Plays performed at the EXIT Theatreplex in 2004

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Plays at the EXIT during 2004
14th Annual San Francisco Fringe Festival 4th Annual Divafest 69 Stories: One Perverts Tale A Black Valentine's Day Abducted Action! Adventures Of A Substitute Teacher Ajax, For Instance An Impersonation Of Angels Are Ya Working? Art Of Etiolation Asian For Dummies Avant Gardarama! Ball And Daisy Chain Becca & Heidi Belles Best Of The Fringe Box Car Bertha Boy Blue Brilliant Disguise & Nimrod Heaven Cabaret Rebel Can You See Me? Certain Things... Chinese Clown Cabaret Cicada Cincinnati Come Fly With Me Nude Come From Behind Comedy On The Square Divagation Drama Queens Come Clean Eye Faker Fighter Airplanes Flame And The Stone Flower Murderer Framework Future Folkloric Girlesque: Unwigged! Helen Of Troy Hollywoodland Home/Darkness Hooray For Speech... Howie The Rookie Improvised Bawdy Shakespeare Infestation It's Stupid To Steal... Just One, Maggie Last Of The Red Hot Dadas Late Night With God Laughing Wild Leftovers Long-Form Improv &... Love Dances M.I. Blue's Twilite... Magic @ The Fringe Moliere Than Thou Neo-Surrealists Present New District Manager Night Among The Stars No Good Deed Objets De Passion Other American Stories Oui Be Negroes Pickling Quarter Into It Rabbit Causes Dog Rap Canterbury Tales Reframing The Hourglass Risk Is This … Sandalwood Box Sandwich Scene Night Seismic Surprises Enliver Our Lives Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll Short And Sweet... Slaughter City Snakewoman Some Life Speaking In Tongues Static Cabaret Strange Love Stretch Marks; Growing Into Motherhood Subhuman-True Tales... The Clean Break The Fever The Sweet New The Talking Machine The Underbelly Diaries This Love Train... Three Thrilling Adventures... Thursday Night Combo Tingle Tangle Tonight: The Harsh … Uncle Dickie's Christmas Under The Counter... Underneath The Lintel Valparaiso Viva Karaoke! Viva Vivi Wet, Or Isabella The Pirate Queen What Burns Woman Drowns In Bread Women On Death Row Wrestling An Alligator Young War Zeppelin Beach

UNCLE DICKIE'S WICKED LITTLE CHRISTMAS 2. "Irreverence is the only way to handle the Holidays!" -- Uncle Dickie. A night of alternative holiday fun, this year Uncle Dickie's Wicked Little Christmas showcases yuletide one-acts by an impious set of brazen writers who turn the holidays upside down! Jenny Seidelman pays a visit to Jerry Springer (Jerry Springer: I'm Having God's Baby!); matters of the heart preoccupy Patrick Gabridge (Christmas Breaks) and Terry Baum (Chanukah Butch); a talking razor for Christmas mystifies Werner Trieschmann (Close Shave); and James Venhaus's receptionist just won't take another call (Happy Holidays from Anderson, Davis, Seton and Fenner). And the fun doesn't stop there.
The winners of Uncle Dickie's Playwriting Contest deliver two outstandingly funny one-acts. Christopher Dimond's It's a Miserable Life chronicles the sad fate of Santa Claus and the world largest monopoly, Santa's Workshop, when evil Mr. Scrooge and Mr. Potter engineer a take over. Ms. Meyermyer's Shining Moment by Lindsay Price portrays a second grade teacher (on the edge) about to rehearse her annual Christmas Pageant -- a version of the Twelve Days of Christmas like you've never heard!
The Cast for this year's Uncle Dickie Program include: Kevin Copps, Jim Neuner, Chris Koval, Inga Langford, Jason Baeten, Joey Rich, Natalie Saibel, Julia Mitchell, Kate Finney, Jenifer Morgan, Linda McPharlin. Directors are John Dixon and Ryan Montgomery. EXIT Theatre WED-SAT 8PM DEC 2 - 18. Tickets $20 ($15 Students, Seniors, TBA). Reservations 415-776-7427 or www.ticketweb.com.


SALOME AND THE GIRLS by Rey Carolino, a highly energetic, raunchy, and good natured comedy about a group of strippers at a local San Francisco strip-club and their attempts to form a theater company and the chaos that ensues when their club manager finds out. Essentially an ensemble comedic study of character that examines the dreams and schemes of an eclectic group of people set against the exciting and lurid backdrop of the strip club industry. Featuring Melanee Nelson, Chuck Lacson, Eliah Mountjoy, Amanda Korpitz, Maggie Suarez, Sapna Gandhi, Vonn Scott Bair, Deborah Rombaut, and Rachel Diaz. EXIT on Taylor FRI/SAT 8PM DEC 10 - 18 Tickets $10 - $15 sliding scale. Reservations 415-508-1808.


MARK ROMYN'S THURSDAY NIGHT COMBO. Featuring the Musical Talents of the Whistleaires, the Magic of Christian Cagigal, the Brilliant Cameron Galloway, the Funny and Versatile Eric Nelson, and More ... EXIT's variety show hosted by Mark Romyn and featuring performances by local magicians, musicians, monologists, and other work in progress . EXIT Cafe THUR DEC 16 8:30 $5

Boy Blue: Solos for men from the Funsch Dance Experience. The Funsch Dance Experience’s fall concert, Boy Blue, will feature five new intergenerational solos for men and Funsch’s latest solo. Boy Blue brings together performers from varied ages (13-64) and backgrounds. The cast includes jazz dancer Brendon Chan, hip-hop dancer Skorpio, and actor Paul Tsoinon. The solos look at quests for meaning and how these journeys change (or don’t) as we age. Fantasy, love, music, work, and spirituality serve as recurring sources of validation and, sometimes, escape for the five characters.
The Funsch Dance Experience is under the artistic direction of Christy Funsch, an East Coast native who transplanted to San Francisco in 1995. The mission of the company is to celebrate people as performers and performers as people, highlighting all that is vulnerable yet indefatigable in us through movement that is casually exact, emotionally fluid, and musically precise.
Funsch has shown her work in New York, Phoenix, Toronto, and throughout San Francisco and Santa Cruz. She presented the first full evening of her choreography (Vinyl Garden) in 2001, and formed The Funsch Dance Experience in 2002. Funsch continues to enjoy a rich performing career in San Francisco. Current dancing and collaborative performing credits include Stephen Pelton Dance Theater, Maxine Moerman Dancetheatre, Sue Roginski, and, Leslie Seiters. Funsch has served on the Board of Directors of The Field SF since its inception here in 1996, and has received two nominations from the Isadora Duncan Dance Award Committee for Performance (2004, 2003). Funsch received her BA in Dance and English from Hamilton College, New York, in 1989 and a MFA in Performance and Choreography from Arizona State University. Boy Blue is supported by CA$H, a grants program of Theatre Bay Area, in partnership with Dancers' Group. EXIT on Taylor THUR/FRI/SAT DEC 2, 3, 4 @ 8PM. Tickets $10-15 Sliding. Reservations: (415) 902-5371 www.funschdance.com

The Cutting Ball Theater presents Avant GardARAMA! an evening of short experimental plays

Dive into The Cutting Ball's a tasting-plate of avant garde plays, including rarely performed pieces by Pulitzer prize winning Suzan-Lori Parks, MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient Richard Foreman, and Büchner Prize (Germany's highest literary honor) winner Heiner Müller. Fighter Airplanes created from the notebooks of Richard Foreman. A couple of Texas jumbo jets (yes, airplanes) are dead-set on going to war. Enter a pair of sexy peace loving French stewardesses. Can the planes be swayed? Can the world be saved? Get ready to delight in Foreman's pleasurable world of hilarious paradoxes. Ajax, for instance by Heiner Müller. A man who has fought against Nazism and Communism is now at the end of his life and ready to do battle with the next dinosaur crossing his path: Capitalism. In a span of ten minutes, he relives the entire history of the twentieth century and sees a future we must avoid. Pickling by Suzan-Lori Parks. Miss Miss has a house full of mason jars. She has already gone well beyond simply preserving perishable foods. In the jars are memories, souvenirs, and objects from her past. But when one jar contains the jawbone of her dead mother, we get a glimpse into the eccentric world captured in these glass containers. The Sandalwood Box by Mac Wellman. Life is not going well for Marsha Gates. She is the prop girl for Great Wind Rep, a theater that specializes in "T.V. with dirty words." If that weren't enough, she has lost her voice and finds herself on a wild ride with a mysterious professor who collects human catastrophes in tiny little boxes. This is the story of a modern-day Pandora who experiences a coming-of-age like no other. Helen of Troy by Rob Melrose. Helen finds herself caught in the midst of love, lust, and the ravages of war. The most beautiful woman in the world has the face that launches a thousand ships. But what happens when all the ships have sunk and you are stuck in a room with the husband you betrayed? EXIT Theatre FRI/SAT 8 PM OCT 8 - NOV 20. October 8 & 9: Pay-What-You Can-Previews. October 15: Press Opening . REVIEWS
INFO: (415) 419-3584. Reservations can also be made online at www.cuttingball.com

