Play Discriptions for SF Fringe 2002

CLICK HERE FOR A RUNNING DISCRIPTION OF ALL THE FRINGE PLAYS CLICK ON PLAY FOR INFO ON THAT PLAY <52 American Appetite: Tales of Dirty Young Boys & Spry Old Men, The An Evening At Home Anablep and Other Oddities Back to Kroenig Beckett's Last Dance Beneath Sita's Belly Black Box Confessions Blue Sofa Candistan Caught Sleeping Cleopatra!-And Antony ClockBusters Death Blow - The Show Devouring Time Engineer and The Artist, The Enronicles Exit Laughing! F--king Handicapped Guy Fred Anderson -Professional Goofball! Full Spectrum Improvisation George Bush's Nuts Getting It Wrong Guano dell' Amore - ("Birdshit of Love") Gulag Ha Ha Interactive Solo Performer Daniel Packard Ken and Andy Show, The Lillie, A Musical Looking, Then Pointing Mad Adventures of Chaos For Hire, The Me Laugh You Long Time Menopause and Desire: Or Why Must I Be Middle Aged and In Love? Microclimates: A Crime Against Gravity or The Burrito From Sausalito My Son, the Mummy: Episode Pi nEO-sURREALIST sYSTEMS pRESENTS: HOE- DOWN!!!!! Objects In Mirror (May Be Closer Than They Appear) OUTTAKES: Monologues, Stories, and Social Commentary Rise And Fall of The US/them Empire, The Smashing Icons Something You Might Want Song in Your Blood, The Spray Stranger In Woodstock Surfing Toasters Survival of the Fit Enough/ Fern Talking To Myself Tangled Uncle Jacques' Symphony Underground Movement Theatre Upper Canada Cougar Movement, The Valentine's Play Time Way Light Strikes Filled Mason Jars, The Winterkill Woods For The Trees Zucchini: The Forbidden Dance!		`Here's The Discription of All 55 Plays at SF Fringe 2002` `CLICK ON PLAY TITLE FOR THE LOCATION AND SCHEDULE` HOME / FRINGE PLAYS / SCHEDULE / AUDIENCE REVIEWS / TO REVIEW A PLAY / TICKETS & DIRECTIONS <52 SARAH MCKEREGHAN, NOAH KELLY, AND GABRIELLE FISHER RIPE THEATRE SAN FRANCISCO, CA 52 MINUTES IMPROV/SKETCH CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 12 COULD ENJOY IT. Hurry up! Don¹t miss this hilarious and insightful guided tour exposing the ways we use, abuse, and sometimes snooze through time. In these short comic pieces, Ripe Theatre comments on our relationship with time in a cell phone-infested, palm-piloted, consumer-driven society during the information age. All in less than fifty two minutes! WEDNESDAY 4 7:00 PM SATURDAY 7 10:00 PM FRIDAY 13 7:00 PM SUNDAY 15 11:30 AM $6 Past credits include Wacky Pie (July 2000 at the Next Stage) and Ambrosia on a Stick (September 2001 at Venue 9). Website is ripetreats.com. Look out for Mammoth Under the Bathmat in January, 2003 THE AMERICAN APPETITE: TALES OF DIRTY YOUNG BOYS AND SPRY OLD MEN PIERRE VLADIMIR STROUD SAN FRANCISCO, CA 60 MINUTES SOLO PERFORMANCE NOT FOR CHILDREN MATURE CONTENT (AND IMMATURE BEHAVIOR), COARSE LANGUAGE (AND PLENTY OF IT) What are the causes of seventh grade insanity? Why do Boy Scouts talk about each other's mothers in a less than wholesome fashion? And why do old men play the lottery, have pneumatic pumps installed in their private parts, and tell stories perhaps better left untold? Pierre Vladimir Stroud tackles these questions and others in a puberty-to-death exploration of the American male and his voracious appetites. SATURDAY 7 10:00 PM SUNDAY 8 8:30 PM FRIDAY 13 7:00 PM SUNDAY 15 4:00 PM $8 Directed by Marc Vogl Info at www.killingmylobster.com/work/americanappetite Pierre Vladimir Stroud previously wrote and performed with the San Francisco sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster. This is his second full length solo show. His first, Kung Foo on the Donut, won critical acclaim in San Francisco and Seattle. ANABLEP AND OTHER ODDITIES NICOLE HARRIS, KAREN KROLAK, AMELIA O"DOWD MONKEYHOUSE BOSTON, MA 50 MINUTES DANCE/MOVEMENT CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 11 3/4 COULD ENJOY IT. WARNING: OBSCURE LANGUAGE In the dark recesses of your dictionary lurk words your mama never taught you; words like 'firk,' 'ramfeezled,' & 'azurline.' Only Monkeyhouse, Boston's wig-wearin', globe-trottin, dance theater collective would dare to delve into the weird world of words who have fallen from favor. "These women are obviously polished technicians, but they are not above subverting their own technical mastery ot get the laugh." - Tim Cusack nytheatre.com THURSDAY 5 10:00 PM SATURDAY 7 7:00 PM SUNDAY 8 1:00 PM TUESDAY 10 8:30 PM FRIDAY 13 10:00 PM SUNDAY 15 5:30 PM $8 monkeyhouse2001@hotmail.com AN EVENING AT HOME ROGER GREENBAUM CYPRESS WEST PRODUCTIONS SAN FRANCISCO 60 MINUTES. MULTI-MEDIA PLAY WITH NARRATIVE & POETRY CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF TWELVE 12 COULD ENJOY IT. VENUE: PHOENIX THEATER: 414 MASON STREET, SUITE 601 Reservation Line: 415-845-1504 The example of a distinguished American resonates in this evocation of a pivotal time in Robert Frost's journey. This is a performance of well-loved poems set amid original narrative and other texts illluminating why these poems continue to hold a place in our hearts. Saturday 7 5:30 PM Sunday 8 5:30 PM Wednesday 11 8:30 PM Saturday 14 7:00 PM $ 8.00. featuring: Robert Hamm Carolyn Cox Alexander Warwick directed by: Clive Chafer Back To Kroenig Jake Johnson and Oliver Ralli The Midwesterners New York City 45-60 Minutes Improv/Sketch It is for children aged 12 to 73. Strobe Critically acclaimed by New York's Time Out Magazine and highlighted by The Onion Newspaper, the Midwesterners are regularly featured performers at New York's popular Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, where they also enjoyed a long and successful run of their sketch show Back To Kroenig. Back To Kroenig is the hilarious and eclectic story of two German half-brothers questioning their lives in America, and dealing with the straining weight of a powerful and emotional bond that only half brothers can share. THURSDAY 5 7:00 PM FRIDAY 6 8:30 PM SATURDAY 7 1:00 PM SUNDAY 8 2:30 PM MONDAY 9 8:30 PM TUESDAY 10 10:00 PM $ 8.00 Directed by Pat McCarthey of Second City, Conan O'Brien and a Saturday Night Live contributor. Kevin Mullaney, artistic director of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and of Chicago's Improv Olympic. www.themidwesterners.net BECKETT'S LAST DANCE WRITTEN BY JON WHITTLE INCLUDES BECKETT'S "ROUGH FOR THEATRE I" DWEEB PRODUCTIONS SAN FRANCISCO, CA 70 MINUTES MOVEMENT DRAMA CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 6 COULD ENJOY IT. VENUE: VENUE 9 - 252 NINTH STREET (BETWEEN FOLSOM & HOWARD) Reservation Line: 206-600-0286 What would happen if you plucked your favorite Samuel Beckett characters and dropped them in a melting pot of mime, physical theater and spoken word, and set the whole thing to music? Well, we don't know either, but tonight we're going to find out. Beckett's Last Dance is a sequence of original choreographies that capture the essence of Beckett. Includes the rarely seen Beckett short play Rough for Theatre I. Conceived and directed by five time Edinburgh Fringe performer Jon Whittle. WEDNESDAY 4 9:00 PM SUNDAY 8 4:00 PM SUNDAY 8 9:00 PM SATURDAY 14 4:00 PM SATURDAY 14 9:00 PM SUNDAY 15 1:00 PM $ 8 Director: Jon Whittle has performed/directed five times at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival Website: http://www.dweebproductions.org Venue website (Venue 9): http://www.venue9.com Past performances: "Dances with Beckett", 848 Community Space, SF. March 22/23, BENEATH SITA'S BELLY JANAKI RANPURA, PATTY GALLAGHER, JANE CHEN THE WEIRD SISTERS OAKLAND/SAN FRANCISCO/REDWOOD CITY, CA 60 MINUTES PLAY - DRAMA NOT FOR CHILDREN NUDITY, SMOKING, STROBE The Weird Sisters presents the first collaboration between three solo artists whose paths originally crossed at Yale University and the San Francisco School of Circus Arts Clown Conservatory. Bringing together their individual areas of experience, they now premiere their original, full-length work. Beneath Sita's Belly, a retelling of the Hindu epic The Ramayana, uses giant shadow images, a soaring vocal score, and deft physicality to examine the comic and tragic elements of the heroine Sita's exile. WEDNESDAY 4 10:00 PM SATURDAY 7 8:30 PM SATURDAY 14 4:00 PM SUNDAY 15 7:00 PM $8 Names of Director(s) - co-collaboration by Jane Chen, Patty Gallagher, and Janaki Ranpura Performers(s) - Jane Chen, Patty Gallagher, Janaki Ranpura Past credits/performances, etc. Jane Chen is a physical theater artist and singer. A graduate of Yale University and the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theater, Jane creates original theater pieces, combining such varied forms as opera, shadow puppetry, and theatrical clowning. She has performed the opera aria "La Mamma Morta," accompanied by shadow puppet narration, at Somarts with Kearny Street Workshop, The Lab, and most recently, the PuppetLOVE! Festival at Cellspace. She is also an actor in the tobacco education street theater piece "Hope's Choice," run through the Lawrence Hall of Science, U.C. Berkeley, and currently touring middle schools and high schools in the Bay Area (website: www.tarnival.org). She has also appeared on HBO in The Babysitters Club and at Carnegie Hall with the CityKids. Patty Gallagher is a Bay Area performer, director and educator. She teaches at U.C. Santa Cruz and at the San Francisco Circus Center Clown Conservatory. She performed clown and buffoon with Teatro del Cronopio (Quito, Ecuador) and studied physical theatre with Grupo Malayerba. She has studied Indonesian dance (Javanese and Balinese) for ten years. She directs with Fool Time Circus. Her solo piece No Soy de Aquí fuses clown, dance and monologue. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Wisconsin. Janaki Ranpura is a shadow puppeteer and visual artist. A graduate of Yale University, she is currently enrolled in the physical theater program at the Lecoq School in Paris, France. She has performed in Coyote's Journey with San Francisco's Shadowlight Productions, The Relevant Theater Company's Ego Alter Ego, and co-produced the May 17th Cabaret at Studio Valencia. She is also a painter and graphic designer. BLACK BOX CONFESSIONS JENNY MEYER, PARDIS PARSA AND ROSE GABAEFF REBEL PINUP PRODUCTIONS SAN FRANCISCO, CA 55 MINUTES PLAY - COMEDY NOT FOR CHILDREN MATURE CONTENT Three women. Three monologues. Three startling confessions. A heart-broken woman looks for love on the internet, a half-breed learns to live with her lack of pedigree, and a 30-year old divulges her deepest, darkest, secret. Smart, honest, irreverent and hilarious, these members of BATS Improv and the cast of "The Asshole Monologues" will kick your ass and leave you gasping for breath. FRIDAY 6 10:00 PM SUNDAY 8 11:30 AM WEDNESDAY 11 8:30 PM SATURDAY 14 8:30 PM $ 8 INFO ABOUT THE SHOW CAN BE FOUND ON www.jennymeyer.org Directed by: Lisa Larice This is Lisa's second time at the SF Fringe Festival. Last year she delighted audiences with her sketch comedy show Gild The Lily. She's directed three short one-acts in the Daytrippers: Play in a Day Marathon for Rough Theater Company and is a partner in the improv comedy troupe Id Figures. Lisa has also been seen in the One-Act Wonders productions of Laundry and Bourbon and Sisters. Pardis Parsa is a member of the company of BayArea Theatresports, voted "Best Improv of the Bay" by the San Francisco Guardian 4 years in a row. She has also been involved with "One Act Wonders" and appeared in their