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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

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.

$5.00

PHOENIX II (UPSTAIRS)

Saturday 8 10:00 PM
Tuesday 11 7:00 PM
Friday 14 8:30 PM
Sunday 16 1:00 PM

INGRATITUDE A one-act play written and directed by: Gregory Meyer

CAST: Ross Beschler, Melani Morgan

Original music composed and performed by: Eric Laine

About the Play

Ingratitude is a 2-character drama that takes place in the living room of a
couple of urban pioneers moving into their first home. They are childless
and have been unsuccessful in starting a family but things are looking up.
However, their discussion of starting a family is interrupted by an
unexpected event; during their move they receive a ransom note informing
them of that their "son" has been kidnapped.

About the Performers

ROSS BESCHLER (FRANK) has been writing and performing for the theatre ever since way back in high school. Ross was most recently seen in New York at Raw Space on 42nd Street in "Manscapes", an ongoing movement piece project about men and the way they learn to move and interact. Other favorite roles include Kaspar in Peter Handke's "Kaspar", The Duke in "The Bloody Chamber" (an adaptation of Angela Carter short stories), and Trinculo in "The Tempest". Recent film credits include Boney, the mostly-naked lead in the short film "Dirty Laundry". A graduate of Columbia University, Ross has also studied with the Naked Angels theatre group, and is currently continuing his professional training at the William Esper Studios two-year Meisner program in Manhattan. He is very excited about working with the Lantern Theatre Company- this is his first performance in the SF Fringe! Many thanks to Lisa, Michael, Janet, KT, Mo, and Marta for love, shelter,
nd friendship.

MELANI MORGAN (ANN) first burst onto the theatrical scene at the tender age of 7, as Molly in Annie. She has had lead and ensemble performances in Music Man, My Three Angels, Father of the Bride, You Can’t Take It With You, The Sound of Music, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and most recently, Israel Horowitz’s Today I Am a Fountain Pen. Melani has studied with the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta and cotinues her training at the American Conservatory Theatre. Melani Morgan is pleased to make her San Francisco acting debut in Ingratitude.

About the Composer:

ERIC LAINE has been a member of the experimental pop ensemble Here Are The Facts You Requested since its formation in 1991. With this group he has composed and performed music for bars, parties, galleries, retail stores,
aerial acrobatics performances, Butoh dancers, Christmas bazaars, art
festivals, radio programs and concert halls. Their site-specific sound
installations are a cacophonous blend of found sound, environmental texture
and funky rock and roll. Their 1998 album Shocks+Struts was named among the year's best by KALX Berkeley and KUSF San Francisco. "Like all smugly codified traditions, pop music begs to be dismantled. Here Are The Facts You Requested cheerfully comply."--Neva Chonin, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 1998
www.herearethefactsyourequested.com

About the Writer/Director:

GREGORY MEYER grew up in Queens, New York, attended Regis High School in Manhattan then Reed College in Portland, Oregon where he graduated with a degree in Literature/Theater. After Reed he lived in Jersey City, NJ and studied with Herbert Berghof at HB Studios in NY. He came to San Francisco to work in independent productions as an actor and director and has mounted productions at such small SF spaces as Bannam Place, 21Bernice, and the Old Folcrom gallery. He was last involved with the EXIT Theater playing Brutus in the 1993 production of Julius Caesar. He has studied playwriting with Will Dunne in San Francisco and has written 3 other plays, all dealing with the dilemmas caused by relationships and the desire for knowledge. He occasionally sings with the SF swing band, "The Blue Room Boys" when they'll let him.