Also: Check out Alice Neel’s stunning portraits; the Victorian Ladies Detective Collective is back; Pocket Opera performs.
Don’t let the title scare you. This production by Berkeley’s Central Works stage company is a sequel of sorts to its 2019 hit “The Victorian Ladies Detective Collective,” a sharp feminist comedy about a trio of London female sleuths. The new show, also penned by Patricia Milton, finds the threesome investigating why a famous woman explorer has been committed to a psychiatric hospital by her husband.
Neel was born in Pennsylvania, attended art school in Philadelphia and later settled in New York. The city and its people were her subjects. A lifelong social activist, she painted her neighbors in Spanish Harlem, a door-to-door salesman who was a Holocaust survivor, and cross-dressing performers in Andy Warhol’s circle. Plus friends, family and lovers — sometimes as full-length nudes.
Known for her compulsive honesty, Neel didn’t do portraits to flatter her subjects. And like the artist, many of her subjects look defiant. When the exhibit opened in New York, one critic said the people Neel depicted “dare you to like them.”“Alice Neel: People Come First”’ through July 10 at the de Young Museum, San Francisco; hours are 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday; $13-$28;
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