production of "Sisters" Jenny Meyer is also a member of the company of Bay Area Theatresports. She is also a writer and performer of the critically acclaimed "The Asshole Monologues", which enjoyed sold-out performances in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Rose Gabaeff is a writer and peformer as well of the critically acclaimed "The Asshole Monologues", which enjoyed sold-out performances in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Music by: David Norfleet www.sealrockmusic.com Photo design: Jenny Butler www.jennybutler.com Lighting Design: Lisa Larice www.idfigures.com Lights: Tara McDonough www.thefibbs.com BLUE SOFA MARY ARMENTROUT MARY ARMENTROUT DANCE THEATER SAN FRANCISCO, CA 55 MINUTES DANCE THEATER CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 12 COULD ENJOY IT. VENUE: VENUE 9, 252 NINTH STREET Known for her edgy experiments in hybrid dance-theater fusion, Mary Armentrout presents her latest, "Blue Sofa," a wacky, hilarious, but deeply inquisitive deconstruction of the inner life of contemporary American materialist culture. Five characters are caught under the microscope of her gaze, trying to figure out why their perfect, prefab IKEA furnished, Oreo and Cornflake filled lives don't seem to be giving them what they want. WEDNESDAY 4 7:00 PM FRIDAY 6 9:00 PM SUNDAY 8 2:30 PM SUNDAY 8 7:00 PM $ 8 CANDISTAN JAY MARTIN THIS IS FICTION SAN FRANCISCO, CA PLAY - COMEDY 35 MINUTES PEOPLE OVER 17 COULD ENJOY IT VENUE: 1119 MARKET STREET (BETWEEN SEVENTH AND EIGTH STREETS) What if the fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, had crashed eight minutes later? Visit a fictional America, not too different from the one we live in, and watch the chips fly as corporate leadership wrests advantage from tragedy at America's sweetest company. A play about the business of being America. FRIDAY 6 7:00 PM SATURDAY 7 7:00 PM FRIDAY 13 7:00 PM SATURDAY 14 7:00 PM Free CAUGHT SLEEPING ED BROWNSON THEATRE ARTISTS' CONSPIRACY SAN FRANCISCO, CA 55 MINUTES PLAY-COMEDY NOT FOR CHILDREN SOME COARSE LANGUAGE, ADULT SITUATIONS "What the fk are the rules? Just tell me! What the fk are the rules?" Rudy is frustrated. By life. By jobs. By no jobs. Most of all by women, especially his roommates, Loui, aka "The Lobster" and Brandi, "The Tomato." Oh: and he can't quite decide if he's awake or asleep, either. Bondage! Frustrated libidos! Tomato dominatrixes! Stiffies! Kumquats! and more in this absurdist romp through the paranoid mind of the post-millennium male. SATURDAY 7 8:30 PM SUNDAY 8 5:30 PM MONDAY 9 7:00 PM FRIDAY 13 11:30 PM $8.00 Caught Sleeping By Ed Brownson Directed by Dawson Moore Produced by Theatre Artists' Conspiracy Featuring: Colin Hussey as Rudy Courtney Shropshire as "The Lobster" Teresa Anne Volgenau as "The Tomato" Temporary website: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~offstage/home.html eMail: resilient@mindspring.com CLEOPATRA! --AND ANTONY. (Being the Singular Opening Night Performance of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Starring the Infamous Lola Montez, Countess of Landsfeld) ANNIE LORE/WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE EXCELSIOR THEATRICAL COMPANY PENNGROVE, CA 120 MINUTES, INCLUDING INTERMISSION PLAY-COMEDY (WITH LIVE INCIDENTAL MUSIC, AND A TOUCH OF CABARET) CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 4 COULD ENJOY IT. LOTS OF RUBBER SNAKES USED VENUE: VENUE 9 - 252 NINTH STREET (BETWEEN FOLSOM & HOWARD) For reservations call (707) 795-1686 In 1853, fire and food poisoning relocate and partially recast Gold-Rush "It" girl Lola Montez' San Francisco debut as the Bard's Cleopatra (with Royal Barge, Sinuous Forbidden Snake Dance and Battle of Actium!). An opulent full-scale Victorian production is squeezed onto a tiny stage, and new castmembers include the janitor, Lola's maid, and the producer's showgirl mistress, with Professor Scrumbly from the racy Bella Union replacing the orchestra, and a scenery-chewing, Lola-phobic Antony in full cry. Watch for the Arabian Bird! SATURDAY 7 4:00 PM SATURDAY 7 9:00 PM FRIDAY 13 9:00 PM SUNDAY 15 4:00 PM $ 8 * Gifted comic dancer Jo Adell appears as Violet Oaks, Lola's meek personal maid, who is thrust onstage in the wholly unanticipated role of second handmaiden Iras. Jo's talents have also been displayed at the Dickens Fair in the recurring role of the durable title dancer of "The Wood-Nymph's Call", and as characters Venetia Oaks and Louise Weber (La Goulue of the Moulin Rouge). Jo performed for years with Danse Macabre at the Renaissance Faire, and has worked for some time as a figure model for numerous artists and art instructors. She is also widely known as a jewelry designer under the business name of "knotworking". Jo trained and performed with the College of Marin Dance Company, and was a member of The Sun Dancers Sacred Dance Theater. She was featured soloist with the Sacred Dance Choir of Marin, and featured Dancer in the film " '68 ". She has also been well known for 'freestyle hippie dance' with various local bands in the '80s, most notably The Dinosaurs. * Paul Harkness is a dynamic actor/singer with far-ranging skills. As semi-reformed con artist James Hazard (famous for the 'Learned Pig'), he brings an edgy intensity to his portrayal of Octavius Caesar, ally and then foe of both Antony and Cleopatra. A veteran of numerous Commedia Dell 'Arte troupes, including the Tutti Frutti Commedia Company and I Famiglia Bologna, he is also a long-time participant in the ever-popular murder mysteries produced by such companies as A Party to Intrigue and Sherlock Holmes Dinner Theater. At the Dickens Christmas Fair he made his mark as stage patriarch Vincent Crummles from Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, and as the well-groomed Harry Lee in Helen, the Village Rosebud, while many Renaissance Faires featured him as Commedia's Dottore character. His training includes classes at Cal State Hayward and with Bay Area Theater Sports, Gordon Keller, and Jim Letchworth. * Singer/composer/pianist Richard "Scrumbly" Koldewyn, who appears as a nineteenth-century version of himself in the show, was an original member of The Cockettes and wrote most of the music for their shows. He performed with and composed for The Distractions in the 80's, and for fifteen years with The Jesters Vocal Trio, with whom he has toured extensively in Europe. He has composed over 300 songs for approximately 25 original theatrical productions, most recently the Jesters' Singing Fools. As "Professor Scrumbly", he has been a pianist at most of the Dickens Fairs since the mid-1970s. He accompanied silent films for the Nickelodeon Show at UC Berkeley, the Castro Theater, the Telluride Film Festival 2001, and will do so this coming October in the Pordanone, Italy Silent film Festival. He composed the score for the feature length documentary The Cockettes, which played to acclaim at the Sundance, Berlin, and many more film festivals, and was released in May of this year. His next film score will be for the feature-length documentary Alaska Far Away. * Director Annie Lore, who also plays Lola Montez, has been performing since childhood, and had her professional start as a street entertainer and as a singer at the original Renaissance Faire. She has costumed and played historical and non-historical theme characters such as Lola, Lillian Russell, the Pretty Good Fairy, the Living Christmas Tree and many others at various events around California since the seventies. Her Lola was engaged by the State of California to appear at the opening of the Golden State Museum and at the Sesquicentennial Admission Day festivities. Quite a few might know her as music-hall artiste Daisy Stiggins from Music Hall a la Mode and the Dickens Christmas Fair, where she also wrote, directed and/or appeared in such Victorian delights as the melodrama Helen, the Village Rosebud, and the 'pastoral interlude' the Wood-Nymph's Call. She was director of the Mock Turtle Theatrical Company and the New Excelsior Music Hall Company, and performed with the Rubber Duck Company and the Royal Nonesuch. A Screen Actors Guild member, she does occasional film and television work, and has recorded a number of solo folk albums. Adapting period theater for the modern audience is one of her special interests, and the sets as well as most of the costumes and effects for Cleopatra! --and Antony. were designed by her. * Carol McCollum portrays San Francisco theater impresario Tom Maguire's fun-loving 'protegee', squeaky-voiced faux-French showgirl Mignonette La Monte, who makes the most of her unplanned debut as Cleopatra's handmaiden Charmian. Carol is also a performer, director, and costumer for the Stark Ravens Historical Players (www.starkravens.com), who presented their award-winning Alice in Wonderland (directed by her) to packed houses at last year's Fringe. She co-adapted Twelfth Night for the Ravens, also playing the charming Olivia in that show, and is alternating acting in Cleopatra! with honing the Ravens' new production of Love's Labours Lost. Carol has also performed with Hillbarn Theater in Foster City and Beddini Theater Project in San Francisco. She has directed and written Commedia Dell 'Arte for La Perduta and Famiglia Formaggio, troupes she helped found. She has also worked with the Vincent P. Crummles Theatrical Company at many Dickens Christmas Fairs, where she also taught Victorian ballroom dancing and appeared in the title role of Helen, the Village Rosebud. Her training includes work with the Jean Shelton Actors Lab and studying with Commedia artist Jim Letchworth. * J. Paul Moore plays the insufferable Nathaniel J. Serapis, who is brought in as an unexpectedly Lolaphobic last-minute Mark Antony. J. Paul is a veteran of stage, screen, television, radio, nightclubs, and anyone else who would hire him. From his Army days as road manager with Special Services to his current appearance with Cleopatra! - and Antony. , he has made his living in the world of entertainment for over 40 years. He studied Theatre Arts at the Pasadena Playhouse and Los Angeles City College, where he was twice given the "Best Supporting Actor" award. Portraying a variety of theme characters over a 30-year involvement with the original Renaissance Pleasure Faire, his roles have included Robin Hood, Sir Francis Drake and The Lord Mayor. He created "Alfie, King of the Street Conjurors" at the earliest Dickens Christmas Fair and went on to be among the first of San Francisco's celebrated street performers circa 1970. Nowadays J. Paul makes his principal living as an internationally-known magician, appearing frequently in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand and the world-famous Magic Castle in Hollywood. * Actor/comedian Andy Pettit brings his generous talents to the role of Bertram, the naïve man-mountain theater janitor who is suddenly called upon to represent all the soldiers, guards, messengers and other attendants in Cleopatra! - and Antony.'s beleaguered production. Andy is also a member of the Stark Ravens troupe, and has appeared onstage all over California, performing Commedia Dell 'Arte with La Perduta and Famiglia Formaggio at festivals and fairs. His White Rabbit and Dormouse were high points of the Ravens' Alice in Wonderland, and he was among the players of the Crummles