trip. to Present FINDING GRAFENBERG in 2015

trip., the company that brought Chicago the 2013 sensation, 4Play:Sex in a Series, is proud to present the Midwest premiere of finding gräfenberg, written and directed by Artistic Director Graham Brown, playing at The Hairpin Arts Center, 2810 N. Milwaukee Ave., second floor, February 10 - March 14. Previews take place Tuesday, Feb. 10 and Wednesday, Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. Opening/Press night is Thursday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. The regular performance schedule is Wednesday - Saturday at 8 p.m. All tickets are $20 and may be purchased by visiting http://grafenberg.bpt.me. For more information, please visit www.tripnyc.org.

Valentine's Day Special: For the opening weekend, February 12 - 14, trip. offers a Valentine's Day package that includes two tickets, champagne, chocolate and a surprise NSFW gift for $50.

finding gräfenberg explores the sexual, professional and political tensions in and out of the work place with clarity and unapologetic honesty. Moving from the office, to the bar and, inevitably, into the bedroom, finding gräfenberg places the audience into the action of the play resulting in a blurring of the line between spectator and performer without truly ever entering the world of the "interactive." With this intimate acting style and environment, trip. seeks to draw the audience into the action, rather than push them away with spectacle or pretension.

Originally produced in 2001 in New York City as a workshop production at the Blue Heron Arts Center, finding gräfenberg was a recipient of a grant from The New York State Council on the Arts. In March of 2004 trip., presented a two-month run of the play at The Second Story Theatre in the Shoo neighborhood of New York City. trip.'s inaugural Chicago February 2014 production 4PLAY Sex in a Series was written and performed as a companion piece to finding gräfenberg and utilizes the same techniques.

The term "G Spot" was first introduced to the public at large in the book, The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality. It referred to a 1950 article in the International Journal of Sexology in which Dr. Ernest Gräfenberg wrote about erotic sensitivity along the anterior vaginal wall. While many people have read or heard about Gräfenberg, few have read his actual words. In reality, Gräfenberg only uses the word "spot" twice and he uses it to make the opposite point to the way it has been popularly used. He states "there is no spot in the female body, from which

sexual desire could not be aroused...Innumerable erotogenic spots are distributed all over the body, from where sexual satisfaction can be elicited; these are so many that we can almost say that there is no part of the female body which does not give sexual response, the partner has only to find the erotogenic zones."

The cast for finding gräfenberg includes: Becca Savoy, Cyra K. Polizzi, Graham Brown, Joel Behne, Jason M. Hammond, Rosa SanMarchi, Dan Wilson and Stephen McClure.

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