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2016 SHOTGUN
BLAST
THEATER FESTIVAL
BLAST is our new annual celebration of difference - a month-long festival of new ideas, visions, and possibilities. BLAST aims to explode the boundaries of theater with performances by local and national theatre artists. We think life is dynamic, changing, ephemeral, strange, and beautiful. Theater should be too.
2016 SHOTGUN BLAST THEATER FESTIVAL PRESENTS...
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NOW FOR NOW
Mark Jackson & Megan Trout |
My Mind is Like an Open Meadow
Hand2Mouth |
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Bend the Rules, Eat the Head
Micael Bogar and Sabrina Wenske |
Do What You Love
Naked Empire Bouffon Company |
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GIRL!
Fauxnique & Martha T. Lipton |
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
The San Francisco Neo-Futurists |
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The Right Now Improv Trio
Fontana Butterfield, Mariah Howard & Claire Slattery |
Fool La La!
Unique Derique |
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The Trombonist
By Andy Strain |
Week One
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Fool La La!
Written and Performed by Unique Derique This circus-inspired show features slapstick comedy punctuated with dance and percussive music, transforming into a live one-man dancing-band. With a whole new bag of tricks, the always-popular clown Unique Derique delivers a comedy show for the whole family. Following the show, Derique will lead a twenty-minute Hambone and juggling workshop so the whole family can put a little zip in their step. “He’s hip!”- Arsenio Hall Appropriate for kids 4 and up. |
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$15 for Kids 9+, Adults
$10 for Kids 4 - 8 February 6 & 7
$5 for little ones (3 and under)
1PM MATINEES |
Week Two
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My Mind is Like an Open Meadow
Hand2Mouth - from Portland! For one year, Erin Leddy lived with her grandmother and recorded her memoirs. Sarah Braveman led a dynamic life - working as an actress in Boston and Manhattan from the 1930s until the 1990s; Erin has the tapes to prove it. A meditation on consciousness, memory and things passed down through generations, Hand2Mouth crafts a sonic and visual world – a strange control station of the mind where memory overcomes live performance and the two realms blur into an elegant mixture of lighting, pre-recorded voice, music, dance and scenery. |
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About Hand2Mouth
Hand2Mouth is a theatre ensemble committed to creating original work. We celebrate the raw, charged potential of the live encounter, and our methods and styles change to meet the demands of the work. Hand2Mouth performances push boundaries towards theatre that is bold and accessible.
"They have the kind of promise, fearlessness and energy that the American theater needs." - Seattle Times WATCH THE TRAILER
Feb 12 & 13, 8PM
$15 Advance / $20 Door |
Week Three
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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
(30 plays in 60 minutes)
Created By: Greg Allen Written, directed, and performed by The San Francisco Neo-Futurists The San Francisco Neo-Futurists are a collective of wildy prolific writer/director/performers who create theatre that is a fusion of poetry, sport, and living newspaper. TMLMBGB features fully realized plays that are each no longer than 2 minutes. Some plays are funny. Some are sad. Some we thought were funny and turned out sad. We call those “art”. Please note that this show contains adult content & nudity. “In their hands, theater is the future, and the future is now.” – SF Weekly |
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MORE INFORMATION
http://neofuturists.org/about/ http://www.sfneofuturists.com/ The Neo-futurists started in Chicago with TMLMBGB written and directed by the visionary Greg Allen in 1988. They have now expanded into San Francisco with an ongoing experimental presence. Don’t miss it! Feb 17 & 18, 8PM $15 Advance $15 + $1 times the roll of a six-sided die ($16 - $21) at Door |
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The Right Now Improv Trio
Fontana Butterfield, Mariah Howard and Claire Slattery These three invariably hilarious women met and immediately knew they shared a deep connection to honest, character-driven improvised performance. They are serious about their funny and serve up a unique blend of character-driven longform improv that ranges from absurd logic to absurd physicality. Quick, connected, and just a little bit wild. Check out their Youtube channel for a Sneak Peek! Sunday, Feb 21, 7PM $15 Advance / $20 Door |
Week Four
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GIRL!
Curated by Fauxnique & Martha T. Lipton A cabaret-style evening of theatrical drag and drag-fueled theater with some of San Francisco’s finest champions of both. Multi-faceted artist Monique Jenkinson (Fauxnique - SF’s reigning female drag queen) and eccentric character artist Evan Johnson (Martha T. Lipton) bring an ensemble cast of up and coming drag stars that promise to entertain, educate and inspire by dissecting and reconfiguring traditions of both drag and theater. There will be wigs, heels and sequins aplenty. Girl! Beads will be flying! THE LINEUP Feb 25 & 26, 8PM $15 Advance / $20 Door |
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NOW FOR NOW
Mark Jackson & Megan Trout NOW FOR NOW is a multimedia physical theater piece about embarrassing things, created and performed by Bay Area theater makers Mark Jackson and Megan Trout. Three relationships between a woman and man a generation apart—a daughter and father, a romance, a student and teacher—are followed over 40 years. Their stories converge and diverge in dialogues, movement, IMs and Skypes. NOW FOR NOW explores uncomfortable, ugly, embarrassing issues about age and gender dynamics with both depth and humor. Please note that this show contains adult content. |
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"Intimate and as funny as it is penetrating... Delights the senses and tickles the brain as much as it leaves your head spinning... The building tensions converge in a shattering, expressive climax.” — SF Chronicle
Feb 27 - 29, 8PM $15 Advance / $20 Door |
Week Five
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Bend the Rules, Eat the Head
March 4 & 5, 8PM
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Directed by Robert Rosen, co-founder of the Tony-award-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune.
An irreverent bouffon uses physical comedy, audience interaction, and parody to relentlessly and hilariously skewer class privilege. A profound prankster of the issues you love to deny for an evening of high impact satirical sport. "It’s vile and provocative, but it’s also a very sly, smart commentary on a culture busily amusing itself as it slides off this mortal coil, too afraid to talk about serious things, and too busy dumbing itself down.” — Beast In The Jungle |
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Performing with Bend the Rules, Eat the Head!
March 4 & 5, 8PM $15 Advance / $20 Door Get tickets LEARN MORE ABOUT NAKED EMPIRE The Naked Empire Bouffon Company was founded in 2009 by Nathaniel Justiniano with a vision of social change and the belief that change starts by acknowledging the problem. The public doesn't hear anything if they are being accused, patronized, confused, or bored, so bouffon is the vehicle for all of our work. Bouffon is a rarely seen performance style in the United States, and Naked Empire is the only company in the country exclusively dedicated to the form and the expansion of its practice. Our work is designed to both charm and challenge the audience. http://nakedempirebouffon.org/ |
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The Trombonist: The Bremen Town Musicians
Andy Strain California musician Andy Strain will perform The Bremen Town Musicians . Strain's family program begins with a grand entrance and unveiling of a trombone. He will tell the Brothers Grimm story, playing each musical character. At the end of the performance, a red trombone makes a memorable appearance for those in the audience to try. Andy has been seen on Shotgun’s main stage performing the trombone in Beowulf, and is a regular horn sharing the stage with Joanna Newsom. |
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$15 for Kids 9+, Adults
$10 for Kids 4 - 8
$5 for little ones (3 and under)
Sunday, March 6
1PM MATINEE
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