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a reading of a new play

Tuesday, 25 June 2010 at 07:30

The Basement

With Wilana White-Coyote, Marcelino Quiñonez, Ana Contreras, Franc Gaxiola, and Louis Farber.

This is a reading of a new play that takes place in and out of time...it's like any sacred story, it's a love story, and there are lots of scars and scares and no one screams as much as they should, because people are so polite these days. Two lovers are stuck out of time, trying to get into their own bodies to escape the weight of the spirit, but instead they get trapped into finding trap doors where they once thought there were only traps. Barbed wire and guns are everywhere, and this makes lips seem that much more enticing. Only every time they try to leave each other, hahaha, the way only charming children know how to do, dogs who are gods speak in tongues, surgeons of the dead remove their broken nerve, and Alice in Wonderland wants to know why she is stuck on the bottom of the grave, eating the flesh of the once-living. A treat for the senses. A breath of poetry in a dark time. A promise whispered in the form of a play. This is still all about you.

Then...

Later this summer....

o++o(iv): everything and nothing

a ravaged installation garden party

This is the final segment of o++o, the cycle that started off the year, only to end at the end of the year, which is now.

Look!  Who are the people these?  They are, in order: Wilana White Coyote, Jonathan Hernandez, Xchel Hernandez, and Chris Danowski. 

This is the perfect date movie, the most exciting chase scene ever caught on video, as well as the most ridiculous drug scene ever filmed in a public space. Baby monkeys wearing leather objects of affection, and a dance for the end of the world, this will be the last of everything. At the end of the year, we are closing down, and this is the beginning of the end.

It's also our way of saying thank you to all the great art loving people in Phoenix who have supported us this year. Those of you who came to the last segment of this, and you know who you are, will be given first priority for seating. This is a small party, and there's no more room, because we've run out. If you miss it, and want to see it, you'll have to invite us to your house. We'll come, but we won't be polite.

There's a wedding.

o++o(iv): everything or nothing

915 W. Fillmore, 85007

602 540-3225

Smoking, as always, is on the spacious southern porch with a northern view.

Thank you for participating in this conspiracy.

And spread the word.

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Welcome to the official website for Theater In My Basement/SW Annex (aka TIMB, aka the BASEMENT, aka not aka 47, we are revolutionaries but not in armed resistance, pero vive la résistance...!)

We are Phoenix-based and dedicated to experimental performance, creating new, transcultural works of mediated visceral intelligence, and participating in all manner of collaborations (dada, zapatista, free trade coffee, rhizomatic speaking subjects, body art, glue).

Arriba arriba,

TIMB

http://www.myspace.com/sotano

We are dedicated to work that addresses where we are geographically and philosophically, and are interested in investigating the places where these intersect on a mutually determined glocal table/playing field. As a collective, we are already born with many tongues, and some of us have two or three, which makes speech difficult but entirely possible. We are developing a style of performance that speaks to bilingual (and multilingual) audiences, utilizing subaltern, alternative modes of presentation, technologically and philosophically reconfiguring the dna of a post-consumer idea of a thought of a notion. We do not dance.

To contact us, send an email to chris@timb.org or teatrocaliente@gmail.com

We are a Non-Profit, with 501(c)(3) status, and do accept tax-deductable donations. To make a donation, send a check payable to TIMB and mail to:

TIMB

915 W. Fillmore St.

Phoenix, AZ 85007

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Mandar obedeciendo."