tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50036198503983243752024-03-12T20:58:22.410-07:00ThresholdTheatre on the Vergejessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-9165643356609102472012-04-10T00:45:00.003-07:002012-04-10T00:48:52.365-07:00Three Little Dumplings Go Bananas!Threshold is thrilled to announce that its production <span style="font-style: italic;">Three Little Dumplings Go Bananas </span>will debut at The Bay One-Acts Festival on April 22, 2012. Learn more at: <a href="www.bayoneacts.org">www.bayoneacts.org</a>.jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-71528834097511799212011-05-29T22:20:00.000-07:002011-05-29T22:21:33.196-07:00In the Threshold This Summer!<h6 class="uiStreamMessage textPost" ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody">Threshold is very excited to announce two new development projects in the works with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=14100689" hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=14100689">Ben Fisher</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thismeganismegan" hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=206059">Megan Cohen</a>. Threshold is spending the summer thinking about information technology, governmental transparency, power, Martin McDonough, Pinter, domestic fables, absurdism, Durang, Churchill, female-centered narratives, dumplings and much much more! Look for these fantastic new plays to find their way to the stage in Spring and Summer 2012!<br /></span></h6>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-40770203370992989822011-05-23T09:58:00.000-07:002011-06-01T11:25:57.668-07:00Pure Baltic Avenue Rocks BOA!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJDTOvBLZEiMsZONJQAGFUIO_3jCgDGQTtQYchLlPGc2pWKcnFVG1AF1qRqyDMpnPPkEsWomWyG5dLD7juhFE3CoMpIsaqp-jypzE3aDEAP8fYXGWbTs_E90Ig-VbICAPXgRsFNoAfMwiX/s1600/IMG_6248.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJDTOvBLZEiMsZONJQAGFUIO_3jCgDGQTtQYchLlPGc2pWKcnFVG1AF1qRqyDMpnPPkEsWomWyG5dLD7juhFE3CoMpIsaqp-jypzE3aDEAP8fYXGWbTs_E90Ig-VbICAPXgRsFNoAfMwiX/s320/IMG_6248.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609965528286778786" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Pure Baltic Avenue by Threshold associate artist Bennett Fisher and directed by Core Member Alex Curtis was a huge success at BOA X. A big thank you to cast members Nick Allen, Chris Quintos, Marie O'Donnell, Sam Richie, and Cooper Carlson for their delicious work!<br /><br />The Huffington Post loved the play. You can read more about what cultural arts writer George Heymont had to say about it <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-heymont/the-best-of-boa-bay-one-a_b_841248.html">HERE</a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOt-CwF8z6y6IsQ6R-rHjV3sw1jW2EyTJrYEzu2Lg_Dy1gKIlT_Zf5k77CSUfxuFwSEsNDfPzsFSkGF7gB5oSUcp8_EWSWK2KhWXGGFj5bPnrLjTqSF8gZewqh6XJSd0ZqriWFNLyyIitp/s1600/IMG_6288.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOt-CwF8z6y6IsQ6R-rHjV3sw1jW2EyTJrYEzu2Lg_Dy1gKIlT_Zf5k77CSUfxuFwSEsNDfPzsFSkGF7gB5oSUcp8_EWSWK2KhWXGGFj5bPnrLjTqSF8gZewqh6XJSd0ZqriWFNLyyIitp/s320/IMG_6288.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609966407558656994" border="0" /></a>Nick Allen as "Irving," Cooper Carlson as "Breckenridge", and Chris Quintos as "Conway." Photo by Clay Robeson<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz-3IRNir1PMz1LKuPV3P45SlsJi6TSwG8y0gqvbo-2yzY7flIy3sXdl1Snn6ry5vEX8UWEpAjg_uk9Fq3P8skhnXjKA2L9gz3x5Pn8zKH9HkDqHwH5dgQMxP4p3TlgURoW9q8t0izQzWU/s1600/IMG_6313.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz-3IRNir1PMz1LKuPV3P45SlsJi6TSwG8y0gqvbo-2yzY7flIy3sXdl1Snn6ry5vEX8UWEpAjg_uk9Fq3P8skhnXjKA2L9gz3x5Pn8zKH9HkDqHwH5dgQMxP4p3TlgURoW9q8t0izQzWU/s320/IMG_6313.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609966831936151826" border="0" /></a>Sam Richie as "Dewitt", Nick Allen as "Irving" and Cooper Carlson as "Breckenridge." Photo by Clay Robeson<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDmQ_qP4PGscM1fCTzURorI8gperc6gzoWm007Ohc9uS97qpuRNM5VoomQirYMrE3tuDc0QGNsQPi9YnT5NRnI06Dt53S0_XpbHc1qg1BRyVpwqD8Tke0CC1A3-yp4b5uyO_iIOhPr2nnT/s1600/IMG_6377.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDmQ_qP4PGscM1fCTzURorI8gperc6gzoWm007Ohc9uS97qpuRNM5VoomQirYMrE3tuDc0QGNsQPi9YnT5NRnI06Dt53S0_XpbHc1qg1BRyVpwqD8Tke0CC1A3-yp4b5uyO_iIOhPr2nnT/s320/IMG_6377.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609967144580621090" border="0" /></a><br />It's all out "cele-fuckin-bration" at the end of the play. All cast members PLUS all of the cast members of BOA X rush the audience!<br /><br />To see more pictures, please click <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Threshold-theatre-on-the-verge/266343120736?sk=photos#%21/photo.php?fbid=10150207335845737&set=a.10150207335715737.311702.266343120736&type=1&theater">HERE</a>.<br />Photo by Clay Robeson.jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-3300430066746193032011-01-21T00:11:00.000-08:002011-01-21T00:26:41.577-08:00Threshold at BOA X<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLnykNup-I-56uqr_Prhb3tYByf2yOnG674oaRvHw-YvcMjNUJsya1IO9VReP5UC3m7JAgbpyo-F616xnRmT0O38sqfLdsEifewk5owFwbYglfB0bh_DkBk-VtCUSa8PLn0JwN93RBDrCp/s1600/2836429_low.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLnykNup-I-56uqr_Prhb3tYByf2yOnG674oaRvHw-YvcMjNUJsya1IO9VReP5UC3m7JAgbpyo-F616xnRmT0O38sqfLdsEifewk5owFwbYglfB0bh_DkBk-VtCUSa8PLn0JwN93RBDrCp/s200/2836429_low.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564552623917926194" border="0" /></a>We are very excited to announce that Threshold will take part of the Bay One Acts Festival for the third time! We are thrilled to be part of BOA's 10th anniversary year.<br /><br />Co-founder Alex Curtis will direct Threshold Associate Artist Bennett Fisher's very funny farce PURE BALTIC AVENUE. When mortgage fraud scheme turns into a clockwork frenzy, three suits struggle to get rich and escape unscathed. It's a simple premise, really.<br /><br />Rehearsals for PURE BALTIC AVENUE start this weekend and we are really looking forward to beginning the process. We have a bang-up cast featuring Nick Allen, Samuel Richie, Marie O'Donnell, Chris Quintos, and Threshold Associate Artist Cooper Carlson.<br /><br />BOA X opens March 6 at the Boxcar Theatre in San Francisco. Complete program and ticket information can be found at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.bayoneacts.org">www.bayoneacts.org</a>.<br /><br />See you at the theater!jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-24418487298254444612010-06-03T08:47:00.000-07:002010-06-03T09:01:06.835-07:00TERRORiSTKA burns brightly to the end<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5Q4XzlYdy-ZHnsHz1HFwWkz9mK1uqElo69BTYtFRPB6MhPh7Te8qjlR-r46TZDSbVsy_mIg2bNSaF2S6AiuWbsUG2MfJ9IgPZYbYRckQvaGgnSPQexIt-19yT-W6MUJC6eCBGrE71izW/s1600/IMG_8792.JPG.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5Q4XzlYdy-ZHnsHz1HFwWkz9mK1uqElo69BTYtFRPB6MhPh7Te8qjlR-r46TZDSbVsy_mIg2bNSaF2S6AiuWbsUG2MfJ9IgPZYbYRckQvaGgnSPQexIt-19yT-W6MUJC6eCBGrE71izW/s320/IMG_8792.JPG.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478577574640652034" /></a>It's been a little more than 2 weeks since Terroristka closed and the Thresholders are still feeling the glow. What an incredible process, a beautiful production, and a memorable journey.<div><br /> <div>Thank you to all who made our first full-length production possible. We could not have done it with out you.</div><div><br /></div><div>Threshold is so happy to say that we played to capacity houses throughout the run and that we covered all of our costs and paid all of our artists. More than that, we grew our community -- both artists and audience. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>The Thresholders are also very excited about the next steps for Threshold. We have a number of announcements about our upcoming projects that we will make shortly.</div><div><br /></div><div>Until then...still enjoying the afterglow.</div><div><br /></div><div>Photo by Clay Robeson. Picture above from clockwise from left to right: Addie Ulrey, Alison Ostendorf, Molly Holcomb, Andy Strong, Geof Libby, Kate Jopson, Jessica Holt, Adrienne Krug, Sarah Rose Butler, and Alex Curtis</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-55389145836592601292010-05-17T10:06:00.000-07:002010-06-03T09:24:39.813-07:00TERRORiSTKA Production Photos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6eLMnOIONyTvTtrLJYy7rUHZKfRynHiFDgQBYzfWAkwsf1gSyPUOtm25vSaT7BKQw4zjScAUA8JEzhfszVzo2tHk72Vnjr-LUL0FNaSzva0ji5mTZMhiRW_dNeUKquMnoNKP2zjhBMaQd/s1600/IMG_8422.