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Christopher W. White in Your Nightgown is Jealous
When You Dream
Maiya Murphy and Christopher W. White in Your
Nightgown is Jealous When You Dream
Denmo Ibrahim & Yuval Boim in Symphony
of Frogs, (Roman Kosins in foreground)
Yuval Boim in Symphony of Frogs
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mugwumpin, in association with EXIT
Theatre present Nightgown, Symphony. A double bill of new
work!
EXIT on Taylor THUR/FRI/SAT 8pm, January 19 & 20 (Previews)
then Jan. 21- Feb. 4.
For THUR/FRI/SAT FEB 9, 10, 11 8pm Nightgown will be
combined with a special performance by Giovanni Fusetti and members of
the mugwumpin company. REVIEWS
Tickets: $ 10 previews, $12-20 sliding scale during
the run, $20 online. CLICK
FOR ONLINE TICKETS or call (415) 673-3847 for reservations and
pay $12 -$20 sliding scale at the door
Inaugurating the company's residency at the EXIT Theatre, mugwumpin,
San Francisco's nerviest young company, brings together two original pieces
in a whirlwind evening of innovative theatricality. These wildly different
pieces give a taste of the range of mugwumpin's work, while sharing the
company's trademark visceral physicality and humor.
For one weekend only (February 9, 10, 11) half of mugwumpin's
double bill Nightgown, Symphony will be replaced by a unique event featuring
the extraordinary physical theatre teacher and clown, Giovanni Fusetti,
performing with members of mugwumpin. Forget white makeup, forget floppy
shoes, forget what you think you know about clowning. Fusetti's approach
reveals the seriously silly side in all humanity. The event will be a unique
and unforseeble (does this word exist in English in the sense of something
you can't preview?) journey into the universe of red noses, where you will
witness the birth, evolution and theatrical delirium of a group of clowns,
under the direction of a ringmaster. Improvisation and human stupidity
will guarantee the uniqueness of each performance, and will leave you gasping
for breath. Fusetti, in town to teach a sold-out workshop hosted by mugwumpin,
steps in to replace Symphony of Frogs, which must end early due to unforeseen
circumstances. The second half of the double bill, Your Nightgown Is
Jealous When You Dream, will still perform as scheduled. For more of
Giovanni Fusetti, please come see his lecture-demonstration, The Sublime
Stupidity, on Friday, February 10 at 6 pm at EXIT on Taylor. CLICK HERE FOR GIOVANNI'S LETTER REGARDING
THIS EVENT.
Your Nightgown Is Jealous When You Dream, performed by
Maiya Murphy and Christopher W. White, directed by Jyana S. Gregory, created
by Jyana S. Gregory, Maiya Murphy, and Christopher W. White
Henry wanders where his music flows. His music flows from a different
source. May, alluring and untouchable, wants just one thing. Guess what?
She can't have it.Phyllis lands Henry and his music all for herself. Or
so she thinks. Henry, May, Phyllis. Sometimes the best place to meet is
a mirror.
With Your Nightgown Is Jealous When You Dream, mugwumpin performs
a kind of temporal alchemy with a 17th Century Chinese ghost story, transporting
it to a strangely vivid alternate reality and infusing it with original
music inspired by traditional Americana. This Nightgown will both charm
you and creep you out.
Symphony of Frogs, conceived by Yuval Boim and Denmo Ibrahim,
created by mugwumpin, performed by Yuval Boim, Denmo Ibrahim, Roman Kosins,
and Joseph Estlack, music by Roman Kosins, directorial support: Christopher
W. White
Constance and Paul aren't doing so great. A homeless woman is dragging
the desert through their living room. The bride's getaway car is lodged
in their icebox. If only the crow and wolf-man could satiate baby with
a bottle of E minor. Universes peel from their Venetian blinds and leave
the couple lost and unrecognizable to each other. Nonetheless, they have
been here before.
Symphony of Frogs is a driven, visual mosaic - assembled, disassembled,
reassembled and misassembled. Constance? Paul? Are you there? Welcome to
the dance of Apt 2B. You have been warned.
mugwumpin is at the forefront of young American companies interested
in creating a visual experience, questioning the primacy of text and narrative
in theater. Our creation process, firmly rooted in the dynamic of ensemble
collaboration, re-ignites a sense of curiosity in ordinary experience to
reveal a teeming, hidden world beneath-strange, extraordinary, ruled by
its own visceral logic. Consisting of shards of stories, images, music,
words, and gesture-found on the sidewalk or built from scratch-our work
seeks to contradict, question, and precariously balance our finite understanding
of what performance is with what else it might be.
Rabbit Causes Dog, the company's first production, performed
to great acclaim, winning Best Play in the San Francisco Fringe Festival
2004. Bouge!, an early version of Symphony of Frogs, sold out houses
at the Bebersee Festival [Germany] in 2004. Your Nightgown Is Jealous
When You Dream, premiered at the Boulder Fringe Festival in 2005. In
early 2006, mugwumpin will present Symphony of Frogs and Your
Nightgown Is Jealous When You Dream as a double bill at EXIT Theater,
followed by the premiere of a new work in progress in April, as part of
the Shotgun Players Theatre Lab.
CLICK FOR ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
mugwumpin mission statement
mugwumpin, a San Francisco-based performance company, seeks to restore
the relevance of live, theatrical performance, particularly for young adults,
by reinventing received models of creation and presentation. Mugwumpin
expands cultural notions of narrative, venue, and text through work that
privileges visual image over text, draws inspiration from other cultures,
and develops from a collaborative process. |
