere
Peet’s Theatre

In the 1920s, an Armenian American man wages a quiet legal battle for the right to belong. A century later, a group of Armenian Americans wage a different type of battle on the set of his descendant’s reality television show. Talene Monahon’s boldly imaginative new play stitches together historical drama and scorching satire in what The New York Times calls “wildly funny” and “pure entertainment.” At once hilarious and haunting, Meet the Cartozians exposes a little-known chapter of American history while asking a question that refuses to stay in the past: Who gets to be American, and at what cost?

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  • Masks required: May 23 evening, Jun 1 evening, and Jun 6 matinee
  • Closed captioning: evenings May 27, 28, and 30, Jun 1 and 2; and every matinee through Jun 24
  • Audio description: Jun 26 matinee
  • Theatre Explorers: Jun 12 matinee — K–5 workshop for families
  • Postshow discussions: evenings Jun 3, Jun 11, and Jun 15 — guided by members of Berkeley Rep’s artistic team
  • Docent-led postshow discussions: after all matinees

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