- Beneath Sita's Belly
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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!
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.
VENUE: EXIT THEATRE
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.