Theater director Loretta Greco first encountered Olivier and Tony Award-winning playwright Jez Butterworth’s play The Hills of California in 2024 when it premiered in London. It was brand spanking new and she was gobsmacked. “I saw it before I read it. I had no sense I was walking into an encounter with a family not unlike my own,” she says in an interview.

Returning to the Bay Area to direct the play’s West Coast debut at Berkeley Rep, Oct. 31-Dec. 7, the former Artistic Director of San Francisco’s Magic Theatre embraces the opportunity to share its complex matrix of elements. Greco suggests local audiences thirst for new, alive, ferocious, and muscular theatrical voices.

“The Bay Area is like no other place on earth. I worked all over the country before I came to the Magic. Leaving aft

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