troupe at the Dickens Fair, where he also appeared as the Large Butterfly in the Wood-Nymph's Call. He has played Lenny in Of Mice and Men for a local company in Novato and has done much musical theater for Walnut Creek's local stage scene. His training includes time at the Jean Shelton Actors Lab. * Carl West is long-suffering actor-manager Lewis Baker, who is confronted with the Herculean task of opening a show -and taking it through to the final curtain- despite seemingly insurmountable difficulties, and must himself substitute for the play's Soothsayer. Among Carl's theater skills are set construction, sound engineering, lighting design, scriptwriting, directing and producing, some of which are brought to bear on Cleopatra! - and Antony. A seasoned character actor, he has performed in a number of comedies, including Arsenic and Old Lace, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the Importance of Being Ernest, and many more. He is in demand at various events statewide for his historical characterizations; his Emperor Norton is considered definitive, and he has portrayed William Techumsah Sherman and "Big Four" railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington, among others. Vistors to the Dickens Christmas Fair may have encountered him as Mr. Bumble from Oliver Twist, or as Father Time in Helen, the Village Rosebud. Also to his credit are numerous improvisational and scripted shows at the original Renaissance Pleasure Faire. www.ExcelsiorCompany.com CLOCKBUSTERS REANNIE ROADS OFFBALANCE PRODUCTIONS SAN FRANCISCO, CA 60 MINUTES PLAY - SKETCH COMEDY CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 15 COULD ENJOY IT. MATURE CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE This is a story of speech impediments and broken bra straps. It's about having a breakdown for lunch and dinner ready by 6. It's about sleeping your way to the top because it's fun, and not because your mother told you to. ClockBusters, a daring comedy by Reannie Roads. You'll laugh so hard your diaphragm will pop out your nose! WEDNESDAY 4 10:00 PM THURSDAY 12 7:00 PM SATURDAY 14 2:30 PM SUNDAY 15 8:30 PM $ 8 DEATH BLOW - THE SHOW JOHN RACKHAM AND BEN SHOCKLEY ROGUES' YARN FOLKESTONE, ENGLAND 60 MINUTES IMPROV/SKETCH CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 16 COULD ENJOY IT. MATURE CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE, ENGLISHMEN! VENUE: THE PHOENIX THEATRE - 414 MASON STREET (AND GEARY) It's big, it's bandaged, it's scary! Battle ancient evil with plucky archaeologist Fairfax of the British Museum in 'Curse of the Mummy's Nose'. See the grizzly demise of Jovial Cockney Bill. Shiver with horror at Karis, the Mummy. Plus Mad Dog Duggan, The Lonesome Stranger, English ritual dance, two Tarzans. Two Englishmen and an American satirise the comic-strip world where might is right and heroes are always stronger. Thursday 9/5 7:00 pm Thursday 9/5 8:30 pm Friday 9/6 8:30 pm Friday 9/6 10:00 pm Saturday 9/7 8:30 pm Saturday 9/7 10:00 pm Sunday 9/8 7:00 pm Sunday 9/8 8:30 pm Thursday 9/12 7:00 pm Thursday 9/12 8:30 pm Friday 9/13 8:30 pm Friday 9/13 10:00 pm Saturday 9/14 8:30 pm Saturday 9/14 10:00 pm $8 Director: John Rackham Performers: Ben Shockley, Matt Klein, John Rackham Website: www.roguesyarn.com This is Rogues' Yarn's second appearance at the Fringe. Last year they entered a 3-man version of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'. (Audience reviews on Rogues' Yarn Website). This year they're making a complete change in tone with a satirical sketch show, while retaining the empty stage, mime and multiple roles of last year's play. Ben Shockley and John Rackham have honed their unique fast-paced comedy style over years of performance. They are appearing with Matt Klein, who played Squanto in Kaliyuga Arts' 'The Pilgrim Project' at last year's Fringe. DEVOURING TIME SONNETS BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SHOW FORMAT CONCEIVED BY CANDICE M. MILAN BELLA UNION THEATRE COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO, CA 50 MINUTES SERIO-COMIC PERFORMANCE PIECE NOT FOR CHILDREN Love. Lust. Obsession. Betrayal. Man's search for immortality. The only certainty: time passes. The Bella Union company explores the provocative imagery of a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets with scenes developed through improvisation, bringing a modern sensibility to Shakespeare's timeless words. A middle-aged man obsessed with the passage of time becomes involved with a young man and a woman, forming a potentially explosive triangle. "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paw." THURSDAY 5 10 PM SATURDAY 7 4 PM MONDAY 9 7 PM FRIDAY 13 8:30 PM THE ENGINEER AND THE ARTIST (AND THE SUPER-DELUXE GIANT WEENIE COSTUME) TERENCE HEALY SANTA MONICA, CA 55 MINUTES SOLO PERFORMANCE CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 12 COULD ENJOY IT. MATURE CONTENT A unilateral anophthalmic engineer struggles to understand God's will and face his desire to be a fine artist. Divinations of the renaissance artist Michelangelo help with the engineer's struggle by giving him the example of the maverick artist Robert Maplethorpe. Through the engineer's Journey of sad and humourous experience that culminate in an outrageous costume contest, he learns who he is. WEDNESDAY 4 7:00PM FRIDAY 6 11:30 PM SATURDAY 7 2:30 PM SUNDAY 8 4:00 PM MONDAY 9 8:30 PM SATURDAY 14 2:30 PM $ 5 ENRONICLES ALL STAR STILTS AND COMEDY SAN FRANCISCO, CA 60 MINUTES PLAY-COMEDY RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES WARNING: YOU MAY SEE SOME A.S.S. From the creators of "Start Trekkin" and cabin boys of "Butt Pirates of the Caribbean", a tale for the truly disempowered. Join Joe Couch on a journey of lust greed and midvalence electron hijacking. This fast paced comedy set against the backdrop of last years fiasco in energy management, is for anybody who has ever felt left in the dark. Warning: your use of electricity will affect the outcome of this show. WEDNESDAY 4 8:30 PM SATURDAY 7 11:30 PM SATURDAY 14 7 PM SUNDAY 15 2:30 PM $ 8 Directed by Dan Chumley of S.F. Mime troupe Fame. Preformed and written by the All Star Stilts and Comedy trio; Stephen Bass, Simon Hanson, and Lawrence Wolf. Designed by accident. WEBSITE: "www.allstarstilts.com" Check it out!!! And feel free to link to it from the fringe pages. Past Credits: Company members past credits include, founding the Improvised Parody " Start Trekkin", San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco School of Circus Arts, In the Street Festival and Puppet Love Festivals, Funky Puppet Circus Supper, Antenna Theatre. Company members were even buggered on a regular basis as Pirates in the San Francisco production of the Fringe hit "Butt Pirates of the Caribbean. EXIT LAUGHING! WITH RUBY UNGER W.U.F.F. PRODUCTIONS MILL VALLEY, CA 60 MINUTES IMPROV/COMEDY/STORYTELLING NOT FOR CHILDREN UNDER 18 FREE "POWER TROUT" TO ALL! Join Ruby Unger & Friends for this house party/ revival meeting/ convocation & ceremonial fish toss celebrating 20 years of W.U.F.F. W.U.F.F. is Women United for Fun & Men Who Dare, dedicated to stress reduction through intense partying. Mr. San Francisco, Herb Caen, dubbed Ruby "a saucy femmcee... a real hit." 20 years later, she's still a comic life force of speed and accuracy. Come have a good time; leave renewed, refreshed and with a better attitude, or Ruby will follow you to your car and give you a dollar. May your fish be with you. SATURDAY 7 5:30 PM SUNDAY 8 11:30 AM MONDAY 9 7:00 PM SATURDAY 14 7:00 PM $ 8 Exit Laughing is a W.U.F.F. party with a point. (W.U.F.F. is Women United for Fun & Men Who Dare.) It's a gathering of people hell-bent for a good time. As the Dalai LaMarr, Ruby Doo Unger invites you to join this interractive humor session designed to reduce stress by releasing endorphins. It's kind of like sex, but it's cleaner, more laughs and there's no burning sensation afterwards. You'll learn to use your Power Trout to keep the fun going at home (yes, do this at home!) All genders are welcome. There is no wrong in W.U.F.F., only overbites. W.U.F.F. is as W.U.F.F. does. In 1980 Herb Caen (when he was still alive and writing for the Chronicle) wrote: "By golly, the male stripper show at Soap, the bubbly new spot at B'way and Montgy., IS good clean fun, as advertised, but the real hit is not those hunky guys in their jockey shorts, but a saucy femmcee named Ruby Petersen. Ruby acts like a dirty-talking cheerleader from a good sorority house, which is exactly what she is." 20 years later, she's dumped the training-husband's name, picked up the forever-husband's moniker, and is still cheering the crowds as a comic life force of speed and accuracy. $8 F--KING HANDICAPPED GUY STEVE PARKS PSEUDOHAWK PACIFICA, CA 60 MINUTES SOLO PERFORMANCE CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 15 COULD ENJOY IT. MATURE CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE VENUE: SHELTON THEATRE - 533 SUTTER STREET You_ll fall down laughing at _F---ing Handicapped Guy,_ a darkly comic offbeat solo show. Steve Parks is f---ing mad. Not surprising for a successful playwright who develops MS at the age of 26. Because it was a mild case, he was able to deny his illness thanks to his Christian Science upbringing. But in 1990 his MS turned disabling and Parks fell into an angry depression, no longer able to write. Not until he re-discovered humor could he write again. Now he_s a f---ing funny guy. In a wheelchair. THURSDAY 5 8:00 PM FRIDAY 6 8:00 PM SATURDAY 7 8:00 PM THURSDAY 12 8:00 PM FRIDAY 13 8:00 PM SATURDAY 14 8:00 PM $8 F---ing Handicapped Guy was developed with Charlie Varon at the Marsh in San Francisco. Parks plays have been produced at the Mark Taper Forum in L.A.,. Eugene O_Neill National Playwrights Conference, Cast Theater in L.A., Soho Rep in New York, the Denver Theater Center and Jewish Repertory Theatre in New York. _F---ING HANDICAPPED GUY_ Debuting at the SF Fringe Festival September 4-September 15 With an extended run at the Shelton Theatre through October 14 SAN FRANCISCO_What happens when a successful playwright reared a Christian Scientist develops MS at the age of 26? Because it was a mild case, Stephen Parks was able to deny his illness thanks to his Christian Science upbringing. But in 1990 his illness turned disabling and Parks_s limbs grew weak, requiring him to use a wheelchair. At this point his denial stopped working. He fell into an angry depression_anger at his bad luck, anger that others could walk and he couldn_t, anger at Christian Science, which he believed had let him down. _Being a Christian Scientist you deny anything that you don_t like. But it was pretty hard to deny something like this. I was real active when I was younger. I was active with horses, I played college football. It was a big part of who I thought I was. For a while I thought maybe this was a way for me to return to the path (Christian Science) but it didn_t work, it couldn_t help me. _ His depression lifted only when Parks found his way back, not to Christian Science, but to writing. The result is a wry, darkly comic, brutally honest and poignant solo show, _F---ing Handicapped Guy,_ that debuts at this year_s SF Fringe Festival. Parks wrote and developed the show at the Marsh Theater working with respected playwright and