Re: RAT sched

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1999 RAT Conference Schedule as of Thursday July 15th 

Thursday, July 22

Location:
Ivy Substation, 9070 Venice Bl., Culver City
(two blocks west of Robertson)
)

noon-1 p.m.	RAT Frat - Meet & Greet, Coffee, greet RATCONVOY from Vegas
1:00-2:00 	RAT CO PRODUCTIONS:. Led by Mitchell Gossett(Bottom's Dream)
How to use the conference to set up relationships and co productions.
2-3:30 p.m.    "RATs Nest - How to Work Within an Institution and Still Be a 
Rat
		(Caridad Svich, L.A. playwright)

4-6 p.m	"RAT del Arte Workshop"
	(Mark Seldis, Actors' Gang, L.A.)

6-8 p.m.	Feast 
	RAT Tradition, host community feeds our visitors.

                        "High Cheeze Challenge" - cunning cheap solutions to 
impossible stage directions.  A performance challenge issued to competing 
teams of directors, designers, playwrights, and actors; results presented 
late night on Saturday.
(Matthew Bretz, Circle X, LA)

8-10 p.m.	PERFORMANCE:  "Stations of Desire:  Saints, Sinners, and 
InBetween," world-premiere performance with actors from across the country of 
an online text collaboration by Neena Beber, Cusi Cram, Jorge Cortinas, 
Heather Dundas, Julie Hebert, Julie Jensen, Ruth Margraff, Rachelle Minkoff, 
Anne Garcia Romero, Kate Snodgrass, Caridad Svich, Candido Tirado, and 
Elizabeth Wong, developed with support of the Mark Taper Forum, L.A.
(directed by Mitchell Gossett, Bottom's Dream, L.A.; Jason Newlander, Salvage 
Vanguard, Austin, TX; and Lee Wochner, Moving Arts, L.A.)

10-11:30 p.m. 	"RATs After Dark - Late-Night Programming Roundtable" - 
successful models/cash cows of late night performance.
(John Sylvain, Sacred Fools, L.A.)

11:30 p.m.- ??	Ratsass Schmoozefest - drinking, etc.

 
Friday, July 23

Location:
Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring Street, Downtown


10-11 a.m.	Elixir of the Gods - coffee, etc.

11- 12:00 p.m.	"RAT Scraps" - private publishing and other ideas for 
playwrights and theatres.
		(Douglas Messerli, Sun and Moon Press, L.A.)

11:30am - 1 p.m. "Got Milk?" - issues of language in new work.
		(Jeffrey M. Jones, NYC playwright and Kelly Stuart, L.A. 
playwright)

1-2 p.m.	lunch break

2-3:30 p.m.	"Running a Theatre Without Driving Yourself Crazy" - 
strategies for producing and presenting without frustration.
(Lee Wochner, Moving Arts, L.A.)

2-3:30	"The RAT Lady Sings" - an investigation into the opera/theatre fusion 
happening everywhere.
(Chris Jeffries, Annex Theatre, Seattle, and Ruth Margraff, NYC playwright)

4-6 p.m.	PERFORMANCE:  "Privileged and Confidential" - world-premiere 
webcast production, using live actors on two coasts.
(Peculiar Works Project, NYC)

6-7 p.m.	Reception hosted by Peculiar Works Project, NYC

7-midnight	PERFORMANCE:  "Night of 1,000 (L.A.) Playwrights" - dozens 
(or hundreds?) of new plays in brief snippets.
(Jon Lawrence Rivera, Playwrights' Arena, L.A. and Joshua Furst, 
(parenthetical) theatre, NYC)
10:00 pm:	PERFORMANCE: staged reading of DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS By Jeff 
Jones. Directed by Gaby Schaefer(NY) with actors from LA and Washington DC.
midnight - ??	Ratsass Schmoozefest - drinking, etc.
 
Saturday, July 24

Location:
Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring Street, Downtown


10-11 a.m.	Manna from Heaven - Coffee, etc.

11 a.m. -1 p.m	"Shape Scenes" - a playwrighting process workshop which 
applies geometric shapes to scenes.
(Suzanne Maynard, Seattle)

11:30 a.m-1p.m. "Setting the Traps:  Marketing for RATs" - How RAT theatres 
can better market their shows without breaking the bank.
	(Mark Shapiro, Annex Theatre, Seattle)

2-3:30 p.m.	"Electrified RATs" - The good, bad and ugly of RAT online.
	(Nick Fracaro, Thieves Theatre, Brooklyn)

2-3:30 p.m.	DISCUSSION: CORNERSTONE THEATRE (LA)  Aesthetics and 
challenges working with community  projects.
	 

4-6 p.m.	"RAT Trap - Large Organizations:  Helpful or Helpless?" - a 
pointed debate (with discussion) between leaders and agitators.
	(Ben Cameron, Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group, Inc.; 
Erik Ehn, playwright and founder, RAT Conference, San Francisco; Nick 
Fracaro, Thieves Theatre, Brooklyn; Lars Hansen, President and CEO, Theatre 
LA)

6:15 - 7:00 	PERFORMANCE:  Sledgehammer Theatre, San Diego

7:15-8:00 p.m.	RAT Nosh (pizza and beer)

8-10 p.m.	PERFORMANCE:  "Lawyers" - World premiere performance/reading 
of a play by L.A. playwright Nat Colley, directed by Julie Briggs.
	(Moving Arts, L.A.)

 10-11 p.m.	Reception hosted by Moving Arts, L.A.

11:30 pm-12:30 a.m	PERFORMANCE:  "High Cheeze Challenge Performances" -
performances resulting from Thursday's challenge.

12:30 a.m.	Ratsass Schmoozefest - drinking, etc. 10-11 p.m.	
Reception hosted by Moving Arts, L.A.

Sunday, July 25
POWERHOUSE THEATRE  3116 2nd St.  SANTA MONICA                                
    (one block from Venice Beach)
10-4 pm.:     TBA    Performance, discussions and BEACH BLANKET BINGO. 
5:00 pm; Chili Cookoff
NOTES:  

1.	Precise event titles and moderators subject to change; for 
updates/info:

RAT Hotline:  310-281-9517
Or
RAT page on www.movingarts.org

2.	On-site conference coordinator:  Frankie Cohen (for last minute 
scheduling changes, rehearsal booking, and conference questions.

Mitchell Gossett						Lee Wochner
Bottom's Dream						Moving Arts
310-231-0446							323-665-8961