FESTIVAL LINE UP
JUly 9th-19th at coho Productions
Photo Installation : July 9th -9th
Stranger Danger
BY KAMALA WOODS
Identity is Imitation is Performance is Confession. What lies between you and me and all this otherness? STRANGER DANGER is a photo installation documenting strangers on the street. This body of work merges the artist's identity with that of her subjects, collapsing the boundary between self and other in an effort to experience the unfamiliar.
Will be up in the lobby the 9th-19th.
THURSDAY(s) July 9th & 16th @ 7:30pm
Grief & all the things
WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY ROB ALEY
The 5 stages of grief - deconstructed - love, laughter and a whole lot of obscenities. Throw in some complex carbohydrates and it’s a full on grief party!
CHEMO BRAIN
WRITTEN BY KATHLEEN CAHILL
PERFORMED BY MONIQUE BARBEE & SHANA TOROK
"Chemo Brain" is the working title of a project which is meant to be a truthful, irreverent, dramatic portrait of being a cancer patient. Kathleen became curious about creating this new work in the throes of a second bout with the disease, when she began to look for writing about cancer which would help her understand (and accept) what life as a cancer patient is really like.
before the after
WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY RACHEL SLATER
Wrestling with attempts to make sense of what’s been left behind, Daughter Debris is a new work by Rachel Slater combining movement, text, and media. Here, the ground won’t hold, and something in the remembering won’t stay contained.
FRIDAY(S) JULY 10th & 17th @7:30pm
BOUNCE
WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY MAIA MCCARTHY
Wet rubber balls on muddy grass, crisp new tennis balls on a freshly swept court, an apple on a vinyl floor- each has their own rhythm, but each one goes from initial impact through maximum deformation to full rebound. A memoir told through the language of the bounce.
First Times By Laura Cannon
Of course, we all know there is a first time for everything, but have you ever considered that anything can be a first time for something? In First Times Laura Cannon will guide you through the mental gymnastics that she uses to keep dreaming big even when the road ahead doesn’t look all that promising. A parfait of humor, movement and hazy Slacker-era memories, First Times will ask the heavy questions and answer none of them. At least it will be fun. Hey, if the existential dread doesn’t get us, the high-fructose corn syrup certainly will.
Hoy es la Envidia de los Muertos or Now is the Envy of the Dead
WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY S RECAVARREN FRANCO
Written in the aftermath of their mother’s death, the artist confronts grief, cultural and intergenerational trauma, and the complexity of identity across language, borders, and religion & customs. They excavate their family history and seek comfort in Peruvian myths & arts in an attempt to grasp the turbulent, mysterious and mythic figures in their life. Hoy es la Envidia de los Muertos or Now is the Envy of the Dead is a bilingual exploration of the pain we just can't seem to shake from our bones, and a celebration of what it means to choose life.
SATURDAY(s) JULY 11th & 18th @7:30pm
IN / BETWEEN
WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY JOE MCLAUGHLIN
In-Between is a work in progress that steps into the dualities of this world. Can it be black and white at the same time? Can one exist without the other? And where black and white, light and darkness meet, what exists there? Is this where creation begins?
War, destruction, lies, abuse, and prejudice are explored here. As well as love, kindness, beauty, compassion, and honesty. Can these dualities come together and become something greater than when standing alone? Joe, a Butoh performer/dancer for the past 18 years, combines the silence of the Butoh practice with the spoken word of theatre to create this new and evolving work.
if you loved me
WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY MONIQUE BARBEE
If atoms behave differently while observed, what is the cost of visibility? Visibility is not neutral. It is a negotiation. And sometimes the price is becoming someone else.
ECHOES
WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY KATE HOLLY
In 1974, The San Francisco Chronicle published a short article about the death of Rose and Herbert Sanderson with the heading, “A Neatly Planned Family Tragedy”. Seven years later, their son wrote a manuscript about the ordeal, which was kept hidden in a closet until 2019, when he mailed it to his daughter, Kate. Given her proclivities, it was only a matter of time before she would turn this manuscript into material for a theatrical investigation.
That time is now.
Ritual
WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY ABERDEEN STUART
Ritual explores high demand cult like groups and what it’s like to grow up in one. Reflecting on a childhood spent in Masonic lodges and performing ritual works, now Aberdeen bursts forth to reveal the secrets of a secret society. Where is the present truth in the hidden world of the past? Here is their truth, as they felt it.
SUNDAY JULY 12TH @ 2PM/ 7:30PM SUNDAY JULY 19TH @4PM
Big Baby
BY EMILY NEWTON
Do you have what it takes to take care of a baby?
Emily June Newton takes on her most ambitious role yet: a baby. Arriving on stage in a wicker basket, bibbed and toothy and dressed for the occasion, Big Baby must figure out how to communicate with the world entirely without words. Expect audience inclusion, physical comedy, and an invitation — gently, playfully, irresistibly — into the role of caregiver.
But babies don't stay babies. Over the course of the show, Big Baby grows up — stumbling into adulthood and finding that the world has questions it isn't prepared to answer. Who am I? Who will I become? There are grown-up shoes that must eventually be filled.