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21/One
Another Ugly Duckling Tale
BabyLove
Before the End
- A Boy Called Noise
Candy's Room
- Cruel and Unusual
Curriculum Vitae
Eating Skeletons
Exiles
Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallen
Flamenco con Fusion
Fuse
Get It? Got it. Good.
Get Laughs or Die Tryin'
I'm Sorry and I'm Sorry
Irma at the Movies & Frozen
Just For Laughs
Kama Sutra
Kingdom of Not
- Lunches of Our Lives
Neon Man and Me
- nEO sURREALISTS sYSTEMS pRESENTS!
Yeastboy and PigKnuckle: Together Again
Pomp & Circumstance
Readiness is All
Revolving Madness Living the
Dream and Damning the Man
sally: MIA / Sheepish
Secret Ruths of Island House
Self Help - Polish Mantras for the
Emotionally Dyslexic
Sisyphus on Vacation
Stone Trilogy, Three Tales
Thanatics - A Rock Opera
This Lily Was (Fontana)
Thrilling Adventures of Elvis
in Space - 2
Tilting at Transformations
Visiting Bertha
Waiting for Bordeaux
Where the Sun Don't Shine
Woof, Daddy
Yellow Fever Express
Yorick & Co.
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- RIPE Theatre, winner of "Best of SF Fringe 2002", is back
with a witty collection of short plays that follow one character as he
goes through his evening unnoticed by everyone around him. Critics have
called RIPE "Wonderfully wry" and "simply brilliant,"
and said "the ensemble effort in the writing translates onstage into
excellent chemistry between the performers." Don't miss this "unusally
intelligent and able young company."
21/One
- Returning to the SF Fringe with "21/One," Boxcar Theatre
continues their season "Journeys" with a new and radically different
interpretation of what "21/One" means. Join Boxcar as we ride
on the Mexican Bus and witness the journeys of three people as they tackle
the life-altering decision that faces everyone: do we take the next step?
Do we leave our comfort zone? The performers will be influenced by passengers
and performances that are taking place off the bus and through their journey,
they will each come to decide if they are prepared and able to get off
the bus.
Another Ugly Duckling Tale
A journey from one life to another-from the comfort and stability of
a conventional existence to a free-wheeling mobile life style which promises
surprises and laughs along the way.
Jacqueline draws you into her creative world and invites you to join
her in her new life -a life which moves from the south coast of England,
to London seeking her "muse", over to India and back again. Then
ending up here.............
BabyLove
"Smart, sexy and funny!" ** "The most important piece
of feminist theatre since The Vagina Monologues!" * "Clifford
is such a gifted storyteller and so funny and genuine that by the end, there
is no one in the audience who doesn't want to be her two year old son, still
nursing at her breast."** "Honest, hilarious, and completely revealing."
*** BabyLove is a solo performance about motherhood and sexuality- What
happens when your infant son becomes The Other Man? Written and performed
by Christen Clifford and directed by Best of Fringe director Julie Kramer
("Give me Shelter"), BabyLove was a hit at its world premier in
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
*kulturevermitterlin **Mladina ***nerve.com
Before the End
- After the bomb, the wars, the global lords, after the earthquakes,
floods and fires, after the acid rain and poisoned sea, after all this
and before the end...one woman climbs a mountain to draw water from a cistern.
In happy union with nature, Akirame keeps the stories of her people, through
songs, dances, pictures, poetry. She is a bit of a clown. One day she meets
you. She invites you to stay, shares this art. Come to her. She will come
back to you soon enough.
A Boy Called Noise
Written and performed by Julia Steele Allen. "Noise was a child
of mine. A dandy, a pink, a girl's boy. It never made me love him less.
People are who they are."- Cindy Lou. In this one-woman rock theater
performance, take a ride with a family of misfits as they struggle to come
to terms with the sudden death of a small town's only queer kid. Mother,
father, sister, cousin and lover each react to the injustice surrounding
his murder, question their own responsibility, but only one will choose
to risk it all and take revenge.
Candy's Room
Candy's Room has been cancelled.
Cruel and Unusual
Curriculum Vitae
In his new one-man show Brit, Jimmy Hogg, delivers an intensely verbose,
physically exhaustive monologue, outlining his employment history. From
the hilariously morbid and ridiculous trials of work experience at age fifteen
to his quest for the perfect career which will fulfill him financially and
spiritually. Rambling, meandering, sweating profusely and spitting his words
out with vehemence and wry humour, Hogg's performance is a genuine one-man
tour de force. "…A magnificent performance from Jimmy Hogg…
he flings himself about the stage with a ballerina's precision …"
Eye magazine, Toronto. For previous one-man show, 'Spunked Up A Wall.'
