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- ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
ALL IN THE TIMING
ANOTHER FEMME FATALE FREAK SHOW
BEAVERZILLA
BILL'S FAMILY FUNTIME
BIRD CLUB: LETTER TO SANDRA BERNHARD
BRACE YOURSELF
BY A THREAD
CHARLIE'S ANGEL
CONDOM, THE CUCUMBER AND THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA
DAY TRIPPERS IV: PLAY- IN-A- DAY MARATHON
DIAMONDS
DUET
FAMILY TREE
FANTASTIC PRODUCT
FAREWELL TO FLESH
FINAL EXAM
FRANKENSTEIN: THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
GILD THE LILY
GOD COMPLEX
HEART OF DARKNESS
HOW TO BE A SECRET AGENT GIRL…
HUNTING OF THE SNARK
INGRATITUDE
INTERSTATE ZERO: A MONO/TRAVELOG
KITY ULTRASOUND HITS THE ROAD
KRESKINNED
LAST SMOKER IN BERKELEY
LISTEN, I'M ONLY ONE WOMAN…
LITTLE BIT PREGNANT
LOOSE WOMAN
LUCID
MACY'S ACCOUNT
MEET JOHN W.T.O.
MIDAIR: ODES TO EASYCOMEASYGO
MOCK NAVAL BATTLES!!!
MOTHER'S MILK
ONE OR TWO THINGS
PILGRIM PROJECT
QUEENS RAIN
QUEENS!
SEARCHING FOR THE 60'S
SHANDYLAND MCVII: SHANDY IN THE FLESH…
SHARED SKITLESS
SISTERS OF SATURN
STORE ONE BLOCK EAST OF JEROME
STRANGER AND STRANGER
TOASTED
UNDERHOPE
WARZONE
WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE
YOGA OF MOBY DICK
ZOO STORY
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, adapted by Carol McCollum
Stark Raven Historical Players Oakland, CA 55 minutes
Musical Theatre Contains Pepper and Dancing Lobsters.
A Delightful Authentic Victorian Musical Spectacle! Replete with dazzling costume and puppet work and bursting with original music and dance, this abridged production provides an exciting whirl through Lewis Carroll's classic tale. The Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Queen of Hearts, and other unforgettable characters gimbol and gyre 'round Alice in absurd glee. This production remains faithful to Mr. Carroll's words -- silly, irreverent, and imaginative. Carroll's book was the first Victorian work that didn't moralize or instruct children how to behave; rather Alice is a figure representing all of us, trying to make some sense ot of a completely mad world. And don't dancin' with a lobster or two always make you feel better 'bout that crazy world out there? So get out those lobster bibs and join Stark Ravens for a show to charm young and old alike!
All in the Timing
David Ives
The Directors Theater of San Francisco in association with The Church of Carbon Theater Company San Francisco 59 minutes Play-Comedy Not for children Mature Content, Coarse Language, Smoking
All in the Timing includes four short plays (Sure Thing; Words, Words, Words; The Philadelphia; and English Made Simple) by David Ives that humorously explore a variety of complex situations experienced through an assortment of unusual characters. From lonely bachelors to philosophizing chimpanzees, these eccentric personalities will usher the audience through a lively fiesta of insurmountable wit and hilarity. What's funnier than human neurosis?…chimps with writers block!
Another Femme Fatale Freak Show
Karen Krolak
MONKEYHOUSE Boston, MA 50minutes Dance Theater Children over
the age of 13 could enjoy it.
Another Femme Fatale Freak Show is a sexy, satirical, sometimes silly,
and
certainly surreal series of short dance theater pieces choreographed by
Karen Krolak in collaboration with Nicole Harris, Beth McGuire, and Amelia
O'Dowd. "With her instinct for sexy absurdity, Krolak should really
think
about offering her services to Madonna." Debra Cash, Boston Globe.
"Her work
was bold and gutsy...a work that sucessfully welded theatrics with dancing"
Christie Taylor, Boston Herald.
