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Avant GardARAMA! an evening of short experimental plays by Cutting Ball Theatre. EXIT on Taylor 8pm JUL 18 - AUG 16

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San Francisco’s cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater continues its 2008 season of critically acclaimed stage-work with Avant GardARAMA! Like Cutting Ball’s 2004 edition of Avant GardARAMA!,this second installation of the series offers an evening of shortexperimental plays that radically experiment with theatrical form - inthis case, plays from three American women: Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks, Bay Area playwright Eugenie Chan, and Gertrude Stein. Cutting Ball Artistic Director Rob Melrose helms Avant GardARAMA!, featuring Felicia Benefield, Paige Rogers, and David Westley Skillman

Bone to Pick by Eugenie Chan
ThisWorld Premiere, commissioned by Cutting Ball Theater and MagicTheatre/Z Space New Works Initiative, re-tells the myth of Ariadne in adizzyingly postmodern look at the costs of love and war. Young PrinceTheseus promises to marry Ariadne if she will help him through anintricate labyrinth so that he can kill her half brother, the Minotaur.Once his task is complete, instead of marriage, he dumps her on adeserted island, in a diner at the end of the war-torn world.

Betting on the Dust Commander by Suzan-Lori Parks
CuttingBall’s fourth production of a Suzan-Lori Parks play, this playful lookat marriage depicts a young couple on their hope-filled wedding night,and then years later as the husband habitually steals away to the racetrack. For those who enjoyed the jazz-like language of Cutting Ball’sproduction of Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, this portrait of a marriage offers a musical logic that is all its own.

Accents in Alsace by Gertrude Stein
Included in the extraordinary 1922 publication Geography and Plays,this memorable cubist portrait of World War I remarkably fuses Stein’slegendary experimental style with an unforgettably human depiction ofwar.

THE PANDORA EXPERIMENT by Christian Cagigal

FRI/SAT 8pm JUL 25 - AUG 16 EXIT Stage Left Tickets: $20 CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

Master Magician & Illusionist Christian Cagigal returns.

"The Pandora Experiment" is inexplicable theatrical magic

EXIT Theatre brings back acclaimed magician and illusionist Christian Cagigal to reprise his latest show, The Pandora Experiment, presented by EXIT Theatre and Zeitgeist Artworks. Cagigal's previous work at the EXIT has delighted both audiences and critics.
The Pandora Experiment is an intimate evening of close-up magic, mind-reading, and theater guided by award-winning magician and illusionist Christian Cagigal.
"It's not a mere series of 'tricks,' but a real experiment that dares you to take a peek, and then think inside the box," Cagigal says.
Cagigal presides over this dark and intimate show with "a music box, toys with souls, an oft told tale…and you." MEDIA & REVIEWS

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Penny Dreadful Theatricals presents... Kelly McCubbin's Golden Age of Radio
What year is this? Local cult performer, Kelly McCubbin, seems unsure as he and his group of drunks, misfits and malcontents try to put on a live Science Fiction Radio Show. From the creator of "Uke-y Stardust" and "Purple Rain - When Ukes Cry" comes this loving and hysterical tribute to Golden Age Radio, but with a modern edge. Chaos, comedy, music and an entire, brand new, science fiction radio drama will overtake the Exit Theatre for 2 weekends in August. Beware the Cognizance Reaction!!!

EXIT Theatre 8pm FRI/SAT AUG 1 - 9, 2008

Tickets - $15. $10 for students, seniors and TBA members. For tickets call Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006 or CLICK FOR ONLINE TICKETS

FUNNY BUT MEAN presents FUNNY BUT MEAN'S NEXT SHOW

(cruel and unusual sketch comedy)

EXIT Theatre 8pm August 11 & 18 (see www.funnybutmean.com for details)

Cast:
Alexandra Creighton, Lauren Grace, Jessica Heidt, Oliver Elliot. Kalli Jonsson, Anthony Nemirovsky, Ignacio Orellana-Garcia, Frannie Pope, Ryan Rigazzi, Cole Smith, Zoë Stagg

SAVED OR DESTROYED - HARRY KONDOLEON'S FINAL COMEDY- IN BAY AREA PREMIERE.
EXIT Cafe THUR/FRI/SAT 8:30pm OCT 2 - OCT 11.
Tickets: $20. Reservations: 415-762-3649.
www.savedordestroyed.com
SAVED OR DESTROYED celebrates the parallels and paradoxes of life and theatre with the reverence, irreverence, and insight that made Harry Kondoleon a mainstay of the New York stage until his untimely death in March 1994. "The plot? A bunch of young, optimistic actors come together for a new play, where they are asked to portray a bunch of discontented actors, who are in turn portraying a bickering family on a seaside holiday. Then, it gets complicated…" - Londontown.com