actor, Charlie Varon. With his droll and deadpan deliver, Parks catches audiences off-guard and subtly invites them to laugh at things they have been told since childhood not to. Before his MS worsened, Parks had an impressive national career going as a playwright in the mid-80s. An alumnus of San Francisco State_s creative wiring program, Parks had his first success in 1978, the same year he learned about the multiple sclerosis. That year he won slots for his _No English Spoken_ in both the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Eugene O_Neill National Playwrights Conference in Waterford, Connecticut. He opted for the O_Neill, returning there the following year with his _Skidding Into Slow Time._ More plays followed at the O_Neill, and then a production at the Mark Taper Forum in 1979 of his _The Idolmakers._ His subsequent plays received productions at the Cast Theater in L.A., at Soho Rep in New York, at the Denver Theater Center and Jewish Repertory Theatre in New York. In 1984 then San Francisco Chronicle theatre critic Bernard Weiner interviewed Parks, wondering why he was successful elsewhere but not in his own hometown. The playwright had passed over a chance to be in the Bay Area Playwrigths Festival for the greater visibility of the East Coast_s O_Neill. Parks said he_d submitted scripts to the Magic Theatre, but they_d been rejected. _You have to realize,_ he told the critic, _that my situation of being basically unproduced in my hometown is not unique by any means. There are a goodly number of talented playwrights in the Bay Area who are produced widely elsewhere who can_t get major productions here._ Back then, he never could have imagined that his first San Francisco show would be a _90 percent true to life_ piece about being a _handicapped guy._ _F---ing Handicapped Guy_ will have its world premiere in this year_s San Francisco Fringe Festival at the Shelton Theatre September 4 to 15. It extends for another four weeks at the Shelton through October 15 playing Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 8pm. FRED ANDERSON - PROFESSIONAL GOOFBALL! FRED ANDERSON FRED ANDERSON - COMEDY PRODUCTIONS SAN FRANCISCO, CA 60 MINUTES COMEDY MAGIC CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 5 COULD ENJOY IT. VENUE: SHELTON THEATRE -533 SUTTER STREET FRED ANDERSON - PROFESSIONAL GOOFBALL ! Fresh from Europe! As seen on TV and in Vegas! Now this crazed comic/magician/juggler promises fun for the entire family right here at the Fringe! For the kids - Balloons & juggling! For the ladies - Magic & Romance! For the guys - Action & Danger - Whips & Fire! "Don't't miss it!" (Cape Times)"This guy is really, really funny!" (Oakland Tribune) THURSDAY 12 10:30 PM FRIDAY 13 10:30 PM SUNDAY 15 7:00 PM $8 BIOGRAPHY The year - 1975. The place - San Francisco State University. IT happens! - An event that would change life as we know it! Fred Anderson learned to juggle... From the day one he was hooked! He used his new found obsession to work his way thru college by performing at local festivals and events. The juggling was so much more fun than Fred's "real" field, (computer science) that after college he decided to juggle full time...and never looked back! Since then Fred has performed the world over for major international festivals including two World's Fairs, The New York Comedy Festival, The Hong Kong Fringe Festival and the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival. This is his second appearance at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival after falling in love with the "scene?at Fringe 2000. His US TV appearances include several spots on A & E's An Evening At The Improv and he has opened for Dennis Miller, Dana Carvey, Tanya Tucker, John Mellencamp and The Beach Boys. PRESS QUOTES: "Mind boggling, funny and thoroughly impressive." Iain Macdonald - Capetown Argus "His rapport with the audience garners loud laughter and applause from all ages." Louis Hobson - Calgary Sun "Fred Anderson has found the difference between being a juggler and a comedian, balancing them well."..... Variety "This guy is really, really funny. Talented too." Martin Snapp -Oakland Tribune "Juggler, standup comic Fred Anderson was one of the show's best." Valerie Gregory - Edmonton Sun "Anderson drew laugh after laugh from his audience." Rita Plotnicki - Allentown Globe Times "A superb juggler who displays a bent for comedy that really touches one." Peter Feldman - Capetown Argus "Fred Anderson has traditional skills (juggling, devils sticks) but spiced with a wicked sense of humor." ... Colin Thomas - The Georgia Straight FESTIVAL FEEDBACK: " The resounding success of "Funny Street" is due in great part to you, and to the high quality of your performance." Danie Frenette - Just for Laughs Comedy Festival "The energy and talent you displayed appealed to young and old. Again our many thanks." Judy Pfeifer - Calgary Stampede "We all loved your work and are delighted with the impact your innovative style made on our audiences and performers." Jane Howard Baker - EXPO 86 "Your mystifying magic, sensational juggling, and superb comedy attracted audiences of all ages." Larry Richard - Santa Clara Art and Wine Festival " I was overwhelmed with the amount people gathered around the stage during your performance. The entire park was filled with laughter and smiling faces! " Susan Diatte - City of Sunnyvale "We have been impressed by the consistent quality of your shows and by the way you have enthusiastically participated in the Festival. Thank you for your contribution." Benny Chia - The Hong Kong Fringe Festival "You're a great performer! Your maturity, experience and talent all shine in each and every show you do." Barbara Absolon, World Expo 88 "Thank you for a superb performance." Pat Roberts - The Anchorage Shopping Center FULL SPECTRUM IMPROVISATION DIRECTED BY JOYA CORY LUCKY DOG THEATRE SAN FRANCISCO, CA 1 HOUR 20 MINUTES IMPROVISATION CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 12 COULD ENJOY IT. VENUE: VENUE 9 - 252 NINTH STREET ( BETWEEN FOLSOM & HOWARD) Spontaneous Theatre with substance! The veteran performers of LUCKY DOG (plus guests) act and sing their way through an outpouring of original, unrehearsed tales, ranging from the poignantly comic to the fiercely political, based on audience suggestions. Joya Cory, Karen Hirst and Fritzi Schnel, are accompanied by virtuoso violinist YEHUDIT. "…improvised scenarios conceived and performed with such eccentric passion that one finds oneself literally on the edge of one's seat."- S.F. Tribune THURSDAY 5 7:00 PM SATURDAY 7 1:00 PM THURSDAY 12 9:00 PM SUNDAY 15 2:30 PM $8. GEORGE BUSH'S NUTS (OR HOW I LEARNED TO ENJOY REAL TIME WAR FOOTAGE ON LSD) BRANDON WELCH DAREDEVIL PSYCHONAUTIC RESEARCH ENSEMBLE BALTIMORE, MD 60 MINUTES SOLO PERFORMANCE NOT FOR CHILDREN COARSE LANGUAGE George Bush's Nuts is a spiraling one-man gang made up of an activist, a self-help liar, a disgruntled CIA agent, a nazi cross-dresser and the latest American superhero: White Devil. Watch as these divergent beings dissect the difference between King George 41 and 43, war, terrorism, drug-induced insanity, conservative ideologies and the overall paranoia that right now feels like a flashback to the cold war. Visit DareDevil p.r.e. on the web at www.daredevilpre.org. THURSDAY 5 8:30 PM SUNDAY 8 7:00 PM MONDAY 9 8:30 PM WEDNESDAY 11 10:00 PM SATURDAY 14 1:00 PM SUNDAY 15 4:00 PM $8.00 Visit DareDevil p.r.e. on the web at www.daredevilpre.org. GETTING IT WRONG VIVIEN STRAUS LOS ANGELES, CA 60 MINUTES SOLO PERFORMANCE NOT FOR CHILDREN - BUT IT WOULDN'T HURT 'EM. Vivien Straus, "a warm, inviting storyteller" (Backstage West), performs her quirky one-woman comedy recounting the true story of the day she invites a recently arrived, non-English speaking, Czech political refugee over for dinner to thank him for a small kindness, only to have him stay... for years. "Vivien has an endearing smile and genuinely interesting story" (LA Weekly) "Fast-paced and fun" (The Tolucan) FRIDAY 6 10:00 PM SATURDAY 7 1:00 PM SUNDAY 8 11:30 AM WEDNESDAY 11 8:30 PM SATURDAY 14 7 PM SUNDAY 15 5:30 PM $ 8.00 Vivien has been seen (she speaks and disappears) in many films including Oliver Stone's HEAVEN AND EARTH, ONE GOOD COP, PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED and 13 DAYS. Vivien was asked to die twice (only in Hollywood!) on the TV Series FREDDY'S NIGHTMARE and had a recurring role on the NBC series CAPITAL NEWS. www.gettingitwrong.com GUANO DELL'AMORE ("BIRDSHIT OF LOVE") TONY PISCULLI SMASHBOX HONOLULU, HAWAII 55 MINUTES. PLAY-COMEDY CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 12 COULD ENJOY IT. STROBE For anyone who has ever been dumped on by love ... Traditional commedia dell'arte meets cutting edge improv in this scatological romp about life, love and birdshit. Four actors play twelve characters in a frenzy of slapstick, sight gags, one-liners, double entendres, fighting and fart jokes. "Non-stop energy and fun," says the Honolulu Advertiser, "provocative, irreverent and entertaining." FRIDAY 6 7:00 PM SUNDAY 8 4:00 PM WEDNESDAY 11 7:00 PM THURSDAY 12 10:00 PM SATURDAY 14 5:30 PM SUNDAY 15 1:00 PM $8.00 Scenario and direction by Tony Pisculli Costumes by Sadie Yi Original Music by Sean T. C. O'Malley Rhythm by Eric Folk Leather Masks by Antonio Fava Stephanie Sanchez as Dottore, Signora Rosaura, Zanni Joe Abraham as Capitano, Pedrolino, Zanni Elizabeth Wolfe as Isabella, Tartaglia, Zanni Christopher Lee as Flavio, Pantalone, Zanni www.smashbox.org GULAG HA HA JASON CRAIG BANANA, BAG AND BODICE NEW YORK, NY 60 MINUTES PLAY NOT FOR CHILDREN MATURE CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE, SMOKING The Banana Bag and Bodice family proudly returns to the west after draining skulls and slapping faces with their previous Bastard Chronicles and Number 2, both of which received Best of Fringe awards. Two years later it is time to Gulag Ha Ha. A study in prison deformation, their new show exists within the framework of the clown/absurdist/get-away-from-my-children motif which has made the group of actors so famous. Come watch the tedium of torture, the intimacy of boredom. One reviewer said of their work, "I left thinking I'd seen a cabaret Harpo Marx/Rod Sterling collaborated version of Waiting for Godot." THURSDAY 5 10 PM MONDAY 9 10 PM TUESDAY 10 8:30 PM WEDNESDAY 11 7 PM SATURDAY 14 2:30 PM SUNDAY 15 11:30 AM $8 INTERACTIVE SOLO PERFORMER DANIEL PACKARD DANIEL PACKARD SPONTANIA PRODUCTIONS SAN FRANCISCO, CA 60-90 MINUTES SOLO PERFORMANCE IT IS FOR CHILDREN AGED 21 TO 73. CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 21 COULD ENJOY IT. ONLY BECAUSE THE ODEON IS 21 AND OVER. NOT FOR CHILDREN MATURE CONTENT- COARSE LANGUAGE VENUE: THE ODEON - 3223 MISSION STREET (AT VALENCIA) "Brilliant. Somebody you should definitely see more than once." Mick LaSalle, S.F. Chronicle "An open ended comic-cosmic rant that is ready for its close up" James Sullivan, S.F. Chronicle "The guy I look to make me laugh and think." Timothy Leary, 60's Icon. Ditching the script, I use audience interaction to spontaneously weave my opinions on everything from the dreaded "Jewfro" to the mythical "Kinky Soccer Mom." Hear FREE audio samples at www.danielpackard.com. Hopefully see you up front, Daniel. THURSDAY 5 8:00 PM FRIDAY 6 8:00 PM