![]() The trick has been to activate the narrative - so often the narrative can be a veil between the audience and the story.” ![]() It’s exhilarating, an epic maritime adventure, and it established many of the tropes of pirates, from parrots to peglegs, all of that comes from here. “I knew as soon as I started reading ‘Treasure Island’ that it belonged on the stage. “It’s so very beautifully written,” says the 55-year-old Zimmerman, in her customary part chatty, part scholarly manner during a break in rehearsals at Berkeley Rep. This is the West Coast premiere of the latest theatrical spectacle from the always visually ingenious director. A coproduction with Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre, this high seas adventure runs through June 5 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, adapted and directed by Zimmerman. ![]() “Treasure” charts the topsy-turvy course of Jim Hawkins, a young lad who is swept up with the infamous pirate Long John Silver and his band of scalawags seeking buried treasure on a faraway island. “I love the challenge of staging the impossible,” says the Tony-winning director, “That’s what excites me.” The Chicago-based theatrical alchemist has journeyed through a canon of eye-popping legends such as the tragic and hypnotic “The White Snake” and her mesmerizing Tony-winning twist on Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.” Now she is setting sail once again for a voyage through the Robert Louis Stevenson classic “Treasure Island.” ![]() ![]() Mary Zimmerman is an old salt when it comes to sailing the high seas of myth and fable. ![]()
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