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6eLMnOIONyTvTtrLJYy7rUHZKfRynHiFDgQBYzfWAkwsf1gSyPUOtm25vSaT7BKQw4zjScAUA8JEzhfszVzo2tHk72Vnjr-LUL0FNaSzva0ji5mTZMhiRW_dNeUKquMnoNKP2zjhBMaQd/s200/IMG_8422.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478583666770605058" /></a>Threshold is super duper stoked about the new production photos taken by Clay Robseon of TERRORiSTKA which just closed yesterday to a sold-out house, a standing ovation and a shower of rose petals. <div><br /></div><div>To see the full album, click on</div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=183691&id=266343120736&ref=mf">http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=183691&id=266343120736&ref=mf</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKkUHDGvdczCn9l-VLActlfeAPsrCL4uao_ZOM0MKnnRpsxpnRTgjNGbvGuA6Rx1JoLWRY955ITiI3mvNEzh24oOH6aWqIbCaxdUBid6v6mC_wLCz0F-paX9UO6-hXnjYLsRwKDARcLeEl/s200/IMG_7562.JPG.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455302959876553122" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, serif;">Threshold presents the World Premiere of the heartbreaking poetic docudrama <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106372">TERRORiSTKA</a> by Rebecca Bella, directed by Jessica Holt.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><div style="text-align: center;">April 30 - May 16, 2010</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">The Berkeley City Club Theatre</div><div style="text-align: center;"> 2315 Durant Avenue</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Berkeley, CA 94704</div><br /><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-_hl4oIA-eYrdpzCL-_gp8iohEyjkdaabSBDqnqKdLIa-ZC2xOVWnSb9J75pYlVW-UvZo1uKFtVZC4ZLreaI_qWQmN7iTHQk9EXLvT2M1N394hAl4tLpHLFDgd8bPri1yFC3PdaeVaWi/s1600/IMG_7707-1.JPG.jpeg"><img style="display:block; 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" /></a></div></div><div>For more photos: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=168253&id=266343120736">CLICK HERE</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, serif;">All photos by Clay Robeson.<br />If you use these photos anywhere, please credit photography.ClayRobeson.net.<br /><br />No reprinting without written permission.</span></span></div></div>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-69990410253773576022010-03-23T23:24:00.000-07:002010-04-25T23:56:22.577-07:00TERRORiSTKA ignites the stage April 30th - May 16<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrsd6OXIyo3KruZWv2mplM5CDUdQaLjZ5HlC-_buA2_L1o9rv-AUop-lGEOVVa8NKqHhY6cemgvQ6ju_jiDI7g7LRSv-56AS-HaOX5YSN0AJ_GlpYaA8H8F_wMkcj_hHG-0CZVkZDYbi62/s1600/TERRORiSTKA-postcard-FRONT.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrsd6OXIyo3KruZWv2mplM5CDUdQaLjZ5HlC-_buA2_L1o9rv-AUop-lGEOVVa8NKqHhY6cemgvQ6ju_jiDI7g7LRSv-56AS-HaOX5YSN0AJ_GlpYaA8H8F_wMkcj_hHG-0CZVkZDYbi62/s200/TERRORiSTKA-postcard-FRONT.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452088776457306722" border="0" /></a><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The clock is ticking.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It is just a matter of weeks until Threshold’s World Premiere of the heartbreaking poetic docudrama </span></span></span><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">TERRORiSTKA </span></span></span></b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">by Rebecca Bella, directed by Jessica Holt, ignites</span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> the stage.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">*****<br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">TERRORiSTKA marks Threshold’s inaugural production as a fully self-producing theatre company. After producing seven critically-embraced and audience-adored plays at festivals over the last two years, Threshold is thrilled to make its solo debut at the Berkeley City Cub, April 30</span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">th</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> – May 16</span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">th</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, 2010.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">TERRORiSTKA tells the true story of a young Chechen woman who attempts to flee her war-ravaged country by joining a rebel faction that trains her as a suicide bomber.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As the play tracks this woman’s journey from the Caucasus mountains to the crowded streets of Moscow, it contemplates her passage from innocence to menace and finally to an understanding of her own tragedy.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On a broader scale, it examines how young people can become entangled in violence and enable the conflicts that destroy their lives.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This expressionist drama is an important examination of the psychology of suicide bombers, as well as a serious meditation on women’s involvement in war.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">******</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">TERRORiSTKA began five years ago when Rebecca Bella was on a Fulbright Scholarship in St. Petersburg, Russia.</span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> While there, Rebecca discovered the story of 22 year-old Zarema Muzhakhoyeva who was captured by Russian police after she refused to carry out her suicide mission and walked away </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">from a bomb in front of a crowded café.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Because the bomb she had abandoned killed an FSB operative assigned to disarm it, Zarema was tried as a criminal in Russian court.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And a very rare narrative was revealed: the testimony of a suicide bomber. Rebecca was drawn to Zarema’s story and a play was born.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Three years later, the play found SF-based theatre director Jessica Holt, and her company Threshold.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">With Jessica at the helm, Threshold welcomed the project of further developing TERRORiSTKA for the stage.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now, TERRORiSTKA is on the brink of gorgeous theatrical realization!</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A multidisciplinary theatrical event, combining verse, song, choreography and visual art, this beautifully moving play examines terrorism, globalization, traditional cultures, motherhood and truth.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">****</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Director </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Jessica Holt </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Artistic Director, Threshold and Artistic Director, Three Wise Monkeys) helms TERRORiSTKA at </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Berkeley City Club </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA), April</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">30</span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">th</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> – May 16</span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">th</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> 2010. </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The production will feature sound design by Gregory Scharpen (Resident Sound Designer, Central Works), costume Design by Tammy Berlin (Resident Costume Designer, Central Works), scenic design by Chad Owens, lighting design by Alison Ostendorf, movement choreography by Marilee Talkington.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">****</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Founded by Jessica Holt, Alex Curtis and Pamela Davis, </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Threshold: theatre on the verge </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">is a dynamic new company emerging on the Bay Area scene.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Grown out of a UC Berkeley directors’ workshop, Threshold is dedicated to creating bold, beautiful theater.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Threshold challenges artists and audiences to imagine the edges of the possible in a process-based environment that embraces risk, growth and change.