Twenty questions.(Interview)

KIRSTEN BRANDT, artistic director of San Diego's Sledgehammer Theatre, is the author of the acclaimed play Berzerkergang and other works. The recipient of a Back Stage West award and other honors for directing, she will stage two plays in the upcoming Sledgehammer season: August Strindberg's A Dream Play, in October, and David Tierney and Ruff Yeager's Bright, Shiny Objects--a new musical involving pirates running amok--in February.

You write and direct the kind of work that's called "edgy"--plays like Kelly Stuart's Furious Blood, which is a feminist Oresteia, or ...

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