Beaverzilla
Tiny Tuna Theatre Collective
Tiny Tuna Calgary Alberta, Canada 55 Minutes Play-Comedy Intended
For Mature Audiences Only Warning, Low-Budget Special Effects
ALL BEAVERZILLA PERFORMANCES CANCELLED !!!
Bill's Family Funtime
Bill Larkin
Bill Larkin: Bill's Family Funtime Los Angeles, Ca
45 minutes Comedy with Music Children over the age of 14 could enjoy it
Mature Content, Some Language
Pianist/comedian Bill Larkin sits down for you and sings about family. And he's baring his soul so you better appreciate all he's doing for you. Complete with a slide show, a sketch featuring Michael Ciccolini, and music and whimsy and whoo-hoo. It's Tom Lehrer meets Steve Martin with a hint of Kirk Cameron. Winner: Best Male Performer - 2000 Orlando Fringe Festival. As seen on Comedy Central's Premium Blend. Bill Larkin has also been seen as the songwriter in the Frosted Flakes commercials. Funtime has been performed at the Orlando Fringe Festival, Rose's Turn in New York City and the Cinegrill in Los Angeles.
The Bird Club: Letter to Sandra Bernhard
Darren Patrick Blaney
Dboyflare Productions Written in NYC, 1st produced in San
Francisco 60 minutes Multi-media Solo Performance Art Children over the
age of 16 could enjoy it. Not for young children Some mature content &
coarse language
Revealing more than a handful of subtle character monologues and folk songs, in "The Bird Club: Letter to Sandra Bernhard", Darren shows us a collection of wistful and melancholy, yet at the same time optimistic, people who challenge the viewer to come along for the ride of his sanguine daydreams. Playing everything from a former stripper turned bored Brooklyn housewife, to a transgendered lesbian pining for true love, to a visionary anthropologist, to an optimistic HIV+ housecleaner, Darren gives us real life in sixty-five minutes without the commercials of prime-time television. His vision is one that moves from despair to hope in an attempt to inspire!
Brace Yourself
Liebe Wetzel
Lunatique Fantastique Oakland 50 minutes Puppetry Not for
children some objects appear naked.....
Champion of the inner lives of ordinary objects and winner of the 2000Goldie Award for theater, Liebe Wetzel and her Lunatique Fantastique ensemble are back at the Fringe this year to premiere the new play, "Brace Yourself". Using only shoes, wheels, a purse, and her father's actual leg brace, Wetzel and her puppetry ensemble create a simple yet whimsical story of one man's life with polio. Through movement, lighting, shadows, and sounds, Lunatique Fantastique draws playful, poignant, and powerful images out of the objects and puts them into the minds of its audience. Our 1999 show was sold out, get in line early!!! "Wetzel's work comes close to genius." --Robert Hurwitt, SF Chronicle. Visit our website at www.lunfan.com
By a Thread
Diane Flacks
The Wee Theatre Toronto 55 MINUTES One-woman show Children
over the age of 14 could enjoy it. Mature content, Coarse Language
Meet Rose. She is a blocked painter and the audience is her canvass. Hold on tight for a razzle-dazzle, roller-coaster ride of astral projection, irrational fears, childhood adventures, adult misadventures.... From the hilarious to the tumultuous, imagine life..."By a Thread". This critically acclaimed one-woman show may induce laughter harmful to health.
Charlie's Angel
Jonathan Rice
Fleshpuppets London, UK. 40 minutes Play-Drama Not for children
Mature content & Coarse Language
Meet gay Jimmy...trusting and loyal especially towards his identical
twin brother Charlie. Meet homophobic Charlie ... paranoid and aggressive
especially towards
brother Jimmy. Charlie is savagely beaten. Was it a case of mistaken identity?
Who's to blame? This short one-act-one-man play, nominated for 2 awards
at Edinburgh, is "An intense, blazing drama.... Jonathan Rice's performance
is faultless, confrontational, schizophrenically charged ... " - The
Herald " **** " -The Scotsman
The Condom, The Cucumber and The
Girl From Ipanema
The Company
Pauper Etiquette Theatre Company Inc. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
Canada 60 Minutes Comedy Not for children Mature content,Coarse Language,
Nudity, Canadian
The First Date: is there another social ritual so full of promise, so fraught with anxiety? Four twenty-somethings struggle to navigate the mating minefield with the help of a certain glossy magazine, the right underwear and some surprising motherly advide. A witty, sexy and sometimes poignant exploration of the state of the dating nation.
