THE RAT CONFERENCE

Contact List

Manifestos and Missions

Erik Ehn's original proposal in Theater and responses:
"A Proposal and an Alarum"
"Big Cheap Update"

The Conferences

Iowa City - December 1 - 4, 1994

Summary

Articles

"A Gargle of Rats" Theater
"A Vaudeville of Cheap Theatres" Callboard
"By any name, a new rat pack's in the offing" The San Diego Union Tribune
"The Big Cheap Theater movement" The Austin American-Statesman

Seattle - August 25 - 27, 1995

Schedule/Summary

Articles

"Conference of Rats" American Theatre (expanded version)
"Impressive quote unquote Quotes from the Seattle Conference" Z Ticket (San Francisco)
"Big Cheap Theatre" The Artist's Voice (Minneapolis)
"RATs Invade Seattle for Annual Alternative Theatre Conference" Back Stage

Minneapolis - February 29 - March 3, 1996

Schedule

Articles

"On Money: The Rat Race" Theatre

RatRave (Austin) - August 8 - 11, 1996

Schedule/Summary

Articles

"Raving About Theatre" The Austin Chronicle
ARTICULATIONS "RAT Droppings" The Austin Chronicle
"Artists Descend in Search of Big, Cheap Performance " The Austin American-Statesman
"The 3 1/2 RAT Conference in Austin, Texas: Diary of a RAT" The Stranger (Seattle)

RatFest(ation) (New York City) - August 14 - 24, 1997

Schedule

Summary

Articles

RATfest! Village Voice
Civil War on the Fringe New York Times
Fringeapalooza! Village Voice
Ratfest(ation) 1997 Platform Magazine (Seattle)


"Beyond the Fringe: or, The Theater Militia is Coming"
Article, Letters to the Editor, and Editorial in OFF concerning RatFest'97
OFF and on RAT
Letter to the Editor
You Dirty Rat
David, David, David
Editorial

Los Angeles - July 22 - 25, 1999

Schedule

The Rodents Are Coming LA Weekly


Articles

RATs Invade Downtown Back Stage West
RAT Packs 'Em In Back Stage West
RATs Swarm City of Angels American Theatre
The Anarchists' Convention LA Weekly

The Second Iowa City Conference - February 17 - 20, 2000

Schedule

Invite and Reference List

Novi Sad, Yugoslavia - June 25 -July 4, 2000

Schedule

Witness

PhilaRat (Philadelphia) - June 21 - 24, 2001

Schedule

Articles

See IT! Catch the RAT! CityPaper (Philadelphia)
Feature: Brooklyn and Beyond... RAT Show Business
Stage Left, RAT Tales The Village Voice

San Francisco - October 3 - 6, 2002

Invite

Schedule

Summary

Articles

Stage Left, The Rat Pack Hits Frisco The Village Voice
Reinventing the RATs American Theatre

 

Argentina - December 7 - 17, 2003

Rosario Agenda December 7-13
Willaldea: December 14-17

Summary

Articles

Experimenta abre el debate a otras miradas La Capital (Rosario)
El arte de saber ver las diferencias en el teatro La Capital


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