INFRINGE FEST - WWW.INFRINGEFEST.ORG GUMP: With Your Pal, Charlie Davis LOCAL COLOR… ManChild: The Monster at the End of the Book Thrill Me [love 'n' death musical] [a box of chocolates] [post-gender cabaret] ALLWAYS (in the Theatre) Fri 8pm Sat 8pm Sun 8pm Wed Nov 15, Thu Nov 16, Fri Nov 17, Sat Nov 18, Sun Nov 19 The Baroness Undressed [burlesque meets Butoh] MARCER [Marcer Manor, 1000 North Rampart] / MAGS Fri 11pm, Sun 9pm ALLWAYS Thu 11pm, Sat 7pm, Sun 7pm The tantalizing and terrifying true-life tale of famed Charlie reenacts "Forrest Gump" all by himself, in TIGERMEN Fri 7pm, Sat 9pm, Sun 9pm Stanley Roy & Tsarina Hellfire Present murderers Leopold and Loeb, retold in an award- MAGS [Mags 940, 940 Elysian Fields] / scenes chosen by the audience, from a box of New Orleans’ infamous Baroness Michaela de A song ‘n’ dance journey into the mind of a manchild, winning Off-Broadway musical. ALLWAYS [AllWays Lounge, 2240 St Claude] / chocolates, so you never know what are you’re going Pontalba breaks the fourth wall to tell the story of a exploring the idea that each of us is born a blank ISTANBUL [Café Istanbul, 2372 St Claude] / to get. Charlie will hand out beers and drink with you! brutal attack by her father-in-law, while undressing. canvas, then bombarded with instructions of what it DOCUMENTARY THEATRE… MUDLARK [The Mudlark Public Theatre, 1200 NEC SPE / NEC METU (no hope / no fear) Calisaya Blues [historic drama] will take to be Man or Woman. Puppets, too. Crawling with Monsters Now Port St] / HAPPYLAND [Happyland Theater, 3126 [interwoven historic monodramas] VALIANT Wed 7pm, Sat 7pm, Sun 3pm [homemade testimony] Burgundy] / TIGERMEN [The Tigermen Den, 3133 MUDLARK Wed 9/10:30pm, Thu 9/10:30pm, Fri In 1906 Storyville, African-American abortionist Dr PUPPETRY… BALLROOM Fri 9pm, Sat 7pm, Sun 5pm Royal St] / BALLROOM [Backyard Ballroom, 3519 9/10:30pm Sat 9/10:30pm, Sun 3/4:30pm Jack sees prostitute Hattie Covington, who seeks a Cockroaches [puppet drama] Latino Theatre Initiatives (Rio Grande Valley) St Claude] / HATCHERY [The Hatchery above Spit n Vigor (Brooklyn) cure for her ‘trick baby.’ Drawn from Louis Maistros’ BALLROOM Wed 7pm, Fri 7pm, Sat 5pm Life in war-torn communities along the Texas-Mexico NOLA Shaolin-Do, 4210 St Claude, France Ave NEC SPE: Great Baroque painter Caravaggio confesses acclaimed “The Sound of Building Coffins”. The Salt Wives & Company border, using stories from the artists’ own families. entrance] / VALIANT [The Valiant Theatre & his hideous sins to an imagined or ethereal priest after Parade Route [huge ensemble comedy] Based on the story by surrealist Bruno Live music, projected images, original videos. Lounge, 6621 St Claude, Arabi] his own brutal and untimely death, searching for VALIANT Thu 9pm, Fri 11pm, Sat 5pm Schulz, Cockroaches attempts to answer the most forgiveness. NEC METU: Great Baroque painter “Every year Val throws a party for Endymion. She lives bedeviling question of our time: what happens to PERFORMANCE ART… Artemisia Gentileschi recounts her notorious rape and CLASSICS… on Orleans, so you can see the whole parade from the someone who hates cockroaches with a cockroachy Form/Focus [devised in-the-round] torture, reclaiming her legacy. roof outside her bedroom. There's tons of booze and passion? A dark and funny tale, presented with live Accidental Death of an Anarchist HAPPYLAND Thu 7pm, Fri 9pm, Sun 3pm good food. Try to make it; it’s the best way to see the music, original narrative, mask work, and puppetry. One Person [a romance for one] Investigating the human form in relation to other [slapstick anarchism] parade and usually a pretty good time. I know it’s the TIGERMEN Sun 7pm ONE SHOW ONLY Kate Culhane and the Dead Middle Man forms. The former Cobbleslop Group uses scientific HAPPYLAND Fri 11pm, Sat 7pm, Sun 5pm trashiest parade! I know you barely know Val. To be Deep South update of the Dario Fo satire about police The author, needing to talk, addresses his ex-love in [puppet folktale] method, telescopic vision, active questioning. the audience. This is the only way they can still get honest I only see her once a year. It’s cool though; she brutality, heavy on the biting monologues. MUDLARK Wed 7pm, Thu 7pm, Fri 7pm Sat 7pm, Sun Obfuscation [surreal seminar] together. By off-off-Broadway great Robert Patrick. loves that everyone comes out." 7pm Pulp Shakespeare [Elizabethan parody] BALLROOM Thu 7pm, Sat 11pm, Sun 7pm Postcards from Over the Edge The Mudlark Puppeteers Salvagers [a chair, a table, a voice] Human Head Performance Group (Brooklyn) HAPPYLAND Wed 7pm, Fri 7pm, Sat 5pm [documentary theatre] In the aftermath of the Irish potato famine, an TIGERMEN Fri 9pm, Sat 7pm A seminar on effective communication. The audience Blood-drenched Fakespearean stage adaptation of ALLWAYS Thu 7pm, Fri 7pm, Sun 5pm intrepid young woman matches wits with a spectre of Curious Theatre Branch (Chicago) learns to exude confidence, manipulate bosses, evade “Pulp Fiction”. A cast of seven plays 25 roles. From Storyville to today, this new work explores New greed. Will our heroine save her village from the “After everything has collapsed, who picks it up