Day Trippers IV: Play-In-A-Day Marathon
Various
The Rough Theatre Company San Francisco, CA 55 Minutes
Improv/Sketch Play-Comedy/Drama (you never know!) Not for Children Mature
Content, Coarse Language, Nudity, Smoking (anything is possible - but we
try not to offend anyone)
What do you get when you take three writers, three directors, approximately 12 actors, give them a single topic and ask them to be ready to perform three one-act plays that night? We honestly have no idea… but we never do! For the 4th time in the past 2 years, The Rough Theatre presents "DayTrippers IV: A-Play-In-A-Day Marathon". Come and see three plays, which have been written, rehearsed and performed within 24 hours. You never know what you'll run into as you're cruisin' on a "Day Trip".
Diamonds
Vonn Scott Bair
SF O.R.C.A. San Francisco 56 minutes Play-Comedy Children
over the age of 15 could enjoy it.
Welcome to the world premiere of Diamonds and to ORCA, San Francisco's newest theater company! Diamonds consists of four plays which include one of the world's shortest five-act plays, plus tributes to Japanese Kyogen theater, pediatrician/poet William Carlos Williams, and the Surrealist painter Rene Magritte. Come see four great actors create four big performances from four ultra-short plays!
Duet
Jeni Johnson
Los Angeles 45 minutes Solo Performance Children over the
age of 12 could enjoy it. Xeroxed photos of nude body parts (fairly innocuous)
Duet is an original solo performance by Buster Keaton look-alike, Jeni Johnson, combining elements of silent film, clowning, postmodern dance, and very bad puppetry. Inspired, in part, by a case of ironic-cartoon fatigue, Duet is an utterly hilarious yet sincere look at the nuanced landscape of relationship.
The Family Tree
Denise Dee
Theater of Hiareth San Francisco
55 minutes Play-Drama Children over the age of 13 could enjoy it. Mature
content Gunshot Coarse Language Dark Emotions
My Grandma says, "I planted a tree when you were born. It's what we did in the old country."... How sweet or is it?...My Mother says, "Don't look back." But she doesn't want to dance away from her past...Memory is poetic. Everyday words can be harsh....When do you realize hand-me-downs don't always fit?
Fantastic Product
The People Who Do That
San Francisco / Los Angeles 55 Minutes Improv/Sketch Not for
children Mature content, Coarse language, May contain gunshots, Will punch
you in
the mind
Shiny things that take off their pants and explode! The People Who Do That are America's Most Adorable Sketch Comedy Troupe, and they make it easy for you. The People deliver scathing critiques of famous people, "culture," and Our God, Television. No fuss, no mess! So don't get left behind, like those other folks. The People Who Do That: we mock your pain, or it's free!
Farewell to Flesh
Helen Reynolds and the company
Spinning Wheel Exeter, England 50 minutes Black Humour involving
audience participation Not really a childrens show but late adolecents may
gain from it. Audience participation = unpredictable.
Once Upon a Time, quite recently, in a nearby land, far far away,lived
a people, in a time of discontent, whose beating hearts stood still. This
is NOT your Mother's Goose Nor your Brother's Grim.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin...
Final Exam
Sue Clark
Toiling Lily Productions San Francisco, CA 50 minutes Play-Drama
Children over the age of 14 might enjoy it.
A dark but comic drama about life choices. Amanda, a mother and wife, has lived an ordinary life. She says she has no regrets but she now faces the test of her life. Or is it her afterlife? Is there still time to learn some of life's most important lessons? And can two strange men with whom she has nothing in common, help her find out what they are?
Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus
Modern Prometheus Productions
San Francisco 60 minutes A Dramatic Adventure in Horror Mature
Language, blood, fire, partial nudity
Biotech reanimation unleashes savage purity in this tale of passionate
obsession.
