RAT Strindberg(in Paris) - Shameless self promo!

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Hello, theater simple friends  -
 After a looong local absence, we are finally following up our adaptation of
THE MASTER & MARGARITA with a new work set to have a local premiere at ON THE
BOARDS next week!! We would love to see you - know that our opening night is
Thursday, and there will be a party immediately following. (Hey!! Free beer!
-if you are 21! All for the amazingly low price of $10!)

Please forward this to all your friends! Deluge us with yourselves  - we can
hardly wait to 
SEE YOU IN THE THEATER!
questions? comments? invective? hit reply... or call 206/784-8647
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STRINDBERG  (in Paris)
originally titled Miss Julie(In Paris)
from the writings of August Strindberg
adapted to the stage by theater simple & M. Burke Walker
directed by M. Burke Walker
As STRINDBERG: Llysa Holland, Charles Leggett, and Andrew Litzky.

*Presented as part of On The Boards Artist Access Program helping artists to
self-produce *


>From Russia(The Master & Margarita) to Paris, [via Sweden ]--
Paris, 1895 - August Strindberg, in the middle of alchemy experiments,
insomnic and paranoid, when Jean and Miss Julie (one of literature's Top-Ten
worst  one-night stands) show up.. 

 A collage of Strindberg's letters, essays, diaries and Miss Julie,
 it's bad science and cheap theatrics as genius and madness mud wrestle 
a man into the New Century 100 years ago. A millennial examination of one man
by three actors.


Those theater simpletons tackle a contradictory (and politically incorrect)
Scandahoovian, August Strindberg with their current accomplice M. Burke
Walker. 

This piece, adapted nearly exclusively from various of Strindberg's writings,
is an imagistic examination of a man finding himself on the cusp of a New
Century in Paris, and his attempt to evolve himself into a New Man, and
discover new sciences, leaving his literary reputation behind. 

  what is it???  Drama, collage, cabaret and a little  this-is-your-brain-in-
a-blender 
  where? On The Boards, Behnke Center for Contemporary Performance, 100 W Roy,
Studio Theater, ground level (wheelchair accessible)  lower Queen Anne,
Seattle
  When?  Thursday thru Sunday February 11-14* and February 25-28 at 8pm
   (No performances the week of the 18th)
  How much?  Thursday and Sunday $10 (*anti-Valentine s Day show - single
people $5)
                           Friday and Saturday $12
advance tickets available thru the OTB BOX OFFICE 206/217-9888 
or website www.OnTheBoards.org    or at Bailey/Coy Books on Capitol Hill


This project supported in part by a King  County Arts Commission Special
Projects Grant 


quotes from the Canadian tour....
The Georgia Straight(Vancouver, BC)
  You don t need to like Strindberg s work, or for that matter, to know the
first thing bout him to delight in the ingenious theatricality of theater
simple s interpretation of his life in Paris. 

Vancouver SUN  (B.C.)
 Complexity made accessible - Superb... a challenging work not to be missed by
anyone interested in theatrical innovation.  

See Magazine (Edmonton, AB)
 ...The madness of August Strindberg is writ large in this ingenious
production(making it's world debut) Three actors play the man simultaneously,
narrating his theories and terrors with mesmerizing intensity, delineating the
warped poetry of his thoughts.   

Vue Magazine (Edmonton, AB)
 ...an amazing level of intellectual intensity ...challenging, thrilling
theatre.  

The Vancouver Courier
 There's nothing simplistic about Seattle s theater simple except it s
minimalist approach to props. Everything else is innovative, theatrical,
cerebral, 
multi-layered and multi-textured. 



 *What's this about cheap dates?*


Don t have a date on VALENTINE s DAY???
 Or too cheap to take him/her to a first-run movie?
OR trying to give them a hint...???
 Celebrate freedom from oppressive relationships!
(and make it easy on the wallet-)
Run away with August Strindberg to Paris!!!

from the minds of those who brought you the theatrically giddy adaptation of
Bulgakov s THE MASTER & MARGARITA

Paris, 1895 -August Strindberg, in the middle of alchemy experiments,
insomniac and paranoid, 
when Jean and Miss Julie (one of literature's Top-Ten worst  one-night stands)
show up.
 
(Sound like any date YOU VE been on lately?) 
  look! cheap! (*anti-Valentines Day show - single people $5)
 sure - go ahead and lie - but what does that say about your
relationship!!??!!
advance tickets available thru the OTB BOX OFFICE 206/217-9888,
 on the Web @ www.ontheboards.org  or at Bailey/Coy Books on Capitol Hill
really cheap tix (hey! half-price!!) also available day-of-show in person at
TKT TKT!!!
or you could volunteer at On The Boards and support the culural ecology in
Seattle that way...