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Our work is surprising and immediate and embraces the poetry of language and physical space.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b>****<br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Artistic Director Jessica Holt</span></span></span></b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">: “Threshold was founded on the shared belief that theatremaking is alive with risk, alive with language, metaphor, material bodies, and emotional expression.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">At its best, theatre creates a kind of alchemy of time and space, where imagination is encouraged to take flight.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Rebecca Bella’s TERRORiSTKA perfectly complements our vision and mission. We are so proud to be the first company to produce Rebecca’s important play.”</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <!--EndFragment-->jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-8764560733824772812010-03-23T14:08:00.001-07:002010-03-23T14:12:06.738-07:00The Look of TERRORiSTKA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSeMV0BbtzyjGXS8tjQHvIVIoeZ9MSaKBTkVQDsmhlBZzW0avB8JWbB-StNxQSrGh-vexbJiU-yqwFchSrsz_B-59Zsjf3eVtur2X_nEY6L_zKcFjHSN3n4aBWCXEGGtOpK1vr9pCMva3o/s1600-h/Terroristika_Final.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSeMV0BbtzyjGXS8tjQHvIVIoeZ9MSaKBTkVQDsmhlBZzW0avB8JWbB-StNxQSrGh-vexbJiU-yqwFchSrsz_B-59Zsjf3eVtur2X_nEY6L_zKcFjHSN3n4aBWCXEGGtOpK1vr9pCMva3o/s400/Terroristika_Final.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451940068446679458" /></a>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-20878956276826347232010-03-21T11:05:00.001-07:002010-03-21T11:07:37.298-07:00TERRORiSTKA: Spotlight on Rebecca Bella<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhn0gz0x1nQJSZ0ScwZiTm7ip3z9L4ZaVXg1WNOE5l2bSmqBN5X5rkdi8tN2yv9gmkk4lNtq4ADw4sbzLw9s13-5qso9esYNp4DnNPaV5V-PgNQD2mxbCF7bnGW84iSymzL3Ia8whSVgS-/s1600-h/8835_156915757530_602167530_3297354_4227513_n.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhn0gz0x1nQJSZ0ScwZiTm7ip3z9L4ZaVXg1WNOE5l2bSmqBN5X5rkdi8tN2yv9gmkk4lNtq4ADw4sbzLw9s13-5qso9esYNp4DnNPaV5V-PgNQD2mxbCF7bnGW84iSymzL3Ia8whSVgS-/s200/8835_156915757530_602167530_3297354_4227513_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451150180581479954" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span style="font-family:Garamond;">REBECCA BELLA: </span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-;font-family:Garamond;font-size:10.0pt;">Playwright</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; text-indent:.5in"><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Rebecca Bella is a poet, playwright, and translator. She received her BA from Brown University in 2002, and an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University in 2005.</span></span></b><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Upon graduation from Brown, with a degree in Comparative Literature, she received </span></span></b><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">both Brown’s Pushkin Prize and the Michael Harper Prize, the latter for </span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">the creation of the artists' book </span></span></b><u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Sweet Homeland</span></span></b></u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, based on a reading of Tolstoy's </span></span></b><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">War and Peace</span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">. In 2003, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue Russian poetry translation in St. Petersburg, a project that would result in the documentary film "Poets Address: St. Petersburg" (2008).</span></span></b><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">She continued her writing at Boston University, where she studied poetry with Robert Pinsky, translation with Rosanna Warren, and playwriting in the Playwrights’ Theatre with Derek Walcott.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; text-indent:.5in"><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Rebecca’s poetry </span></span></b><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">has appeared in </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">236</span></span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, </span></span></b><u><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Poets 11</span></span></b></span></u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> an anthology of San Francisco poets selected by city laureate Jack Hirschman, </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Left Curve</span></span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> and various small publications. Her translations have been published in various journals including, </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">A Public Space</span></span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> and </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The Saint Petersburg Review</span></span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, and in </span></span></b><u><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">As It Turned Out</span></span></b></span></u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, a book of poetry by Dmitri Golynko, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008. She also participated in the San Francisco International Poetry Festival of 2009 as a Russian translator.</span></span></b><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">An early version of her play </span></span></b><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">TERRORiSTKA</span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> was published in The Oregon Literary Review in 2007, and she is currently working on a new play and a book of poems. Rebecca teaches Writing Composition and World Literature </span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.</span></span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-15134658177399698332010-03-17T12:06:00.000-07:002010-03-17T12:32:34.648-07:00TERRORiSTKA BEGINS WITH A BANG<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTxKoP0wX2-S-na4eOMEWpNdKFXoRgqpjNGzOb1y1eNLKw9dUzQ86neeYRR5cFo5blyOzTGBKpzPDNiyRVqoCRGKEJh3ZqDvquBro3yPrWSn7rJBRgPo37QupYh1FyeNtXS-UX9Z5nb5IO/s1600-h/ZaremainJail.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 185px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTxKoP0wX2-S-na4eOMEWpNdKFXoRgqpjNGzOb1y1eNLKw9dUzQ86neeYRR5cFo5blyOzTGBKpzPDNiyRVqoCRGKEJh3ZqDvquBro3yPrWSn7rJBRgPo37QupYh1FyeNtXS-UX9Z5nb5IO/s200/ZaremainJail.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449687357226575506" /></a>First Rehearsal of TERRORiSTKA<div>by playwright/poet extraordinaire Rebecca Bella began with a bang last night. <div><br /></div><div>Our stellar cast -- Kate Jopson, Sarose Butler, Alex Curtis, Geof Libby, Molly Holcomb, Adrienne Krug, and Andy Strong attacked the first read-through with dynamic energy and play. </div><div><br /></div><div>It was a strong, fun, surprisingly funny first read that revealed the heart of this moving, true-life story of a young Chechen woman who, in an attempt to flee her war-ravaged country, joins a rebel faction that trains her as a suicide bomber.</div><!--StartFragment--> <!--EndFragment--> <div><br /></div><div>We pondered the face of Zarema Muzhihoyeva (above) and the image that started Rebecca on her playmaking journey. We recognized that under different life circumstances, we could be her. </div><div><br /></div><div>This is a play about mistakes. What mistakes do we make that we can't take back? How do we unmake our mistakes? How do we take back the past and remake the future?</div><div><br /></div><div>Rebecca was on hand to give us a deeper glimpse into the world. A Russian scholar and translator, she is an invaluable resource for us as we begin to construct this haunting world.</div><div><br /></div><div>We listened to the Chechen separatist anthem which begins the play, the Russian lullaby that breathes within it, and the Russian pop song that pervades it:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.chechenpress.org/nohchicho/gimn/gimn.mp3">http://www.chechenpress.org/nohchicho/gimn/gimn.mp3</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mamalisa.com/mp3/cossack_lullaby_lalitree.mp3">http://www.mamalisa.com/mp3/cossack_lullaby_lalitree.mp3</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HL-N9oOjcs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HL-N9oOjcs</a></div><div><br /><div>The play barrels down the tracks like a freight train, picking up speed as it hurtles itself to the pressure point. On the other side, we realize that a story that at first seemed foreign now seems familiar and very much our own.