Prometheus brought the flame of technology to humanity; Victoria Frankenstein
uses it to become a God. As a top scientist at GenTel, Victoria conducts
her own research. But her creation is far more hideous than anything she
could have imagined, threatening the life of her family, her friends, and
the woman she loves. An original creation for the Fringe.
Gild The Lily
Lisa Larice and Holly Payne
MobGirl64 Productions San Francisco 60 minutes
Sketch Comedy Children over the age of 14 could enjoy it. Some coarse language,
may contain half-baked JFK conspiracy theories
Who hasn't been on the 30 Stockton, and not seen the old ladies chattering
away like tiny canaries? Who hasn't worked in an office with that really
quiet guy, who nobody knows what he does? Who hasn't been assaulted by girlscouts
hawking their wares? And...who hasn't had a relation-ship sink?
Peek into these worlds and more...
God Complex
Gabriel Diani
Fablewood Productions San Francisco 45 minutes Play-Comedy
Children over the age of 13 could enjoy it.
Is there a higher power? Why are we here? Do we possess an immortal soul
or
are we all just decomposable matter? These are only three of the questions
this show will not answer. Instead, humorist Gabriel Diani examines humankind's
relationship to myth through various satiric and poignant monologues celebrating
the ideals of hypocrisy, intolerance, and the timeless message of the Church,
"I'm right. You're wrong. God help you."
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad, adapted by John Rackham.
Rogues' Yarn Theatre Co. London, U.K. 55 Minutes Play-Drama
Children over the age of 12 could enjoy it.
Brando, Sheen, Duvall and Coppola have taken the journey into the 'Heart
of Darkness'. Will you? See the Enlish theatre company Rogues' Yarn award
winning production of the original 'Apocolypse Now'.
SIMPLY STUNNING- The London Fringe
AWESOME- Huron University
THE YARDSTICK BY WHICH WE JUDGE ALL ADAPTATIONS OF CONRAD- Members of the
Joseph Conrad Society.
CAST: Henry Dunn, John Rackham, Ben Shockley
Email address: henrygdunn@hotmail.com
How To Be A Secret Agent Girl As Seen
On American Television And In Movies
Cathleen Daly
Blue Dakini Productions Albany, CA 60 minutes Performance
Art Children over the age of 14 could enjoy it.
here are definitely too many ladies (and one dirty old pirate) in Cathleen
Daly's head! Big ladies, little ladies, nice ladies, mean ladies, ladies
who work for The Federal Bureau of Investigation. Come see them walk, talk,
romp, rage, and shake their behinds in this collection of original performance
pieces.......Spicy, new works that blend spoken word, movement, music, and
character.
Cathleen Daly has been writing and performing her own spokenword and performance
pieces in the Bay Area for 12 years. She co-wrote and co-starred in her
most recent show "The Bad & The Lovely" at 8th St. Studio
in Berkeley. She performed her one woman show "The Humming Girl"
to sold out audiences at The Diesel Cathedral in San Francisco in 1996.
Her monologue "The Art Of Allurement" premiered at The Cable Car
Theatre and was deemed "Hilarious" by the Bay Guardian. She performed
her piece "Between The Lines" in the series "In Local Motion"
produced by The Choreographers Alliance it was deemed "well constructed
and humorous" by David Gere of The Oakland Tribune. Performed by: Cathleen
Daly, Kari Wishingrad
The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll/Russ Duffy
CTT-SF San Francisco 54 Minutes Physical Theatre with Puppets
and Live Performers Children over the age of 10 could enjoy it. Strobe,
Loud whistle
Children's Theatre for Adults? Russ Duffy and Rachel Rajput create an eerie dreamworld of hope and disappointment, loss and ecstasy. An ensemble of masked buffoons and an entourage of scary puppets (designed from sketches by seven-year-old Douglas Duffy Johnson) perform Lewis Carroll's epic poem. "Perhaps we never stop being afraid of the bogeyman. Perhaps we just get used to the fear..."