RIPE Theatre’s CICADA - written by Sarah McKereghan, directed by Noah Kelly, and designed by Peter Q. Parish. Winner of Best of the Fringe 2002 and hailed by the SF Bay Guardian as “an unusually intelligent and able young company” and “tight, dark, and abounding with absurdist wit,” RIPE Theatre presents its world premiere dark comedy Cicada. After the 2001 presidential inauguration, an environmental protester and her Gulf War veteran partner move underground, shutting themselves off from the world, in an act of protest. Four years later, they are still blissfully disconnected from current events, breathing filtered air, drinking filtered water, and about to lose their minds. Add to the mix a pessimistic doctor of psychiatry, an overly-defensive sister and her slacker boyfriend, and what unfolds is an absurdist trip into today’s reality. EXIT Stage Left 8pm THUR/FRI/SAT OCT 28 - NOV 20, 2004. Tickets are $15-$20, sliding scale, by cash or check at the door. Pay-what-you-can nights: 11/4 & 11/11. REVIEWS. website: www.ripetreats.com



MARK ROMYN'S THURSDAY NIGHT COMBO. EXIT's variety show hosted by Mark Romyn and featuring performances by local magicians, musicians, monologists, and other work in progress. EXIT Cafe THUR NOV 18 8:30 $5

PLAYWRIGHTS CENTER Scene Night. $5 for non-members to have scenes read. Workshop 10 pages of a play in progress 7:30 pm, Tuesday, November 16 EXIT Theatre

Crowded Fire presents two solo shows written and performed by Mollena Williams: 69Stories: One Pervert's Tale and No Good Deed. Last seen with Crowded Fire as Roach in Slaughter City, talented solo artist Mollena Williams takes the art of storytelling to a whole new level in own shows. With unrelenting wit, humor and sexiness, Ms. Williams spares neither herself nor her former partners as she treats audiences to a closer look at the wild side of love, partnership and good sex. Her hilarious, erotic and poignant 69Stories: One Pervert's Tale first enticed audiences down the road less traveled to the San Francisco S/M community in 2001. The show played to sold-out crowds and surprised even other perverts with its daring and hilarity. Now, under the direction of Crowded Fire Artistic Director Rebecca Novick, this irrepressible submissive diva will revive her legendary performance - for which she won a special award from the SF Bay Guardian for "Most Radiant Presence in Shackles" - in repertory with her newest solo creation, No Good Deed. Conceived as a prequel to 69Stories, No Good Deed opens as Williams is accused of sexually harassing a female co-worker while working at a major bank. Things go from weird to weirder as Williams navigates prejudice and bureaucracy to prove her innocence. By the end, her first encounters with the strange world of alternative sexuality have changed her forever and set her on the path to become one of the Bay Area's most knowledgeable sources on dangerous liaisons. Directed by noted Bay Area solo performance expert Amy Mueller, this show promises to be as hilarious and treacherously truthful as 69Stories. REVIEWS.
EXIT on Taylor, 8pm, Oct 8 - Nov 13
Previews: 69Stories - Oct 8; No Good Deed - Oct 9 & 15
Opening Night Oct 16: See both shows for $30! No Good Deed at 5pm; 69Stories at 8pm
69Stories runs Fridays Oct 22 - Nov 12 & Monday Nov 8
No Good Deed runs Saturdays Oct 23 - Nov 13
Tickets:
$15-$20, sliding scale
Opening Night Gala $30 to see both shows & party in-between
Pay-What-You-Can: previews Oct 8, 9 & 15; 69Stories additional performance Mon Nov 8
Reservations: call 415-675-5995 or visit www.crowdedfire.org

PLAYWRIGHTS CENTER. SEISMIC SURPRISES ENLIVEN OUR LIVES by Alina Trowbridge, a staged reading: When a Marina architect finds a homeless man living in his back yard, he discovers that sometimes life gets better when everything goes wrong. 7:30 pm, Tuesday, November 9. EXIT Theatre. $5 to $10 for non-members

The Fever - a play by Wallace Shawn. Performed by Adam Kenyon Venker. Directed by Patricia Miller. One Man. One World. One Night. A profound and engaging journey through one Man's crisis of conscience. A savage tale of Revelation, Recognition, and Remebrance. A Man lies ill and alone in a dreary hotel in a poverty-stricken country. Far from the comforts of his own life, his memories and conscience are challenged by the misery that surrounds him. With compassion, eloquence, and ruthless self-scrutiny, the Man wonders 'in a highly original way: Is it possible, or even right, for a sensitive person to be happy in today's world?' NY Times. EXIT Cafe FRI/SAT OCT 15-30 8:30PM. Tickets: $20 - $15 [sliding scale] Advanced Purchase Recommended. Limited Seating. 415.922.9159. For Ticket Purchase: www.pacificplayback.com/fever
The Fever is produced in partnership with Pacific Playback Theatre.

Stretch Marks: Growing Into Motherhood. The Drama Mamas present an evening of welcoming theatre . . . Audiences members rave, "Its a masterpiece about motherhood", and "I laughed until I cried and cried until I laughed, everyone should see this, moms and dads and people with moms and dads." In one night of innovative performance, enjoy two original works that are guaranteed to move, delight, entertain and transform you, as we uncover the source from which we all arrived. Come look into the lives and minds of mothers, the mothers we have and the mothers we will become. Stretch Marks: Growing Into Motherhood gives humorous, thoughtful commentary about the spiritual and emotional acrobatics of new parenthood. The Herstories Project's Bone Songs conjures ancestral mothers and explores their legacy through our roles as daughters, granddaughters, and great-granddaughters. Both plays were created through innovative use of collaboration and improvisation coupled with traditional
playwriting. Together, they explode traditional views of motherhood and provide a new perspective on parenting our children and ourselves. The San Francisco Bay Guardian called Stretch Marks a "light but soulful comedy celebrating 'the joy and the madness of mothering.'" The San Francisco Chronicle commented "[Stretch Marks has] its you're not alone appeal - reaching out to share the lore and create that proverbial village." The Oakland Magazine describes the Drama Mamas, "Drama Mamas productions come from "group mind." "It's a different kind of theatre-making," Schiller Says. "It's a constant play of allowing and shaping. It's about getting input from individuals and caring for individuals and from that creating art." She accesses the troupe's deepest, rawest perspectives during long sessions of improvisation and transforms their experience into powerful theater." To buy Tickets: www.DramaMamas.com

PLAYWRIGHTS CENTER. Great Scenes from Successful Playwrights. A reading and discussion of selected scenes from great plays. 7:30 pm, Tuesday, October 19 EXIT Theatre
PLAYWRIGHTS CENTER. LEFTOVERS by Scott McMorrow, a staged reading directed by Alice Shikina. What happens when you deviate from Life's recipe book? Often, the answer is too bizarre for human consumption. A candid and comedic look at the taboo subject of cannibalism, sex, and what's on the menu. SUENO by Scott McMorrow: In a piece blending elements of street culture, Santeria mysticism, and the often bizarre nature of blood relationship, a hardcore female gangster learns that being more ruthless than her male counterparts isn't the only thing that will keep her on top. 7:30 pm, Tuesday, October 26. Staged Reading at EXIT Theatre$5 to $10 for non-members

MARK ROMYN'S THURSDAY NIGHT COMBO. EXIT's variety show hosted by Mark Romyn and featuring performances by local magicians, musicians, monologists, and other work in progress. EXIT Cafe THUR OCT 28 8:30 $5