</div><div><br /></div><div>Looking forward to Day Two.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><br /></div></span></div></div></div>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-47156778744857382952010-03-09T17:04:00.001-08:002010-03-23T23:48:15.139-07:00Rave Reviews for BOA offerings from Threshold and Playpen!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfFgKDSj1IKu_f7Rnueo0-Sib0F57x0h3orEr9WgSMcmMeOLUhU-wNHwN8skkC0r7O1cnh1ypJqfCevFrbobT5NJ_6gvMrZIZ2kFWsw2gbh4EBgvVu2GAeztwTby67hYgTGfk0D3YH58uS/s1600-h/DSC_0447.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfFgKDSj1IKu_f7Rnueo0-Sib0F57x0h3orEr9WgSMcmMeOLUhU-wNHwN8skkC0r7O1cnh1ypJqfCevFrbobT5NJ_6gvMrZIZ2kFWsw2gbh4EBgvVu2GAeztwTby67hYgTGfk0D3YH58uS/s400/DSC_0447.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446808596544334834" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JUStu2HEBEiLEJDXeb-WP28HzLEmpT5RVgTnfUJ6oKWmxazL-fV6ltFsicipX2k4k4LbNbgZk1uPK2khT_8xA8rDteqc31bl9VRkTl2fMbvxSfnqiSpgiv7FlIyeIgHgkcLc2Xmw6V20/s1600-h/IMG_6763.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JUStu2HEBEiLEJDXeb-WP28HzLEmpT5RVgTnfUJ6oKWmxazL-fV6ltFsicipX2k4k4LbNbgZk1uPK2khT_8xA8rDteqc31bl9VRkTl2fMbvxSfnqiSpgiv7FlIyeIgHgkcLc2Xmw6V20/s400/IMG_6763.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446808255644932930" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfj7vpUX18vpCcaOrEW7kIGItHLVN31hsvsCnW7lj1r5cQLlKGqv3nOUj1Dosyx9Pk0Yv9LzIyCr_175spqER-kno2gOKDMUCnV0edvgkOBwiB3Hzi7YTBhYalkaTenC_JiNpwsBzSzbxm/s1600-h/IMG_6695.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfj7vpUX18vpCcaOrEW7kIGItHLVN31hsvsCnW7lj1r5cQLlKGqv3nOUj1Dosyx9Pk0Yv9LzIyCr_175spqER-kno2gOKDMUCnV0edvgkOBwiB3Hzi7YTBhYalkaTenC_JiNpwsBzSzbxm/s400/IMG_6695.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446807730251027970" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1K1thCwviQ7Aln1iZOBHV-rPrr5qNPtvTGJg4WCT7SKOkxIUhkw7Z42TJ_eo16A40EmYfZWpfQyKNhq6pD58A-eozyKh3dd1IfhVhrjQFqBCq8xVnf4xd5fFOIpZwRNOmLE4AAwL6DpQ6/s1600-h/IMG_6867.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1K1thCwviQ7Aln1iZOBHV-rPrr5qNPtvTGJg4WCT7SKOkxIUhkw7Z42TJ_eo16A40EmYfZWpfQyKNhq6pD58A-eozyKh3dd1IfhVhrjQFqBCq8xVnf4xd5fFOIpZwRNOmLE4AAwL6DpQ6/s400/IMG_6867.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446807204606923826" /></a><br />We couldn't be more excited about the positive reception for the two short plays Threshold and our sister company Playpen have contributed to the <a href="http://www.threewisemonkeys.org/">9th Annual Bay One Acts Festival (BOA)</a>. <div><br /></div><div>Audiences and critics have been unanimous in their praise and affection for the <i>The Catcher in the Rye, Cancelled</i> by Jon Brooks and <i>Three Little Words </i>by Tim Bauer, directed by Artistic Director Jessica Holt and Core Member Alex Curtis, respectively. </div><div><br /></div><div>The SF Bay Times calls <i>Catcher</i> a "well-staged riotous parody" and the eight-member acting ensemble" don't miss a beat. Three Little Words is "truly hilarious and not to be missed."</div><div><div><br /></div><div>Check out Linda Ayres-Frederick's comprehensive SF Bay Times review for a full recap:</div><div><a href="http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=12507">http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=12507</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Congratulations all!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Photos: Clay Robeson</div></div>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-89105579310642395132010-02-16T16:56:00.000-08:002010-03-09T17:03:41.619-08:00Threshold is Newly Fiscally Sponsored by CounterPulse!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWpU8mGvxnSpPF3HG0IQ1126qjemIQHQIql9bvu0NpEPCg-4p-SGrdmkcUpwgQCivAXZFDX6FhlVLOpgv41GKpnmgIkTSFf5UjYa8MBjxzC8PWd93d23-Lt55nTpPiqBnPm3NIfa2h_a0A/s1600-h/logo.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 95px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWpU8mGvxnSpPF3HG0IQ1126qjemIQHQIql9bvu0NpEPCg-4p-SGrdmkcUpwgQCivAXZFDX6FhlVLOpgv41GKpnmgIkTSFf5UjYa8MBjxzC8PWd93d23-Lt55nTpPiqBnPm3NIfa2h_a0A/s400/logo.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446804417763453410" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:garamond, serif;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Threshold is thrilled to announce that it has been accepted into the CounterPULSE Fiscal Sponsoship Program! We are so excited to be part of the CounterPulse family. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:garamond, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:garamond, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:garamond, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">To learn more about CounterPulse, click here: </span><a href="http://www.counterpulse.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">http://www.counterpulse.org/</span></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:garamond, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:garamond, serif;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Look for more information about what this all means for us and our upcoming production of TERRORiSTKA soon! </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:garamond, serif;color:#003333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:garamond, serif;color:#003333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-34418666274985915092010-01-25T10:27:00.000-08:002010-03-09T17:04:08.907-08:00Threshold Announces Cast Line-Up for TerroristkaThreshold is so pleased to announce our cast for <i>Terroristka </i>by Rebecca Bella, to play at <a href="http://www.centralworks.org/pages/directions.php">Berkeley City Club</a> May 3-16, 2010.<br /><br />Zarema <a href="http://www.sarahrosebutler.com/">Sarah Rose Butler</a><div><a href="http://www.sarahrosebutler.com/"></a>Jailbird Kate Jopson<br />Mohamed Geof Libby<br />Rustan <a href="http://thethresholdproject.blogspot.com/search/label/About%20Us">Alex Curtis*</a><br />Fatima Adrienne Krug<br />Lena Molly Holcomb<br />Official Shadow Andy Strong**<br /><br />* Threshold Core Member<br />** Currently playing in the Threshold piece <a href="http://thethresholdproject.blogspot.com/search/label/Please%20Don%27t%20Sue%20Us">C<span style="font-style: italic;">atcher in the Rye</span></a> adapted by Jon Brooks to open at <a href="http://threewisemonkeys.org/">BOA 9</a> at Boxcar Theatre, SF Feb 18 - Mar 13, 2010<br /><br />This is an incredible group of people! Threshold is honored to work with them, many of whom are new to Threshold. The one thing that unites us all is a passionate commitment to this rich material.<br /><br />Rehearsals begin in March!<br /><br />More soon....</div>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-11749259235591119872009-12-11T17:26:00.001-08:002009-12-12T13:01:34.680-08:00Three Little Words.<a aiotarget="false" aiotitle="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRzx5PMOA8I-2JWPg7zcx1IHrW5fxktzMUp30fyKVQ-HWNMzLfyB8-svaMMkkZuCSKec9lnQ6gJCo87PBtNWOUyX2IKBHIUukYS4n86w1BiCzzdUyxLRyXomFwhDvlMgiR6vDQbiMKRLY5/s1600-h/shakespeare1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRzx5PMOA8I-2JWPg7zcx1IHrW5fxktzMUp30fyKVQ-HWNMzLfyB8-svaMMkkZuCSKec9lnQ6gJCo87PBtNWOUyX2IKBHIUukYS4n86w1BiCzzdUyxLRyXomFwhDvlMgiR6vDQbiMKRLY5/s400/shakespeare1.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414455314430327250" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Threshold is thrilled to announce it's second contribution to this year's Bay One Acts Festival,</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Three Little Words;</span><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >OR,</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Romeo and Juliet,<br />the Entire Play,<br />with Four Actors,<br />in Three-Word Sentences,<br />Which Can't Be Done.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">by Tim Bauer<br />Directed by Alex Curtis<br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Produced by Threshold's new sister company Playpen (Theater), founded by core member Alex Curtis, <span style="font-style: italic;">Three Little Words</span> is a production of the Bard's classic tale with a few changes. Three Little Words is a witty, theatrical send up of star-crossed lovers and the actors who play them.