Ingratitude
Gregory Meyer
Lantern Theater Co. Palo Alto, CA 50 minutes Play-Drama Children
over the age of 12 could enjoy it. Mature content Coarse Language
Frank and Ann are urban pioneers who have finally made it. Now it's time to settle in and start a family. Or is it? "Virginia Woolf" meets "High and Low" in this witty drama of kidnapping, lost children and lost parents on a move-in day that turns mistaken identity into a struggle over "family values" you will never forget.
Interstate Zero: a mono/travelog
Atomic Elroy
Chaos Studios Colorado Springs 50 minutes Solo Performance
Comedy Not for children Coarse Language Reveals Taoist secrets
Atomic Elroy presents a post modern medicine show by the Beatnik Dr. "Pop" Culture and many other characters. Lamopooning everything from Road Rage to Range Rovers. Atomic Elroy takes you down the highway of life he calls, Interstate Zero. For anyone who realizes that the journey of 1000 miles starts with carrying your baggage.
Kitty Ultrasound Hits the Road
Barbara Early
Ultrasound Productions San Francisco 50 Minutes Cabaret Not
for Children
A shamelessly delirious, gender-induced spectacle that will have you rooting and aroused for Kitty. She's a Diva transformed! With songs as tender, provocative and probing as a sonogram, Kitty reinvents herself before your very eyes. See her surgically unencumbered, seductive song stylings in this playful evening of individuated cabaret. Ever want to claw your way out of yourself and be somebody else? Somebody blonde, Jung and special? Kitty did. Watch.
Kreskinned
Michael Healey and Kate Lynch
Interzone Productions Toronto, Ontario, Canada 45 minutes
Play-Comedy Children over the age of 14 could enjoy it. Mature content
Do first date blues get you down? What if you had the power to help your date forget every stupid thing you say or do? Would you thank The Amazing Kreskin? "Kreskinned" is a comic tale about dating, post-hypnotic suggestion and dog walking. Rumor has it that Interzone Productions "do it all and do it funny" (eye Magazine 1999, Toronto). FILIGREE!
The Last Smoker In Berkeley
Sara DeWitt
One of the Old White Girls Berkeley, CA 45 minutes Solo Performance
with music Children over the age of 12 could enjoy it
Can you imagine the severe cost to my middle aged respectability as the last smoker of nicotine - tar filled cigarettes in the rabidly political and neo-puritanical City of Berkeley, California?
Listen, i'm only one woman...
Susan Stewart
One woman productions Toronto 55 minutes Stand-up comedy Not
for children Coarse language
Toronto comedienne, Susan Stewart, brings her hilarious hit one-woman
show
that, unlike most one-woman shows, is not a therapy session on stage. There
is no talk of substance abuse (because it's none of your damn business)
and
There is no talk of family secrets (honey, we all got 'em) - listen, i'm
Only one woman... Is pure, non-stop laughs all the way from Canada.
A Little Bit Pregnant
Barbara Brown
Anchorage, Alaska 35 minutes Solo Performance Children over
the age of 14 could enjoy it. Coarse Language (2 "bad" words)
Caution: Flying sperm
A hilarious and heartbreaking account of infertility interventions. "...charts, graphs, ... and turkey baster injections. Brown hilariously acts out the intricacies of this often-wacky methodology with the utmost of deadpan sincerity. She is clearly a woman on a mission, and we in the audience are rooting for her."- Anchorage Press "top-notch ... spirited ... thoughtful and entertaining theater." - Anchorage Daily News
Loose Woman
Lindsay Kayser
Gypsy Baby Houston, Texas 45 Minutes Solo Performance Not
for children Mature content, Coarse Language
Traveling the states with her feminist watch dog, Gypsy Kay brings us her hilarious observations on sex, entertainment, and the culture of the tiny t-shirt. She discovers a vaudevillian, a screen gem, and a poetess, all longing for the spotlight. They teach Gypsy Kay that she may not make it big, but she can always make it.
