June 26 -
August 30
Hot Theatre All
Summer at Aux Dog!
Sol Arts, Goodpasture and Ka-HOOTZ
present
the LIVE FOUR ART Festival
Friday,
June 26th the festival opens with the first of three episodes
of ANY NIGHT LIVE, the new sketch
comedy show produced by Ka-HOOTZ
With the
debut of ANY NIGHT LIVE, Ka-HOOTZ continues to
carry out
its mission as the only theater company in Albuquerque
dedicated exclusively to producing new plays by
living writers. The format of the show includes
original
sketches written by playwrights in the company
with one slot reserved for a local or national
guest writer
(akin to the guest band from Saturday Night Live,
on which the show is modeled). Sketches spoof current
local and national happenings as well as people.
Content for Episode 1 includes: The Rail Runner,
Doctors without Borders, Ron Bell, the Swine Flu,
Lifetime Television and The Headlight Zone, a send-up
of The Twilight Zone series set locally scheduled
to reoccur in future ANY NIGHT LIVE episodes.
The
show, directed by Lou Clark and Becca Holmes,
is written by and features Ka-HOOTZ Company Members:
David Bommarito, Lou Clark, Mark Dunn, Becca
Holmes,
Maggz Gallegos, Don Garcia, Kathleen Richardson,
Wendy Scott, Joy Van Meter and guest actors Nick
Lopez and Amy Suman.
Episode 1 also features a
sketch from guest playwright Kamarie Chapman,
recent graduate
of the UNM MFA Dramatic Writing Program and 2009
Kennedy Center Award Winning playwright. Episode
2 is scheduled for Sunday, July 5th only as a special
matinee performance designed for children and family
audiences.
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Saturday,
June 27th features the first performance of the play
FOUR, produced by SOL
ARTS,
written by Christopher Shinn and directed by Sol
Arts
company member Blake Catherwood
Four is a story
of sexual
freedom on the 4th of July between a man and
a boy,
a girl and a gangster. June, 16 years old, arranges
to be picked up at an abandoned Connecticut strip
mall by Joe, a professor he met online. Meanwhile
Abigayle, also 16, keeps changing her mind about
a good-for-nothing street thug, Dexter, who is
calling the house trying to sweet-talk her into
a date. As
the midsummer night unfolds, fireworks approach;
broken love gives way to rash sex. Like a sleek
roadster Four navigates the weighty subject matter
of Sexuality,
Religion and Race with effortless aplomb—leaving
us with but one moral, if any, that most American
of morals: Freedom Isn’t Free.
There will
be a special holiday performance of Four on Saturday,
July 4th at 8pm.
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Sunday, June 28th features
the first performance of the play ART,
produced by GOODPASTURE PRODUCTIONS,
written by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher
Hampton
and directed
by Sol
Arts company member Christy Lopez
ART is a Tony
Award Winning
play which asks the probing questions: How
much would you pay for a white painting? Would
it matter who
the painter was? Would it be art? The plot
focuses on the friendships of three men played
by actors
Eli Browning, Ryan Jason Cook and Scott Bryan.
As the play unfolds one of Marc's best friends,
Serge,
has just bought a very expensive painting.
It's about five feet by four, all white with
white diagonal
lines. To Marc, the painting is a joke, but
Serge insists Marc doesn't have the proper
standard to
judge the work. Another friend, Ivan, though
burdened by his own problems, allows himself
to be pulled
into this disagreement. Eager to please,
Ivan tells Serge he likes the painting. Lines
are
drawn and
these old friends square off over the canvas,
using it as an excuse to relentlessly batter
one another
over various failures. As their arguments
become less theoretical and more personal,
they border
on destroying their friendships. At the breaking
point,
Serge hands Marc a felt tip pen and dares
him: "Go
on." This is where the friendship is
finally tested, and the aftermath of action,
and its
reaction, affirms the power of those bonds.
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The LIVE 4 ARTS
FESTIVAL runs from June 26-August 30, 2009
at The Auxiliary Dog Theatre. All performances
will
be held
on Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00pm
and on Sundays at 2:00pm.
For tickets and a complete schedule of
individual show dates and times please
visit the Auxiliary
Dog website at: www.auxdog.org or call (505)254-7716.
FOUR
by Christopher Shinn
Directed by Blake Magnusson
With Original Music performed by Tom Blackburn
Opens Saturday, June 27th at 8:00
Special Holiday Performance Saturday, July 4th
at 8:00
Friday, July 10th - Sunday, July 19th
Sunday, August 23rd
Closes Friday, August 28th
$15 General Admission/$10 Students, Seniors & Theatre
Artists
For reservations call (505) 254-7716 or visit www.auxdog.org
Auxiliary Dog Theatre
3011 Monte Vista NE
www.auxdog.org
For reservations
and information
please call 254-7716.
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November
THE PAVILION
Written by Craig Wright
Directed by Andie Rigler
