Thetare Ninjas Presens INOCULATIONS

Theater Ninjas continue their cutting-edge fifth season in November with "Inoculations", a mind-bending double-header written by Toronto artist Darren O'Donnell and directed by Artistic Director Jeremy Paul. Using rhythm and rhyme, songs and science, "Inoculations" is a crazed meditation on unconscious drives, millennial paranoia, and collective psychosis.  Come for the pumpkin pie, stay for the hallucinations.

The production includes the National Premieres of two plays: WHO SHOT JACQUES LACAN is a Film Noir-style beatnik-infused jam session starring the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and his would-be killers exploring the ways in which our unconscious selves come to life. RADIO ROOSTER SAYS THAT'S BAD, starring Nick Koesters as the titular Radio Rooster, is an experiment performed . . . on the audience themselves. Dr. Rooster uses sound, color, light, word play and songs to frappé science, religion and the supernatural into an interconnected psychedelic gumbo.

"I love these plays because they're totally mad," said Paul.  "They are unique in that they are really about the experience, letting the words and images wash over you and making connections as you go.  It exists as much in your own head as it does on stage. It's a wild ride."

"Inoculations" will be performed at the 78^th Street Studios, the "arts mecca for Cleveland's west side."  In keeping with Theater Ninjas nomadic spirit, the plays will be performed throughout the former Lava Room Recording Studios.

More information and tickets are available at www.theaterninjas.com.