Lucid
Chris Godziuk / Sheldon Woloshyn
Peanut Butter Productions Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 45 Minutes
Multi-media puppetry For humans of any age Pyrotechnics
Join a cast of wooden marionettes as they journey through the worlds
of
their own dreams . Follow their adventures in, out of and between reality
and the unknown. The puppeteers munipulate an assortment of materials,
liquids and unknown substances throughout the performance to a soundtrack
of strange and firmiliar sounds drawn from our everyday life and elsewhere.
Lucid is a celebration of sight, sound and the imagination.
The Macy's Account
Jason Schafer & Sherri Langsam
3 Noses Theater Company New York City 60 minutes Solo Comedy
Performance Children over the age of 12 could enjoy it.
Brie Cantwell was reasonably content for a girl named after a cheese. But her world is suddenly turned upside down when she falls for an Adonis-like perfume squirter at Macy's. Her misguided attempts to win his love provide the antics of this entertaining one-woman comedy full of oomph and one-liners. The Macy's Account, by any account, is a night of ludicrous, good fun! Back Stage
Meet John W.T.O.
Dan McHale
Vanity Theater San Francisco 60 minutes Solo Performance Children
over age of 14 could enjoy it. There is some coarse language
A mild-mannered Bay Area animator leaves behind his cartoon of Colonel Sanders, and chains himself to a bunch of noisy radicals on a Seattle street. WHY? FIND OUT in Dan McHale's funny and honest account of his initiation into "Direct Action" amid the tumultuous 1999 protests against the WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION. Join Dan in his treacherous journey from ignorance to outrage to incarceration!
Midair: odes to easycomeasygo
Sara Kraft
Kraftwork San Francisco (via Chicago) 59 minutes Multi-Media/Musical
Theatre Mature children over the age of 13 could enjoy it.
Kraft teams up with acclaimed director Brian Mendes to weave hypnotic lullabies, absurdist torch songs, revelatory text, video and evocative movement that "speaks volumes with gestures alone", in this investigation of German fairy tales, fear of velocity, and death as the ultimate insult. A rare west coast collaboration between two of Chicago's ground breaking avant-garde veterans in their new home state. "Moving, beautiful, transcendent work" "Mixes the comic and the sublime without heapening either." "Unmistakable originality connected with the voice that cannot fail to touch" "Expect great things from this...brilliant performer." (Chicago Reader)
MOCK NAVAL BATTLES!!!
The nEO-sURREALISTS
LA 50.1 minutes
In the ancient day of its vast declining empire, the bloodthirsty Romans would flood the Coliseum and engage in ship to ship gladiatorial combat. Come see this marvel of carnage and carnal engineering recreated at the EXIT Stage Left! Audience participation is of course gladly appreciated…
Mother's Milk
Wayne Harris
Club Solo / New Paradigm Theatre Project Oakland 75 Minutes
Storytelling Children over the age of 12 could enjoy it.
Wayne Harris is a fresh and poignant storyteller who shares a trilogy of episodes that chronicle a son's return home over three summers to be with his mother while she struggles with breast cancer. It is a universal coming-of-age story with an African American perspective, set against the background of the civil rights movement, The Baptist Church and a changing American landscape.
One or Two Things
Emily Fox
Berkeley, CA 55 minutes Solo Performance Children over the age of 10 could enjoy it
Armed with a suitcase, one or two things, and her imagination, a hapless but hopeful traveler embarks on a journey. Along the way she runs into some peculiar obstacles (brought to life by the skillful manipulation of Lunitique Fantastiques Liebe Wetzel). Emily Fox won audience acclaim with her 1999 Fringe show Right this Way, Into the Fire. Returning this year with One or Two Things, Emily again deploys her comedically malleable face and body to get Frieda into and out of some very sticky situations.
The Pilgrim Project
Scripted by Dan Carbone
Kaliyuga Arts San Francisco, CA 60 min. Play Children over
the age of 8 could enjoy it.
They were astonishingly brave! They were appallingly inept! They died
in droves and decimated native peoples! With their requisite flair for "rendering
oddities with grace and insight". Fringe favorites Kaliyuga Arts, playwright
Dan Carbone and an ensemble of exceptional actors use the techniques of
Polish theatre guru Jerzy Grotowski to tell true tales of the earnest and
all-too-human Mayflower Pilgrims and of the extraordinary Native Americans
who met them here. And let's face it -- the truth is almost always more
interesting than what they taught you in 3rd grade.