again? arrest by the secret police. A Kaufmanesque The Shop Around the Corner [romantic comedy] Orleans' complex relationship with prostitution, forces of darkness at the cost her immortal soul? Somebody has to get in there and just get started.” A exploration of the ways the powerful Ikea-hack VALIANT Fri 7pm, Sat 9pm, Sun 5pm including the civil suit over "Crimes Against Nature." show that explores the effort of salvaging, of starting Spoons and other stories [puppet monologues] communication for control. Original adaptation of the Miklos Lazlos romantic again and getting on with it. Whatever it is. By an Tenderloin Trilogy: Those Who Posed MUDLARK Wed 8pm, Thu 8pm, Fri 8pm Sat 8pm, Sun Split the First Atom comedy, reset to 1930s New Orleans. Performed in acclaimed solo performer, Jenny Magnus. [boudoir drama] 8pm [a ritual in the making of everything] the classic radio theatre form, but updated with light MARCER Wed 7pm, Thu 7pm, Fri 7pm abandoned ships Whales & Souls [adult campfire story] ISTANBUL Sun 7pm blocking, props, and costumes. Amy Reuben’s historically grounded, artistically A hand-puppet trapeze artist yearns for a life outside MAGS Thu 11pm, Fri 7pm, Sat 9pm A storytelling event that breaks as many spells as it infused memoirs of three of the Storyville prostitutes of the circus. Two other short works about belonging COMEDY… Sexy Dirt Productions (New York City) casts. These stories combined with a live, dark-pop Award-winning cautionary tale, gritty and sensual, who modeled for EJ Bellocq circa 1912. and relationships are told through tabletop puppetry soundtrack will have you hanging on every word. Is She Dead Yet? [white comedy] about the Creature from the Lake. An outsider and shadow puppetry. Follow teenaged Lu on a mythical adventure to a VALIANT Fri 9pm, Sat 11pm, Sun 7pm seduces a conservative village with offers of the BURLESQUE & CABARET… world beyond the Sun and fall into an epic tale that Absurdity, gallows humor, Greek tragedy all inform an unknown. A fable that stops at industrialization, Booze, Broads & Bukowski MUSICALS… brings all to the heart of interconnectedness. all-American satire of Euripides’ Alcestis. Meet Aretha, climate change, and queer romance on its way to the [dirty words in motion] Piece of Me [romantic madness musical] noble young housewife of the plains and the last black villagers’ downfall. ISTANBUL SUN 9pm VALIANT Wed 9pm, Thu 7pm, Sun 9pm PERFORMANCE POETRY… person on earth, on the day of her foretold sacrifice. New Orleans’ most literate burlesque returns. Myrrh Larsen Music (Portland) Liberty Is Presumed to be Sunk The Killing Noise of the Out of Style A descent into visions through a seven-song rock DRAMA… Strippers with poems, storytellers who strip. [Burroughsesque film noir poetry] [two-handed absurdism] show interpreting the journals and letters of 1930s How to Do Sideshow for Fun & Profit HAPPYLAND Thu 9pm, Sat 9pm, Sun 9pm HATCHERY Wed 9pm, Fri 9pm, Sat 7pm The Transmigration of Ghosts musician Gideon Barstow. An otherwise wordless [death-defying burlesque lecture] Backed by epic experimental improv musicians and Two guys trapped between a giant fish king and a [haunting recollection] story of star-crossed lovers, it begs the questions, BALLROOM Thu 9pm, Fri 11pm, Sat 9pm using hacked electronics, loop pedals, a live radio metaphor for the military-industrial complex called BALLROOM Wed 9pm, Sat 3pm, Sun 9pm “what is real, what is fantasy, what is fate?” FreakShow Deluxe (Dayton) signal, a typewriter wired for sound and innovative the Meat Machine must write a musical comedy. Where do your ghosts go when you hit the end of the road? A middle-aged woman facing eviction finds her With only a rare vinyl album as his guide, an audience Sheena: An American Tragedy lighting, Moose Jackson improvises a radio Watch for childhood trauma and the horrors of war! [feminist revenge musical] effort to sort life’s detritus complicated by the young volunteer steps in for an unavailable lecturer to communication with a lost vessel carrying the spirit of SOLO PERFORMANCE… musician she harbors, who embodies many qualities demonstrate stunts like Blockhead, Pierced MAGS Thu 9pm, Fri 9pm, Sun 7pm a defunct nation. of the boy who once offered her a road to adventure. Weightlifting, and the Bed of Nails. Sheena, psychopath and militant misandrist, hates Sleeper Cell Show [multimedia slam] MARCER Thu [autobio comedy] men from the womb. She desperately wants to go on Ace in the Hole Tales From the Darkside of a Room 9pm, Fri 9pm, Sat 7pm, Sun 7pm Transposing Omaha [poetic drama] a killing spree but can’t find any justification until, one HAPPYLAND Wed 9pm, Sat 11pm, Sun 7pm Bombastic, livewire, spitfire, yet delicately nuanced, TIGERMEN Fri 9pm, Sat 7pm, Sun 7pm [live birthday podcast] day, she comes across a much older man kissing her Follow anti-socialite Ace Denison in 'n' out of the historically informed, intelligent, activist poetry. From humorous holes of his life and times: Rabbit holes, A ‘lost’ play by legendary New Orleans poet Danny ALLWAYS Sat 9pm inappropriately young little sister. Yay! Kerwick. 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