Eating Skeletons
Imagine Janis Joplin, Ophelia, Tracey Gold, Annie and an Israeli drama
queen competing to be the next Oscar Mayer Bologna Diva.... Auditions, agents
and good ol' actress-anorexia! Eating Skeletons exposes the hilarious, horrifying
and haunting journey of a former child-star searching for life after "Tomorrow!"...
Written by Disney casting director, Jennifer Rudin Pearson and starring
SF Fringe favorite, Thessaly Lerner, Danya Solomon and Christina Huntington.
Written by Disney's head of feature animation casting director, Jennifer
Rudin Pearson. Starring SF Fringe and Divafest alum, Thessaly Lerner, Bay
Area native, Danya Solomon and Christina Huntington!
Exiles
This is a world where there are no bars, no theatres, no cinemas, where
you can't show a man kissing his mother goodbye on tv, where you join a
hotel sports club so you can wear shorts on the beach without being sexually
harassed, where a Bangladeshi worker queues for half an hour at the end
of the month to pay $10 to send home the $10 he's managed to save, where
your boss keeps your passport, where it's ok to rape the maid. This is a
comedy about this world. Directed by John Rackham. With Rob Wainwright and
John Rackham
Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallen
Banana Bag & Bodice proudly introduces to the worthy city of San
Francisco the legendary heroes of the no-wave post-sludge punk scene, The
Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallin. With guitar steel and drum-tense electro-dense
lyrics they conquer the minds of 14-23 year olds as they blaze a trail across
the dust land between here and there. And now, finally, they are here to
unleash the thunder from their axes. This is...The Rising Fallen. (From
the makers of Sandwich, The Young War, Gulag Ha Ha, No.2 and The Bastard
Chronicles). Winners of 5 (five) Best of Fringe awards!
Flamenco con Fusion
- Flamenco as you've never experienced before! Moving quickfire into
the
modern world, traditional flamenco meets hip hop for a fabulous fusion
of old and new. "Garcia is mind-blowing...inspired...masterful."
- Vancouver's Terminal City Set 2005. "Mesmerizing, captivating, a
rare and special experience...a Fringe
treasure." - Three Weeks, Edinburgh Aug 2005. "Stunning - a fascinating
and complex musical conversation...a gem." Ellie Carr - Sunday Herald
Aug 2005
Fuse
the alloy project uses photography, performance, and film to explore
multiracial identity. FUSE was written as a way to dramatize stories of
the alloy project. In the emerging tradition of "theater of testimony",
the play is a collection of monologues and dialogs that reflect multiple
perspectives, histories, and attitudes. In the play, a group of eight people
of mixed race move through their present lives and travel back in time to
discover and, in many ways, create their identities. Direction: Janna Sobel
Multimedia Production: Lisa Dyas, Jessica Anders
Get It? Got it. Good.
- Three short plays about love, sex, marriage, religion, money, success,
business, greed, philosophy, existentialism, guns, morality, the meaning
of life and cucumber sandwiches.
Get Laughs or Die Tryin'
- OPM is finally back from the streets of L.A. with an all-new hour of
craziness and irreverence, as 50 Yen hosts a semi-star-studded show with
appearances by Tyra Banks, Iron Chef Bobby Flay, North Korean dictator
Kim Jong-Il, Sayuri from "Memoirs Of A Geisha," and MORE! (2002
winner, Best of the SF Fringe)
I'm Sorry and I'm Sorry
I'm Sorry and I'm Sorry has been cancelled.
Irma at the Movies & Frozen
- 2 solo pieces. FROZEN -- Etienne returns to the land of the Cajuns
and finds himself stranded with his silent Daddy as the gulf waters rise.
Coffins are floating over the train tracks. Old wounds fester. Using movement,
monologue and sound, "FROZEN" explores family ties, disaster
and love. IRMA AT THE MOVIES -- In this comic monologue, Irma anxiously
watches the footage of Katrina chaos on TV. She goes to a movie to escape.
There is no escape...