SATURDAY 7 8:00 PM THURSDAY 12 8:00 PM FRIDAY 13 8:00 PM SATURDAY 14 8:00 PM $8 Free Audio Samples like 'Jewfro' and 'Honkified' available at www.danielpackard.com. THE KEN AND ANDY SHOW KEN TAYLOR AND ANDY BARRETT THE KEN AND ANDY SHOW SAN FRANCISCO, CA 60 MINUTES PLAY-COMEDY NOT FOR CHILDREN MATURE CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE The Yoda Council of the Astral Plane hereby invites you to experience the two most self-absorbed people on the face of the planet! The Ken and Andy Show is a soy-based entertainment substitute, a metaphysical comedy, and a staggering tour de force of narcissism. In one hour we merge the body and mind of the two characters and unleash a tidal wave of human potential. "Makes Harry Potter seem like a shallow, self-indulgent tit-flick." -Roger Ebert "I laughed until I stopped." - Peter Barrett "Maybe I didn't give him enough attention. I don't know. I mean...I've thought about it and thought about it." - Ken's Mom "I haven't seen anything this good in ages." - Stevie Wonder THURSDAY 5 8:30 PM SATURDAY 7 5:30 PM SATURDAY 14 10:00 PM SUNDAY 15 1:00 PM $8 STARRING: Andy Barrett as ANDY Ken Taylor as KEN Andrew Bancroft as BITCH MONKEY ANDY'S BIO My body is an antenna. I am channeling this: My mother was a hippie and my father was an alcoholic. I was born in 1971 at a Grateful Dead concert. My life has not been easy. I have had great burdens thrust upon my shoulders. At age 9, I had my first experience of channeling-and of being misunderstood. I was playing the lead in my 2nd grade play, and when the opening night curtain rose, having stripped naked under my wizard's robe, I flung it open and screamed, "Feel my magic! Feel my power!" I was sent to gestalt-regression-primal-urge analysis. There, while dialoguing with my left thumb, I had the first of many past life experiences. Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive shot into the top of my head like a bolt of lightning then bellowed out of my mouth like a gay foghorn. This was my first experience of my body as an antenna. My parent's divorce was no surprise. We had always had the most pathetic Christmas trees-weird, spindly "evergreens" that looked like my father got them at Auschwitz Christmas Gardens. Then one year he brought home a Christmas cactus, with a racquetball in it. I reacted the only way I could, dressing as Anne of Green Gables and singing Tradition from Fiddler on the Roof over and over. The next day he brought home a Wandering Jew covered in red sauce. We never saw him after that. Over the next few years, I would channel many past lives: William Shakespeare, Ninja master Hiroshi Wu Tang, Jesus Christ, Mae West… I began to realize my path would be challenging. I knew I had to treat myself delicately in order to preserve my priceless chi. Being sensitive and theatrical brought its share of ridicule during high school, and I spent most of my time as a volunteer body at the local massage college. After graduation I applied for theatrical training at a number of prestigious colleges, but the scarcity of acceptance letters told me a formal education was beneath me, and that my path would be more iconoclastic. I immediately began to do nothing. This was my first experience of the power of my focus. It was shattered however when my now yuppie mother forced me to get a job. I was hired by a zillionaire who threw lavish theme parties, and often worked eight-hour days. Eventually my employer blew all his money on a massive lingerie party, and I was out of work. Soon after, when my spirit was beginning to crack, I received a transmission from the astral plane. It told me to go to the woods and meditate. Out in nature, feeling the energy of the redwoods, I began the first spontaneous yoga performance of my life. My body bent backwards until my palms were on the ground. A wave of warm, euphoric energy released from the base of my spine to the crown of my head. I began to move, joints popping and releasing years of stress and trauma. I was on God's massage table. He told me to eat the healthiest diet, do yoga daily, and to hone my body into the most sensitive, receptive antenna, through which he would broadcast love and peace energy to the corners of the universe. Then, a horse drawn carriage pulled up, and Laurence Olivier hopped out. He said, "Old chum, under normal circumstances, I couldn't transfer my soul to yours since we've been alive at the same time, but I always wanted to jam, as I believe you chaps call it, with Gloria Gaynor, and would quite appreciate it if you could synthesize our energies. Cheers." He then slapped my ass, flooding me with his theatrical brilliance. That's how I became The Greatest Theatrical Genius of All Time. Namaste. KEN'S BIO People like me. Especially chicks. I'm smart. I understand how things work, and I can move physical objects with my mind. In the shower the other day, I made the Finesse bottle hop a little. I'm the center of all things. As my mood swings, so goes the NASDAQ. I skipped lunch one day and Mike Tyson bit Lennox Lewis on the leg. These are not coincidences. Girls have always swarmed to me. Well not swarmed. I lost my virginity at 24, but since then I've been the Hugh Hefner of the non-publishing world. I once banged two Mormon flight attendants on the Old North Bridge. I got it on with a Teletubbie… I'm getting ahead of myself. Maybe I should tell you about the hours I spent under the porch, playing Dungeons and Dragons with Justin LaFeeve. Or the time I mixed gas and Kool-aid to make napalm, and burned down our doublewide mobile home. But when it comes down to it, there isn't much to say about my childhood. I wasn't the most popular kid around. Didn't get into college. So what? What do IQ scores have to do with intelligence quotient anyway? I have developed a plan to cure all sexually transmitted diseases with one single vaccination: The Kennidote. Then we're going to stage a year long rave on Machupichu to celebrate the birth of a new, evolved human culture. A culture where no child is ridiculed because of his SAT scores, where no ideas are "silly manifestations of your own insecurities," and everyone gets laid as much as they want. I mean, wasn't everything better when the President was getting blowjobs? So forget the past. We are on the verge of a new era. A time when anything is possible. A time when tow-trucks don't just fix flats, but also deliver fresh, steaming Hot Pockets. Look, I don't vote. I don't know what the word "pundit" means. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't be running the world. You might say, "Ken's too busy chasing tail to think about the future." But I say, "Let's open a mental hospital for livestock suffering from Mad Cow Disease." Yeah, wow. Everybody wants to talk about what's wrong with society. I don't worry about that stuff. If you want theories about America's political problems, ask Andy. I'm too busy thinking about the good stuff. Grilled cheese sandwiches. State mottos. McGyver. Sure, I could tell you about my job at the meatpacking plant. Or, maybe you'd like to hear about my creative endeavors. Isolation artwork, communal poetry, circus movement…cutting edge stuff. I'm a performer, an artist and a creative mastermind, no doubt about it. I could tell you what it's like to be six years old and watch as your mom drives away forever. What it's like to cook TV dinners every night of the week because your dad is too depressed to get off the couch, even to change his tank top. Or I could write about what it's like to have your one, true love leave you for a one-eyed circus freak with a vagina tattoo on his face. But why bore you with details? When it comes down to it, you gotta think big-but sometimes it's the little things. I once dug a hole that was six feet deep for no reason. That pretty much sums it up LILLIE, A MUSICAL KAREN MELANDER-MAGOON GUENOC AND LANGTRY ESTATE VINEYARDS AND WINERY MIDDLETOWN, CA 60 MINUTES MUSICAL THEATRE CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 12 COULD ENJOY IT. VENUE: VENUE 9 - 252 NINTH STREET Over twenty songs--a blend of opera, operetta, musical and whimsy-- by opera and jazz singer, Karen Melander-Magoon, portray the life of the Victorian Actress, Lillie Langtry. Performed in Hawaii, North Carolina, Lake and Napa Counties, traveling to Albuquerque and San Antonio this summer, Lillie evokes tears and laughter, hugs and happiness. Karen, acclaimed in Europe as possessing "a wide expressive range, a wonderfully melting middle register and dynamic nuance"....." meltingly lyric beauty"..."joyful charm with virtuoso vocal control" .....for her protrayals of Marguerite, Rosina, Norina, Carolina, Gretel..., on the opera stage, returned to America to compose and perform. In addition to Lillie, A Musical, look for her musical portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe and Clara Barton. WEDNESDAY 11 7:00 PM THURSDAY 12 7:00 PM FRIDAY 13 7:00 PM $8 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 12 THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL WINE RECEPTION AFTER THE SHOW. LOOKING, THEN PONTING Daniel DeShara INTELLIGENT VAPOR PRODUCTIONS SAN FRANCISCO, CA 55 MINUTES Solo Performance Occasional course language. Including f-word, s-word and maybe or maybe not the mf-word. Children over the age of 12 could enjoy it. VENUE: VENUE 9 - 252 NINTH STREET "Looking, Then Pointing" is a behind the scenes look at movie making from the viewpoint of actor/Russian impersonator Daniel Deshara. Not unlike a "Behind" Beneath the Planet of the Apes" expose, if you will. What does it take to get work in the movie world? Share in his rambling semi-esoteric and supposedly-subtle romp as he portrays his experience of pretending to be a Russian actor to land and maintain his role the big feature film, "Cherish" starring Robin Tunney. An Actor and former bass player for the local SF 80's band "The Lloyds" and Contra Costa's "The Buzztones" he has included absolutely nothing about them in this bright and shiny one man show. THURSDAY 5 9:00 PM SATURDAY 7 2:30 PM SUNDAY 8 1:00 PM WEDNESDAY 11 9:00 PM SATURDAY 14 1:00 PM SATURDAY 14 7:00 PM SUNDAY 15 7:00 PM $ 8.00 Director Deborah Wade Performer Daniel DeShara THE MAD ADVENTURES OF CHAOS FOR HIRE MARK BUNNELL & ANDREA TERRY CARNIVAL OF CHAOS SAN FRANCISCO, CA 60 MINUTES VAUDEVILLE/CABARET CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 13 COULD ENJOY IT. WARNING: CHAOS LURKS Carnival of Chaos presents: The Mad Adventures of Chaos for Hire a demented vaudeville cabaret with prop comedy, juggling, dangerous stunts, song and dance, and divine visual extravaganza. Don't be shy--come see why-- "chaos for hire" is worth 'employing,' or at the very least--enjoying--.anything can happen!!--"......sexy and hilarious"--Bay Guardian FRIDAY 6 11:30 PM SATURDAY 7:00 4 PM SUNDAY 8 2:30 PM THURSDAY 12 8:30 PM $8 Directors of the "Carnival of Chaos"--Mark Bunnell & Andrea Terry Website: www.carnivalofchaos.org Recent public performances include: The Diva Festival--SF, The Edmonton Fringe Festival, Julia Morgan Theatre, Asilomar Conference Center, Grand Hyatt/Conference Center--Sacramento..... Other performers with Chaos include 'suches' as Jason Macpherson, Doug Nolan, Karen Burns, Nancy Luna, Madam Noir Band, and more!! ME LAUGH YOU LONG TIME LEROY CHIN & OPM OPM LOS ANGELES, CA 60 MINUTES SKETCH COMEDY CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 17 COULD ENJOY IT. OPM will make you high. We will addict you. You know you want it. 