"It's more like a crazy mixed-up passion play or a three-dimensional collage than it is a traditional narrative….It dances and sings and bleeds from the eyes, spits nails and tickles you, refusing to sit still or be pinned down to one meaning or provide bromide answers for a sleeping audience." - Craig Lucas

Staged by Val Hendrickson. Cast: Bret Anderson, Carolyn Doyle, Kurt Gravenhorst, Alexandra Matthew, and Lorraine Olsen. Stage Management: Mike Orme. Stage Design and Costuming: Adrienne Fraser. Lighting Design: Patti Meyer. Graphic/Web Design & Photography: Chandra Renee Walker

Adapted from the novel by Matthew Lewis, written by Nirmala Nataraj, directed by Stuart Bousel, featuring Margery Fairchild, Ryan Hayes, Meghan E. Kane, Christopher P. Kelly, Rik Lopes, Cassie Powell, Alison Sacha Ross, Lisa Swanson, James Tinsley, Nathan Tucker, Rana Weber, Cordell Wesselink. Masks designed/fabricated by Gregorio De Masi, stage managed by Martin Schwartz, sound design by Lisa Fowle, graphic design by Cody Rishell.

No Nude Men Productions Presents: The Monk
From one of the most influential horror novels of all time … Lust. Power. Deception. And lots of labyrinthine plot twists.

EXIT Stage Left 8pm Previews THUR OCT 9 then FRI/SAT thru NOV 22 Tickets: $10 first weekend, $15 - $20 subsequent performances. More Info visit www.myspace.com/ambrosioandmatilda

No Nude Men Productions continues its five-year legacy of bringing intelligent, challenging theater to the Bay Area, with a new stage adaptation of Matthew Lewis's seminal horror novel, THE MONK. By turns comical, sad, horrific and romantic, the story has captivated audiences since it was first published in 1796 and rocketed its 20-year-old author to stardom (he was even made a member of the British Parliament and nicknamed "Monk" Lewis). It has been cited by Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, James Herbert and numerous other writers as a major influence on their work and has never been out of print in over two centuries. This fall, No Nude Men premieres Nirmala Nataraj's spine-tingling new stage adaptation, the first to be attempted by an American theater company in over 50 years.

The story revolves around a Spanish monk, Ambrosio (Ryan Hayes), whose life is crossed by a pair of young women: the tragic nun Agnes (Lisa Swanson) and the impoverished aristocrat Antonia (Margery Fairchild), both of whom will be key in the arrogant cleric's fall from grace. As Ambrosio is guided down a path of dissolution by a mysterious beauty named Matilda (Cassie Powell), the story weaves in and out of the quest for Antonia's hand by the handsome cavalier Lorenzo (James Tinsley) and the desperate search by Don Raymond (Cordell Wesselink) for the missing mother of his child. Along the way, ghosts and demons intervene, bandits attempt murder on hapless travelers, and nothing short of the Spanish Inquisition turns up for the finale.

Nataraj (who penned the 2005 San Francisco Theater festival favorite, THE BOOK OF GENESIS: REMIXED AND REMASTERED) joins forces with Director Stuart Bousel, who combines the intense passion of NNM's 2005 production of PHAEDRA with the epic scale of the company's 2006 LOVE'S LABOURS LOST, to fashion a gothic romance of grand proportions. With masks designed by Gregorio De Masi, lights by James Tinsley and art by Cody Rishell, the performance aspires to combine the most riveting elements of small theater, medieval melodrama and Italian carnival.


EXIT Theatre, EXIT Stage Left, EXIT Cafe and EXIT on Taylor

Celebrating its 20th year on the wild side of downtown San Francisco, EXIT Theatre is an experimental theater with a bohemian cabaret atmosphere and three venues. EXIT Theatre is also the producer of the annual San Francisco Fringe Festival (September 3-14, 2003) EXIT Theatre, EXIT Stage Left and EXIT Cafe are located at 156 Eddy Street (between Mason and Taylor) in downtown San Francisco. EXIT on Taylor is located at 277 Taylor Street (between Eddy and Ellis). All theatres are within a few block walk of the Powell Street BART/Muni station and cable car turnaround and there is adjacent parking. The EXIT Cafe offers beer, wine and a light bistro menu from one our before curtain time.

EXIT THEATRE, 156 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, 415.673.3847.


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