Playwrights Foundation Proudly Presents: In the Rough – New Plays in Development, Advancing the development of new plays approaching production
Dan Harder THE CLEAN BREAK (Staged reading of a play in development). Six very different characters meet, by chance, in a laundromat, and in front of our very eyes wash, fold and tumble dry their life stories. They are not philosophers, scientists, or investment bankers; they aren’t even particularly bright or broad-minded. They are just common citizens facing a host of issues: sex and the single girl (straight and gay), gay marriage, marriage in general, raising kids and best ways to do it, genetic engineering, faith, the Bible, and the very nature of our species. In his own words, Dan Harder examines principles of writing and living in this post-postmodern age – he is intrigued with what we’ve done (or culpably not done) to get to where we are today. At the same time he asks what we can, will, or might do to create the new world or, at the very least, to respond to it. Dan Harder, in addition to writing plays, has published poetry, kids books, features in the LA Times and SF Chronicle, commentaries for NPR, books of essays, and screenplays. His work has won such awards as the Children’s Book Council award (1999) and the Arvon Poetry Contest (1989) judged by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. His play, Quartet for Three Characters and Cello – A Mysterious Romance, is currently on at the Actors Theater downtown; this play was a finalist in the 25th Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival. Other plays of his have been on in various theaters locally and nationally. Visit his website – http://www.danharder.com – for more information.Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 7.30 pm, Exit Stage Left Number of seats limited, please visit http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org or call 415.626.0453 x 106 to reserve your ticket

PLAYWRIGHTS CENTER. COME FROM BEHIND by Jon Brooks, a staged readings directed by Alice Shikina. A presidential election, and the Democratic challenger is given almost no chance of beating the Republican President. That is, until a neophyte political operator suggests painting the incumbent ticket as gay. 7:30 pm, Tuesday, October 12. Staged Reading at EXIT on Taylor $5 to $10 for non-members.

WHAT BURNS a staged reading by local playwright Anna Budd. Directed by Mike Ward. When the Overworld and the Underworld collide and compete for prominence... When a 30-something urban woman encounters a spider that opens a portal to another world... When a representative from The Department of Underworld Management's repeated exposure to subsurface energies causes eroded --yet enlightened--judgment... When a 15th Century Italian Mercenary crosses paths with a 21st Century American Teenager on a quest for Patricide... When Chaos & Order align harmoniously and that which seems to be may not be so... When all this happens simultaneously is when WHAT BURNS ignites the imagination and illuminates the stage. Featuring Molly Bell*, Christen Karle, Brad Cooreman, Dave Garrett, Michaela Greeley, Brian Herndon*, Adrienne Krug, Danielle Thys* EXIT STAGE LEFT TUES OCT 12 7:30PM: Admission is free! Critique session to follow
*Member, Actors Equity Association, appearing through special arrangement by AEA. +Member, Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers

BEST OF THE FRINGE 2004 October 1 - 2, 2004. Four of the Best of the Fringe returned for one performance each to benefit the San Francisco Fringe Festival. Rabbit Causes Dog, Magic @ the Fringe, Come Fly With Me Nude, and Reframing the Hourglass.

SAN FRANCISCO FRINGE FESTIVAL September 8-19, 2004 CLICK FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION
CLICK HERE FOR A RUNNING DESCRIPTION OF ALL 2004 FRINGE PLAYS EXIT Theatre presents the 2004 San Francisco Fringe Festival from September 8th to September 19th, 2004.

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FRINGE FESTIVAL PLAYS: Click on play title for more information.

Abducted
Action!
Asian for Dummies
Ball and Daisy Chain
Can You See Me?
Certain Things...
Chinese Clown Cabaret
Cincinnati
Come Fly With Me Nude
Comedy on the Square
divagation
Faker
Flame and the Stone
Flower Murderer
Framework

Future Folkloric
Hollywoodland
Home/Darkness
Hooray for Speech...
It's Stupid to Steal...
Late Night With God
Long-Form Improv &...
m.i. blue's TWILITE...
Magic @ the Fringe
Moliere Than Thou
nEO-sURREALISTS Present
Other American Stories
Oui Be Negroes
PAIN
Quarter Into It

Rabbit Causes Dog
Rap Canterbury Tales
Reframing the Hourglass
Short and Sweet...
some life
Subhuman-True Tales...
This Love Train...
Thrilling Adventures...
Tonight: The Harsh …
Under the Counter...
Viva Karaoke!...
Viva Vivi
Wrestling an Alligator
Young War
Zeppelin Beach Improv

THURSDAY NIGHT COMBO at the FRINGE hosted by Mark Romyn
Take a sneak peek at Fringe 2004! See the sizzling all girl boy band from 2good4u's Viva Karaoke! , experience the cross-cultural clowning expertise of Jane Chen's Chinese Clown Cabaret, thrill to the spine tingling talents of Magic @ the Fringe's Christian Cagigal.

These and other choice tidbits from the 2004 Fringe Festival (September 8-19) are served up by host Mark Romyn in the invitingly irreverent style that has made Thursday Night Combo a favorite of EXIT's 2004 season.
Other 2004 Fringe fare offered for your sneak previewing pleasure include: Writer/performer/filmmaker/renaissance woman Mia Paschal performing a selection from her world premier Fringe production some life, a splash of Noir from Savage Eye productions comic thriller Hollywoodland and a vignette from the ongoing underground classic m.i. blue's Twilite Zone which will be performing it's Fringe run at the El Rio Bar in the Mission. Plus special guest and perennial EXIT favorite Fringe bartender Steven Karwoski. EXIT Theatre Thursday August 26, 8:30PM Tickets $5 Reservations: 415-673-3847

Un-Scripted Theater Company presents IMPROVISED BAWDY SHAKESPEARE. Improv, Shakespeare & Sex! An evening of randy humor awaits you in this improvised play-like show, all done in the style of Shakespeare. Each night is like an original, all-new Shakespeare play. One of the Bay Area’s funniest improv shows — Improvised Bawdy Shakespeare is a sure-thing great night out! EXIT STAGE LEFT FRI/SAT 8PM JUL 30 - AUG 21, 2004.
Lindsay Anderson

PHOTO: KARL PEDERSEN

The Shee Theatre Company Presents The World Premiere Production of
BECCA and HEIDI By Sharon Eberhardt Directed by Virginia Reed. While Jekyll and Hyde asks "Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of a
man?" Sharon Eberhardt's BECCA and HEIDI explodes the question: "Who knows what-Good or Evil, lurks in the heart of a Woman?"

"Good Morning, Buffalo! Moments ago, on the Scajaquada Expressway, Eyewitness News helicopter cameramen captured this footage of the incendiary
collision snarling the morning's high-speed commuter traffic. Through the billowing black smoke, a young woman can be seen pulling an unconscious mother and squalling infant from the twisted wreckage. The unidentified heroine vanished as emergency vehicles raced to the scene." Unleashed by the crash, Becca's alter ego, Heidi, is braver, funnier, smarter, sexier and a better listener. Racing to catch up with her doppelganger, surgical nurse Becca juggles two new boyfriends and struggles to remember the "great sex." Everyone loves Heidi, but can she be trusted with a bone file, a broken bottle and keys to the animal research lab? Featuring Lindsay Anderson as Becca. Lighting design by Heather Basarab, sets and props by Kate Boyd, sound design by Yvette Janine Jackson, stage management by Emily Koch, costume design by Kira Kristensen and, graphic design by Jane Sayer. EXIT Cafe 8:30pm THUR/FRI/SAT JUL 15 - AUG 7, 2004. MEDIA AND REVIEWS. www.theshee.org

ARE YA WORKING? The Rants of a Post-Industrial Hybrid - written and performed by Steven Karwoski. This Polish/Irish American distills twenty years of schlepping in the trenches of the working world into one hilarious hour of stories, poems and rants. “Karwoski’s sincerity and charm wins us over…” San Francisco Bay Guardian. Inspired by his Polish grandmother's chronic question and mantra “ Are ya working?” Karwoski celebrates the rich tapestry of his Catholic, working-class upbringing and reveals how it forged his reality as The Uber Schlepper. EXIT Theatre, WED 8pm JULY 28., 2004.Tickets: $8 - $15 sliding scale. Reservations: 415-673-3847. Part of LaborFest 2004.


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BOXCAR BERTHA
by Kerry Reid in collaboration with Christina Augello and John Warren, live musical accompaniment by Jack "Applejack" Walroth, directed by John Warren and starring Christina Augello

At the Winnipeg Fringe Festival July14 - 26, 2004

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Raw Love Productions presents MERCURY IN RETROGRADE Written and performed by Ian Winn aka The Techno Pagan Octopus Messiah. Passionately delivered, moving, wise, and hysterically funny; “Mercury in Retrograde” is the new one-man show from poetry-slam-winning author Ian Winn. Captivating audiences from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the Black Rock desert, this psychedelic wordsmith spins a series of poems woven into a shimmering tapestry of beauty, wonder and delight, and held together with the help of Goddesses Glue and Tape. Greek Gods and lurid dreams, Burning Man, DMT and meat-buying licenses are all part of this unique, mystical yet earthy stew. Don't miss this limited engagement! EXIT Theatre FRI/SAT JUL 16 - AUG 7 8PM. For More Info: www.octopusmessiah.com SHOW CANCELLED !!!

