Theater & Dance Oct/Nov 2006

 

Manifesti-val Dance Brigade's Festival of Dance and Social Change
Three Weekends from November 2-20

WHERE: Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street, San Francisco CA 94110
Across from 24th Street Station BART

FOR RESERVATIONS: Call 415-273-4633

 

Weekend One: November 2, 8 pm
Subduing the Demons with Splendor
EPI Alumni Showcase

 

Don't miss this special evening of 10 works by graduates of the Experimental Performance Institute, San Francisco's next generation of social-change oriented artists and activists.

 

Weekend Two: November 9-12, 8 pm
HOW TO DIE
Keith Hennessy with Jules Beckman (Marseilles) and Seth Eisen

 

HOW TO DIE offers two metaphoric performance portraits of all-American despair: Homeless USA is a poignant performance poem about homeless suicide and American Tweaker is a colorful spectacle about the spectacle of crystal meth, barebacking, and AIDS. Performance Art. Extreme bodies. Innovative interdisciplinary collaborations. Nudity, Drag, and Digital sound. Political content remixed with unreal images. Ritual reconfigured in contemplative interventions on static citizenry.

Additional texts by Robert Olen Butler (Homeless USA) and Kirk Read (American Tweaker).

Thu: pay what you can
Fri-Sun: $15

 

Weekend Three: November 18-19, 8 pm and Nov. 20, 2 and 6 pm
The Outsider Chronicles
Sean Dorsey / Fresh Meat Productions

 

The Outsider Chronicles
a dance theater journey into the world of the gender outsider

Fresh Meat Productions presents a special return engagement of Sean Dorsey's acclaimed evening-length dance theater cycle The Outsider Chronicles. These full-bodied, compelling dances dive headfirst into the world of the 'gender outsider' - revealing aspects of coming out and living as transgender.

With his signature fusion of modern dance, theater and storytelling, Dorsey puts a genderbent twist on foiled first love, lovers' spats, coming out (or not) to family, road trips, "til death do us part" and the joys of therapy. Performed by Sean Dorsey (winner of a 2006 Isadora Duncan Dance Award), Courtney Moreno and Sonia Reiter.

TICKETS: $15
Reservations are encouraged: these special return engagement shows will sell out quickly.

 

 

Impossible Productions presents
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
THE PLAY

 SAN FRANCISCO, CA — It's a comedy about making friends! This Halloween, crack the secrets of life everlasting with the greatest mad scientist story ever created! YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: the Play is Impossible Production's larger than life tribute to Gene Wilder and Mel Brook’s zany and shocking masterpiece that will leave you in stitches. It’s all-live!  

Promising young neurosurgeon Fredrick Frankenstein (grandson to the notorious Doctor) inherits the ominous family castle. Scoffing its infamous past, he visits the estate and Fate delivers him into the hands of Inga his beautiful new assistant, Igor the outlandish hunchback, and Frau Blücher the enigmatic heinermacherfrau—all keys to his mysterious legacy.

With the discovery of the castle’s secret lab and library, temptation proves too much and Freddy becomes obsessed with continuing his Grandfather’s work—to reanimate a human cadaver—and turn a grave mistake into the acme of scientific achievement!

But a corpse is a corpse, of course, of course, and the local burgomaster, history fresh in his mind, rallies the villagers into a riotous mob hell-bent on hunting down Frankenstein’s Monster. And to complicate the grey matter the Creature kidnaps Elizabeth, Freddy’s estranged fiancé. It comes down to his daring genius to save his creation at the risk of his own life—will the Monster escape? Or will he meet his maker?

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: the Play runs Fridays and Saturdays @ 8pm and Sundays @ 3pm, October 6-29, 2006. The Dark Room is at 2263 Mission Street, SF, between 18th and 19th. You can pick our brains at 415.401.7987, www.darkroomsf.com/youngfrankenstein or wsup@darkroomsf.com.