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Taking a more biological approach..... Which sort of theater rat are
you??
Kangaroo
rats...
live in colonies in arid regions and burrow into
the ground, from which they emerge at night to feed on seeds, fruits,
vegetation, and some insects. They are capable of surviving for long periods
without water, which they derive from their food; they also have highly
efficient kidneys for the removal of wastes.
Naked Mole-Rat
organized in castes according to task; castes distinguished by
appearance
live underground in colonies; similar to social
insects; moves backwards easily
highly social; dig extensive tunnel
system; constant temperature (avoid outside extremes)
Bush Rat
Bush, or wood, rats live far from human habitations and are found
are found in wooded and desert areas throughout the United States. They build
characteristic dome-shaped nests, about 1 meter (about 4 ft) high, and in some
species the exterior of the nest is studded with needle-sharp thorns or bits of
cactus for protection against natural enemies. Bush rats feed chiefly on green
vegetation.
Bandicoot Rat
giant rat of southern Asia, unrelated to true bandicoots.
It is an agricultural pest in the grain crops and gardens of India and Sri Lanka
and is known for the piglike grunts it emits when attacked.
Cheers,
Cat Hebert
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>
> "rat is an anarchic association of theater artists committed
to
> sharing work
> and ways of working outside market and
political conventions of
> development.
>
> We are anarchic:
unregulated and unstructured, collecting no dues,
> electing
> no
officers, maintaining no centralized calendar, lawless.
>
> We are
an association: communicating by all means, but most real in
>
live
> encounters - believing that the performing arts are corporal
> mercies, caring
> for bodies in space through acts of
hospitality. We struggle at the
> same
> time to understand love as
a rounded dramaturgy, not sentimental.
> Fellowship
> is rooted in
the common ground of craft, not free-traded on the
> plane of
>
emotional commerce. We don't have to work like each other, like each
>
other's
> work, or even like each other. We work with and for each
other.
>
> We share work and ways of working: by requiring each
other's labor
> and
> expertise, stepping past advertising and
news. We cast each other,
> co-write,
> seize each other's
resources, make problems with each other.
>
> We are outside the
market on the theory that every use of a dollar
> represents a failure of
hospitality. Money is morally neutral but
> imaginatively stunted; we
promote barter and unmediated exchanges of
> goods
> and services.
We look for alternatives to conventional script and
> organizational
development (catharsis models as defined by Boal) in
> the
> belief
that the myth of perfectible efficiency endorses stasis,
> thing
ness,
> and unjust concentrations of wealth (wealth as variously
defined).
>
> t" because: every city has them; because build the
new in the shell
> of
> the old; cunning; unlovely, ineradicable.
Ana acronymic: radical
> alternative
> theater, room and
transportation, race against time.
>
> A rat meet is any size; any
one can call one together; whoever
> comes, is (as
> per Alternate
Roots); whatever resources there are, as long as they
> are
>
shared, are sufficient. Every effort is made to provide food and
>
shelter.
> The content of the meetings tends to be satisfied by the fact
of
> their
> happening; meetings "happen" when bread is
broken.
>
> This is the Big Cheap Theater - mutual, tawdry,
unstoppable,
> kenotic,
> present, grace-full, as much an ethical
as an esthetic enterprise.
> We old
> the right to fail, to
scatter, to let go, to re-form improbably, to
> infiltrate, interdict,
self-contradict, disavow the principles set
> down
> here, to make
space when all space was thought collapsed, to make
> that space
>
habitable by infusing a portable, repeatable sense of home:
> residence
at
> tempo.
>
> Write your own damn manifesto."
>
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