TOP PHOTO: LAURIE GALLANT: BOTTOM PHOTO: SCOTT PALMER

BOXCAR BERTHA
by Kerry Reid in collaboration with Christina Augello and John Warren, live musical accompaniment by Jack "Applejack" Walroth

directed by John Warren and starring Christina Augello

Based on the legendary depression era hobo, feminist, and anarchist Bertha Thompson, this one woman show features Christina Augello. Boxcar Bertha received its first staged reading at the DIVAfest 2003. This depression era saga follows Bertha, a rugged hard living woman who rode the rails in the 1930s, on a journey from hobo to grifter, from prostitute to activist.

Original Music and Accompaniment by Jack "Applejack" Walroth, shaping a simpatico musical backdrop to resonate with Bertha's alternate universe of boxcars, soapboxes, and bordellos. A veteran freelance San Francisco singer, musician, songwriter, and music publisher, Applejack's recent
credits include co-authoring lyrics on two songs on Boz Scaggs CD "Dig"; harmonica on "Quicksand: Songs of Kermit Lynch" CD, featuring Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Jon Cleary, plus several stints with the Boz Scaggs Rhythm and Blues tour. http://homepage.mac.com/jackwalrothmusic

EXIT Stage Left THUR/FRI/SAT 8PM JULY 8, 9, 10 Tickets: $12-$20 sliding scale Reservations: 415-673-3847. Part of LaborFest 2004. CLICK TO ORDER ONLINE

ADVENTURES OF SUBSITUTE TEACHER written and performed by UESF member Steven Karwoski, directed by Sean Owens. Actor Steven Karwoski makes a daring escape from the restaurant industry. He "trades slinging hash for dodging spitballs." In the move from the frying pan into the fire he discovers the lighter and darker realities of the public school system. His lively stories illuminate the reality of being on the job and dealing with the growing crisis in education. As someone who has worked three jobs in order to survive he is able to hit moe about working America. EXIT Theatre WED JULY 7 8PM. Tickets: $8 - $15, sliding scale, Reservations 415-673-3847. Part of LaborFest 2004.

JUST ONE, MAGGIE by Devorah Medwin. Celebrating their return from New York City, The Sisters Callahan have come home to create a theatre company comprised of playwrights, actors and directors who all are graduates of the Actors Studio MFA program. Just One, Maggie by Devorah Medwin directed by Kelly Callahan, with Michelle Bravo, Katie Callahan, Katherine Darling, Danielle O'Hare and Chris Yule -- a powerful, vibrant, innovative look at sexuality, relationships and personal freedom ... a must see, high vibe, energetic evening. Half Permed Productions. EXIT on Taylor THUR/FRI/SAT JUN 3 - 26 Tickets $20 For Reservations call 415.561.0189

THURSDAY NIGHT COMBO. Writers reading their own work, animal handlers, magicians, short theatrical plays, poetry, dance, and song from opera to folk. It's Thursday Night Combo! at the Exit Cafe, where creative genius can run free and wild. Each performance is 5 - 10 minutes long, making a delightful evening of roughly one hour 15 minutes just right! If you are looking to be entertained by delightfully surprising culturally nourishing tidbits, this is the place for you! Plus, every Thursday is a little different. Thursday, June 3 will offer the following:
Geoff Bolt's brilliant comedic stylings
Mark Romyn's uniquely edgy and hilarious literary tales
Some most ingeniously and sublimely sung songs by Phil Worman
A literary piece performed by the very talented, quirky yet unassuming
artist Greg Lucey
and a scene from a play Cameron Galloway is writing.
EXIT Theatre Cafe 8:30 PM THUR JUNE 3 & 8:30 PM THUR JUNE 24. $5 admission
(Summertime Thursdays to be announced!)
Thursday (June 24) will include an animal handler, magician, more readings, the sweat from a Peyton Place drama, and more!

SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK & ROLL a collection of edgy comedy short plays, sketchs and readings by the California Travel Troupe. In THE HIT four actor/playwrights close a successful production and a producer wants to move the play to a new venue "uptown." The problem: He only wants part of the plays, curring out what the four think is their best material. In THE STORY OF R, a love story, a friend of R writes a memoir on the 10th anniversary of his death, which is as relevant now as then. We don't discuss AIDS much anymore, but it still stalks those we love and the pain is as fresh as any other tragedy today. In A DATE WITH A VAMPIRE two lonely people are still looking for love in all the wrong places. In INFECTIOUS, Clancy discusses a new book she is writing with her friend Michael. All the things she's worried about -- a conspiracy between government and scientists -- suddenly seem to be coming true. In STINGER a dog, a sexy lady and a man who raises pit bulls for protections spend an evening together at dinner. In LADIES OF THE MOP faded stars of yesterday now mop fllors and dust the furniture after the theatre crowd goes home. For one magical night they decide to star in a production for their own enjoyment. In SEX, DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL George is 23 and still lives at home. His mother thinks he's too young to date and wants him to wait until he's 37. His mother, intent on showing him the dangers out in the world, takes on the temporary roll of a hooker, drug dealer, and rock star groupie and George can't believe that his fantasy has come true. In NO ENTRANCE a worn out comic and a divine diva are stuck in a dressing room for eternity; she can't remember her lines and he can't get a laugh. Neither can get on stage. THE BRIDE is a touching memoir as a woman looks at a long ago photograph of her wedding and remembers the chaos on her wedding day. EXIT Cafe 8:30pm FRI/SAT JUNE 18/19 and JUNE 25/26. Tickets $12 and $10. Reservations: 415-285-8476.
THREE. Join the Un-Scripted Theater Company for an evening of truly live theater. With no scripts, the 4-member cast creates and interlaces three separate stories from audience suggestions. Each show is completely different from the last and unlike anything you've ever seen before.
EXIT STAGE LEFT FRI/SAT 8PM JUN 4-19. Tickets $10, $7 students. Buy in advance at www.un-scripted.com or at the door. Info: 415-869-5384. Group rates available.


LAUGHING WILD written by Christopher Durang, tells the story of one man, one woman, and a can of tuna fish. It all starts with an encounter between the two at a supermarket. From there, the show is a hilarious mix of social commentary and encounters with characters' eccentricities. The play depicts crazy people as endearing and fanatical members of society. Co-producing, co-directing, and co-starring are Salvador Ramos and Elizabeth Weitzen. They dedicate the run of this production to Telegraph's own Huckleberry Finn. EXIT Theatre 8PM FRI/SAT JUN 4-19. For tickets or more information, call (925) 550-1832 or email amidseverestwoe@yahoo.com. Sponsored by the EXIT theatre

SF FRINGE POTLUCK for Volunteers, Staff and Performers: An evening packed with food, fun and prizes (we are not kidding!). Along with information on how to get involved or stay involved with the 13th Annual SF Fringe Fest (Sept 8-19, 2004). All are welcome.EXIT Theatre WED JUNE 9 @ 7PM

GIRLESQUE: Unwigged! promises to be anything but a drag. Accomplished playwright and
lipstick thespian Sean Owens is joined by his talented director Libby O'Connell and brilliant composer Don Seaver (and others!) to celebrate GIRLESQUE's imminent emergence on the international scene!

A loving tribute to the female spirit and the power of self-invention, GIRLESQUE (Owens' remarkable one man musical) has been invited to join the UNO Festival in Victoria, BC, this June! Come help celebrate (and fund) this 'maiden' voyage-- die-hards will relish the behind-the-scenes tell-alls! Newcomers will get a rare glimpse at the real women behind the ladies of GIRLESQUE!

It's all the magic and music of GIRLESQUE, with none of the hair! 7pm * $20 * tix: oddbynature@hotmail.com

“Owens’ solo show is the damnedest thing. You’ll sound crazy trying todescribe what he accomplishes here, but it’s astounding – an audacious act of transcendence...” (SF Examiner)
Reservations by email: oddbynature@hotmail.com. EXIT Theatre 7PM SUN JUNE 6

DIVAfest May 20-29, 2004

EXIT Theatre Presents
DIVAfest
A Theatre Festival with a "Female Persuasion"
May 20-29, 2004

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A women's theater festival celebrating womanhood from minx to matriarch, virgin to vamp. DIVAfest emblazones EXIT Theatre's four stages for two weeks of plays, solos, cabarets, comedy, dance, photography and film , all “with a female persuasion” created by a bevy of the very finest post modern prima donnas.

