Performers Under Stress Opens Fall 2012 Season with YOU NEED TO READ POETRY! World Premiere, 11/30-12/23
By: BWW News Desk
By extracting its essence, great poetry transforms life's experiences into verbal collages that touch our souls. YOU NEED TO READ POETRY! explores deeper the physical and emotional context of poetry and its influence on where we, as humans, live today; a world of sound bites.
Dedicated to exploring the unknown, the undocumented, the unspoken, and the unexpected, Performers Under Stress pushes poetry's vocabulary into a synesthetic experience of movement, image, and sound. YOU NEED TO READ POETRY! features over 40 poets, from Langston Hughes and Anne Sexton to Nikki Giovanni and Lucia Perillo, for an experience of poetry in a theatrical context; intense, funny and real. Developed through a series of physical theatre workshops, YOU NEED TO READ POETRY! promises audience members a unique opportunity to experience joyous, high-energy, intensely kinetic ensemble work as multimedia elements entwine with the language of poetry to create poetically inspired movement.
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The Secret Garden Warren Theater at Sonoma State University (6/12-6/28) |
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West Side Story—Film with Live Orchestra Davies Symphony Hall (7/09-7/10) |
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The Still Point: An Immersive Experience SOMArts Cultural Center (7/16-7/25) |
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark SPARC (7/03-7/26) |
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Los Angeles Children's Chorus and San Francisco Boys Chorus Calvary Presbyterian Church (7/03-7/03) |
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Comedy Oakland at Elbo Room Sat July 25 7pm Elbo Room Jack London (7/25-7/25) |
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Comedy Oakland at Elbo Room Sat July 11 7pm Elbo Room Jack London (7/11-7/11) |
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Rock'n the Divide BarmHaus Brewing Co. (6/27-6/27) |
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Private Lives by Noel Coward Santa Cruz Shakespeare (9/04-10/04) |
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Comedy Oakland at Elbo Room Thu July 16 8pm Elbo Room Jack London (7/16-7/16) |