RAPT Work in Progress Showing

Upholding Perishable Theatre’s mission to connect RI audiences with innovative performance, the Resident Artists at Perishable Theatre will present 6 works in progress during the first weekend in March. The works run the gamut from theatrical adaptation of a canonical novel (Madame Bovary) to opera cut with new media (The Legend of the Fairy Melusine) to post-modern cabaret (The Lulu Cabaret.) The weekend is anchored by Leigh Hendrix’s solo performance, How To Be A Lesbian in 10 Days or Less, which takes the form of a motivational speech to humorous ends.

The Resident Artists at Perishable Theatre (RAPT) program support mid-career theatre artists developing hybrid performance pieces over 1-3 years. Recent RAPT shows have traveled to Austin’s Frontera Fest (The Thing That Ate My Brain…Almost,) and have won the prestigious Best of the San Francisco Fringe Festival (Poste Restante). Support for the RAPT program has come from the RI Foundation, RI State Council on the Arts, and VSA Arts RI.

With How To Be A Lesbian in 10 Days or Less, motivational speaker Butchy McDyke will transform you into the queer of your dreams. Writer and performer Leigh Hendrix links different characters, personal story, and a Reba McEntire song in a mostly funny and sometimes earnest exploration of how you can learn to confidently shout, “I’m a big ‘ol dyke!” (Thursday through Sunday)

Come check out Elise Morrison in another installation of The Lulu Cabaret:  Wedekind's infamous seductress has taken up residence in Purgatory as the lead singer of "Lulu and the Rippers," featuring the devilishly talented Kirsten Volness and Jacob Richman.   There's a hot seat with your name on it for an evening that will bring you closer to Heaven by giving you the best of Hell! (Thursday)

Phil Goldman (he of Live Bait and failed male stripping fame) is back with more stories of mayhem, derring-do and crackers. This time he'll take you deep into the heart of the Sumatran jungle, with a side trip into his heretofore untested theory of "Continental Tapering. (Thursday/Sunday)

Writer Rick Massimo’s adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary uses the hip-hop method of sampling to deliver a fresh look at a hotly debated story. (Friday/Saturday)
Vanessa Gilbert (with Steven Lee Jobe) - Architectural Aria from The Legend of the Fairy Melusine. Early music meets 21st century media in this excerpt from Jobe’s new opera about a man who meets the woman of his dreams, just to find out that she harbors a terrible metamorphic secret. (Friday/Saturday)

Fluxus artist Tom Hurdle’s Mortal Sins combines the feeling of an H.P. Lovecraft story and an Ingmar Bergman film to tell the story of deadly love. (Saturday/Sunday)

schedule subject to change


Tickets are $5 at the door or reservations are taken by phone at 401-331-2695 ext. 101

March Live Bait

LIVE BAIT: TRUE STORIES FROM REAL PEOPLE
Friday, March 4th at 10pm. All seats $5
At Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903

Over the past two and a half years, Live Bait host Phil Goldman and local monologue wunderkind Kevin Broccoli have had forged an uneasy alliance. It all started nicely enough: Kevin had appeared at dozens of Live Baits and even opened for Phil’s solo show and, in turn, Phil had appeared in Kevin’s monologue shows and opened for Kevin’s solo show as well. But it all turned sour when both were nominated for the same theatre award. Since then, they have been ensconced in a catfight that would have made Bette Davis and Joan Crawford cringe. One would think they would have had enough of this mishegas since their recent two-man show, “Kevin Broccoli and Phil Goldman are Smizing,” but they obviously have not.

Now they are taking it to the Live Bait stage in March, when Kevin will be “sharing” the hosting duties with Phil. They don’t promise the hosting will be pretty, but they do promise that everything else will be the same in the show, namely, real people telling their true stories pulled out of a fishbowl, connecting, in some way, shape, or form, to March’s theme, “Eat Your Broccoli.”

If you have a story, all you have to do is sign up at the door and if we pick your name, come up and tell it. It’s that easy. No notes, no rants, just tell your story like you’re telling your friends over a couple of drinks. There is a six minute time limit; please respect it. If you don’t have a story, you can still come and watch others share theirs.

Everyone is encouraged, performers and non-performers alike. Don’t miss Perishable Theatre’s cult phenomenon, as always with musical accompaniment and original “theme” song by The Professor, Jerry Gregoire.

10:00pm Friday, March 4th, 2010
Tickets $5.00 – no reservations taken
Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire St., Providence, RI
(401)331-2695 x101 for box office information

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Breathing Tube on February 18th

BREATHING TUBE
a night of short radio plays
 
February 18th
10pm
Tickets $5
 
Perishable Theatre
95 Empire St
Providence RI
 
 
 
BREATHING TUBE
short plays for radio, live
 
Providence-Perishable Theatre artist-in-residence Cyrus Leddy presents: Breathing Tube, a night of short plays for radio from some of New England's most creative writers.  This show features acts from Boston and acts from the center of the earth.
 
Blood Curtains-a work in progress
by Sarah L. Reiter
This excerpt from the Blood Curtains Trilogy fails to clarify questions we have about our scientific bodies and our spiritual selves, it succeeds only in drawing us deeper into a labyrinth of uncertainty; such is life.
 
Uncle Bertie's GoodTyme Time Show
by Brien Lang
GoodTyme bandleader Uncle Bertie Johnson launches a new career - at the behest of his new friends from the House Un-American Activities Committee
 
Sad Clown and The Gipper (Episode 1)
by Evan O'Sullivan
It's 1980 and a cultural cold war rages between progressive Vermont and conservative New Hampshire. 9-year old Evan is on a mission to become the greatest actor of his generation. He is joined in his adventures by a who's who of local adult bohemians, and the actor who was just elected leader of the free world, Ronald Reagan.
What: BREATHING TUBE
a night of short holiday radio plays

When: Friday February 18th 10 pm
Where:    At Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street, Downtown Providence
          http://www.perishable.org
 
Tickets are $5, at the door. RISD students are free with valid ID.