Just For Laughs
- The Esoterics reprise music satire and comedy sketches from their Carnegie
Hall performances." The Esoterics drew yocks with their intellectual
rock n roll and The Whooping Crane Stomp,with Dick Farshler displaying
an excellent comedic sense." Carnegie Hall, Variety.The original Esoterics
are joined by the multi talented Marcia Harp,the comedic characters of
Jeffrey Weissman,and singers Laurie Burke and Misha Frenklak. Their satirical
targets include Broadway production numbers, great moments in history,
affairs, chiropractors, anniversaries, plumbing, commercials, ballet, polynesian
restaurants, May - December romances and bird watching. The cast includes
Charmen the duck and John, the method acting toilet.
Kama Sutra
- The name Kama Sutra stirs up images of the erotic Orient, of sexual
adepts locked in x-rated, acrobatic embraces bodies arched in the bliss
of sexual yoga. Or, less poetically, it's that book with all the kinky
sex positions. The fact that it is an ancient oriental book of kinky sex
positions, only makes it that much more exotic and titillating. Considering
it's ancient beginnings (it was written in India between 100-500 A.D.),
it is not surprising that this classic work of Hindu eroticism has fired
the imaginations of countless generations of horny couples seeking new
ways to "do it". And, given this usage, it's also not surprising
that most folks prefer the Kama Sutra's illustrated versions -- with dewy
eyed couples pretzel together for one's viewing enjoyment.
Kingdom of Not
- "Bay Guardian Goldie Award" and "Best of Fringe"
favorite, Dan Carbone, returns to solo performance with an all new production
about a strange woman and her equally strange adopted baby who discover
the universe in an old house. "Carbone has got to be the oddest fish
in our pond of experimental theatre" SF Weekly. "A fierce talent"
SF Bay Guardian. "A unique genius reminiscent of Jonathan Winters"
Bay Guardian. "Dan Carbone is not of this earth. He is from the REAL
nether-lands, not the land of windmills and tulips, but from a region between
retardation and genius." George Kuchar.
Lunches of Our Lives
- 5 young actors (15 to 18) of excellent comic talent perform three outrageous
plays by two modern masters of farce. All three plays are precise, funny,
and lunch-related. All three deal with essential human topics: fate, love,
dreams. The director is an experienced multicultural phenomenon from Moscow,
Russia. Performed at the Uptown Night Club in Oakland.
Neon Man and Me
- From the mind and heart of award winning comedian Slash Coleman come
30 characters who tell an expressive, touching, and very funny story of
a young man's struggle to come to terms with the death of his best friend.
Currently being made into a PBS special, the production consists of nine
monologues and an original musical score that Coleman plays on his guitar.
This "spiritual rock n' roll comedy," was awarded "The Groucho"
for Best One Man Comedy of 2005. Style Weekly reports watching Coleman
is like watching Woody Allen bounce on a trampoline on Mad TV.
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Yeastboy and PigKnuckle: Together Again
- We, the nEO-sURREALISTS, find the editing of our Program Descriptions
to be
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and furthermore, completely UnAmerican. We refuse to participate. Instead
we will be sending in our stead, YeastBoy: The World's First and Only Rising
Fallen Tribute Band. May God have mercy on our souls.
Pomp & Circumstance
- Set in a law firm and a courtroom, Pomp & Circumstance is about
the personal trial of a talented yet suppressed young attorney coming to
terms with his father, a famous and reluctantly retiring criminal defense
lawyer, as they handle their first, and last, court trials. It explores
the boundaries between sex and love, religious law and civil law, acting
and reality, and parents and their children.
Readiness is All
What happens when we die? And how many stuffed bell peppers does it take
to screw up a light bulb? In these days of homeland uncertainty, it's important
to have answers all sorts of questions. In case, you know, you're interrogated.
No, no, it's a warm, smart rumination on death, life and food. But like
setting up the chessboard before your grandfather comes over on Sunday,
and then finding he got killed while driving home from church, THE READINESS
IS ALL makes sure you have more than just extra water in your life preparedness
kit. Directed by Jennifer Rose in collaboration with Writer/Performer Beth
McLaughlin
Revolving Madness Living the
Dream and Damning the Man
Revolving Madness is dedicated to performing not only their unique style
of improvisation, but to producing their own original works as well as new
and classical material that reflect on their training,personality and ideals.The
2006 Fringe Festival performances will be long-form improvisation with no
script, no structure and no suggestions; just plain madness. Revolving Madness
has performed at the L.A. Comedy Festival, SF Fringe Festival 2005, San
Francisco Improv Festival and the Toronto Improv Festival.