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">With a full cast of talented, funny actors, Playpen is proud to welcome its new cast:</span><br /></div><div> </div><span style="font-size:100%;">Nick Dickson,</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Jasen Talise,</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Megan Briggs,</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">and Dave Dyson</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">With two Threshold directors taking stage, casts including Threshold actors Cooper Carlson (<span style="font-style: italic;">Exchange</span>), Brittany Berg (<span style="font-style: italic;">Within the Wall of Sand</span>), and Brant Rhotnem (<span style="font-style: italic;">Ayravana Flies</span>), and even two plays by Threshold talents Sam Leichter (actor: <span style="font-style: italic;">Exchange</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Footprints in the Applesauce</span>) and Ben Fisher (playwright: <span style="font-style: italic;">Exchange, Footprints in the Applesauce</span>), BOA 2010 will be a Thresh-Stravaganza not to be missed!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">See you there!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">February 18-March 14, 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Boxcar Theatre, San Francisco</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">www.threewisemonkeys.org</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyKdlirCom63Y4O2PkzjvbXnl2rKAR_kDusEcwBDjAQbNv83UZIlevloEx6E00nPoXq769qsa4iOkhyphenhyphenKUmKjyXAB1om7njsWqLOMl4QfarxHKQgaJ9-YJvNwDX1CHn4ztOAi1RwHW8xhc3/s1600-h/twm1a(2).jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 86px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyKdlirCom63Y4O2PkzjvbXnl2rKAR_kDusEcwBDjAQbNv83UZIlevloEx6E00nPoXq769qsa4iOkhyphenhyphenKUmKjyXAB1om7njsWqLOMl4QfarxHKQgaJ9-YJvNwDX1CHn4ztOAi1RwHW8xhc3/s200/twm1a(2).jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414455729376721042" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9NwtyBz_eo48v-xC6xsxMgoGzRt6z0Nvj3CfTNt7Qx7b84ckm8ZBY9hBu-FvYCYfC9BaUeAOEbwva3KWoT7rCuf_VhWLaZrTvP6Fn94kK4kyuZyIW2P6vKpzs1cxunr1NajzLjDOnLTSH/s1600-h/Threshold+distressed.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9NwtyBz_eo48v-xC6xsxMgoGzRt6z0Nvj3CfTNt7Qx7b84ckm8ZBY9hBu-FvYCYfC9BaUeAOEbwva3KWoT7rCuf_VhWLaZrTvP6Fn94kK4kyuZyIW2P6vKpzs1cxunr1NajzLjDOnLTSH/s200/Threshold+distressed.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414455894147561666" border="0" /></a><br /></div></div></div> </div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728518917444232914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-65814165358949679332009-11-17T09:43:00.000-08:002009-11-17T09:51:38.431-08:00Threshold Audition Notice: Terroristka!<div style="text-align: center;">Audition Notice<br /><br />TERRORiSTKA<br />by Rebecca Bella<br />Directed by Jessica Holt<br /><br />Berkeley City Club, Berkeley<br />Previews: April 30 - May 2, 2010<br />Opens: May 3 - May 16, 2010<br /><br />Auditions:<br />December 16th, 2009<br />6 pm to 10 pm<br />Off-Market Theatre, 2nd Floor Rehearsal Room, 965 Mission St. San Francisco<br /><br />Roles: 3 F (20s), 2M (20s), 1 M (40s), 1F (40s-50s)<br />Small Stipend.<br /><br />For more information and audition appointment, please email: thresholders@gmail.com<br />Please attach your headshot and resume in the email.<br />Please prepare a 1-minute dramatic monologue. Sides will be provided in advance.<br /><br />Rebecca Bella's searing poem-play contemplates a young woman's passage from youthful innocence to volatile patriotism. The story unravels from both ends; as it does we see how young people become entangled in violence, and how they enable the conflicts that destroy their own lives.<br /><br />A deeply felt play, TERRORiSTKA is both a lament for the lost, and a lullaby for the future.</div>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-1307333031236348032009-11-10T17:00:00.000-08:002010-02-09T17:05:32.052-08:00Catcher in the Rye (Cancelled)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLY6LjQu3CeN9Thyphenhyphenhq6dT6UgCnbWrwXf0ny7lXCFFA1UdiFjqpnmM3bK7rmWzkXfrg0YV20klI69A830xOqwI_wdWLhU0PEe_WFVb1siNXm2spE8aDSTFvRjmJz2fkUfQLF7uCDSujn3oc/s1600-h/Holden_Caulfield_by_alexaaaaa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLY6LjQu3CeN9Thyphenhyphenhq6dT6UgCnbWrwXf0ny7lXCFFA1UdiFjqpnmM3bK7rmWzkXfrg0YV20klI69A830xOqwI_wdWLhU0PEe_WFVb1siNXm2spE8aDSTFvRjmJz2fkUfQLF7uCDSujn3oc/s200/Holden_Caulfield_by_alexaaaaa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402649327866610466" border="0" /></a> Threshold is thrilled to announce its next project:<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The Catcher in the Rye (Cancelled)<br />By Jon Brooks<br />Directed by Jessica Holt<br /><br /><br /><br />Produced in association with Three Wise Monkeys at<br />The 9th Annual Bay One Acts Festival (BOA)<br />February - March 2010<br />Boxcar Theatre, San Francisco<br /></div><br />A hilarious parody of the perils of copyright infringement, fair use and dramatic license. It has the Threshold team tickled.<br /><br />We were first introduced to the quirky world-view of playwright Jon Brooks last year when BOA and Bindlestiff produced his riotous "Afterlife," which re-examined some of our most deepy cherished beliefs about what the afterlife might look like. In Brook's imagined afterlife, men give birth to men, a Birdman squawks intermittently, and little orange balls randomly pelt those newly birthed men. A piece of pure anarchy, Threshold couldn't stop laughing.<br /><br />With "Catcher in the Rye" those big, jaw-dropping laughs continue, as a motley crew of copyrighted, trademarked and patented characters goads the playwright as he attempts to apologize to his audience for a show they will never see.<br /><br />Join us for a raucous, ribald rumination on the price of intellectual property and the cost of artistic freedom.<br /><br />See you at BOA at Boxcar in February 2010.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil6eGNgSanxAOdOcJMrSD5AewV2r9UVKMwBdsOmtOx32SzkCB839WEPHS6KFXzLhqsfdNtnzkqK9Uf8K52-zBpmRhb1nwDK9smROQg-78rDTR62LDIR8loiNBVYz5Mdz9M5b53UMDmt-EA/s1600-h/twm1a(2).jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 86px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil6eGNgSanxAOdOcJMrSD5AewV2r9UVKMwBdsOmtOx32SzkCB839WEPHS6KFXzLhqsfdNtnzkqK9Uf8K52-zBpmRhb1nwDK9smROQg-78rDTR62LDIR8loiNBVYz5Mdz9M5b53UMDmt-EA/s200/twm1a(2).jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402649649391597794" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zcGbfJNjx3tcS00rPdE7LN8VKEnk6TboGCW6ON9vArm-F8fBbpFz1Xrj_tZrqMLQ7FouFPqoH2ibXJ3uV6ZLB0bvg2UDJumX8shoHSgHTAQq-7n22ZUciko3CoDs24d2i1ZGenRpu__2/s1600-h/Threshold+distressed.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zcGbfJNjx3tcS00rPdE7LN8VKEnk6TboGCW6ON9vArm-F8fBbpFz1Xrj_tZrqMLQ7FouFPqoH2ibXJ3uV6ZLB0bvg2UDJumX8shoHSgHTAQq-7n22ZUciko3CoDs24d2i1ZGenRpu__2/s200/Threshold+distressed.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402649914410553298" border="0" /></a>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-35130237197011451062009-09-21T19:23:00.000-07:002009-09-21T20:18:56.076-07:00Threshold's New Logo!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJjHidUXVW9pP55shUg2bqORLnUtv262BVZex3f9tlAwwCrXo-uLxuJRLxfHcErYjq0GbXg8isJBkpQR4-QYTvEqnjIUtp_h8IUeq8EPdXNjvZwwkgCuEc1RceEML44Gw-yjy4PyZID8pP/s1600-h/Threshold+Distressed_Black+Background+2.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 204px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJjHidUXVW9pP55shUg2bqORLnUtv262BVZex3f9tlAwwCrXo-uLxuJRLxfHcErYjq0GbXg8isJBkpQR4-QYTvEqnjIUtp_h8IUeq8EPdXNjvZwwkgCuEc1RceEML44Gw-yjy4PyZID8pP/s400/Threshold+Distressed_Black+Background+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384126008730335026" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hello Theatre Fans!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Threshold is pleased to unveil it's BRAND spankin' new logo. Props to Thresholder Alex Curtis for his artistry here. We love our new symbol and hope you do!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We have some big things brewing for Threshold that will all be revealed in the near, near future. BIG things. Very cool.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the meantime, we have a LOGO! yay!