Directed & designed by John Sowle
QUEENS!
Adapted from Wm. Shakespeare
Ambit Theatre Company San Francisco 50 Minutes Play - Serio/Comedic
Children over the age of 13 could enjoy it. May also contain Princesses!
Dutchesses! Countesses! Empresses!
An irreverent visit with Shakespeare's Queens. Hear what the Queens say about fame, fortune, love, lust, God & country. Two actors, sixteen queens, fifty minutes. You do the math! Adapted and performed by Carol Flanagan and Shelley Lynn Johnson.
The Queen's Rain
Zachary Barnett and Dwayne Calizo
Ghost Town San Francisco 135 Minutes Multi-Media: Theater/Dance/Video
Art and Opera Not for Children Warning for Nudity
An Evil Archbishop, a Dying Queen, a Midget, a Giant and a set of Siamese Twins all must be overcome! Seebee and Jack, star-crossed lovers and estranged brother and sister, struggle with insanity and starvation in this epic, surreal story about the will power needed to realize one's destiny. A brilliant ensemble of actors, vocalists, dancers, poets, video artists and costumers have come together to create this larger than life, science fiction, underwater tale of tragedy absurdity and true love.
Searching for the '60s
Wendy Weiner
New York 60 minutes Solo Performance Children over the age
of 15 could enjoy it.
Wendy Weiner, whose solo show Give Me Shelter was named "Best of the Fringe '98" and published in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1998, returns with a brand-new solo show. Join her on this comic adventure which travels from the Urban Jungle of New York to the bacchanalia of Nevada's Burning Man festival. "Weiner is a marvelously expressive performer with impeccable comedic timing." - San Francisco Bay Guardian. Directed and developed with Julie Kramer.
Shandyland MCVII: Shandy in the
Flesh starring Sheila & Andy
Sheila & Andy
Thrush TV San Francisco 39 Minutes Play--Comedy!! not for
children mature content
SHEILA: Andy, writing this is driving me crazy! How can one "blurb"
possibly capture the essence thatis Shandyland? Besides, we've got four
completley new shows to write before September…
ANDY: Sut up, Sheila! Shandy, shandy, shandy, …naked, naked, naked…Funny,
funny, funny…
Shared Skitless
Errol Strider
Inner'tainment San Francisco, CA 58 Minutes Sketch/play Children
over the age of 13 could enjoy it.
Shared Skitless--A journey of humorous and poignant vignettes that explore
our human foibles and potentials. "Good theater that seamlessly blends
entertainment and socio-psychologial thought into one organic and artistically
pleasing whole." -The Union "Highly skilled sensitive performers…a
real gift for translating abstract metaphysical concepts into charming metaphors."-Chicago
Tribune "Straight on stuff...from the broadly comic to the extremely
intimate
with just about everything else in between." ---Hollywood Reporter
Sisters of Saturn
Bernadette Quattrone and Kathleen McGinty Alomia
Blue Star Theatre Company San Francisco 60 minutes Drama Not
for children
aturn Returns!! Ouch!.....even amateur astrologers know that when the
Planet Saturn is around, peace is elusive and change is likely to follow.
Every
28 to 29.5 years Saturn Returns to the same place in the zodiac as it was
when you were born. Two young women with very different pasts are pulled
together during this time of self-reflection to embark on a quest for truth.
Through a series of fiercely honest scenes and monologues, they return to
the defining moments in their lives and re-examine the choices they made.
Join the SISTERS OF SATURN on their courageous journey back to the eighties
as they take an unblinking look at their lives with compelling frankness,
newfound understanding, and generous humor. Celebrate as they dare to re-define
their dreams.
The Store One Block East of Jerome
By Fred Newman
Directed by Cris Cassell Produced by The Bay Area Center for
Independent Culture San Francisco 60 Minutes Play-Drama Not for children
Mature content, Coarse Language Nudity Humorous and Disturbing
Thirty years after the sexual revolution, feminism meets strip tease
on 42nd Street.
