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.