</span>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-51594309222530129462009-07-23T15:12:00.000-07:002009-07-27T14:50:23.428-07:00FOOTPRINTS IN THE APPLESAUCE: A World Premiere<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi34ZNyyqFSxg0TtU7opyDu0GtHfH9oTALmM8eC3QlfpaDg34R7_NQPhJIgdzlWPb_5LQT8UTiukIJsBzQIL9mEdFnBV4K7xEsTo53H_S9fXUJK-YP0ZgIxum8Hd6S0BqRa4tBOvBNgM-50/s1600-h/Circus-elephant.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 178px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi34ZNyyqFSxg0TtU7opyDu0GtHfH9oTALmM8eC3QlfpaDg34R7_NQPhJIgdzlWPb_5LQT8UTiukIJsBzQIL9mEdFnBV4K7xEsTo53H_S9fXUJK-YP0ZgIxum8Hd6S0BqRa4tBOvBNgM-50/s200/Circus-elephant.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361785050222599202" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>a <span>threshold</span> project</b><br /><br />the world premiere of<br /><b>FOOTPRINTS IN THE APPLESAUCE<br />(a play about an elephant)<br /></b> by Ben Fisher<br />directed by<span style="font-size:85%;"> Pamela Davis<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:10;"> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:10;"> </span></p> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>Tabitha is a bearded lady studying to be a criminal psychologist.<br />Rollo is a clown who just wants to be taken seriously. And Dudley...<br /><br />Well, Dudley's dead.<br /></i><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;">Please join us this </span><b style="font-family: georgia;">Sunday morning, July 26th</b><span style="font-family:georgia;"> at the San Francisco Theater Festival for this short comedy about love, death, the circus, and how to properly dispose of a</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >n elephant corpse in these trying economic times. </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Starring Sam Leichter and Maggie McCally.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>11:50 am, July 26, 2009<br />Action Theater<br /></b>2nd Floor, Metreon<br />101 4th Street, SF<br /><br />Admission is so, so, SO free.<br /><br /><a href="http://thethresholdproject.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://thethresholdproject.<wbr>blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />Find more festival information, including directions and parking info, <a href="http://www.sftheaterfestival.org/festival/index.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:85%;" ><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;"></span></span><b style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></b><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <b>--- BONUS ---</b><br />Make a day of it at the The San Francisco Theater Festival!<br /><br /><b>THRESHOLD RECOMMENDS...</b><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After </span><i style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Footprints in the Applesauce,</i><i style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </i><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">head over to the Forum at 3:25pm for a Three Wise Monkeys comedy double feature, directed by our very own Jessica Holt. </span><i style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Maybe Tov, </i><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">penned by Thresholder (and </span><i style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Footprints </i><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">director) Pamela Davis, features our buddies Cooper Carlson (</span><i style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Exchange</i><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) and Joe Scheppers. Crish Barth's hilarious </span><i style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Save The Date </i><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">shuffles the cards around again, as Pamela joins Cooper and Joe in the cast.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:85%;" ><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br /><br />(For more information: <a href="http://3wmtheatre.blogspot.com/">http://3wmtheatre.blogspot.com/</a>)<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Or</span><i style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </i><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">check out playwright Ben Fisher and see more of </span><i style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Footprints </i><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">star Sam Leichter in Aristophanes' classic Greek comedy </span><i style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Frogs, </i><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">presented by AtmosTheatre</span><i style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </i><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">at the Waterfall Stage.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:85%;" ><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></span></span>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-63148050133448420772009-06-09T10:49:00.000-07:002009-06-09T11:12:23.522-07:00Footprints: "A play about a dead elephant."<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyp0wEcLk-99MEtFD4RrERw0ZFZlO6MpDo7QanStLO8jzwl7UePHCcoU_cNmr7WQQnMklPBP1uQ8L_r-l1xcg3cxoda8YwTZ8EP2xdY7T4oSZVgcEyINoFHvXp-mFQ26cl_rDSCB3QyVw4/s1600-h/circus-elephant.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyp0wEcLk-99MEtFD4RrERw0ZFZlO6MpDo7QanStLO8jzwl7UePHCcoU_cNmr7WQQnMklPBP1uQ8L_r-l1xcg3cxoda8YwTZ8EP2xdY7T4oSZVgcEyINoFHvXp-mFQ26cl_rDSCB3QyVw4/s200/circus-elephant.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345392281909087538" border="0" /></a>Recently, Threshold Company Member Jessica Holt had an electronic conversation with Ben Fisher, playwright of Threshold's next show,<span style="font-style: italic;"> Footprints in the Applesause</span>. We thought we would reproduce that conversation, unabridged:<br /><br />Jessica: Hey Ben! I am looking for a little blurb on<span style="font-style: italic;"> Footprints</span> -- you got anything like that? What's a one-liner? Do you have anything else you would like to share with the Threshold blog about why you wrote this play?<br /><br />Ben: "A play about a dead elephant."? Little uninspired, but factual. I think the title itself is figurative so the description should be a little more literal.<br /><br />Jessica: That works.<br /><br />Ben: As for why I wrote the play: I do not generally like to comment on the meaning of my plays – not because I want to be mysterious or self-important, but because I believe that the meaning of any piece of art is determined by the listener. I worry that, by commenting too much, I risk undermining that individualized connection.<br /><br />I also don’t like to comment on my writing because I can never decipher why I write something until after it’s finished. You (Jessica) asked me to write a play about an elephant – so there’s an elephant in this one – but I also did what I always do, which is to write about what I am afraid of. I’m afraid of being so overcome by the weight of the past and the uncertainty of the future that I am paralyzed. I am also afraid that this paralysis will be hysterical to someone watching.<br /><br />The play is about the comedy of that paralysis. Dudley, a majestic elephant, is dead before the play starts. Rollo and Tabitha, forced (literally) to pick up the pieces, use his memory and the circumstances of his death as cudgels to batter one another. But the play is not about the past. The wondrousness of Dudley and the circus is gone, or may have never existed. The relative dread or optimism about future is subjective. The characters – a man in clown makeup, a woman with a beard - look back and look forward simply because it’s easier than looking at the present. We find it tragic and funny (I hope), because we have all been made to look ridiculous at such a crossroad.<br /><br />Jessica: This is awesome. Well-said!<br /><br />Er, do you have a picture of yourself being, um, er, writerly? I am going to post this to the blog tomorrow. I will make it a "conversation" between you and me...<br /><br />Ben: That's the closest I get to looking writery:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyrSFI0Uu4Cc_L4HxmJzi92mfZ9Ry7lJ8NmqY3Ej-0W-09sT3nqZmH3AhgK-XO_0XeItaU_xfcjI28cCThMPf-cdXDSDmjzRRjpWr8JRqXSJH5AbZDLljLxxUGvOQfPHVifB8SmkXnX0oz/s1600-h/Ben+Photo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyrSFI0Uu4Cc_L4HxmJzi92mfZ9Ry7lJ8NmqY3Ej-0W-09sT3nqZmH3AhgK-XO_0XeItaU_xfcjI28cCThMPf-cdXDSDmjzRRjpWr8JRqXSJH5AbZDLljLxxUGvOQfPHVifB8SmkXnX0oz/s320/Ben+Photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345390751310691298" border="0" /></a><br />Ben Fisher being "writerly," .....or is it "writery?"