BOXCAR BERTHA
by Kerry Reid in collaboration with Christina Augello and John Warren, live musical accompaniment by Jack "Applejack" Walroth
directed by John Warren and starring Christina Augello
Based on the legendary depression era hobo, feminist, and anarchist Bertha Thompson, this one woman show features Christina Augello. Boxcar Bertha received its first staged reading at the DIVAfest 2003. This depression era saga follows Bertha, a rugged hard living woman who rode the rails in the 1930s, on a journey from hobo to grifter, from prostitute to activist.

Original Music and Accompaniment by Jack "Applejack" Walroth, shaping a simpatico musical backdrop to resonate with Bertha's alternate universe of boxcars, soapboxes, and bordellos. A veteran freelance San Francisco singer, musician, songwriter, and music publisher, Applejack's recent
credits include co-authoring lyrics on two songs on Boz Scaggs CD "Dig"; harmonica on "Quicksand: Songs of Kermit Lynch" CD, featuring Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Jon Cleary, plus several stints with the Boz Scaggs Rhythm and Blues tour. BIO

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SCOTT PALMER

EXIT Theatre 8pm FRI/SAT MAY 21/22 & THUR/FRI MAY 27/28
RESERVATIONS: 415-673-3847
TICKETS: $12-$20 sliding scale CLICK TO ORDER ONLINE ($20)

PHOTO: LAURIE GALLANT

DRAMA QUEENS COME CLEAN: The Secret Lives of Women
Written by Lory Stewart, Cindy Baker & Justine Fields
A series of monologues and scenes that the Austin American-Statesman describes as "a robust and broad gyno comedy." Three actresses and one drag queen take the stage and recreate experiences inspired by their lives. Cindy Baker takes the audience on a journey to find the perfect kisser and mate in “The Evolution of Kissing”. Justin(e) Fields goes on a very special shopping trip in “The Price of A Woman." Lory Stewart questions the relevance of lewd public acts and their resulting consequences in "Putting On A Show." In “Things Your Mother Never Taught You," Cindy Baker portrays a mother enlightening her daughter, played by Rachel Tamez, with some rathe rsurprising tips on feminine hygiene.
Cindy Baker, Justine Fields, Lory Stewart and Rachel Tamez appear in this unique, hilarious and sometimes poignant look at women's issues. DRAMA QUEENS COME CLEAN is the perfect "Girls Night Out!" This play is intended for mature audiences.
EXIT Stage Left 8pm THUR/FRI/SAT MAY 20/21/22
RESERVATIONS: 415-673-3847
TICKETS: $12-$20 sliding scale CLICK TO ORDER ONLINE ($20)

LAST OF THE RED HOT DADAS
by Kerry Reid starring Christina Augello
Last of the Red-Hot Dadas is the true story of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Dada's unsung heroine, as she reflects on the nature of art, gender relationships and the price to be paid for telling the truth about both.

After premiering at DIVAfest 2002, Last of the Red Hot Dadas has toured to the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival, the Uno Festival in Victoria, Rhinofest in Chicago, and fringe festivals in Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, and Edinburgh. It returns to the EXIT for one show in preparation for performing in the Prague Fringe Festival June 1 to June 6.
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EXIT Cafe 8pm TUES MAY 25
RESERVATIONS: 415-673-3847
TICKETS: $10 CLICK TO ORDER ONLINE

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LOVE DANCES
by Tara Brandel and Mna Rua Dance Productions
In the face of our present wars and conflicts, Love Dances mixes movement, songs, images and spoken word to celebrate our incredible human capacity to love, and sends out a message of hope in difficult times. Directed by Tara Brandel
with Samantha Beers and Susan Voyticky. Images by Desiree Lymbertos
EXIT Stage Left 8pm THUR/FRI/SAT MAY 27/28/29
RESERVATIONS: 415-673-3847
TICKETS: $12-$20 sliding scale CLICK TO ORDER ONLINE ($20)

PHOTO: DESIREE LYMBERTOS

THE NEW DISTRICT MANAGER
by Cameron Galloway, directed by Meredith Eldred and Libby O'Connell
The New District Manager combines horror film references, tap dancing, songs, and Shakespearean monologues in a story about one vagina's dream of stardom.: a nice Jewish vagina who smokes a cigar, tells nasty jokes, and always wanted to be a performer. This spine tingling tale of uterus delecti plummets into a macabre cabaret of discarded organs and corporate lust.
EXIT Theatre 8pm THUR MAY 20 & SAT MAY 29
RESERVATIONS: 415-673-3847
TICKETS: $12-$20 sliding scale CLICK TO ORDER ONLINE ($20)

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OBJETS DE PASSION: THE FLUIDITY OF LESBIAN FEMME
A series of vignettes formed by this lesbian femme's views on life from early training to be a good girl (with the music that accompanied it) to the challenges and rewards of polyamory and butch/femme attraction.
by Happy Hyder
EXIT Stage Left 10pm FRI/SAT MAY 21/22/28/29
RESERVATIONS: 415-673-3847
TICKETS: $10 CLICK TO ORDER ONLINE

PHOTO: LAURIE GALLANT

TALKING MACHINE
by the ensemble directed by Erica Blue

"Papa the box is talking to me, this thing is cursed ... this thing is blessed." Talking Machine is a dance/silent film/opera epic created in a Neo Realistic Felini inspired world. It takes you on an odyssey of confused beauty, blind optimism and bread. Post War II, Italy, a group of people are drawn together by the Talking Machine which arrives mysteriously in their court yard and it begins speaking to each of them, evoking dreams, fears, and loves. In the end they resurrect hope surrounded by grapes. Erica Blue's most ambitious production to date with a stellar cast of the Bay Areas most talented actors and musicians. Erica's work has been performed at various venues including La Mama in New York City and in Italy.

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EXIT on Taylor 8pm FRI/SAT MAY 21/22/28/29
RESERVATIONS: 415-673-3847
TICKETS: $12-$20 sliding scale CLICK TO ORDER ONLINE ($20)

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A TINGLE TANGLE CABARET
with Janet Roitz and Billy Philadelphia, directed by Beth Wilmurt, choreographer Chris Black
An evening in which a dame and a piano player trip the light fantastic through a batch of hot, cool and crooked numbers.

EXIT Theatre 10pm FRI/SAT MAY 21/22/28/29
RESERVATIONS: 415-673-3847
TICKETS: $10 CLICK TO ORDER ONLINE

PHOTO: LAURIE GALLANT

Readings from
THE WOMEN ON DEATH ROW PROJECT
by Kim Fowler and John Warren
The Women on Death Row Project is an evening of reading and dialogue, based on interviews, court transcripts, and news items dealing with women and capital punishment. This co-production with Unconditional Theatre received its first reading at EXIT in August 2003. Warren has created several other documentary plays, including the critically acclaimed Groping For Justice: the Bob Packwood Story, first produced at EXIT Theatre’s San Francisco Fringe Festival in 1995.
EXIT on Taylor 8pm THUR MAY 20/27
RESERVATIONS: 415-673-3847
TICKETS: $10 CLICK TO ORDER ONLINE

THE ART OF ETIOLATION
by Mia Paschal
directed by Mia Paschal, director of photography Brad Cooreman, sound design by Yvette Janine Jackson and original music by Ray’s Vast Basement and Idris Ackamoor
Chaotic Heart Films
“Etiolation” is a scientific term defined as the state in which a plant manages to survive without sunlight, whether by chance or by design. In this compelling independent film, Paschal portrays a struggling black actress who has survived an abusive childhood and isolated adulthood by lying. Through this exploration, she learns that achieving truth in her art is inseparable from living truthfully in her life.
http://home.earthlink.net/~etiolation/
EXIT Theatre 8pm WED MAY 26
RESERVATIONS: 415-673-3847
TICKETS: $10 sliding scale CLICK TO ORDER ONLINE

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: BRAD COOREMAN

“MAMA, WHAT DO YOU DO?” and other new work by Emilie Valentine
photos by Emilie Valentine
Emilie Valentine's work will dress the EXIT venues during the festival.

Emilie is a freelance photographer working in San Francisco and New York City. She grew up in the Bay Area, has received several local and state awards for her photography and has been published in numerous traditional and online publications. Her work has been shown in galleries in San Francisco, New York City, and Europe.

