RAT friday rat c sched

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tHE SCHED IS BELOW:
What an incredible day yesterday. A wonderful turnout, theatres form across 
the nation and new rats travelling here. Caridad Svich brought tears to the 
eyes of some with her amazing perspective of working within institutions and 
maintaining one's power and sense of mission. awesome discussion. Actors Gang 
led a hilarious and instructive workshop giving insight into their unique del 
arte style that has been the motor of their creativity for  more than 15 
years. The feast was lovely, the adjacent park lent a sweet mood./ The HIgh 
Cheeze challenge was issued with a Beckett line being used as the test. 
Actors Gang dinated a HUGE puppet for the winner. what a grace of any 
theatres lobby it would be! and the world premiere hearing of the on line 
text collaboration of Stations Of Desire with Christine Dunford, O-Lan Jones, 
Beth Ruscio, and others.Sacred Fools gang shared insights into late night 
programming, and to cap the  evening off at Sloppy Joes after midnight where 
in furthering the late night chat we came up with ad pitches for late 
nite.."GET LATE AT A THEATRE!

Friday, July 23

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


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

11- 12:30 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,Erik Ehn)

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) 
BARBIE OEDIPUS 12 minute play by our favorite rat clown.

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.