Re: RAT Sara Felder's show Shtik in SF May 10-27

[BruPach@aol.com]

Hi Adam,

My name is Bruce Pachtman, I live in San Francisco and I'm new to the 
rat-list. I just received your note about Sara Felder's show. Thanks.

I'm writing because I'm trying to make contact with Bay Area RAT 
participants. I'm very interested in meeting and exchanging notes with locals 
about performing, opportunities, funding, spaces, you know..the works. Are 
you interested?

I'm not sure if you noticed the letter I posted a few days back about a solo 
show I'm doing in North Beach called, don't make me look too psychotic. I'm 
enclosing the info again in case you are interested in attending. For Rat 
members, I'm operating on a pay what you can basis. Hope to hear from you.

Warmly,
Bruce Pachtman

don't make me look too psychotic

Bannam Place Theater, 50A Bannam Place, nr Grant & Green in SF
415/986-4607, toopsychotic.com, ticketweb.com

Thu.    $15 8:00
Fri     $18 8:00
Sat $15     3:00 (easier parking, easier dining)
Sat $18 8:00

don't make me look too psychotic
 IS NOW IN AN OPEN-ENDED RUN


What don't make me look too psychotic is about:

A playwright dates a woman who presses him to write a show about her. She 
even suggests the perfect title for this unusual romantic comedy that 
celebrates the triumph of a break-up when she cautions, “don’t make me look 
too psychotic.” In a mesmerizing one-man performance, Bruce Pachtman engages 
us as a close friend having a heart-to-heart talk about every sordid and 
savory detail of a romance gone bad. A superb craftsman on stage, Pachtman 
weaves a riveting, surprisingly provocative dialogue between himself, an East 
Coast native now living in San Francisco, and Gloria, the sexy, intelligent 
woman who has his attention. 

Ten reasons to see don't make me look too psychotic:

"don’t make me look too psychotic is gut-bustingly funny, which is no small 
feat considering the seriousness of the material. Pachtman's 
characterizations are perfect...Plus, it's a great story."
-SF Bay Guardian

"don’t make me look too psychotic  has surfaced as one of the big surprises 
of this year's San Francisco theater season"
-SF Station

"don’t make me look too psychotic was scheduled to run for six weeks last 
year -- it ran for six months, and it's back again. It's easy to see why: 
performer Bruce Pachtman loads the piece, about a relationship packed with 
the standard alcohol-and-intimacy problems, with enough humor and neurosis to 
render your therapist obsolete."
- SF Gate ePICK

"Pachtman's dialogue is funny and insightful, and his play is one of the most 
refreshing romantic comedies to come along in some time."
-Timeout.com  (San Francisco)

"it's the dark, impossible griefs touched in his dead-sober scenes that carry 
unconscious weight." 
-SF Weekly

"Pachtman's highly enjoyable 90-minute show makes for an ideal San Francisco 
outing: dinner at a cozy Italian restaurant followed by time spent with a man 
who doesn't lose his sense of humor when life refuses to shower him with 
sunshine and lollipops." 
-Oakland Trib

Reveling in someone else's misery is more therapeutic than, well, a trip to 
the therapist. That reveling is a perfectly viable reason -- although 
certainly not the only one -- to see Bruce Pachtman's autobiographical solo 
show, don’t make me look too psychotic. Once you witness Pachtman's 
unflinching characterization of his deliciously dysfunctional relationship -- 
a bond filled with torturous mind games, warped sexual control issues, and 
emotional neuroses -- you'll be thrilled to be single. "
-Night and Day section, SF Weekly

"One of the perks of dating an artist is supposed to be that you'll be their 
muse and subject for all their creative works. More often than not, this 
happens after the breakup and the results are hysterically funny. This 
one-man show is a romantic comedy that won't leave a cheesy "Sleepless in 
Seattle" taste in your mouth". 
-whatsgoingon.com

"The story, from ecstatic first date to an emotional roller coaster of mixed 
messages and manipulations, is a tale well told. Pachtman's relaxed, 
conversational bantering with the audience, and his use of chummy 
interactivity charms." 
-Santa Rosa Press Democrat

"The success of "Don’t Make Me Look Too Psychotic" is hardly surprising, 
given the sheerly entertaining material...We identify so wholly with Pachtman 
in his frankness that we hang on for the conclusion—if he comes out of this 
story all right, surely we will emerge mostly unscathed from our own grim 
stories...He does come out all right, for the most part, and as his 
show--written, performed, produced, and moneyed all by Pachtman--surges ahead 
through October, Pachtman’s story becomes increasingly more heartening"
-Stanford Daily




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