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Breaking Open: A Night of Solo Stories and Playback Theater (San Rafael)

Sunday, May 31, 2026 - 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Sliding Scale tickets from $0 to $37
Marin Shakespeare | 514 Fourth Street Theatre, San Rafael, CA 94901

Event Details

Submitted by the Event Organizer

FIPPP.org

Join the Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project (FIPPP) and Marin Shakes for an intimate, powerful evening of truth-telling and human connection. The show features performers from FIPPP, who have been formerly incarcerated, sharing raw, heartfelt solo stories from their lives. Through vulnerability, humor, grief, and resilience, their performances illuminate the complexities of survival, incarceration, and transformation. The evening culminates in an interactive Playback Theater experience by Marin Shakespeare’s Returned Citizens Theatre Troupe (RCTT), where audience members are invited to share their emotional responses and see them spontaneously brought to life on stage.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.


Cost: FREE*
*Sliding Scale tickets from $0 to $37
Categories: In Person, Theater & Performance
Venue: Marin Shakespeare
Address: 514 Fourth Street Theatre, San Rafael, CA 94901

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