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New Artistic Director Lance Gardner launches Marin Theatre’s 2024/25 season with the U.S. premiere of the critically acclaimed noir mystery-meets-folk tale Yaga, by award-winning Canadian playwright Kat Sandler. Hailed by The Globe and Mail as “Delightfully devious. Sandler has triumphantly reclaimed the evil-woman myth. Move over, Wicked and Maleficent, and welcome Yaga to the sisterhood,” Yaga follows a big-city private eye who finds himself in a small, isolated town wondering what the disappearance of a yogurt empire heir has to do with random lore about an old witch. He joins forces with a local police officer, to zero in on a cast of curious characters including a sexy, whip-smart forensic bone expert whose shadowy past includes her healthy appetite for young men. What begins as a classic whodunit veers into the supernatural as the mythic Baba Yaga, rumored to keep a magic hut in the woods where she grinds the bones of the wicked, is revealed as a character in this crime tale. Noted theatre director Barbara Damashek, who has helmed local productions at Berkeley Rep, Aurora Theatre, Magic Theatre, and the multi-Tony Award-nominated Broadway production of Quilters, is set to direct this dark comedy. The cast features Rachel Clausen, Adam KuveNiemann, and Julia McNeal, all playing multiple characters.

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