<br /><br />Jessica: I freakin' love it.<br /><br />We hope you do too.<br /><br />Come see Footprints in the Applesause Sunday July 26th at the Yerba Buena Gardens Action Theater at 11:50 am.<br /><br />It will be tragically funny.jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-90623862136562254662009-06-08T12:07:00.000-07:002009-06-08T14:36:22.884-07:00Footprints at the San Francisco Theater Festival!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjezfvPTpX6JA6rGhR7tlgesTPkayzhIltSQWDN1pbvX6J9H5DCX29fXve3OJ4vXN96iNpG8m6jG0DH7Z3fFw7imvPLRYcaZp4e2xF64YBZ4vZWXm5cwLN21PMdM11KJG4M1wKcXOBHjYqL/s1600-h/online_ad_SM.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 135px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjezfvPTpX6JA6rGhR7tlgesTPkayzhIltSQWDN1pbvX6J9H5DCX29fXve3OJ4vXN96iNpG8m6jG0DH7Z3fFw7imvPLRYcaZp4e2xF64YBZ4vZWXm5cwLN21PMdM11KJG4M1wKcXOBHjYqL/s200/online_ad_SM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345072362862000658" border="0" /></a>Threshold will lay down new tracks this summer!<br /><br />We are thrilled to debut the new short play <span style="font-style: italic;">Footprints in the Applesause</span> by Ben Fisher at the San Francisco Theater Festival. The festival is a one-day theater extravaganza that will take place on Sunday July 26th at the Yerba Buena Gardens. We perform at 11:50 am at The Action Theater.<br /><br />This is the second collaboration between Threshold and playwright Ben Fisher. We staged his wonderful and creepy morality tale<span style="font-style: italic;"> <a href="http://thethresholdproject.blogspot.com/2009/03/exchange-album_11.html">Exchange</a></span> this past winter at the 8th Annual Bay One Acts.<br /><br />Threshold Core Company Member <a href="http://thethresholdproject.blogspot.com/2009/02/about-us.html">Pamela Davis</a> will direct this darkly comic story about two carnival workers mourning the untimely and macabre death of their beloved trained circus elephant. The production features actors Sam Leichter as ""Rollo the Clown" and Maggie McCalley as "Tabitha," a bearded woman. Threshold audiences will remember Sam as the sinister train station "Clerk" in <span style="font-style: italic;">Exchange</span>.<br /><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;color:black;" ></span><span style="color:black;"></span><br />For more complete information about the San Francisco Theater Festival, and directions to the venue location, please visit:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sftheaterfestival.org/">http://www.sftheaterfestival.org/</a><br /><br />See you at the theater!jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-39187377062574757682009-03-30T17:10:00.000-07:002009-03-31T23:28:35.928-07:00TERRORiSTKA: Afterglow<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZVZKFsRunuHqpHGC3CQ4EBKP9e9SjyzLMp98oFn2eh2V7cS6ulGsYPxjF5amZqtb0G3rxQMszMEGEz42Id42PuhytbY73iydHt1W3qX5hCLKOohjmnI1NvJgTRGThJSIn9fBUjjMbV9oe/s1600-h/DSC00209.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZVZKFsRunuHqpHGC3CQ4EBKP9e9SjyzLMp98oFn2eh2V7cS6ulGsYPxjF5amZqtb0G3rxQMszMEGEz42Id42PuhytbY73iydHt1W3qX5hCLKOohjmnI1NvJgTRGThJSIn9fBUjjMbV9oe/s200/DSC00209.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319601853020974258" border="0" /></a>The staged readings of TERRORiSTKA were a great success this past weekend!<br /><br /> Carla Pauli as "Zarema"<br /><br />We are beyond ecstatic. We accomplished all that we set out to do: we know so much more about this play - what works and what doesn't, more about the historical situation in Chechnya-Russia, more about the staged reading process, and more about ourselves as independent producers!<br /><br />We had wonderful, smart, inquisitive audiences on both Saturday and Sunday, and the feedback session on Saturday was one of the most informative, insightful talk-backs I have listened to in ages.<br /><br />Unfortunately, we had to cut Sunday's session short, but in chatting with you at Cafe Royale after the event, we learned so much from what you all had to say. Thank you for continuing to send us emails with your thoughts!<br /><br />To sum up, some words from Rebecca Bella, our TERRORiSTKA playwright extraordinaire (pictured below!)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUeYxVkdPNJ4riSbbihxWtcRtWIVnQqQHnheJHcafEE487p3WkFRQA_tgjuOaO6BWlL0sl8O_DldoQTDi02oLpHj-xW79YLpZdkCd9HCrHFyDiQlI_K2Pq5llSp4Nn10AesodTPzJxrJpo/s1600-h/DSC00165.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 97px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUeYxVkdPNJ4riSbbihxWtcRtWIVnQqQHnheJHcafEE487p3WkFRQA_tgjuOaO6BWlL0sl8O_DldoQTDi02oLpHj-xW79YLpZdkCd9HCrHFyDiQlI_K2Pq5llSp4Nn10AesodTPzJxrJpo/s200/DSC00165.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319601055781525874" border="0" /></a>It was all too fantastic!<br />My mind is full of rhyming lines.<br />....<br />And yet, the soaring aspirations!<br />And pursuing apparitions!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Thank you to our emerging community of artistic partners. We look forward to incorporating your thoughts into the text and eventual full staged performance of TERRORiSTSKA.<br /><br />Until soon!<br />Team TERRORiSTKA.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3jWPtkP0uqjgy5fcRpWrMXOTfmYZp2mOI-hAG11GSMVs4NXDtwWp_hXs315NP5AL3JndHdPx6LO8hgkh6qozQS5HWuwKvMpkso3oTn5kd7DlVLEl_UUMmU2HULGT9Y7PV3fTMuHaeHH0/s1600-h/DSC00168.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3jWPtkP0uqjgy5fcRpWrMXOTfmYZp2mOI-hAG11GSMVs4NXDtwWp_hXs315NP5AL3JndHdPx6LO8hgkh6qozQS5HWuwKvMpkso3oTn5kd7DlVLEl_UUMmU2HULGT9Y7PV3fTMuHaeHH0/s200/DSC00168.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319602134555416738" border="0" /></a><br />Judith Reuter as "Fatima" and Carla Pauli as "Zarema"<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A Big Thank You to Kathy Wangh for capturing these great shots!jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-48822214800389820622009-03-26T10:16:00.000-07:002009-03-26T10:31:48.012-07:00Terroristka Comes to Life!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_YUg9qRdpNEAQM6y5vYqN_MpRQWUFXFCNDdJDa0MNRscr5WwF4r6egJ0O89ybAqbyXgPqeNFHqV3n4kQvH4yu9rzDKNRa__t68yWbvaPDCg2yvnZKn0VVzoVeMMlCDjWYlKWZhs8mBE5T/s1600-h/-3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 111px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_YUg9qRdpNEAQM6y5vYqN_MpRQWUFXFCNDdJDa0MNRscr5WwF4r6egJ0O89ybAqbyXgPqeNFHqV3n4kQvH4yu9rzDKNRa__t68yWbvaPDCg2yvnZKn0VVzoVeMMlCDjWYlKWZhs8mBE5T/s320/-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317549571126204818" border="0" /></a>Threshold has been in the rehearsal room all week listening to the world of TERRORiSTKA spring to life through the voices of the actors. We look forward to sharing this evocative world with you! See you at the theater.<br /><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br />Sat. March 28, 2009 at 2:00 PM<br /></span></span></div> <div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">The Climate Theater<br /></span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">285 9th St. at Folsom<br /></span></div> <div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">San Francisco<br /></span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/dgfn9a"><b>http://tinyurl.com/dgfn9a </b></a><br /><br /><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sun., March 29, 2008 at 4:00 PM</span></span></span><br /><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">The Shelton Theater</span></span><br /><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> 533 Sutter St. at Powell</span></span><br /><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> San Francisco</span></span><br /><span><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/dgfn9a"><b> </b> </a><a href="http://tinyurl.com/cssv6d"><b>http://tinyurl.com/cssv6d</b></a><br /></span></span><br /></div></span>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-49339474974153347922009-03-22T21:43:00.000-07:002009-03-26T11:19:57.723-07:00Workshopping Terroristka<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKpInupLiNVil6HtI7Qi0rZZ4P79qqV36kVIxY5sqPvkyNEFJmqEuJYwZsICVDV0BDxPuO-WYT7Atxc4lyPo5hILCy3h3a1WD60nCSsCD2rPKjvIOk973oJsIk6qab0pk7FD4U9VNaEqd-/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 120px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKpInupLiNVil6HtI7Qi0rZZ4P79qqV36kVIxY5sqPvkyNEFJmqEuJYwZsICVDV0BDxPuO-WYT7Atxc4lyPo5hILCy3h3a1WD60nCSsCD2rPKjvIOk973oJsIk6qab0pk7FD4U9VNaEqd-/s320/images.