'A raucous, profane and thought-provoking evening of sketch comedy performed by a talented troupe of Asian American actors. Hilarious- especially when skewering stereotypes about race.' -westhollywood.com 'The wit is incisive and somewhat poignant . . . A few sketches, backed by satirical muscle and a strong narrative structure, evince the genuine talent of this ensemble.' -LA Weekly FRIDAY 6 7:00 PM SATURDAY 7 11:30 PM SUNDAY 8 7:00 PM FRIDAY 13 10:00 PM SATURDAY 14 8:30 PM SUNDAY 15 2:30 PM $8 CAST: Alexander Beer, Pearl Chen, Leroy Chin, Eugene Chung, Charles Kim, Jason Lai, Heidi Lee, Linda Reedy, Diana Toshiko. OPM was founded in Seattle in 1996 and moved to Los Angeles in 2001. The SF Fringe 2002 will be OPM's 14 production. OPM has performed in Seattle, Vancouver and Los Angeles, including the Seattle Fringe Festivals (1998 & 1999) and the Vancouver Fringe Festival (1999). OPM has also performed at the Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre and the Northwest Asian American Theater in Seattle and Occidental College in Los Angeles. Here are some bios: ALEXANDER BEER After recently finishing the independent film, Fratitude, in Denver CO, Alexander relocated to sunny and sometimes overwhelming L.A.. Years of indecisive behavior led him all over the world by motorcycle, army tank, jet-ski, cruise ship and sailboat before he finally realized that he needed to be decisive about wanting to act. So here he is among the wonderful Asians of OPM who have given him his honor as the "token white man." He has only just met this group of gifted people and is grateful for this opportunity. He enjoys long moonlit walks on the beach and friendly conversation. Oh, does anybody know if Suk M. Dong is an authentic Asian name?! PEARL CHEN Born in Los Angeles, Pearl Chen chose to pursue a comedic career after unsuccessful attempts to shape her into a model minority. Her rebellion started early when she insisted on being left-handed and continued when she became an environmentalist while at Stanford University. Cal Weenies suck! She then studied at UCLA Extension and received a Certificate in Screenwriting. Miss Chen has performed stand-up comedy and was a finalist in the 2001 YOLK Magazine-AAMD Screenwriting Competition for her romantic comedy, "Asian Fetish Man". Her writing credits include an episode of "Hawaii H2O" for hotpoptv.com. You may see her currently on the big screen in the film "Quest for Life" at the Kennedy Space Center. LEROY CHIN Leroy is a second generation Chinese American native of Seattle who has traveled the earth, or at least the West Coast, for his art. He has produced 14 OPM shows and this will be his first time performing in San Francisco. He has made a living in Seattle, Vancouver and L.A. as an actor, writer, stand-up comic, singer, dancer, club promoter, journalist and producer of theater, film and video. He is a published poet and an award-winning and critically-acclaimed writer and director. He's been a full-time actor for five years now and he can assure you that he has never been a waiter, a drug dealer or a male prostitute. He can be really slutty though. EWAN CHUNG (Zhong Yuan-ping) Hello, Frisco, hello! Ewan is ecstatic to be performing in this city for the first time. A veteran of the group, he performed and wrote for OPM twice in 1997 in its original Seattle home and twice in Los Angeles in the past year. Since moving to L.A. from his native Virginia, he has worked in a series of graduate student films, coached James Hong in French for L'Idole, and played ping pong in Showtime. You might also catch him in Minority Report and in a Deutsche Telekom commercial in Europe. It is a pleasure to have this opportunity to showcase Asian-American talent. A special thank you to Daniel for all his help and support. CHARLES KIM Charles is a member of OPM since 1998, having performed in Seattle, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and for the first time, in San Francisco. He has acted in a number of other stage productions and dropped mad lyrics on the trials and tribulations of the 'yellow man.' He thanks God and everyday living for inspiration, as well as family and friends for their support. HEIDI LEE Heidi is tickled to frolic with OPM again! Born in Taiwan and raised in Seattle, she graduated with a B.A. in English Literature from Oberlin College and voice training from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Heidi worked with children for ten years before committing to the child in herself, who is now going on her fourth year of acting and writing for theater. She performed her own one-woman show in Studio Series 2000 at Freehold Theater in Seattle, after playing a dozen odd lead roles in black box theaters. Thanks to God and my family for unconditional love, to Leroy for friendship and writing inspiration and to OPM, for your courage and tenacity! If you're ever in L.A., watch for Heidi at Highland Grounds Café singin' and piano-rockin' her originals! JASON LAI Jason is a native of Taiwan. He has lived in LA for 4 years now, having moved there from New York City. While living in New York City he attended the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater. He is also a very proud alumnae of Penn State University. Go Nittany Lions!! Jason's film credits include, the thriller Reflex Action and 2002 Sundance Film Festival entrant Blue Haven. Jason most recently filmed Cradle To The Grave starring Jet-Li. He has also appeared in the television show Arrest and Trial performing his stirring rendition of an Asian thug! While Jason has appeared in many off, off, off Broadway productions, he is excited to be making his San Francisco debut. Jason dedicates his performance to the friends of his family that were taken from us on 9/11/01. You will never be forgotten. LINDA REEDY Linda is a Seattle native with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama from the University of Washington. In addition to her Seattle stage performances, she took a turn on the NY stage when Seattle's Printer's Devil Theatre Company traveled to Manhattan. She has also acted in the Seattle International Film Festival and on NHK Japanese TV. Now located in Los Angeles, this is Linda's second appearance with OPM, and she is more than happy to tag along on their adventures to new cities. Thanks to OPM for welcoming her to the OPM den! Love and thanks to the 'rents and the poochberries for their constant presence and support. DIANA TOSHIKO Diana has a B.A. in Dance and Theater. She has performed in many spaces in L.A. including the David Henry Hwang Theater (EWP), Japanese American Theater, the Ivar, and the Alex. This is her 4th time in the OPM den. Diana likes to laugh, sometimes snorting while laughing and making raptor noises. Her longest laugh occurred Summer 1994 in a Denny's parking lot when she thought there was a spider in her hair. It was actually a hair tie. Actually she didn't laugh but her friends and patrons of Denny's laughed an awfully long time. This is one example of when not to laugh at Diana. However, feel free to laugh during the show. She won't mind that at all. MENOPAUSE & DESIRE MERCILEE JENKINS SAN FRANCISCO, CA 60 MINUTES SOLO PERFORMANCE CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 15 COULD ENJOY IT. NUDITY-FIVE SECOND FLASH OF BREASTS (WITH SOCIALLY REDEEMING VALUE) VENUE: THE MARSH - 1062 VALENCIA Reservation Line: 826-5750 Wipe away relationship problems by cleaning your refrigerator. Learn why sex is best in middle age, even if you're body is not what it used to be. Find out if a bisexual feminist can experience an S & L relationship (Sincere & Lasting). By the award-winning author of Dangerous Beauty: Love in the Age of Earthquakes & AIDS, A Credit to Her Country, and The Two-Bit Tango. "Jenkins' characters get to us where we all live, grappling with the ambiguities and uncertainties of sexual existence..." (Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle) THURSDAY 12 8:30 PM FRIDAY 13 8:30 PM SATURDAY 14 8:30 PM $8.00 Writer/Performer: Mercilee Jenkins Mercilee Jenkins began her work in theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1983 with Antenna Theater as an interviewer and audio artist. Her work with TaleSpinners Theatre resulted in three plays which were produced in workshop and main stage productions in San Francisco, San Diego and Phoenix: Presenting Mrs. Latamore , Dangerous Beauty: Love in the Age of Earthquakes and AIDS s and A Credit to Her Country,. She received two Horizon Foundation grants for Credit and won the second place award in the 1996 Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop's national radio script contest for her adaptation of this play, Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Her most recent work has been with Miracle Theatre and includes The Two-Bit Tango, a lesbian detective comedy and a cabaret show, Audrey Does Kennedy, for which she wrote the book. She recently completed a new play celebrating the history of the San Francisco Women's Building entitled She Rise Like A Building to the Sky for which she received a San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant and a Horizons Foundation Grant. She is a professor of Speech and Communication Studies at San Francisco State University. Director: Ronald J. Pelias Ronald J. Pelias teaches Performance Studies at Southern Illinois University. He has been directing shows since 1969, most recently, two shows created through improvisational work, Overexposed and Censor. He teaches courses in writing and adaptation for the stage, narrative theatre, creating one-person shows, and performance art. MICROCLIMATES: A CRIME AGAINST GRAVITY OR THE BURRITO FROM SAUSALITO THEATRICAL PUNISHMENT SAN FRANCISCO, CA 60 MINUTES PLAY/COMEDY CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 15 COULD ENJOY IT. MATURE CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE We stand before you, as naked as the day we were born. The newest ensemble to come out of the Dell' Arte School of Physical Theatre. Let us take you on a journey, an adventure, an epic! Set in a golden age of the Bay Area that never quite existed, where BART trains are beasts of titanic magnitude, where the bay itself is a poisonous bog, where a secret within the labyrinthine East Bay suburbs is revealed! Meet our unlikely Hero and his loyal sidekick, who traverse vast distances, endure arduous trials, and stumble their way to glory, glory, glory! We promise no less than a quest, of absurd and hilarious proportions, set in the fog of a distant present but as vital to our time as any FRIDAY 6 8:30 PM SATURDAY 7 1:00 PM TUESDAY 10 7:00 PM SATURDAY 14 11:30 PM $ 8 Theatrical Punishment consists of Gwen Rooker, Zebediah West, Matthew Roberts, Coby Fisher, and Zuzka Sabata (formerly of Banana, Bag , and Bodice). Sound Design by Yvette Jackson. MY SON, THE MUMMY: EPISODE PI TOM BYRNE WITH TUNESMITH WORLDWIDE TONGUEPRINT INDUSTRIES SAN FRANCISCO, CA 60 MINUTES CABARET CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 14 COULD ENJOY IT. MATURE CONTENT, CARTOONY VIOLENCE, STROBE VENUE: XENODROME, 1320 POTRERO ST., (AT TWENTY-FIFTH STREET) RESERVATIONS: 415- 282-XENO A gothic