Since December of 1995 she has been producing a weekly photography website "SnapCity" (previously called "SnapShots of San Francisco"). The site is an online extension of an ongoing, long-term documentary project. The bulk of her work is best described as documentary and street photography, but she also works regularly on assignment.

Emilie has a BA in International Relations from the University of Washington, a certificate in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the International Center of Photography in New York, and has studied at the Academy of Art (SF), U.C. Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.
EXIT Cafe 7pm WED May 25 Reception Free

PHOTO: EMILIE VALENTINE

Mollena Williams as Roach and John Atwood as Brandon

SLAUGHTER CITY by Naomi Wallace. Based on real-life conditions in a modern day Southern slaughterhouse, Slaughter City begins as the story of lifelong friends Roach (who is African-American) and Maggot (who is white) working side by side on the line, helplessly watching their lives bleed away under the greedy eye of their racist, union-busting boss. Into this brutal reality appears the mystical character of Cod, the child of a woman killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire nearly a century before. Neither alive nor dead, man nor woman, by his very presence Cod turns all the assumptions the slaughterhouse workers hold on their heads, and unleashes desires the numbed employees never imagined they would feel again. Through characters that are simultaneously symbolic and deeply human, Wallace celebrates the power of the worker to rise above the system, the power of the past to change the future, and the power of desire to make us embrace what we fear most. Director: Rebecca Novick. Featuring: John Atwood, Gillian Chadsey, Paul Lancour, Alan Quismorio, Michael Wayne Rice*, Ellen Scarpaci, Juliet Tanner, Mollena Williams. Scenic Design: Pegeen McGhan. Costume Design: Bree Hylkema. Lighting Design: Dave Robertson. Sound Design: Cliff Caruthers. Composer: David Rhodes. Stage Manager: Michelle Thomas. Assistant Director: Katy Hilton. Dramaturg: Hannah Knapp. Photographer: Jeff Prucher REVIEWS
THUR/FRI/SAT 8PM APR 8 - MAY 8 EXIT Theatre. Previews (April 8 and 9): Pay-What-You-Can. Opening Night Gala (April 10): $25. Thursdays: Pay-What-You-Can. Fridays and Saturdays: $15 - 20. All Thursday Night Performances are Pay-What-You-Can! .

To reserve tickets call our box office (415) 675-5995.

THE SWEET NEW written and directed by Raymond Rea. Can we really change everything? Who is allowed to call themselves American? The Sweet New looks at change in three generations of an Italian-American family. Density Over Duration brings together an ensemble cast for this drama, influenced by past and current policy towards emigrants and by magic realism. Co-Director: Mark Nishimura, featuring: Don DeMico, Catz Forsman, Damian Kalish, Natalie Palan, Cassie Powell, Charlie Reaves, Jeremy Sawyer.
FRI/SAT first three weekends: APR 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24
THUR/FRI/SAT last two weekends: APR 29, 30, MAY 1, 6, 7, 8
All shows 8:00pm in EXIT Stage Left. Tickets: $15-$20 sliding scale
Pay what you can night April 29th. Reservations: 415-648-3091 or doverdprod@earthlink.net


FoolsFURY presents: VALPARAISO By Don DeLillo. Directed by Ben Yalom. A man boards a plane for Valparaiso, Indiana, and finds himself in Valparaiso, Chile. The mundane accident turns him into a cult figure, both elevated and attacked. This searing, far-reaching, play by celebrated novelist Don DeLillo, takes a scathing, and often laugh-out-loud funny look at our deepest needs for recognition, and identity, and the insidious way these desires are shaped by the media. A rare opportunity to see the works of one of America¹s most prescient writers on stage, and a unique physical theater experience. Performed by the foolsFURY ensemble. EXIT on Taylor APR15 - MAY 8 THUR/FRI/SAT @ 8pm & MON APR 19 @ 8pm. Tickets are $15 - $25 sliding, $12 student/seniors/TBA. Pay what you can nights previews (4/15 and 4/16), Monday 4/19, and all Thursdays. Reservations and information: www.foolsfury.org, or 1.866.GOT.FURY
* Member Actors' Equity Association, an Equity Approved Project
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CABARET REBEL, Performed by Beth Wilmurt with David Babich and David Malloy. Art Street Theatre presents the revival of Beth Wilmurt's critically acclaimed theatrical concert, CABARET REBEL. When it premiered at EXIT Theatre's 2003 DIVAfest, Beth Wilmurt's quirky evening of offbeat songs captured critical and audience attention. CABARET REBEL is both conceived and performed by Beth Wilmurt, a founding member of San Francisco's award-winning experimental company, Art Street Theatre. Wilmurt has previously appeared in many of the company's original plays, including R&J, Brave, BANG!, Messenger #1, and the hit musical, Io - Princess of Argos. Wilmurt has also performed to great acclaim with such theaters as Campo Santo, Crowded Fire, Encore Theatre Company, EXIT Theatre, Willows Theatre, Center Repertory, and most recently in The Death of Meyerhold under the Shotgun Players banner at both the Live Oak Theatre and Julia Morgan Center for the Arts. Backing Wilmurt up on a variety of musical instruments are David Babich and David Malloy, two of the Bay Area's busiest theater musicians and performers. EXIT CAFÉ FRI/SAT APR 23 to MAY 8, 2004 and MON MAY 3. All performances at 8:30 PM. Tickets: $12 to $20 Reservations: (415) 751-5922.
"When Beth Wilmurt performs her new cabaret act, Cabaret Rebel, the room changes. People crane forward in their seats. The bar man serving drinks in the back of the Exit Theater's café space stops serving them. The walls hum and sway… Swathing some of the most well-trammeled songs known to audiences in purring innocence, Cabaret Rebel is both defiant of the traditional seductress-in-black-dress cabaret style and a potent celebration of intensity, soulfulness, and, ultimately, sex." - San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Wry, self-deprecating humor runs through Wilmurt's Cabaret Rebel… With a voice that slips easily from quicksilver to velvet, she's equally at home with a Rodgers and Hart or E.Y. Harburg-Burton Lane standard as a countrified waltz. It's not just her musical skill or personal charm. Wilmurt finds the story within each song and brings it to life." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Wilmurt, in jeans and a T-shirt, is my idea of a true modern diva." -- Back Stage West.
"It would be hard to say what cabaret purists would think about Wilmurt's act, which tweaks the convention ever so delightfully, proving that the performer is both one funny lady and a darned good singer, who definitely does it her way… This is certainly not a show to miss, and, if there's any justice in the world, Wilmurt's cabaret debut will be the start of something big." - Contra Costa Times
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THURSDAY NIGHT COMBO mc'd by Mark Romyn. Enjoy a sampling of Theatrical Taste Treats: snack-sized bites of prose, poetry, stand-up comedy and monolougue! Mouthwatering morsels of dance! Chocolatey chunks of scenework! Clowning! Music! And More! All served with a flair twice a month by the Exit Theater. A smorgasboard of entertainment that leaves you hungry for more. Value priced at $5.00 Show starts at 8:30. Held bimonthly for your convenince. EXIT CAFE 8:30 MAY 6.

Time for another STATIC CABARET. So grab your banjo, your notebooks, the love you love or even like and come on down! This months show begins 1/2 hour later than usual. We'll begin at 7:30 and will have the doors open at 7:15. The first 12 folks to show sign up will go on stage! See ya there
Folks this is a whole a lota fun for three bucks. Comics,poets, hopefully another installment from Coulter and Stan Ventriloquist show and definitly a few more pages from Adventures of a Substitute Teacher and god only knows what else. EXIT Cafe TUES APR 20 7:30PM $3

THURSDAY NIGHT COMBO mc'd by Mark Romyn. Enjoy a sampling of Theatrical Taste Treats: snack-sized bites of prose, poetry, stand-up comedy and monolougue! Mouthwatering morsels of dance! Chocolatey chunks of scenework! Clowning! Music! And More! All served with a flair twice a month by the Exit Theater. A smorgasboard of entertainment that leaves you hungry for more. Value priced at $5.00 Show starts at 8:30. Held bimonthly for your convenince. EXIT CAFE 8:30 APR 1 & 15, 2004

SANDWICH by Jason Craig music by David Malloy. The Human and The Animal, The Dinner and The Diner, The Knower and the Kneader... The moral ambiguities of growling stomachs and feeling fish are set to music in San Francisco's own tender belly in the return of the 2003 SF Fringe Festival hit SANDWICH. The moral ambiguities of growling stomachs vs. feeling fish are set in to music in this brand new SANDWICH, a brazen and bewildering cabaret where a guilty cat dance, a wounded Buffalo plays the piano and a rabbit leads a sing-along lament over the big-rig tire tracks through her middle.
SANDWICH, a musical by Jason Craig continues EXIT Theatre's long history of creating and exhibiting work with Banana, Bag and Bodice (B,B&B). Through the years, in addition to their award winning Fringe productions, B,B&B company members have collaborated with EXIT Theatre to create works such as Gogol (2001), Ghostlight (2002) and In3 (2003). SANDWICH has been developed with performers Jessica Jelliffe, Parnell Klug, and David Malloy,
"Slathered with wily humor, SANDWICH is a gruff and fetching investment in absurdist family values," said SF Bay Guardian writer Robert Avila. "This is theater that lets us see ourselves, a phrase I've always thought of as hokey but now find quietly troubling. Highly recommended." REVIEWS.
EXIT on Taylor, FRI-SAT @ 8pm, MAR 19-APR 10, Tickets $12-20 sliding scale, Call (415) 673-3847 or order CLICK HERE to purchase tickets online.

