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RAT MATING CRIES: Which Night?

Friends-

If you're in the Bay Area, I hope you can make one of our performances. We're new kids on the block here, and really need people to come.

Wednesday, Jan. 5, at Coffee Catz in Sebastopol, we're presenting an "Evening with The Independent Eye" - lots of different stuff from our repertory, old stuff and new, in a very informal bardic evening. Just show up. We start at 8, and really hope to pack the place. This is a new direction for us, working toward a more "bardic theatre" style, and in an ambience where we can regularly try out new stuff without the pressure of opening a whole show.

And MATING CRIES opens at Noh Space in San Francisco Jan. 7-9 and 14-16, then comes up to the Subud Center in Sebastopol on Fri/Sat, Jan. 21-22. We'll discount tix to $10 for anyone who comes in a group of six or more, any night. And we have special discount nights too, one for every lifestyle, and people can just identify themselves appropriately. So you can figure out what best fits your head-

* Friday, Jan. 7, 8 p.m. is Artists' Night, for all self-proclaimed artists.
* Saturday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m. is Spirit Night, for anyone who's part of any defined spiritual path.
* Sunday, Jan. 9, 7 p.m. is Healers' Night, for those who pursue any healing profession.
* Friday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m., is Friends of Eros Night - define that for yourself.
* And Saturday, Jan. 17, 8 p.m. is Pagans' Night, for Neo-pagans of all ilks.

We may give some sort of special recognition to those who fit *all* categories and are still fully functional. ;-) Of course, everyone is welcome any night. Email me for directions & info. Really hope some RAT's can make it, and do what you can to help us get a crowd.

Peace & joy-
Conrad & Elizabeth

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MATING CRIES is a duo piece - six micro-dramas about eros - in many styles, including the very surreal, but with a grounding in the heart's reality. We've had spectacular response to it in its initial runs in Philadelphia and DC, and at Dell Arte's Mad River Festival, Celebration of Sacred Sexuality, and the Festival of Ensemble Theatres at the Yerba Buena Center last June.

Flowing, poetic staging. The tone is frank, but warm and gentle; they achieve an intimacy with the audience through trust and respect. Mating Cries is a joyous event, a deeply moving evening meant to be experienced with someone you love. -Main Line Times

Inventive skits, a script replete with insightful, poetic writing, and an appropriate sense of ease and intimacy between the actors. Watching them here, you know they have no doubt that their coming together has been a good idea. -The Philadelphia Inquirer

Bishop has directed with a gentle, almost caressing hand. Both he and Fuller are seasoned storytellers for the stage. -The Washington Post

Achingly beautiful. . . At the end of the play, the elderly couple, having become the characters from mythology whose story they are telling, merge with Bishop and Fuller and finally with us in the audience - each of us in the process of being transformed by our own respective couplings, uncouplings and recouplings. -Philadelphia City Paper

And from some of our audience members-

Intense, provocative, erotic. - Very wonderfully personal & one of the very best shows I've seen in a very very long time, anywhere. - The episode that struck me most was that of Kali. It was quite poignant - the imagery of babies all over the floor, yet at different stages of their lives reminds me we are all "children blown up by age." - You have touched me to my core. Your message - and magic - is the same one I've been hearing in my heart for the last ten years, the use of myth/theatre/eros is a wonderful tool for telling truths. - Wonderful! The masks and puppets are great. As you animated them, I could have sworn their faces changed expression. - Baucis & Philemon touched me - I mourned my 19-year failed marriage, wishing we could have been trees together. . . Great! - All your shows are poetic, but this one was pure poetry. It rang many buttons and bells for me. Thanks!






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