Internet- nice places to stay... Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

Aftermath flier photo

Photo by Katie Kaufman and Jon Ferguson

Jason Bohon as Belvedere. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

Kick the "can". Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

Jon Ferguson as Reinhold (with bucket). Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

Come on in- there's plenty of room! Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

Sara Richardson as Josephine (with pet shoe). Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

Marcus Quiniones with gas can friend. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

Lydia... was that her name? Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

The dream- the storm. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

The dream- in the water. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

Remembering- Kim Richardson as Grace. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

Saved. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

Into the water together... Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

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Opened June 8 & runs til June 17th, Thurs- Sun, 7pm!

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www.bedlamtheatre.org or by calling 612.341.1038

This beautiful, poignant and surprisingly funny show (given the topic) is Katie Kaufman's very strong directorial debut. It has a fabulous cast- of which I'm very proud to be a part of- including Jason Bohon, Jon Ferguson, Marcus Quinones, and Kim Richardson.

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When you’ve lost everything, you have nothing to lose. In this poignant tale of disaster and recovery, Mischka Productions explores the fantasy world created by survivors of a tsunami. They have no memory of their past lives or of the recent tragic events that brought them together. All they know now is each other and the fantasy world they have created; a world where anything is possible and life is a beautiful game. In this new world of spectacular and child-like imagination, their broken and desolate wasteland becomes a utopia. But what happens when memory and the nightmare of their past comes back to haunt them?

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Spotlight: Aftermath

by Quinton Skinner
June 13, 2007

Just past five in the afternoon on October 17, 1989, I was working at Universes Records in Santa Cruz when Thor's hammer struck somewhere deep under our feet. What followed for the next 15 seconds (it seemed like at least two minutes, if not three) was the Loma Prieta earthquake (magnitude 6.9 or 7.1, depending on how you measure it). The experience was one of sheer terror, but perhaps more interesting was what followed: People got downright weird, screaming in fury at aftershocks, staring into space, indulging in inappropriate romantic couplings. Katie Kaufman's directorial debut takes place after the 2004 Asian tsunami, a far greater disaster in which more than a quarter of a million people lost their lives. And it captures the feeling of desolation and blank confusion that follows a good long stare into nature's unsympathetic side. In this ensemble-created piece, Jon Ferguson wakes up on the beach amid wreckage and ruin, only to begin playing goofy games with a bucket he finds at his feet. Soon the others appear, all in equal states of derangement, unable to remember who they are and how they got there. Sara Richardson goofily creates an imaginary house out of a chaise lounge, inviting Ferguson, Kimberly Richardson, and Marcus Quinones to join her in its impossibly cramped confines. Soon the survivors try to imitate the rituals of everyday life, sitting before a made-up meal in an imaginary restaurant, where Jason Bohon gamely serves invisible food. While the cast conveys the comedy and despair of their predicament, this one-hour piece begins to drift a bit, and to lean too heavily on whimsy. Then memory of the disaster arrives in a metaphorical wave, and the cast mimes the experience of being pulled under and fighting for air. Quinones later cries out in bottomless grief when the memory of a missing loved one bubbles up to the surface, and Sara Richardson sings a soft song of loss on the darkened stage. This work doesn't squarely hit the mark, but it knows its way around the terrain of survival and trauma—deep waters indeed.

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