THE UNDERBELLY DIARIES, billed as; "An uncensored, politically incorrect romp through the seedy and transgressive appearances of this one time gigolo, stripper, steroid freak bodybuilder" (-Toronto 24 HOURS Daily), are the hilarious confessions of an ex-'Natural' Mr. Canada. Aaron Berg's true stories detail the life of a young, priveleged Jewish boy who encounters a four year ride into the skin trade.

"There is a new barbarian knocking at the gates of comedy. Berg's obvious intelligence, gift of the gab and ability to deal deftly with his own inadequacies is wholly disarming. Berg's commanding confessions...strike moral blows."- (Leatrice Spevack, The Toronto Star)

"When stand-up Aaron Berg walks out onstage and opens with how he once masturbated in front of two men for $150, you know this isn't going to be just any comedy show. In the Underbelly Diaries he finds vivid imagery in the most unlikely places. Poetic? Absolutely." (Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine)

U.S. Premiere

REVIEWS THUR/FRI/SAT 8PM MAR 11 to APR 3 EXIT STAGE LEFT .

UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL by Glen Berger, a Teatro Shalom production and a Northern California premiere. A mild-mannered librarian has rented the hall for the evening to tell his story: A book has been dropped through his overnight return slot. To his horror, the book is 113 years overdue -- and nobody bothered to pay the fine! Thus begins a worldwide journey and a spiritual quest, as the librarian seeks to solve a 2000-year-old mystery. An Off-Broadway hit that ran for 18 months in New York, described as "Literate and enchanting, an existential detective story" (Time Out NY), "A gorgeous unforgettable tale" (nytheatre.com), and "A wonderful metaphor for life's elusive but indistinguishable meaning" (NY Times). Directed by Dannille Vanderpool, performed by David Gassner. REVIEWS. EXIT Theatre, THU/FRI/SAT @8pm, MAR 4 - APR 3. Tickets: $12 - $18 sliding scale. tickets online at www.ticketweb.com

Box Office:415-267-4876. for more info: http://www.teatroshalom.org

The Future Of Independent Theatre Shines At "A Night Among The Stars"

A fantastic celebrity auction benefit for EXIT Theatre, featuring live entertainment, luscious food and terrific one-of-a-kind prizes!

EXIT Theatre's "Night Among The Stars" is an unprecedented night for lovers of small theatre, offering a chance to celebrate and support the diverse roster of talent that has come to call EXIT home-including some of the most promising small theatre companies working in the Bay area today.

These artists have consistently invested in the EXIT from its humblest beginnings, and the EXIT has rewarded them by becoming known as the center of innovation and risk for small theatre in San Francisco.

The premise of the evening is simple: to celebrate the people and events that have shaped EXIT's 20-year history, and to look forward to next 20 years. A celebrity auction will spearhead the evening's fundraising campaign, and give patrons a chance to invest in the future of both emerging and celebrated artists. EXIT's "Night Among The Stars" is a celebration of the independent theatre community, and a look towards a future filled with new dramatic enterprises and the next abundant generation of talent.

The EXIT Theatreplex, which has defied the fate of so many small theatres in the Bay Area, is dedicated to giving artists a viable option in any economy. Festivals like the San Francisco Fringe and DIVAFest are testament to the EXIT's commitment to give new voices a place to be heard, and audiences a chance to catch brilliant and unexpected stars on the rise.

EXIT's "Night Among The Stars" takes place on Monday, March 29, 2004 beginning at 7pm. Admission is $20, which includes complimentary beer & wine, hors d'ouevres, plus $20 in credit towards all auction bids. The action takes place at 156 Eddy Street in San Francisco.



THE STATIC CABARET. The Static cabaret provides an open-mic type forum for all kinds --writers, poets, musicians, stand-up comics, jugglers, circus freaks etc.-- the opportunity to try new work, polish old stuff or just get on stage and vent. 5 minutes per performer or group. $ 3 Dollars entrance fee. See Steven in the Café for sign up. EXIT CAFE 7PM TUE MAR 16, 2004.

THURSDAY NIGHT COMBO mc'd by Mark Romyn. Enjoy a sampling of Theatrical Taste Treats: snack-sized bites of prose, poetry, stand-up comedy and monolougue! Mouthwatering morsels of dance! Chocolatey chunks of scenework! Clowning! Music! And More! All served with a flair twice a month by the Exit Theater. A smorgasboard of entertainment that leaves you hungry for more. Value priced at $5.00 Show starts at 8:30. Held bimonthly for your convenince. EXIT CAFE 8:30 MAR 18, 2004.

AN IMPERSONATION OF ANGELS or THE ENIGMA OF DESIRE (Impressions of the Life of Salvador Dalí) by Dan Carbone a World Premiere presented by Kaliyuga Arts. Steaming across the Atlantic toward Manhattan (and into the arms of the wealth and notoriety that would eventually destroy him), the painter Salvador Dali is assaulted by hallucinatory scenes of his past, present, and future -- from his childhood in Catalonia to his final days at the St. Regis Hotel in New York and even into the beyond (cue the theremin). In this extensive re-working of his original play SALVADOR DALI TALKS TO THE ANIMALS (which was presented as part of EXIT's Absurdist Series 2000), Dali's incredible life story is ideal fodder for Carbone's unique brand of creative insanity. A surreal, tragicomic masterpiece! Directed and designed by John Sowle with Dan Carbone, costumes by Keiko Shimosato and masks by Nina Barlow with Kathryn Trask, Paul Gerrior, Christian Cagigal, Erica Blue, Alison Sacha Ross, Pavlos Psoinos, John Baumann, Bill Parker, Dan Carbone and Steven Patterson

"Astonishing, a 'paranoic-critical hallucination' to rival Dali's own ... Carbone is one of the Bay Area's most original voices." - Brad Rosenstein (SF Bay Guardian)
"Nearly made me fall out of my seat! ... Carbone has found his way into a new kind of strangeness." - Michael Scott Moore (SF Weekly)
"One of the few truly idiosyncratic visionaries in Bay Area performance." - Kerry Reid (East Bay Express)
EXIT on Taylor THU / FRI / SAT @ 8pm FEB 19 - MARCH 13 also MON MARCH 8 @ 8pm Tickets: Preview FEB 19 - all seats $10 THU - $12 / $10 (students, seniors, TBA members) FRI / SAT - $20 / $15 (students, seniors, TBA members) MON MARCH 8 - all seats $10. MEDIA & REVIEWS. Reservations: 415.431.8423. For More Info: http://www.kaliyuga.com/Dali2Pg.htm

HOWIE THE ROOKIE by Mark O'Rowe presented by Aggro Theater, an epic of retribution, tragedy and redemption relayed with a fervor and color that defies the bleak landscape of the inner-city from which it originates. Relayed by its two main protagonists, this story is a white-knuckle ride through the ghettos of Dublin where enemies and allies are interchangeable and where the most brutal events take on mythic significance. Because of a scabies infested mattress, The Howie Lee gets dragged into a bizarre feud of honor against The Rookie Lee which spirals out of control and ends in his own personal tragedy. The Rookie has larger problems though; he is massively in debt to a terrifying gangland figure, has begun to feel itchy all over and has started to have premonitions of death. His deliverance from the certainty of gruesome bodily harm comes from an unlikely quarter and involves brief encounters with Siamese fighting fish, a Mayan god of death and Matt Dillon.
" Ripe with propulsive syntax, musical repetitions and majestic hyperbole that somehow keep speech on a gut level of engagement...the epithet-laden language suggest Homer channeled, via Irish cadences and argot through the gutter speak of rap stars.....It is a clipped, highly kinetic poetry that transforms even a quarrel with the parents over baby-sitting into something like Ulysses' battle with the Cyclops... gives you that priceless, delirious high that comes from hearing words made flesh" -- NY Times
"Rrovides a visceral kick far more powerful than your average multimillion-dollar martial arts picture... a terrifically talented playwright... a brutal, bitterly funny and surprisingly tender evening of theater.." - Variety
"A writing force to contend with... outstanding" - Irish Independant

Aggro Theater seeks to bring theater from "the islands" to bay area stages. Productions have included East by Steven Berkoff (EXIT, 10/98);The Lament For Arthur Cleary by Dermot Bolger (Phoenix II, 10/99); Deep Space (EXIT, 8/00); It Came From Beneath The Kilt, an award winning co-production with Theater Tremendo (SF Fringe Festival, 9/00); and Physicalities by local writer Steven O'Donoghue (EXIT, 3/03).
EXIT Cafe, THU/FRI/SAT @8:30pm, FEB 19 - MAR 13. Tickets: $20.
Reservations: 510.532.8420.

