April & May 2006

 

Theater:

 

 

Haze @ Intersection
A World Premiere Performance Piece Created by Intersection and Campo Santo from the Writings of Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, Denis Johnson & Vendela Vida
Directed by Sean San Jose
April 13 - April 29, 2006

Thursdays through Saturdays, 8 PM - $9-$20 (Sliding Scale) All Thursdays are pay what you can
Sunday, April 16 at 7pm: Special Benefit with Vendela Vida & Junot Diaz $25
Featuring: Catherine Castellanos, Anna Maria Luera, Donald Lacy and Danny Wolohan
This daring new work unites Campo Santo's distinctive vision with four of the country's most acclaimed fiction writers to explore the intersection between the written word and live performance. Haze seamlessly connects distinct and powerful American stories, fusing lighting, soundscape, a new video installation, and individual narrative voices to forge a new theatrical experience that explores how we live with ourselves - how we own up, hold on, let go, step forward.

 

 

Schönberg            

by John Fisher

 

April 20  – May 20, 2006

 

Wed. – Sat. @ 8:00 pm

Sun. @ 700 pm (April 23)

Sun. Matinees @ 3:00 pm (April 30, May 7 and 14)

 

Featuring: John Fisher, Stephanie Goldstein, Matthew Martin,

Michael Vega, Maryssa Wanlass, and Matt Weimer

 

Schönberg: During Hollywood's Golden Era

wisecracking Oscar Levant starts taking

music lessons from legendary iconoclast composer

Arnold Schönberg.

Schönberg explores the relationship

between these polar opposites

and the impact their story has

on a contemporary gay man.

What is it about opposites that attract?

And what in us is drawn to self-destruction,

adventure and eventual self-defeat?

 

 

THE MARSH San Francisco

PRESENTS

Dan Piraro’s

“THE BIZARRO BALONEY SHOW:

Comedy for a Cause" Tour

 

TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY!

Monday April 17 and Tuesday April 18

 

 

San Francisco (March 14, 2006) – The Marsh, a breeding ground for new performance, is proud to present award-winning cartoonist Dan Piraro’s “BIZARRO BALONEY SHOW.”  The show plays at 8:00pm on Monday April 17 and Tuesday April 18, 2006 at The Marsh San Francisco at 1062 Valencia Street. For tickets, the public may call Brown Paper Tickets at 800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org.        

 

Dan Piraro’s “BIZARRO” cartoon was first syndicated in 1985 and has since built a steady and loyal following on four continents.  It currently appears daily in around 250 markets in North and South America, Europe and Asia, including the San Francisco Chronicle.  Piraro is the only cartoonist in the country to have a one-man stage show.  

 

“THE BIZARRO BALONEY SHOW” is a multi-media piece featuring stand-up comedy, original songs, puppets, still cartoons, animation, audience participation, video and onstage improv drawings.  It recently played to standing room-only houses at the New York International Fringe Festival, winning the festival’s Best Solo Show award.  The show is on tour in conjunction with the release of Piraro’s 14th book, “BIZARRO AND OTHER STRANGE MANIFESTATIONS” from Abrams Books. Piraro, a dedicated animal welfare advocate, is funding the tour himself and anything after travel expenses will benefit his favorite animal welfare organizations.  Books will be on sale at The Marsh during the show and Piraro will sign and draw cartoons in them.

 

BIZARRO has won three consecutive Reuben Awards from the National Cartoonist Society for Best Cartoon Panel of the Year in 1999, 2000, and 2001.  For the years 2002

through 2005, Piraro was nominated for its highest award, Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. The results of his most recent nomination will be announced at the annual awards dinner in Chicago in May 2006.  Eleven collections of BIZARRO cartoons have been published as well as a book of prose, “BIZARRO AMONG THE SAVAGES,” in which Piraro recounts his surreal book tour across the country, which was entirely funded by his readers, and during which he stayed in the homes of oddball fans.

 

 

Don Q by Theatre of Yugen Opens April 21, 2006
A World Premiere Stage Adaptation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote

(San Francisco, CA) When a man speaks the truth we call him wise. When a man walks into danger we call him brave. When a man tilts at windmills we call him mad. When a man does all these things we call him Don Quixote. And when Theatre of Yugen does all these things they call it Don Q. This April 21 - May 13, 2006 San Francisco’s Theatre of Yugen features a world premiere adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ celebrated 400 year-old novel about the man whose idealistic and impractical life quest as a knight-errant was the very definition of the word “quixotic”. Created by Lluis Valls with Theatre of Yugen’s ensemble, the show runs for four weeks at the company’s home venue NOHspace (2840 Mariposa Street in the Project Artaud building) playing Thursday through Saturday nights at 8:00pm. Tickets are sliding scale admission $15-$20; $13 for students, seniors and TBA members. Opening night is a flat $25 admission with reception and all Thursdays are “pay-what-you-will”. There will be a special Sunday matinee at 3:00 on April 23 in honor of Spain’s “Day of the Book”, and throughout the run of the show the lobby will feature an exhibit of work by local bookmakers and letterpress artisans. More information and reservations can be found at www.theatreofyugen.org or at (415) 621-7978.

Don Quixote is regarded as a pivotal piece of world literature and has been adapted to both film and stage many times, most notably with Man of La Mancha. It’s the story of a man so overcome with tales of chivalry, knights and damsels that he attempts to live the life of a knight errant. His imagination overwhelms him as he mistakes windmills for giants and Benedictine friars for evil magicians. Don Quixote (played by guest clown artist James Wilson) is companioned by an earthy squire Sancho Panza (played by Lluis Valls) who helps him steer through danger the best he can, if only for the rich reward of a Governorship that is promised. When both get what they strive for, they find it wanting, and instead realize that the journey, albeit full of bickering and broken bones, was the true destination. Theatre of Yugen’s play focuses on the influence that Don Quixote had on others – both in the relationship of these two misfits and how they change as individuals, and on the people around them as a symbolized by the Duchess (played by Jubilith Moore) and her fascination with the infamous duo. For although Don Quixote and his antics both frustrate and entertain, he eventually endears all with his idealistic persistence which reminds us that “Too much sanity may be madness, but maddest of all is to live life as it is, and not as it should be.” (Cervantes)