Gripping, touchingly honest and frequently humorous. "The Store One
Block East of Jerome" is uncompromising in its exploration of the ordinary
everyday "acceptable" abuse of women in our culture that not only
produces the sex industry, but also forms and deforms women and men alike.
It does not simply contain nudity, rather, it ruthlessly examines under
which circumstances and at what price, women take off their clothes. "The
Store One Block East of Jerome" has been produced Off Broadway, New
York City twice and both times to sold out houses and glowing reviews. This
third production of the play is it's West Coast Premier.
Stranger and Stranger
Stephanie Abrams
Kinetic Theory Experimental Theatre San Francisco 35 Minutes
Mime / Mime Theatre Not for children
Amidst the chaos of the daily grind four strangers cross paths. Take
a glimpse into the ridiculous lives of these desperate human beings as they
attempt to find some connection with each other and reveal the absurd truth
behind their private lives. Observe as this bizarre day unfolds and reality
becomes Stranger and Stranger!
Toasted
Elisa de Carlo
S& D Productions New York 60 minutes Solo Performance
Not for children Mature content Coarse Language
Uh-oh you've got mail! Performance comic Elisa DeCarlo (Best of the Fringe '95 & '97) plays more than twenty characters, from crazy drunks to ravenous media types, telling the true story of what happened when a fellow member of an online alcoholics' support group confessed to the arson murder of his daughter-and Elisa had to decide whether to turn him in. "There's a good night of theater at the scene of a tragedy…an hour of laughs and applause!" The Journal News.
Underhope
Jay Martin
Catch Productions 45 minutes Play-Drama Children over the
age of 12 could enjoy it.
Bush v. Gore on stage. Every line in this play was written by a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Every line is a quotation from their December 12, 2000, opinion about the Florida election. Come see what the Court said. "This is of course absurd." -- Chief Justice Rehnquist, concurring.
Warzone
Carrie Kartman
San Francisco 40 minutes Solo Performance Children
over the age of 12 could enjoy it.
Journey through dark fairy tales and war stories rich with intrigue, as a girl growing up in the '60s tries to untangle truth from fiction in her family's stories. A woman goes up in flames in a shopping mall. Grandma commits suicide by candy. Vietnam burns on t.v. The F.B.I. can always be spotted. Riot police stand at the ready. Enter Warzone-if you dare!
What Big Teeth You Have! or Little
Red Bites Back
Theater Au Naturel
San Francisco 50 minutes Play-Comedy Children over the age
of 14 could enjoy it.
When Little Red Riding Hood strays from the beaten path, Freud, Aunt Flo and the Big Bad Wolf are altogether too concerned with what happens to her goodies. Beauty craves her Beast and we discover that there are other discontented Fairy Tale Femmes lurking in the woods. The Seattle Weekly has described Fringe sell-out Eve Smyth as "a delight,...leading us around the entire province of the Brothers Grimm with sparkle, confidence and sass."
The Yoga of Moby-Dick
Mark Kenward
Oakland, CA 80 minutes Solo Performance Not For children Mature
Content
God or no God? If a Whale ate your leg, could you still do tree pose? Acclaimed writer-performer and nascent yoga teacher Mark Kenward asks the essential questions in this provocative solo performance. His heartfelt candor and overcharged mind propel Kenward through an ever-twisting landscape of spiritual inquiry, rib-cracking laughter, and chilling memoir. Plus, excerpts from Melville's masterpiece and the real dope on enlightenment.
The Zoo Story
Edward Albee
Unconditional Theatre San Francisco 45 minutes Play-Drama
Children over the age of 13 could enjoy it May offend dog-lovers
The classic tale of two men and a park bench, this is class warfare at its most personal and primal. Director John Warren takes it off the stage and puts it out in the park where it belongs. From the creators of the 1996 Fringe hit, Groping for Justice: The Bob Packwood Story. Featuring local pros Andrew Hurteau and Michael Patrick Gaffney. "Best Highly Itinerant Theatre Company" -SF Weekly