Bauer

The San Francisco Playhouse
450 Post Street San Francisco

The San Francisco Playhouse presents the world premiere of award-winning playwright Lauren Gunderson's (Exit, Pursued by a Bear) intriguing new production: Bauer. Rudolf Bauer -- a German artist celebrated for his avant-garde, nonobjective work -- was a genius so driven to create that he continued to sketch his drawings on scavenged scraps of paper even while jailed by the Gestapo for his "degenerate" art. And his passionate affair with Hilla Rebay (director and curator of the Guggenheim Museum) was the stuff of legend. So why did he stop creating? This provocative production delves into the life of this brilliant artist, exploring the power struggle and intrigue that ultimately led to Bauer's disappearance from the art world.