Full Description for THE 30TH RHUBARB FESTIVAL: WEEK TWO

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents

WEEK TWO: FEB 11 - 15, 2009

OUT THE WINDOW
8pm, The Cabaret
Created by Liza Balkan and the Window Collective
Performed by Liza Balkan
August 2000: She saw something outside her apartment window. 8 years and hundreds of pages of court transcripts later a witness has questions - about truth, about memory, about perspective, about manipulation, about ... what happened.

MOON MISSION 3
8pm, The Chamber
Written and Directed by Evan Webber
Designed by Sherri Hay
Performed by Ker Wells and Hannah Cheeseman
Moon Mission 3 is a presentational history of two astronauts who set out to "return to the moon" in the year 2025: the third episode in a cycle of semi-fictional works about humanity's presence in outer space, and about the accident and achievement of collaboration. Produced with the assistance of Crow's Theatre.

FUTURE FOLK
8:35, The Cabaret
Created and performed by Sulong Theatre Collective: Karen Ancheta, Romeo Candido, Aura Carcueva, Catherine Hernandez
The vocabulary of Filipino folk arts tells the story of current day Filipina nannies.

SHE WALKS THE LINE
8:35pm, The Chamber
By Hope Thompson
Directed by Patrick Conner
Featuring Sky Gilbert, Ryan Kelly, Geoffrey Pounsett, David Tomlinson and more.
Private dick, Frances Lark has just hired divorcé, Tina Vance, as her secretary. Frances hopes Tina will be the girlfriend she's always dreamt of but Tina ain't playing ... until a case of stolen goods and a desperate husband land the girls in a fight for their life - and each other.

THE SEXUAL ABERRATIONS: PART ONE
9:10pm, The Chamber
Written and Directed by Alex Wolfson
Performed by Amy Bowles, Lindsey Clark and Liz Peterson
The Sexual Aberrations: Part One is the first in a series of three plays by Alex Wolfson (If I'm Me Today, Must I Tomorrow) based on the Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud. A play that explores the anguish, and possible redemption,
that lies deep in us all.

WET DREAM
9:45pm, The Chamber
A surprise performance production
Written and Directed by Chad Dembski
Performed by Andrea Davis, Ryan G.Hinds, Natasha Boomer, Bryn Jennings and Ulysses Castellanos
surprise performance presents the second part in a series of adaptation.
A mix of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Freudian psychoanalysis and missed performances of the sex film industry. "... let them do what they can. I will walk up and down here, and will sing, they shall hear that I am not afraid ...".


RHUBARB WEEK TWO SPECIAL EVENTS:

YOUNG CREATORS UNIT PRESENTATIONS: PART ONE
Under the direction of Evalyn Parry, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre's Young Creators Unit provides a supportive and artistically rigorous space for four queer-identified artists (age 25 and under) to develop and perform their own original, 30-minute, solo performance piece to be presented at the Rhubarb Festival. The 2008/09 Young Creators Unit is: Kim Crosby, Rob Salerno, Cole J. Alvis, Tawiah M'carthy .
Sat, Feb 14 and Sun, Feb 15, 6:30pm, The Chamber

TALKING TO CHRIS DUPUIS
Chris Dupuis aka the "Barbara Walters of the performance art scene," interviews three participants from the 2009 Rhubarb Festival and shows you a side of these artists you never new existed.
Thurs, Feb 12, 7 pm

FRIDAY LATE NIGHT SHORTS:
A double bill of new short works by Susie Burpee and Diana Lopez de Soto .
Fri, Feb 13 10:30pm, The Chamber

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