Re: RAT Hey Brad!

["Allison Narver" <anarver@chesnutt.com>]

I know this wasn't meant for our eyes, but since we read it...
What is endo-colonization?
Secondly, tell me more about why your theater group wasn't let into the
fringe festival.  What was the political nature of the piece and why did it
threaten the fringe board?
Signed,
Intruiged
-----Original Message-----
From: brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com>
To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com <rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com>
Date: Friday, February 26, 1999 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: RAT Hey Brad!


>>Do you remember a performance of "Armaggedon" by Brian Finney (a 1 man
>>show) the night the war broke out (or the night b4?) @ the Pioneer
>>Square Theater?
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>God.. Were you there the night someone got up onstage and did a whole
>impromptu rap about: what do you want ... I mean,  I know we all want
>Peace...... Now... but what do we really want??... and then went into a rap
>about endo-colonization?
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>That was me.
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>>Saw your crazy band of guerilla theatre revolutionaries all covered in
>>blood: wish I'd found out where else ya'll performed...did you guys
>>also do guerilla theatre down around 1st avenue near the Pike Place
>>Market, too?
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>That was a side project... just an ad hoc group of folks.. Only did it
>once.. The jailed the two women for indecent exposure  altho I was the only
>naked one... They were in jail for 48 hours....The Alchemical  did a piece
>against paying your taxes in front of the Post office, also at Westlake....
>We also did a sound and Movement interpretsation of Artaud's Theatre and
>the Plague.. Called "the Plague" at the SCCC AIDS day of Rememberance. That
>was also an ad hoc, call my friends, one  rehearsal and go... It got the
>cops called on us.... I also helped to teach a movement piece called
>Apokatastasis at the federal building to whomever was there at the time. It
>was a ritual re-enactment of the murder of the Mayor of Saigon.. Every Day
>at 12 noon - took 30 mins. to teach and 15 to perform, had sung quatrains
>as accompianment. (sp)
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>In a very odd confluence, I ,who went on to work with the Living Theatre,
>( a Borg-like structure itself) am now trying to form a company called
>Sacred Chaos Project.. What is it with this sacredness theme? Hundreth...
>what?
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>Yours in protestation,  (protestantism??).
>
>Brad
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