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Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 1:13
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Subject: Re: RAT rat is...
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."
>