RAT Edgefest at LATC ROCKS!!!

[Trey Nichols <treynichols@movingarts.org>]

Hi LA RATs, and visiting RAT's,

If you weren't downtown at the LOS ANGELES THEATRE CENTER this weekend, you
missed out on some of the most amazing productions and events in the Edge
of the World Theatre Festival, which runs thru November 19:
The Los Angeles History Project (various LA theatre companies)
2000 Moving Arts' Premiere One-Act Festival (Moving Arts)
Land-fall (Croi - Theatre in Motion)
Crazy Ladies (Katherine Griffith and Darla Fjeld)
Ladies and Gentlemen Miss Ethel Waters (Charmaine Mancil)
Something Persists & Sap (primal elements)
and
Saving Private Pickle Plant (Frogworks)

LATC IS STILL THE PLACE TO BE!
Two more Edgefest shows opening this Thursday Nov. 16 (PAPA'S BRAND NEW BAG
by Peter J. Harris and THE LEGACY PROJECT by Nicole Angileri), and you can
still catch Land-fall, Crazy Ladies, Ladies and Gentlemen Miss Ethel
Waters, and Moving Arts Premiere One-Act Festival.  (sorry, the primal
elements and Frogworks* shows only ran opening weekend).

(*Frogworks will be performing at other venues during the Festival--go to
www.edgeoftheworld.org for dates, times, and locations.)

A limited number of Edgefest passports are still available at the LATC box
office (for pre-show phone orders, call 213/485-1681)--for a $15 passport,
you get into any Edgefest show for five bucks!

Here's information about ALL SIX great Edgefest shows still running at LATC:

LAND-FALL (Croi - Theatre in Motion in association with Zoo District)
Monday Nov. 13 @ 8pm
Tuesday Nov. 14 @ 8pm
Friday Nov. 17 @ 10:30pm
Sunday Nov. 19 @ 8pm
Land-fall is a delightful evening of original movement pieces, ranging from
the lyrical and dramatic GODDESS to the quirky comedy of WORK/PLAY.  One of
the major themes Land-fall explores is the dynamic of relationships, the
magnets that bring people together and the forces that pull them apart.
Croi (which means "heart" in Gaelic and is pronounced "cree") Theater in
Motion is a new movement ensemble based in Los Angeles, co-founded by Mark
Epstein and Milly Gallagher.  Their aesthetic and discipline have roots in
Japanese theatre, modern dance, stage combat, and Decroux technique, among
other influences.  Running time:  75 min.  Tickets:  $15 without passport.
Info:  (310) 396-9175

CRAZY LADIES (Katherine Griffith and Darla Fjeld)
Wednesday Nov. 15 @ 8pm (ONLY ONE PERFORMANCE REMAINING!!!)
This dense, fast-paced solo show performed by Katherine Griffith serves up
a dish of multiple personalities that explore the borderline between
craziness and sanity in the loony lives of women in a world gone mad.  As
their stories are told from the couch to their madhouse shrink, played by
a--well, you'll just have to see it--we learn that "Crazy Ladies" become
violent over egg rolls, suicidal over sales, paranoid at the gym,
schizophrenic for a cigarette, insane over germs, and more than envious of
penises.  Directed by Darla Fjeld.  Running time:  75 min.  Tickets: $15
without passport. Info:  (310) 921-2582.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MISS ETHEL WATERS (Charmaine Mancil)
Wednesday, Nov. 15 @ 10pm  (ONLY ONE PERFORMANCE REMAINING!!!)
Fresh from a smash run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, actress and
cabaret singer Charmaine Mancil brings her one-woman show to Los Angeles
for a special Edgefest.  Mancil retells the life of the late blues singer
Ethel Waters, touching on her family, her loves, and her career, employing
many of the songs that Waters made famous to illuminate the story.
Directed by Elliott Woodruff.  Running time:  90 min.  Tickets:  $15
without passport.  Info: (323) 822-9335.

THE LEGACY PROJECT (Nicole Angileri)
Thursday Nov. 16 @ 8pm
Saturday Nov. 18 @ 8pm
Sunday Nov. 19 @ 6pm
The world premiere of Nicole Angileri's new solo show.  THE LEGACY PROJECT
is an interactive adventure into one woman's power to make a difference.
Plus there's a cool funky tree made of steel pipes that's been hiding
behind a curtain for all the other shows--THIS is the show that the tree
WAS BUILT FOR!  IT'S A MUST-SEE!  Running time:  45 min.  Tickets:  $12
without passport.  Info:  (213) 482-3260

PAPA'S BRAND NEW BAG (INAB/Black Artists Alliance Productions)
Thursday Nov. 16 @ 9pm (that's right, 9pm)
Friday Nov. 17 @ 8pm
Saturday Nov. 18 @10:30pm
Playwright Peter J. Harris offers this powerful drama featuring Billy Mayo
about an African-American man who refuses to be a deadbeat dad, despite his
divorce from the mother of his two young kids.  Directed by Tamara Sibley.
Running time: 90 min.  Tickets: $15 without passport.  Info: (714) 891-1524.

2000 MOVING ARTS PREMIERE ONE-ACT FESTIVAL  (Moving Arts)
Thursday Nov. 16 @ 8pm
Friday Nov. 17 @ 8pm
Saturday Nov. 18 NO SHOW**
Sunday Nov. 19 @ 2pm
A Festival within a Festival!  Eight great new one-act plays presented in
two programs--Evening Red and Evening Blue!  While the 2000 Moving Arts
One-Act Festival itself runs through Dec. 3,  dates that coincide with the
Edgefest are all Evening Blue.  The program is as follows:  Pickup Lines by
Rob Miller; New Shoes  by Sheila Callaghan; A Good Smoke by Don Cummings;
and Monsieur Felix Fox Fly by John Arnold.  Running time: 120 min.
Tickets:  $18 without passport.  Ticket Reservations:  (213) 485-1681.
Moving Arts Info: (213) 622-8906.

(**cuz all the Moving Artists will be jumpin' and swingin' at the Wilshire
Grand Hotel for a very special event-- VEGAS, BABY!   Care to join us or
learn more?  call (213) 622-8906 for more info.)

The Los Angeles Theatre Center is located at 514 South Spring Street in
downtown Los Angeles.  There's a green gated parking lot at 6th and Main,
adjacent to theatre, and other parking lots on Spring.

Enjoy the shows!

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