MORE Theater/SB creates site-specific theater inspired by local stories, history, buildings, and our environment. We produce original plays and adaptations for non-traditional performance spaces throughout the Santa Barbara area.
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Tolstoy's ANNA KARENINA
DATES: Sept. 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30
TIME: 4:30-6pm
LOCATION: Goleta Train Depot Museum
An original adaptation with Tolstoy struggling to tell the stories of “each unhappy family being unhappy in its own way.”
Anna, Dolly, Kitty, Vronsky, Stepan, Levin and Alexei reveal their obsessions with family, technology, war and grand balls through the mazurka dance and Chopin’s music.
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MADAME EBENEZA'S HOLIDAY INN
DATES: Nov. 27, 28, Dec. 3,4,5, 10,11,12
TIME: 3-5PM
LOCATION: To Be Announced
A retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol examining wealth acquisition and exploitation.
It’s the beginning of the holiday season in the foggy seaside town but Madame Ebeneza has no reservations at her Inn. Then her former associate, Margo, appears, angrily warning Ebeneza that her mistreatment, hoarding, and stinginess has produced three Spirits who will soon visit her. But they won’t be bringing the money or things that Ebeneza covets.
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Whalers' Triptych II: The Harpooners Speak
AUTUMN 2026
The final installment of our Whalers’ Triptych cycle, based on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, written experimenting with an AI generated script.
Queequeg, Tashtego, Daggoo, and Fedallah are harpooners undertaking what will be their last whaling expedition. Each considers their commitment to life and death in the oceans within their own cultural practices.
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TRIMMING
SPRING 2027
A family and their farm changes overnight with the legalization of cannabis spurring an industry mania for both growers and users.