vaudeville fusing smarmy lounge tactics and C-grade horror, "My Son, the Mummy: Episode 3.1415...." incorporates musical theater, comedic monologue and projected environment detailing the continuing story of the Mummy and his dimensionally-estranged Bride-to-be. Gulp! Gag! and Gasp! In horror at the peculiar referentia that navigates the embalmed one as he sings, dances and rants his formaldehyde-soaked way from death to life to somewhere far beyond…right! Showbiz!!! THURSDAY 12 8:30 PM FRIDAY 13 11:30 PM SATURDAY 14 4:00 PM SATURDAY 14 11:30 PM SUNDAY 15 4:00 PM SUNDAY 15 8:30 PM $8 Director: Tom Byrne Performers: Tom Byrne as The Mummy Tunesmith Worldwide: Chris Fortier, Kimo Ball, Chris McGrew, Kevin Seal as The Dead-Again Christians Xeno as The Gwar Dancers Special guests t.b.a. Production Designer: Cooper Hazen Production Manager: Austin Lewis Previous Performances: My Son, the Mummy: Episode 1: performed July 8, 1996 My Son, the Mummy: Episode 2: performed October 28, 1998 My Son, the Mummy: Episode 3: performed November 7, 1999 Websites: http://www.mysonthemummy.com http://www.tongueprintindustries.com http://www.tunesmithworldwide.com http://www.xenodrome.com nEO-sURREALIST sYSTEMS pRESENTS: HOE- DOWN!!!!! nEO-sURREALIST sYSTEMS THERMOPYLAE, SPARTA 50.1 MINUTES ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE MADNESS NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!! MATURE CONTENT, GUNSHOT, COARSE LANGUAGE, NUDITY, SMOKING, STROBE WARNING: ALL OF THE ABOVE AND POSSIBLY COUNTRY MUSIC. YOUR MOM WON'T LIKE IT! Once again the nEO-sURREALISTs embark on a quest to delve the origins of human ignorance, unaided by mechanical means. Holding our breath for over an hour, we will plunge to the depths of the mystery of life, the universe, and quaint country rituals. Marvel at our ability to lie through our teeth in program descriptions of our show! Gasp at the amazing vagaries that confuse fringe goers deciding what to see! Be amazed by a show that plays to packed houses, yet never seems to sell out! Ignore all you have heard about sweaty naked men throwing cheese! Come! Come and be confused yet excited, just like experiencing puberty all over again... WEDNESDAY 4 10:00 PM FRIDAY 6 11:30 PM SATURDAY 7 11:30 PM FRIDAY 13 11:30 PM SATURDAY 14 11:30 PM SUNDAY 15 8:30 PM $8.00 www.neosurrealistsystems.com The nss have been performing at the SFF annually since 1995. We deserve a cookie. OBJECTS IN MIRROR (MAY BE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR) DAVID MAGIDSON AND TY DEMARTINO THE BOSWICK COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO, CA 50 MINUTES PLAY-COMEDY CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 14 COULD ENJOY IT. WARNING: BARE MIDDLE AGED BELLY SHOWN VENUE: SHELTON THEATRE - 533 SUTTER STREET What's Matheson to do? He fears losing his boyhood dreams, his hair and his life. The play, written by David Magidson and Ty DeMartino, is a look at the "hairier" side of a mid-life crisis. Find the truth of what men do when they¹re alone. THURSDAY 5 10:30 PM FRIDAY 6 10:30 PM SATURDAY 7 4:00 PM SUNDAY 8 7:00 PM SATURDAY 14 10:30 PM SUNDAY 15 4:00 PM $ 8 David Magidson is a graduate of many Canadian Fringe Festivals with the comedy group The Kloons. He is a former Ringling Brothers Clown and hasn't held a real job, ever... He is a local actor/comedian, appearing in many commercials and local productions. He has two children one very understanding wife and a lot of pent up comedy Ty DeMartino is an award winning playwright living in Frostburg Maryland. He is a really cynical Catholic. Ty has two twin two year old boys and also a very understanding wife. When Ty is not in church he is scouring the Internet for 80's television shows. OUTTAKES: MONOLOGUES, STORIES, AND SOCIAL COMMENTARY LAUREN CRUX SANTA CRUZ ONE HOUR TEN MINUTES SAN FRANCISCO, CA SOLO PERFORMANCE CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 16 COULD ENJOY IT. VENUE: THE MARSH - 1062 VALENCIA STREET Smart, funny and provocative, Lauren Crux takes people where they don't expect to go - with stealth, wit and artful seduction. Her craft is skillfully blending monologue with visual, poetic, and sculptural elements. Crux is a gifted writer, poet and storyteller whose subjects range from butches in the kitchen, contemporary fashion, the color beige, lunch with Sophia Lauren, and the way the ordinary becomes extraordinary. THURSDAY 5 8:30 PM FRIDAY 6 8:30 PM SATURDAY 7 8:30 PM $8 Special thanks for fabulous consultation to : Bill Peters, Nita Little Nelson, & David Ford OUTTAKES was performed to sold out audiences at UCLA, and Actors' Theatre, Santa Cruz. Last Year, Crux's solo performance, "On Being Cool; and other digressions," was performed at Luna Sea in San Francisco, Highways in Los Angeles, and Portner-Sesnon Art Gallery at University of California in Santa Cruz. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE US/Them EMPIRE II PAMELA K WALKER HEPHAESTUS BERKELEY, CA 55 MINUTES PERFORMANCE ART CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 15 COULD ENJOY IT. The Wall between US and them can transform in a second. When are you on which side of the Wall? When do you straddle it? self-perceptions, social perceptions, chosen, imposed, conformity, beauty. The performance group HEPHAESTUS is joined by the three-woman band, SECRET SYNTHI, to bounce from one side of the wall to the other. Sexuality, Disability, Ethnicity, Age, Gender. Why do women shave their legs? WEDNESDAY 4 7:00 PM FRIDAY 13 8:30 PM SATURDAY 14 5:30 PM SUNDAY 15 1:00 PM $8 DIRECTOR: Pamela K Walker PERFORMERS: Rica Anderson Russ Duffy Khemnesuel Fisher Michelle Hathaway Mark W. Hendrix Melinda Lacy SECRET SYNTHI: Jaimie Lock, Heather Kirschmann, Melinda Lacy PAST CREDITS: The Rise and Fall of the US/them Empire played as a workshop production directed by Mike Ward; it was part of a program of one-acts entitled me/youâ€¦us/them at Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, Nov. 2001. Smashing Icons Cristina Carson Saraswati Productions San Rafael, CA 60 Minutes Storytelling/monologue Children over 12 could enjoy it. Cristina Carson tells the story of an out of work L.A. actress who is about to resort to prostitution, but instead runs away to the San Francisco Bay Area. Searching for spiritual truths, the Perfect Committed Guy (at a new age hot springs resort), and herself (at an elitist art therapy institute filled with trust fund kids), Cristina meets a wild assortment of characters from the hopelessly hypocritical "lotus eaters," to a compassionate saint from India, from a slimy, former drug dealer for The Stones to the Dalai Lama himself. Wise and ridiculous, sublime and pathetic, Smashing Icons reveals the darkest secrets of one woman's quest for truth (or at least a clean pair of undies!) as she wades through the mire of our brave new world. Thursday 5 8:30 PM Saturday 7 4 PM Friday 13 10 PM Sunday 15 2:30 PM $ 7 SOMETHING YOU MIGHT WANT JIM STROPE CATCHYNAME PRODUCTIONS SAN FRANCISCO, CA 45 MINUTES PLAY - DRAMA ADULTS OVER THE AGE OF 12 WILL ENJOY IT. Gwen knows that comparison-shopping is essential. How long can she keep her boyfriends in the same room? Which one will she choose? SATURDAY 7 5:30 PM TUESDAY 10 10:00 PM FRIDAY 13 8:30 PM SATURDAY 14 4:00 PM $ 8 Directed by Kay Kleinerman Written and produced by Jim Strope www.sfsalvo.com/CatchyName THE SONG IN YOUR BLOOD DENISE DEE THEATRE OF HIARETH SAN FRANCISCO, CA 60 MINUTES DRAMA CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 13 COULD ENJOY IT. WARNING: DARK EMOTIONS VENUE: THE PHOENIX THEATRE - 414 MASON STREET, SUITE 601 The song in your blood is written at birth, can you change the tune? Your father is a piano player who has to work in the mill, will he let you forget it? Your mother doesn't sing anymore, is it your fault? Is madness inherited or an easier way out? Ten year old Finn shouldn't have to answer such questions, but whoever said life is fair? Theatre of Hiareth received "Best of the Fringe" and "Best New Drama" in 2001 for "The Family Tree". FRIDAY 6 7:00 PM SATURDAY 7 7:00 PM SUNDAY 8 4:00 PM WEDNESDAY 11 7:00 PM FRIDAY 13 7:00 PM SATURDAY 14 5:30 PM $8 SPRAY MIKE ALBO NEW YORK, NY 50 MINUTES SOLO PERFORMANCE NOT FOR CHILDREN MATURE CONTENT Highly- caffeinated writer/monologuist Mike Albo presents the San Francisco premiere of his nationally acclaimed satire on our trend-frenzied, cell-phone abusing, label-conscious, magazine-obsessed society. Find out why Entertainment Weekly calls this fast-talking pop culture prophet "a cross between Sandra Bernhard and David Sedaris." MONDAY 9 10:00 PM TUESDAY 10 8:30 PM WEDNESDAY 11 10:00 PM THURSDAY 12 8:30 PM SATURDAY 14 1:00 PM SUNDAY 15 11:30 AM $8 Produced by Spin Cycle, a New York City based entertainment company whose credits include Joan Rivers, The Donkey Show, Kiki & Herb, P.S. 122 and The New York International Fringe Festival. More info on Mike Albo and other Spin Cycle events can be found at at www.SpinCycleNYC.com Stranger in Woodstock Kirk Matthew White Ella R Lowe Ltd San Francisco, CA 65 Minutes Drama Children over the age of 14 could enjoy it. Coarse Language VENUE: 1119 MARKET STREET Stranger in Woodstock is a conversation between Satan & Jesus Christ. Conversations of humanity, love science, religion. Based on a true event in Woodstock, NY. Of course, this maybe a lie and we made up God, Jesus, & Satan to make ourselves feel...... Thursday 5 8:30 PM Friday 6 8:30 PM Saturday 7 8:30 PM Thursday 12 8:30 PM Friday 13 8:30 PM Saturday 14 8:30 PM $6 SURFING TOASTERS ELIZABETH BENEDICT FREE RANGE THEATRE COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO, CA 45 MINUTES PLAY - COMEDY CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 14 COULD ENJOY IT. ALOT OF TAKING THE LORD'S NAME IN VAIN. A post modern tale of used appliances, those who love them and those who don't and a visitor summoned in error. OR -- why it's scary, perhaps even dangerous to be confused. WEDNESDAY 4 8:30 PM SUNDAY 8 1 PM THURSDAY 12 7 PM SATURDAY 14 10 PM $8 SURVIVAL OF THE FIT ENOUGH/ FERN MERLIN COLEMAN AND DEBORAH SLATER COLEMAN /SLATER DANCE THEATER BERKELEY/SAN FRANCISCO, CA 60 MINUTES MOVEMENT / SOUND COLLAGE NOT FOR CHILDREN COARSE LANGUAGE VENUE: VENUE 9 - 252 NINTH STREET AT FOLSOM STREET Two explorations of live performance through the senses. If your eyes are closed do you see what you hear? If your eyes are open do you believe what you see? San Francisco favorites, Composer Merlin Coleman and Choreographer Deborah Slater, test the edges with intense sound environments, animated stories and a stage within a stage. "..dexterous mixing of words and movement"- The Philadelphia Inquirer "...unruly language reminiscent of Meredith Monk crossed with Flannery O'Connor on mushroom tea." -S.F. Weekly FRIDAY 6 7:00 PM SATURDAY 7 7:00 PM SATURDAY 14 2:30 PM SUNDAY 15 9:00 PM $8 TALKING TO MYSELF Michael Low INSANITY PRODUCTIONS LONDON, ENGLAND 45 MINUTES Occasional Swearing Take a roller coaster ride through the mind of a man called "Nobody." Meet Donald Duck, a London tube crowd, two crazy psychiatrists, Humpty Dumpty and an assortment of zany characters. Michael Low has talked to himself, to other actors and audiences around the world. SATURDAY 7 10:00 PM SUNDAY 8 5:30 PM FRIDAY 13 7:00 PM SATURDAY 14 4:00 PM $8 TANGLED NONI BOUSFIELD PAPA CHANCE PRODUCTIONS MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 50 MINUTES SOLO PERFORMANCE CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 15 COULD ENJOY IT. Hard-hitting Australian drama. Hiding in a dugout in the Outback town of Coober Pedy, Jess seeks refuge from the media and police who pursue her. Haunted by an event she cannot remember, she spirals through doubt, fear and near madness. SATURDAY 7 7:00 PM SUNDAY 8 1:00 PM TUESDAY 10 10:00 PM THURSDAY 12 7:00 PM SATURDAY 14 5:30 PM SUNDAY 15 8:30 PM $8 Performed by Noni Bousfield Directed by Kylie Murray Website: www.tangled-tour.net Tangled premiered in Melbourne, Australia in March 2002. Tangled comes to San Francisco directly from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (August 2002). UNCLE JACQUES' SYMPHONY DOMINIC HOFFMAN CALEBDOM PRODUCTIONS, LOS ANGELES, CA 60 MINUTES SOLO PERFORMANCE CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 10 COULD ENJOY IT. SOME MATURE LANGUAGE AND CONTENT Uncle Jacques' Symphony is a musical without the music. A jazz drummer forced to surrender his drums and take a "straight gig" to support his family, he finds another type of music in the harmonies and rhythms of the people he comes in contact with on his new job. Instead of a set of drums, the instruments are human beings, and the music produced in life is as compelling and musical as any jazz set he ever played. FRIDAY 6 7:00 PM SATURDAY 7 2:30 PM SUNDAY 8 4:00 PM WEDNESDAY 11:00 10 PM SATURDAY 14 8:30 PM SUNDAY 15 7:00 PM $8 UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT THEATRE SHOW CANCELLED !!! THE UPPER CANADA COUGAR MOVEMENT GINETTE MOHR RED ROLLICK PRODUCTIONS TORONTO, CANADA 60 MINutes COMEDY CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 12 COULD ENJOY IT. MATURE CONTENT The comic adventure of a sugar-charged and razor-sharp little girl who never gets to stay in one place. A witty and poignant take on the upside down world of a nine-year old and just how far she'll go to get rid of her mom's new boyfriend, the Loser. A kid's tale for grown-ups. WEDNESDAY 4 8:30 PM THURSDAY 5 7:00 PM SUNDAY 8 2:30 PM TUESDAY 10 7:00 PM THURSDAY 12 10:00 PM SATURDAY 14 11:30 PM $ 8 The Upper Canada Cougar Movement Red Rollick Productions : Ginette Mohr Director: Lisa Merchant Origin : Toronto, Canada, eh? ginettemohr@hotmail.com Selected Past Credits and Performances: The Second City Touring Company Caroline's and Stand-Up New York YTV's "Don't Lick the Pig" and "System Crash" The Second City, Toronto - "Curtain's Up" The Tim Sims Playhouse - "Eclectic Circus", "Midnight Quickies", "Comedy Debate" The Montreal Fringe Festival, 2002 The Toronto Fringe Festival, 2002 Tom Foolery's - "Pie Eating Contest" VALENTINE'S PLAY TIME STAGED BY VAL HENDRICKSON VALENTINE'S PLAY TIME SAN FRANCISCO, CA 59 MINUTES ONE ACT DRAMAS CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 13 COULD ENJOY. COARSE LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE, SMOKING, FIREARMS 4 actors perform 2 masterworks of dramatic storytelling. FACE DIVIDED by Edward Allan Baker. "Working class characters have become a rare species on the American stage and Baker captures their rhythms with attention and compassion." - Brad Rosenstein, Bay Guardian. HELLO OUT THERE by William Saroyan. The 60th Anniversary production--re-invigorated with an original score by Marcus Shelby! An Actor's Equity approved project. FRIDAY 6 8:30 PM SUNDAY 8 5:30 PM WEDNESDAY 11 7:00 PM FRIDAY 13 11:30 PM $8.00 Performed by: Marcus Poston, Sarah Engelman, Matthew Chavez and Catron Booker THE WAY LIGHT STRIKES FILLED MASON JARS JOE BESECKER J. B. ENTERPRISES SAN FRANCISCO, CA 60 MINUTES PLAY - DRAMA NOT FOR CHILDREN Maggie's dead. Or is she? And if she's dead, why and how did she die? In this poetic, existential drama of guilt and forgiveness, writing/romantic partners, Maggie and Kevin, explore the relationships between Tennessee Williams & Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne in an attempt to answer these questions...and at personal expiation. FRIDAY 6 10:00 PM SUNDAY 8 7:00 PM WEDNESDAY 11 8:30 PM SATURDAY 14 1:00 PM $8 a two character play featuring Danielle Thys and Christopher Slater by award winning playwright Joe Besecker. WINTERKILL DENISE B. FLEMMING H.E.Y PRODUCTIONS NEW YORK, NY 60 MINUTES PLAY: DRAMA NOT FOR CHILDREN COARSE LANGUAGE H.E.Y Productions presents actress/playwright Denise B. Flemming in Winterkill. Terry Mikelson of the Brainerd Daily Dispatch reports "WINTERKILL is a tour de force....a scalding-hot script." WINTERKILL is a simple story of a very successful women's present that collides with her past, when she is called in for a police investigation. THURSDAY 5 7:00 PM SATURDAY 7 2:30 PM SUNDAY 8 8:30 PM MONDAY 9 10:00 PM SATURDAY 14 10:00 PM SUNDAY 15 7:00 PM $8.00 Please visit : www.deniseflemming.com WOODS FOR THE TREES SARA KRAFT AND ED PURVER KRAFTWORK SAN FRANCISCO, CA/ LONDON, ENGLAND 59 MINUTES MULTI-MEDIA PLAY CHILDREN OVER THE AGE OF 13 COULD ENJOY IT WITH PARENTAL DISCRETION. Warning: Consumption of various goods may occur Bug's eye view. Bird's eye view. Where, why, and how do you know for sure? Using Hansel and Gretel as a distant point of departure, two captivating performers from opposite sides of the Atlantic gnaw their way through fact, fiction, philosophy and small props. The creator of last year's "Midair" returns with a new London collaborator in this hilarious and haunting fusion of story, song, movement, video and strange predicaments. Candy provided. Kraft "fashions sublime, witty...scenes of remarkable grace and beauty" (Chicago Reader). "(Purver's) career will be well worth watching" (London Theatre). SATURDAY 7 8:30 PM TUESDAY 10 7:00 PM THURSDAY 12 10:00 PM SUNDAY 15 4:00 PM $7 Sound Designer: Paul Bennun (UK) Director: Sara Kraft / Ed Purver Kraft's past credits: "The Mummery": director, performer, composer for 10 hour multi-media theatre staging of epic novel at the Mountain of Attention '02 "Moon and Glory": featured composer, performer in evening of original and traditional music at Phobos and Deimos '01 "Midair: Odes to Easycomeasygo": creator, performer of evening length multi-media solo piece presented by SF Fringe Festival at Exit Theater Stage Left '01 "The Photographer": principle role ("Flora") in Philip Glass opera at Cabrillo Music Festival '01 Original solo work at Moment's Notice Improv Series and in the Field series at Studio Valencia, ODC, The Marsh, Shotwell Studios '00-01 Guest performer with Keith Hennessy ("Lame"), Playworks ("Undone"), Right Brain Performance Lab ("Rest, Work, Play") '00-01 "Finger in a Light Socket" and excerpts from "Midair": creator, performer of multi-media solo piece presented by Ladyfest Midwest at Chopin Theatre and Spareroom '01 Baubo Performance Project ('94-98): Founding member, Co-Artistic Director, Co-Producer, Vocal composer, Director, Writer, Performer in over 13 productions of original collaborative evening length works and shorter rep pieces; at multiple venues including Dancechicago Festivals, Links Hall, Bailiwick Theatre, Cook County Theatre Dept., Chopin Theatre, featured artists in NU National Performance Studies Conference. SMaKK: Founding member, director, writer, vocal composer, performer in dance-theatre works with collaborating partner Marianne Kim; recent SMaKK attacks include evening length multimedia piece "SMaKK Attack" at Museum of Contemporary Art '99, Movable Beast Festival '99 and DanceChicago Festival 2000, evening length multi-media piece "Diallel" at Chicago Filmmakers '96, experimental dance film "Implosion" '95(16mm, super 8) Xsight!: vocal composer and performer in adaptation of "The Bacchae" at Louis Theater '97 & Out North Theater in Anchorage, AK 2000, & "Valentine" at DanceChicago Festival '98 "Fingers on Braille": creator, director, performer of multimedia piece presented by DanceChicago Festival at The Athaneum Theater '98 Tributaries: co-producer, creator, performer of evening length concert featuring the solo multi-media piece "Persistence of Vision" at Links Hall '97 "Camille Piece": Featured performer in dance-theatre piece at Columbia College Dance Center & Bailiwick Theatre '97 Cook County Theater Dept: collaborative creator, performer in "Oz" "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": vocal composer for Streetsigns world premiere adaptation at Facets Multimedia '96 "Licking the Jigsaw": vocal composer and performer in dance-theatre piece at Randolph Street Gallery '95 Off Your Center: collaborative creator, vocal composer, sound designer, performer in annual evening length concert at Links Hall '93 & '94 "Salem: This Land Is": collaborative creator, performer in original theatre piece at Chicago Actors Ensemble Theater "Orpheus and Eurydike": collaborative creator, vocal composer, performer in multi-media experimental opera at Josephine Theater '92 Producer of multiple film, video and animation projects ('96-present) MoFuzz: lead vocalist,songwriter for independent band on Lunch Money/Moot Records'90-94 Purver's past credits: Theatre 28 Scenes Short Scenes about Love as co-creator, performer (Studio 210, CA) The Mummery as Meridian Smith (Mountain of Attention, CA) Another Country as Menzies (Arts Theatre, London) Wuthering Heights as Linton (West Yorkshire Playhouse) So Special as Tommy (Royal Exchange, Manchester) Mojo as Skinny (Old Vic, Bristol) Peter Pan as Michael Darling (West Yorkshire Playhouse) The Soldier's Tale as the Soldier (Artaud Theatre, London) Alice in Wonderland as the King of Hearts (Oxford Playhouse) The Anniversary as Tom (Duke's Head Theatre, London) Television A Touch of Frost (Yorkshire Television) Dangerfield (BBC) The Grand (Granada) The 10th Kingdom (Carnival Films) Trial and Retribution (Granada) Cause of Death (BBC) The Bill (Carlton) Whatever (Channel X) Film Elizabeth as Dudley's Man ZUCCHINI: THE FORBIDDEN DANCE! ERIK BELL & DARREN WAY FOLLY'S FABLES SAN FRANCISCO, CA 30 MINUTES PUPPETRY NOT FOR CHILDREN MATURE CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE. PUPPETS SCREWING VENUE: THE ODEON BAR - 3223 MISSION (AT VALENCIA) Veteran adult puppet troupe Folly's Fables returns to their smutty roots with "Zucchini: The Forbidden Dance!" Expect raunchy humor, adult situations and horny puppets o'plenty in this musical, featuring the Irish ballad "The Lark in the Blender" and the flamenco scorcher "Pantalones Caliente." Folly's Fables combines beautiful handcrafted marionettes with outrageous and ribald scripts. See it before we get shut down again! THURSDAY 5 10:30 PM FRIDAY 6 10:30 PM FREE Written by: Erik Bell Directed by: Darren Way and Erik Bell Puppets and props created by: Darren Way www.follysfables.com Past credits: "Nice Flag, Asshole" Apr. 2002, Cellspace, SF "Happy Thanksgiving, Mr. Satan" Nov. 2001, Monolith, Oakland "Curse of the Meat Baby" Oct. 2001, Cellspace, SF "Kentucky Freud Chicken" Oct. 2001, Renn Faire, Vacaville "Insult to Injury" Apr. 2001, Cellspace, SF "The Porno Zone" Nov. 2000, Cafe International, SF "Sex, Torture and Death" Apr. 2000, Cellspace, SF "A Visit From St. Dick" Dec. 1999, Cellspace, SF "The Nut Tree Incident" Oct. 1999, Renn Faire, Vacaville "Who the Fuck is on First/"Highway to Hell" Aug. 1999, Cosmos Bar, SF "Puppet Love"/"Finkerman's Freaks" Mar. 1999, Cosmos Bar, SF
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