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ABSURDIST SEASON 2000, JANUARY - JUNE 2000
EXIT Theatre presented ABSURDIST SEASON 2000 featuring premieres by three local award winning playwrights -- Dan Carbone, Mark Jackson and Ken Prestininzi - a recent play by Mac Wellman, and works by absurdist masters Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Michael McClure, and Harold Pinter.
 
THE CARETAKER by Harold Pinter, directed by Jason Ries. TWO brothers... ONE stranger... what could POSSIBLY be wrong? On the 40th anniversary of its original production, this Pinter classic will remind you that it is, after all, just another new year. Still, those of you already missing the "good old days" of Millennium hype should find plenty of angst-against-hope dynamic in this kickoff of Absurdist Season 2000 to fill the emptiness. Staged by Jason Ries (director of last season's Albert's Bridge) for your doomsday enjoyment. [CAST, CREW & DIRECTOR'S NOTES] [MEDIA] $14; $10 students, seniors, TBA (415.673.3847) EXIT Theatre 8PM Fri/Sat Jan 28 - Feb 26, 2000.
 
PRESTO PRONTO short plays by Prestininzi. READING IN BED: one woman and two men become overtaken by their desire for power without pain. Gratification is sought in a common bed and a coveted book ("superb absurdist short" -- SF Weekly); THE BATH: a washerwoman, the male body, and a good scrub combine to create a drastic case of stage fright and male bravado; BEGIN. OR?: an old man in theatrical denial outlasts the demands and heartbreak of the dying stage; NORA'S EXIT: a second look at Ibsen's infamous feminist door slam invites a new avante-garde reaction and celebration. Written and directed by Ken Prestininzi. (415.673.3847) $10 ($8 students, seniors, TBA) EXIT Stage Left, 7pm Tues/Wed Mar 14 - Apr 12, 2000.
 
CAT'S - PAW - A Meditation on the Don Juan Theme by Mac Wellman, directed by Christine Young. A Meditation on the Don Juan Theme by Mac Wellman, directed by Christine Young. In CAT'S-PAW, 4 real women are highlighted against the amazing background of New York's skyscrapers, as they discuss their lives, loves and losses. Wellman combines familiar relationships (mother-daughter, best friends) with his unique brand of weird and humorous language to reveal the true yet unspeakable things that happen beneath the surface of an ordinary conversation(415.673.3847) $10 ($8 students, seniors, TBA) EXIT Theatre, 7pm Tues/Wed Mar 14 - Apr 12, 2000.
 
Dan Carbone’s SALVADOR DALI TALKS TO THE ANIMALS IN THE HEAVEN ON TOP OF HEAVEN, directed by John Sowle. The Bay Guardian Goldie Award winner, and creator of last year’s Best of the Fringe piece, UP FROM THE GROUND returns to the EXIT in an all-new production. Dan Carbone, whom the Guardian called, "…a cross between Jonathan Winters and Cocteau," continues his mind-bending mythical, mystical journey into the space-time continuum by conjuring the persona of non-other than the late, lamented, Salvador Dali! And who better than to conduct this 20th Century kook’s tour, than the Divine Dali! See the notorious painter as he returns from the "Heaven on top of Heaven" to dig up the forgotten fragments of his life, (and many other lives as well), and shoves them back in your face! Though dead, he refuses to let go! The production will feature a full cast and be directed by John Sowle of Kaliuga Arts. (415.673.3847) EXIT Stage Left 7pm Tue/Wed, Apr 25 - May 24, 2000.
 
THE BEARD by Michael McClure, directed by Jacqueline Blackman. Primal, dirty and amusing exposing the human being as its true form: a creature with throbbing genitalia that is aroused by the slightest knee-jerk reaction. Billy the Kid and Jean Harlow scratch and purr in a swirling blue velvet eternity locked in a climactic destiny. As Norman Mailer states in the foreword that the play on its "surface seems simple, repetitive and obscene, there is an action working which is dramatic an comic at once Š speaking to us of the nature of seduction, the nature of attraction, and particularly, the nature of perverse temper between a man and a woman." THE BEARD was first performed in 1965 at the Actor's Workshop in San Francisco. Direct police intervention occurred after the fourth performance, charging the actors with "obscenity," "conspiracy to commit an felony," and "lewd and dissolute conduct in a public place."(415.673.3847) EXIT Cafe 7pm Tue/Wed Apr 25 - May 24, 2000.
 
THE LOST PLAYS OF JACQUES DU BON TEMPS directed by Mark Jackson. Jacques du Bon Temps has been all but erased from the pages of theatrical history. Only twelve documents prove the man even existed! Two of those documents are plays which foreshadowed the post-WWII movement we call Theater of the Absurd. Jacques was a compatriot of Antonin Artaud’s and inspired the likes of Beckett, Ionesco, and Camus. In their highly theatrical examination of our inability to communicate in life as well as art, THE LOST PLAYS OF JACQUES DU BON TEMPS are as potent, surreal, and hilarious today as they must have been in Paris over sixty years ago. They will receive their American premiere, directed by Mark Jackson (Artistic Director, Art Street Theatre). (415.673.3847) $10 ($8 students, seniors, TBA members). EXIT Stage Left, Jun 6 - 28, 2000, 7PM Tue/Wed.
 
ODDS & ENDS by Beckett & Ionesco, directed by Meredith Eldred. A collection of rarely produced shorts by two masters of the absurd on EXIT Theatre's new cabaret stage --- the lyrical pessimism of Samuel Beckett alongside the manic satire of Eugene Ionesco including: BREATH and ACT WITHOUT WORDS I by Beckett and STORY, STORY, STORY, STORY an adaptation of Ionesco's children's stories by award winning local playwright Sean Owens. (415.673.3847) $10 ($8 students, seniors, TBA members). EXIT Cafe, Jun 6 - 28, 2000, 7PM Tue/Wed.
EXIT THEATRE
156 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
email: mail@sffringe.org

EXIT Theatre, EXIT Stage Left, EXIT Cafe
Celebrating its 17th year on the wild side of downtown San Francisco, EXIT Theatre is an experimental theater with a bohemian cabaret atmosphere with three venues. EXIT Theatre is also the producer of the annual San Francisco Fringe Festival (September 7-17, 2000.) EXIT Theatre, EXIT Stage Left, and EXIT Cafe are located at 156 Eddy Street (between Mason and Taylor) in downtown San Francisco. There is adjacent parking and a short walk to the cable car and major public transportation.

EXIT THEATRE
156 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
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EMAIL: mail@sffringe.org
 
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