RISK IS THIS ... THE CUTTING BALL NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL: Staged Readings of Plays by Three Playwrights Who are Changing Our Idea of What Theater Can Be.
Snakewoman an opera libretto by Eugenie Chan. Slithery Snakewoman and her nubile daughters spill their blood, love, and guts, all for the sake of a few lovely men. FEB 20 & 21, 2004
Wet, or Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes by Liz Duffy Adams. Female pirates and drag queens; knife fights and blank verse; danger, love and really bad weather. FEB 27 & 28, 2004.
Infestation by Payne Ratner. A boy returns home after being abducted by aliens to find his mother bewitched by an exterminator and his house full of bugs that no one can see...a family story. MAR 5 & 6, 2004.
Directed by Rob Melrose
"The Cutting Ball Theater is at the outer edge of Bay Area experimental theater offering plays that are poetic, risky, and visually exciting."- The Marin Independent Journal
All readings 8pm Fridays and Saturdays at The Exit Stage Left followed by a discussion with the playwright
EYE, an award winning play by Jay Levin, proudly presented by Dynamic Theatre Company. War photographer George Brownie, drawn to the most violent places on earth, is either bullet proof or thinks he's bullet proof. Caught between the pure adrenaline rush of the blown apart, war-torn regions he documents, and the domestic tranquility of his home in Arizona's Painted Desert, George Brownie faces an epic dilemma. Can he love his wife and daughter in peace, or will he only find peace when he knows for certain what happened to the Afghan girl with sad, soulful, haunting eyes? EXIT Theatre, THU/FRI/SAT @8pm, FEB 5 - 28. REVIEW. Tickets: $16 - $20 sliding scale, $12 Students. For further information and reservations: 415.566.1107.

CINGHIALE! written & performed by Emilie Miller. Cinghiale \chin-gaw-lay\ n: italian for wild boar. When these women's voices aren't heard, they let their guns do the talking. The wild boar has truth. The women--socialites, soccer moms, intellectuals-- who meet weekly for their hunting support group have guns. Confession turns to aggression. Everyone is armed, loaded, and dangerous. When wild women hunt for wild life, anything is fair game. ...amidst the slippery slopes of complacency is a voice crying out for revolution...the voice that one day will grow too loud to be ignored...this is cinghiale! "Miller kept me spellbound...from humorous to deeply philosophical..."-Jim Allen REVIEWS EXIT Stage LEFT, FRI/SAT @8pm, JAN 16-FEB 14. Tickets: $15-$20 sliding scale, $10 students. For more information: www.chin-gaw-lay.com; Reservations: 650.712.9850 or www.ticketweb.com.
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THE STATIC CABARET. The Static cabaret provides an open-mic type forum for all kinds --writers, poets, musicians, stand-up comics, jugglers, circus freaks etc.-- the opportunity to try new work, polish old stuff or just get on stage and vent. 5 minutes per performer or group. $ 3 Dollars entrance fee. See Steven in the Café for sign up. EXIT CAFE 7PM TUE FEB 10.

BOX CAR BERTHA by Kerry Reid, performed by Christina Augello
Reading from a new one person play about the famous activist who rode the rails in the 1930's. A rugged woman's hard living depression era saga. BOX CAR BERTHA is being developed for a premiere performance at DIVAfest 2004 in May and then an international tour in the summer of 2004. First unveiled at a staged reading at DIVAfest 2003 this will be the first reading of the revised text. A tribute to Gene King, the premiere Northern California theater audience member who recently passed away. EXIT STAGE LEFT 8PM FEB 12. FREE Reservations: 415-673-3847.

A BLACK VALENTINE'S DAY. Award-winning San Francisco Jazz Vocalist and Eleonor England and the Eddy Sambuaga All Stars present their 3rd annual "A Black Valentine's Day" a jazz show featuring "only tunes where someone is betrayed, slighted, jilted, or - in a perfect world - shot by their lover. EX-lover, I mean (especially after that whole shooting thing...). 8:30PM EXIT CAFÉ FEB 14. Tickets $13 student/senior/advance ticket discounts. MORE INFO: 1-800-206-4258 x 702 http://www.EleonorEngland.com/home.html

SPEAKING IN TONGUES by Andrew Bovell. A West Coast Premiere, produced by The Actor's Collective. Speaking in Tongues is a neo-film noir thriller that delves into the murky territory of intimacy within relationships. Bovell explores the notion of contracts being broken between intimates while deep bonds are forged between strangers, and the right and wrong of emotional conduct. The author re-spun Speaking in Tongues to create the 2001 indie movie, Lantana. Directed by Jon Drawbaugh. "Clever, provocative and resonant!" Bruce Weber, (The New York Times) "Beguiling and absorbing." Robert Dominguez, (The Daily News (New York) "Evocative and hypnotic." Elysa Gardner, ( USA Today) REVIEW EXIT on Taylor, THU/FRI/SAT @8pm, JAN 22 - FEB 14. Tickets: $20, Thursdays: 2-for-$25, General Seating.
Reservations recommended: 415.789.8221.

BELLES by Mark Dunn, director Ann Shay, presented by California Travel Troupe. Edgy Comedy. Six women and 45 phone calls. A bittersweet comedy; sometimes tender and funny, at others its pain and struggle will tug at your heart strings. There's a bit of the "Walker Woman" in all of us. See it for
yourself; see it with someone you love. Starring Maggie Ziomeck, Elaina Jannell, Bonnie Marion, Glenda Solis, Michaela King, and Carole Hay. EXIT CAFE, THU/FRI/SAT @8:30pm, JAN 22 - 31. Tickets: $10-12. Pay-what-you-can dates: 1/22 AND 1/31, 2004.
For information and reservations: 415.285.8476

STRANGE LOVE. The award-winning Perry Alley Puppet Theatre is on tour from New Hampshire! How will a woman who has an affair with her lover's conjoined ("Siamese") twin succeed in running around behind her lover's back? Through puppetry, dance and music, one of America's premier puppet theatres delights us with an hysterical look at human relationships. Strange Love is a collection of three enchanting plays which celebrate the colorful, indomitable human spirit. Larry Siegel's brilliant musical interludes run the gamut from Elizabethan madrigal to tantalizing tango to rollicking Klezmer tunes. Come enjoy an unforgettable night of laughter! REVIEW EXIT Theatre, THU/FRI/SAT @8pm, JAN 15-31, 2004. Tickets: $15-$25 sliding scale.

This show is brought to you by a grant from the Henson Foundation.
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Abducted Action! Asian for Dummies Ball and Daisy Chain Can You See Me? Certain Things... Chinese Clown Cabaret Cincinnati Come Fly With Me Nude Comedy on the Square divagation Faker Flame and the Stone Flower Murderer Framework	Future Folkloric Hollywoodland Home/Darkness Hooray for Speech... It's Stupid to Steal... Late Night With God Long-Form Improv &... m.i. blue's TWILITE... Magic @ the Fringe Moliere Than Thou nEO-sURREALISTS Present Other American Stories Oui Be Negroes PAIN Quarter Into It	Rabbit Causes Dog Rap Canterbury Tales Reframing the Hourglass Short and Sweet... some life Subhuman-True Tales... This Love Train... Thrilling Adventures... Tonight: The Harsh … Under the Counter... Viva Karaoke!... Viva Vivi Wrestling an Alligator Young War Zeppelin Beach Improv