TONIGHT!: Springtime Cabaret!
Puppet Underground
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High Wire Cabaret!
Wednesday, March 20th
7:30 pm
At La Casa Community of Christ: 3166 Mt Pleasant St NW
$5-$15 Sliding Scale Suggested Donation
Featuring….
The 7 Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act
presented by Der Vorführeffekt Theatre (with some of the fabulous folks from the Missoula Oblongata)
In the wilds of Siberia, Charles Darwin goes off search of the Yeti. The Yeti (if she exists) enters a radio station’s dance contest, hoping to win an all-expenses-paid vacation to a place that doesn’t exist yet. Darwin’s research companion—a little brown bat—tries to win back the love of the radio station’s electromagnetic emissions—but how could that ever end happily? Meanwhile, Siberia’s caves are home to a secretive tribe of ropemakers—but their disintegrating family structure may cause their ancient craft to be lost forever. Through the lens of the real life allegory of the Flying Wallendas’ famous high-wire act, two performers on a tiny stage unfold Darwin’s laboratory, unfurl anatomic diagrams of the yeti, and try to tease out the difference between miracles and non-miracles.
Written by Donna Oblongata (member of The Missoula Oblongata, Wham City, and producer/director of the 2012 production Less Miserable). Designed and performed by Donna Oblongata & Patrick Costello (visual artist extraordinaire and also a star of Less Miserable). Directed by Sarah Lowry (member of The Missoula Oblongata, assistant director of Less Miserable)
And also featuring some great local talent, including…
Medicine Show
by
Marianne Ross
An illustrated, hundred percent true history of 200 years of American medicine (with tongue in cheek).
...And Cherie Latson, gracing us with her musical talents!
Don’t miss it!!!
And….the following week, we’ll be screening an exciting new documentary film, Guardabosques, followed by a discussion with the film-maker, Simon Sedillo.
Wednesday, March 27th
7:30 pm
At La Casa Community of Christ: 3166 Mt Pleasant St NW
On April 15th 2011, when organized crime thugs teamed up with the logging industry and different government agencies to pillage precious and sacred forests at gun-point, the indigenous Purepecha community of Cheran, Michoacan, Mexico rose up with sticks, rocks, and bottle rockets against what can only be described as their local narco-government. Since then, they have taken the authorities offices, weapons, and pick-up trucks, ousted all political parties and all local and state police, and have re-established a traditional form of self-governance that includes its own council of elders, a community “police”, known as a “ronda”, and its own forest defense team, or forest keepers, known as the “Guarda Bosques.”