sally: MIA / Sheepish
- Sally: MIA / Sheepish, an evening of country-style multi-media movement
theatre. Jessica Fudim's Sheepish finds Bo Peep sheep-less and determined
to recover her flock; she digs through hillsides, dodges traffic and obediently
dances to audience instructions. Concertina in hand, Bo lets us in on her
blue-gingham story of shepherdess search and rescue. In Krista DeNio's
Sally: MIA, Sally has been left alone. Again. John has gone to serve. Time
stops, reverses and transports us to Sally's childhood--a desertous landscape
of rodeo Cowboys, coffee, and Johnny Cash, where Sally practices learnin'
how to love 'em and leave 'em.
Secret Ruths of Island House
Ruth, Ruth and Ruth are old. They inhabit the quiet, in-between spaces
of the Island House. Their lives unfold in an endlessly layered puzzle
box of past and present. Mask, drama, song and movement peer into the
surprising revelations of the ancient. The Secret Ruths of Island House
is based on interviews conducted with seven women named Ruth in the Island
House retirement home. Their stories are diverse and evocative, from nursing
in WWII to all-consuming love. Nebunele Theatre, called "one to watch"
by the Seattle Weekly, descends from Seattle with a poignant and visually
stunning reflection on rarely-told stories.
- Self Help - Polish Mantras for
the Emotionally Dyslexic
Self-Help has been cancelled.
Sisyphus on Vacation
- Drive-By Theater presents the Sisyphus Myth on Powell Street. A large
Boulder is pushed up Powell Street at Sutter, as Sisyphus realizes even
though he's screwed he can still go on Vacation. So here you'll find him
heading from his downtown hotel toward the wharf for a Bowl of Chowder.
Free.
Stone Trilogy, Three Tales
- Three plays in repertory. The SF Bayview called The Stone Trilogy a
"riveting emotional journey" of love, forgiveness, and oppression.
Kaleidoscopic and darkly humorous, The Stone Trilogy presents related one-acts
set in three countries: Ireland, South Africa, and the United States. They
can be seen individually or as one incredible evening of theatre. Come
and go as you like in this truly unique Fringe experience. In Erin's Hope,
a dark stranger approaches the True IRA with an offer to media "spin"
their cause to the American public. The risks pit father against daughter,
brother against brother, and young love against the forces of history.
Set after the fall of Apartheid, a young black South African and a white
female archeologist discover a cave filled with ancient African paintings
in The History of Stone, the second play and winner of this year's Best
Play in the SF Bay One-Acts Festival. The appearance of a white South African
at their site creates an explosive atmosphere reminiscent of Sartre's No
Exit. And finally, An Accident of Identity examines the accessibility of
medicine in the United States, and the subtle dynamics of economics, race,
and sexual orientation. Written by Ian Walker, winner of the John Golden
Prize and the Larry Corse International Award. Catch one, two, or all three
of these "thought-provoking and ambitious" (SF Bay Guardian)
comedy-dramas by one of the Bay Area's sharpest talents.
Thanatics - A Rock Opera
- In the near future, a motley collective of San Francisco artists is
seduced into a fringe political party striving to save the planet through
depopulation. After a few of the collective kill themselves in the name
of depopulation, the media helps spin their deaths into a full-fledged
suicide art movement, catapulting depopulation into the political limelight.
Disgusted with the hoop-la and dubious of the depopulation pundit's motivations,
the remaining artists seek to reverse the damage done. Join Crooked Family
as they sing, spin and rock this satiric tale of art, the media, and politics.
This Lily Was (Fontana)
Impale. Exhale. Repeat. Seven suicide attempts. An arm embroidered with
scars. Taking your salvation where you can get it: myths and bibles both
holy and profane, Italian psych ward travelers, a blues legend howling along
a dusty road, red velvet cake, a whispered sweet something in a language
you will never understand. Winner of the Best Female Solo Award at the 2004
SFFringe for her show some life, Mia Paschal returns with the story of a
cutter, scarred and tethered by the absolute chaos of borderline personality
disorder; so absurd, it might even be funny.. So... Inhale. Impale. Exhale.
Repeat.