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317149882433027106" border="0" /></a>We are deep into the Caucus mountains this week as we workshop the new play Terroristka by Rebecca Bella. We began rehearsals on Sunday in my drafty dining room of the old Berkeley house I live in. 6 actors, 1 playwright and me all squeezed around a table with scripts, and sliced bread with cheese, almonds, dried cherries, a bit of green to munch on (thanks Rebecca!). We put the coffee on and hunkered down to the work.<br /><br />I chatted at the group for the first thirty minutes or so. Talking about what the process would be like this week (very fast!), how the play is structured (primary action barrels forward to the crucial moment with Zarema in front of the cafe, with secondary action always commenting/contexutalizing from that post-bomb future), what kind of play it is (poetic drama/expressionism - Lorca, Brecht, A. Kennedy!), and what that means for the way the world works (we are in Jailbird's interior world, she is recreating the events, the future and its verdict always looming over the present action).<br /><br />Rebecca then spoke a little about the language. It's in verse, but its rhythms are so very American, informed by her own American-ness. We don't need to be too precious. I add in that these people use lots of metaphors and images, they are always speaking in code, and always know what the referent is. Lean into the language and have a rip-roaring good time.<br /><br />And with that, we read the play. Danny, Pamela, Kyla, Carla, Garth, and Judy chomped into it, and the 90 minutes flew by. Who knew! It's a funny play too! Very serious, but these people need to laugh too.<br /><br />We took a wee break - more coffee, a smoke, some pow-wows in the kitchen and the backyard porch. It's freezing. We turn on the heat.<br /><br />We come back, and I show them a slide show of pictures from Chechnya, and the devastation wreaked on Grozny in the last 15 years. It's mind-blowing. It looks like something out of WWII. We can't believe this happend in the recent past. Here are some of the pictures we looked at:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0hkbhxcQKiP3vNwx4FSgSmWHS4YTL6rdXcI1NvRl4Ltc_VnsuIS7HTt-Ngrsv_2g5M1g1G2Tp7qCQ4PCcNCtwHIG8WJe6kfE7fr1T2QDGM4h9EiiaosHvVHEZ_CAxcf4sMySUQSFIrrlG/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0hkbhxcQKiP3vNwx4FSgSmWHS4YTL6rdXcI1NvRl4Ltc_VnsuIS7HTt-Ngrsv_2g5M1g1G2Tp7qCQ4PCcNCtwHIG8WJe6kfE7fr1T2QDGM4h9EiiaosHvVHEZ_CAxcf4sMySUQSFIrrlG/s320/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316845354808577314" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAoB0BYy3JEpckIHsrA6chgK9LIKE9y82CZDIMlltDG-I4V1axuqbLhlEVO7uwNP0jBxjeuQGlYMA7aUVJVkfDDO_l_TsA0RTbhiXNCINz_7VLr1oSyw4LB_SZfZ_6SHxSWWifPegyo5QZ/s1600-h/grozny-city.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAoB0BYy3JEpckIHsrA6chgK9LIKE9y82CZDIMlltDG-I4V1axuqbLhlEVO7uwNP0jBxjeuQGlYMA7aUVJVkfDDO_l_TsA0RTbhiXNCINz_7VLr1oSyw4LB_SZfZ_6SHxSWWifPegyo5QZ/s320/grozny-city.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317148212974405170" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />We also took a look at a couple of YouTube videos with haunting pictures of the country, the people, and the material consequences of the two Chechen wars:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sg8pon-Dcw&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sg8pon-Dcw&feature=related</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39mRpg3oAcE&NR=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39mRpg3oAcE&NR=1</a><br /><br />All very sobering. The cast has so much to contribute, their own relationship to these pictures, questions that I never thought of. We have a curious group of people assembled, and I am glad for it.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW-sA8383xZG8EyVG5PhE4Lk6Wnm_GvcX8_oiC3xZZ3rwlbIATjQEmZjNZc4DfJRaitjfTdbknI6xOdMT7C3wMIWUNw8HRD58T9Yn9loh0IYVsHiVly65lDV2YcOWePs2tjW3KeF_cIn9f/s1600-h/ZaremainJailLowRes.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW-sA8383xZG8EyVG5PhE4Lk6Wnm_GvcX8_oiC3xZZ3rwlbIATjQEmZjNZc4DfJRaitjfTdbknI6xOdMT7C3wMIWUNw8HRD58T9Yn9loh0IYVsHiVly65lDV2YcOWePs2tjW3KeF_cIn9f/s320/ZaremainJailLowRes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317154412231184242" border="0" /></a>I showed the picture of Zarema. The Russians put their accused behind bars, not just in the prison, but in the courtroom too. That's where Zarema is.<br /><br />This is the picture that started it all for Rebecca. Zarema's eyes leap out at us. Alternately a plaintive plea, a hollow stare, an open threat.<br /><br />This week will be an education for us all and will light the way for where we want to go during our next phase.<br /><br />As the cast filtered out of the house as the sun began to set, Rebecca and I were excited, anticipatory and exhausted. It was a good first day.<br /><br />Can't wait to dig in tomorrow and learn more about this story.<br />Jessicajessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003619850398324375.post-79898026068176141642009-03-11T14:54:00.000-07:002009-11-11T06:56:26.269-08:00Join us for our upcoming reading of TERRORiSTKA<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeZvxm31cydwj1Bb0vVRbgH0pfCrzPDTGHZ3KH6KUakw4OXs-bIreMp5-yUqj01Bir_mxtFPx_Z3aH5KUBTsAXaSBwTSUKh0io_zWGRHcVu-2YrywA9wPmtKm4lh42PdVU3y5IzifFfX0-/s1600-h/TerroristkaPostcard.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeZvxm31cydwj1Bb0vVRbgH0pfCrzPDTGHZ3KH6KUakw4OXs-bIreMp5-yUqj01Bir_mxtFPx_Z3aH5KUBTsAXaSBwTSUKh0io_zWGRHcVu-2YrywA9wPmtKm4lh42PdVU3y5IzifFfX0-/s320/TerroristkaPostcard.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312052703640996882" border="0" /></a><b>a threshold project<br /><br />a staged reading of<br />TERRORiSTKA<br />by Rebecca Bella<br />directed by Jessica Holt<br /><br />Based on a true-life story, TERRORiSTKA tells the story of a young female suicide bomber from Chechnya who walked away from her bomb in front of a crowded<br />Russian cafe.<br /><br />Rebecca Bella's searing poem-play contemplates a young woman's passage from youthful innocence to volatile patriotism. The story unravels from both ends; as it does we see how young people become entangled in violence, and how they enable the conflicts that destroy their own lives.<br /><br />A deeply felt play, TERRORiSTKA is both a lament for the lost, and a lullaby for the future.<br /><br />Join Threshold for two staged readings of this beautiful play.<br />There will be a talk-back after each reading.<br /><br />2pm, March 28, 2009<br />Climate Theater, </b>285 9th Street, SF<b><br /><br />4pm, March 29, 2009<br />The Shelton Theatre, </b> 533 Sutter Street, SF<br /><b><br />Suggested Donation $10<br /><br />*********************************************<br /></b><div style="text-align: left;"><b>About the Artists:</b><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Rebecca Bella is a poet, playwright and translator. She began writing this play in early 2004 when she discovered the image and testimony of a female Chechen suicide bomber in a Russian newspaper. At the time, she was working on a Fulbright Fellowship—a project in poetry translation—in St. Petersburg, Russia. The image of this young woman compelled Rebecca to research and write her story. The result is Terroristka.</b><br /></div><b><br /></b><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Director Jessica Holt is a founding member of Threshold, and has directed for Threshold, UC Berkeley, Three Wise Monkeys, and SF Young Playwrights Festival, and assistant directed at TheatreWorks with Robert Kelley and at Shotgun Players with Mark Jackson. She is the new Artistic Director of the Three Wise Monkeys Theater Company, and holds a Master's degree in Theater and Performance Studies from UC Berkeley. Jessica is a member The Magic Theatre's Artist Lab.</b><br /></div><b><br /></b><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Jessica and Rebecca met a year ago in a workshop class offered by Playwrights Foundation. A studio for directors and playwrights learning to work together in "staging the developing play," Rebecca and Jessica are delighted to be putting the theory into practice.</b><br /></div><b><br /></b><div style="text-align: left;">Poster Design by Melissa Fall<br /></div></div><span style=";font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:85%;" ></span>jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774884358851752123noreply@blogger.com0