Morris’ Vibrant Take on Handel

Morris’ Vibrant Take on Handel

Joshua Kosman for San Francisco Chronicle

…But if many of us regard Arcadia as a foreign land, choreographer and director Mark Morris calls it home. "Acis and Galatea," his vibrant and enchanting new staging of Handel's pastoral entertainment that had its world premiere at Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall on Friday night, could almost serve as a visitors' guidebook.