Thrilling Adventures of Elvis
in Space - 2
- The Atomic Radio Hour presents The Thrilling Adventures Of Elvis In
Space 2(episodes VII, VIII and IX). Follow the continuing exploits of Elvis,
his lovable sidekick Stevie, and the Robot Charlie Hodge. When the inhabitants
of Zeusus Zars ask Elvis (now Elvis Rex) to save them from a deadly disease,
Elvis Rex puts aside the search for his Momma. In doing so, he discovers
a shocking truth. E.I.S. 2 is a live-action-radio extravaganza combining
Oedipus, 1940's radio serials and Kissin' Cousins.
Tilting at Transformations
- Brookside Repertory Theatre's World Premiere of "Tilting at Transformations,"
spins dry rot into gold in a combustible collection of unstable human elements.
This chain reaction of original short plays brings you volatile compounds
ranging from Kafka-esque domesticity to Biblical erotica. Master/slave
dynamics, ladled over a beaker full of paint chips, a tortoise and human
mold, are mixed at 30,000 feet over sea level. Is it merely a chemical
reaction? directed by Chela Noto.
Winner of 2003 Fringe "Best Collected Shorts," Brookside Repertory,
a critically acclaimed independent theater, continues to highlight new
work by diverse, and often perverse, Bay Area talent.
Visiting Bertha
- A coked-out whore. Her three desperate visitors. Xmas Eve. St. Louis.
1937. These four characters first appeared in Tennessee Williams' second
play THE FUGITIVE KIND in 1937. Since there are 30 parts in that play,
there isn't much character information. This play, instead, pays homage
to the style, poetic voice and thematic concerns of the 26 year old Williams.
It is not dependent on familiarity with the earlier play. This marks Besecker's
fourth production at the Fringe. His THE WAY LIGHT STRIKES FILLED MASON
JARS (a play about Didion, Plath and McCullers) won Best of Fringe in 2002.
Directed by Janet O'Hair.
Waiting for Bordeaux
- Winner in Best Play catagory of Dominican University's 2001 Spring
Playwrights' Festival of San Rafael, "Waiting For Bordeaux" is
a one act absurdist play of an asexual god, a heterosexual female, a bisexual
male and a homosexual male meeting up in a nouvelle California restaurant
in San Francisco in the Nineties. The theme of art interweaves itself among
people willing and not willing to wait for what that think they want and
need. Is it worth waiting for a White Bordeaux or will a simple Red Bordeaux
do?
Where the Sun Don't Shine
Submitted for your perusal: a place beyond the Outer Limits and just
downwind of the Twilight Zone, where your thirst for social commentary,
political intrigue and fart jokes is slaked by a heady cocktail of the uncanny
and the everyday, garnished with a twist of fate. Theatre Tremendo (Best
of Fringe 2000 for "It Came From Beneath The Kilt!!!") returns
with a comical, contemporary take on Atomic Age television, that black-and-white
world we grew up loving. So join us - take your cares, your sense of reality
and your high moral standards and come stick them…Where The Sun Don't
Shine.
Woof, Daddy
- In this explosive theater-noir psychological thriller, a father's duck-hunting
reunion with his son is haunted by the reckless presence of his dead dog
and the mysterious vanishing of his daughter. From the pastoral shores
of Long Island to the capricious revelations that often determine life,
WOOF, DADDY tempests into a tornado of irony, desires, and hopes, reeling
everything into a mad game of subterfuge. Combining styles of Jacobean
tragedy with American musicals, magical surrealism with bestial wonder,
and comedy with horror, this perversity will forever change the ways you
relate to dogs and the humans who love them.
Yellow Fever Express
- Shamans, cavorting with 50 year old stripers, channeling Crazy Horse.
Through Arizona and Utah, from South Dakota to Tennessee ride shotgun and
view America through a yellow windshield on the Yellow Fever Express. For
6 months, Steven journeyed solo throughout the continental United States.
Around the bend of each road, around corner of every street Steven found
the odd, the astounding and the horrid. Experience the Asian American road
trip in this one-hour performance, with the Bay Area folk band Folk This!
The heart is a big place to drive through.
Yorick & Co.
- Lang Johnson's small, struggling theater company is putting on a production
of "Hamlet" off-Broadway. They receive a much needed windfall
when a patron of the art dies and leaves them a substantial bequest. The
only condition: use the patron's skull as Yorick. Already challenged by
the issues of life and death, Lang soon realizes that not only has the
skull taken residence, so has it's previous owner. Already surrounded by
spirited and quirky cast members, Lang must reasses his philosophy of life
and come to terms with his newfound dead mentor.
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