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The Bedlam Community Ten Minute Play Festival

Bedlam Theatre — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:49:53 GMT

The ten minute play festival is an annual event open to all who want to participate....an experimental play ground and community involvement exercise.... Jun 8, 2005 - Jun 12, 2005 Fourteen short works combine sincerity and absurdity, music and magic, insanity and philosophy, high-art, low-tech, professionals and amateurs in one soul-satisfying festival. Galileo recants and Bruno is burned at the stake. Woodbury versus Minnetonka in a Forensics Death Match. The saucy gospel of Cheesus Crust. A Femme Fatale takes the stand. All at the Bedlam Community Ten-Minute Play Festival.

Freewheeling in the Attic of Whim

Bedlam Theatre — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:46:31 GMT

written by company member John F. Bueche and performed by Jon Cole, Julian McFaul and Maren Ward..... with live musical accompanyment by Mark Rossow and Scott Soule.

Terminus

Bedlam Theatre — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:44:19 GMT

Company member Julian McFaul's tour de force based on a short story by Stanislaw Lem about an ill fated trip to Mars. Performed on a rotating cardboard space ship that circled the audience.

Unhinged

Bedlam Theatre — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:41:45 GMT

Based on Old Horror Classics and the New Horror Reality. Co-created by Sarah Garner & Maren Ward with music by Naomi Joy and choreography by Lelis Brito.

The Flies

Bedlam Theatre — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:39:52 GMT

cast... Mama Roach & Fury - Rah Kojis Money Roach - Claire Wilson Skeptic Roach - Robnoxious Sweet roach & Fury - Candida Pagan Zeus - Jon Cole Aegistheus - Leif Jurgensen Clytemnestra - Maren Ward Electra - Sarah Garner Orestes - Josh Scrimshaw crew... Direction - John Francis Bueche Set Design - Brad Dahlgaard Lights - Kirk McDowell-Shaffer Music - Ryan Fontaine & Sheela Iris Media - Brad Dahlgaard & Kristi Ternes Stage management - Emily Anderson & Korey Houska Costumes - Kristi Ternes Prologue set - Soozin Hirschmugl Flyzine Master - Tom Snell Compound Eye - Peter O'Keefe Adaptation - John Francis Bueche, with the research & ruminations of Tom, Peter, Soozin, Douglas Saldana, Nancy Giguere & the Company

Big Ole's Theater for Revolutionary Arts: The First 100 Years

Bedlam Theatre — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:37:21 GMT

Mike Harris, creator of The WYASKY News and other popular political shorts, directs this full-length play chronicalling the ups and downs of a radical theater troupe through the ages. "Big Ole's Theatre for the Revolutionary Arts: The First 100 Years" is a documentary-style look at a fictional company of subversive artists, featuring scenes from their most influential shows and depicting the backstage tribulations that directed the course of their development as a Minneapolis counter-cultural institution. First Weekend is "Pay What You Think It's Worth!" Second Weekend is $15.00 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

To Shining Sea

Bedlam Theatre — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:36:06 GMT

It didn't happen overnight. TO SHINING SEA charts the evolution of American Imperialism through 500 years of history using the words of our fearsome leaders alongside centuries of popular wisdom, buried histroy, and oft-fogotten facts in a fast-moving satirical spectacular. HIT SHOW HITS HOME AGAIN: Back at Bedlam for two weeks only! Originally created in 2002, "To Shining Sea" toured the Midwest and East Coast in 2004, bring a savory taste of Minneapolis political theater to audiences in Chicago, Detroit, Saginaw, Philadelphia, and New York City. Now we're back for a two-week revival on our home turf, as part of Bedlam's Great American History Season 2006. Don't miss your chance to catch this gem. Featuring John Bueche, Rah Kojis, Tom Snell, Ivan Weiner, Heather Wilson, and, of course, the one and only, eternally innocent AMERIBABY. With Nikki Williams behind the scenes. OPENING NIGHT, Friday February 24th, is a benefit performance for both Minneapolis' ANTI-WAR COMMITTEE and University of Minnesota's ANTI-WAR ORGANIZING LEAGUE. All ticket sales will be split between these two worthy neighbors. On Saturday, February 25th, after To SHINING SEA: the Minnesota Spoken Word Association presents SIZZLING SPOKEN WORD artists--Danez Smith & Tish Jones--MN Quest for the Voice Finalists and 2006 Youth Team Members representing MN at the Brave New Voices International Youth Slam Festival in NYC! After both Sunday matinees, stick around for panel discussions: * Sunday Feb. 24th - About the Art: Shining Sea as Political Theater for the new millenium - what worked what didn't. With moderator Jim Bovino of Flaneur Productions. * Sunday Mar. 5th - About the Politics: "The American Global Empire vs. We the People - lessons from the past, where do we go from here." On Monday, February 27th we welcome a live audience to our special video-shoot performance. Cameras will be rolling and in our faces and we may stop and start. (Who knows, might even be more fun then the regular show.)

Dog's Bollocks: A Neat Little Package

Bedlam Theatre — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:34:32 GMT

What happens when two actors quest to make the perfect show? They adopt bad British accents and begin a journey across genres, consulting various sages, fighting battles, performing musical numbers and employing distracting video techniques all in a desperate attempt to avoid the pitfalls and torments of the self. Hello? Is anyone there? With the help of comic genius Joe Evans, theater coach Ben Kreilkamp and choreographer Lelis Brito, Bedlam company members Sarah Garner and Maren Ward are teaming up again to create a switched up archetypical action adventure epic. Maren and Sarah have collaborated in the past to create the cabaret circuit cult classic "Situated Witch" and have performed together as the "Mad Woman's Auxiliary". In March 2004, Bedlam Theatre presented "Unhinged" - the duo's feminist meditation on the old horror classics and the new horror reality. The performance will involve presentation of material gathered during a 6 week workshop and audience feedback will be solicited. Dog's Bollocks is presented with the support of an Artist's Inititative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board with funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legistlature. A selection from "Dog's Bollocks" will be presented at the Radio mnartists: Live at the McGuire cabaret at the Walker Arts Center on March 16th, 2006.