Wooster Group / New York City Players @ YBCA

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It's not every day that two of America's most renowned experimental theater companies share the same stage. The Wooster Group and New York City Players bring their much heralded, award-winning collaboration, Early Plays, to San Francisco for three nights only. A reprise of three one-act plays by Eugene O'Neill known collectively as the "Glencairn plays" — Bound East for Cardiff (1914), The Long Voyage Home (1917), and The Moon of the Caribbees (1918) — Early Plays recounts the tales of a group of sailors on a tramp steamer, exposing the under belly of turn-of-the-century maritime life and the longing and loneliness of life at sea. The episodes are threaded together with haunting melodies, composed and written by director Richard Maxwell, and staged with a simplicity and grace that allow these simple stories to resonate deeply and emotionally.

Since its inception in 1975, the Wooster Group has been celebrated as one of the most vibrant and vital voices in contemporary American theater. Known for their pioneering explorations with new technology and multidisciplinary art forms, they have left an indelible mark on contemporary performance. New York City Players, under the direction of Richard Maxwell, is a company known for its original productions rigorously stripped of theatrical artifice. The collaboration of these two companies created a ripple of excitement in the New York theater establishment and resulted in an Obie Award for direction for Richard Maxwell.