Menopause and Desire: Or Why Must I Be Middle Aged and In Love?

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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!

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)

VENUE: THE MARSH

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.