2534 NW 52nd Avenue
Gainesville, Florida 32605
Gainesville, Florida 32605
Chekhov used to say, I have my own theater, and people assumed he was talking about the Moscow Art Theatre, but then Chekhov would tap his forehead and say, . . . in here.
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2534 NW 52nd Avenue
Gainesville, Florida 32605 |
Chekhov used to say, I have my own theater, and people assumed he was talking about the Moscow Art Theatre, but then Chekhov would tap his forehead and say, . . . in here. |
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The memorial site of… America’s New War Strikes Back! Running from July 18 through September 11, 2002 AMERICA’S NEW WAR STRIKES BACK! was one of Gainesville’s longest-running plays At
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COMMON GROUNDS Thursday, September 5, 2002 10:30pm ONE YEAR LATER 9-11-02 "Life goes on. And so does the need." an instant
cult-classic!
AMERICA'S NEW WAR STRIKES BACK!
Gainesville’s
underground
sensation!
11 SEPTEMBER 2002 at the PALACE 233 W University
Avenue
The warplay goes down in flames at the Palace! Overzealous "patriots" stop the performance of America’s New War Strikes Back! So much for free speech! Read all about it! "Ground Zero at the Palace" by Jessica Arnold http://www.thenewmoonrising.com/groundzero.html America’s New War Strikes Back! After blockbuster performances at the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre, Full Circle, the Civic Media Center, the Hippodrome, and the Shamrock… the whole town is buzzing!
July 18,19,20 (8pm) Acrosstown Repertory Theater July 27 (9pm) Full Circle August 9, 10 (9pm) Civic Media Center August 12 (8pm) Hippodrome Cinema August 15 (11pm) The Shamrock Related Sites: http://www.thehottamales.net/war/smilie1.html
Click to see and hear the America's New War Strikes Back! promo Click to see and hear the America's New War Strikes Back! infomercial AMERICA'S NEW WAR STRIKES BACK! Directed by Jessica Arnold Written by Shamrock McShane and Jessica Arnold Featuring Scott Davis Josh Lederman Arturo Escamilla Teague Johnson Rose Godfrey Phillip Godwin Karla Berkelhammer Shamrock McShane Bobby McAfee Jessica Arnold Nino Barrucci Andrea Reprogle In the mainstream media: http://www.gainesvillesun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
Tributes to Sept. 11 take shape ONE WAR, ALL NATIONS Join Now Be a Member Fight for international harmony through war and terror. Unite all people in the struggle for global destruction. Add your voice to the Sounds of Silence. . . in a world where everybody's gone to heaven, Or at least . . . away. . . . a multi-media phantasmagoria which began taking shape in the aftermath of September 11. The weirdest thing you've ever seen - Your Life! LIVE ACTION CARTOONS COMIX PUPPETS VIDEO MUSIC DANCE INTERACTIVE DOCUDRAMEDY NEW MUSIC FROM JOSH LEDERMAN!
LIVE!
First there was . . . America's New War Strikes Back! A stage/screenplay By Shamrock McShane Featuring Gregg Jones and Jake Seymour At Galleriebob, February 22 - March 9, 2002 America's New War Strikes Back a stage/screenplay by Shamrock McShane "A word of explanation. I've never written anything like this before. There are no characters, as such. Just voices, countless voices. And they say the most outrageous things. You are almost certain to be offended. I can't find any way around that. It's about war, and war, by definition, is offensive, is in fact comprised of many offensives. And so is this piece. We are attempting to perform this piece as one would wage a war. And so the plan is to mount the work in stages, just like a war. You don't unleash all your forces in the first battle. And so I begin with one voice, along with an original soundtrack composed by Tom Miller. Tomorrow night we'll add another voice, that of my comrade Gregg Jones, and then more and more, as other elements are added - video, text, musicians, technicians, designers, dancers, all of it culminating in a phantasmagoria, a motion picture stage show directed by Jessica Arnold. So stay tuned." Shamrock McShane at Galleribob, February 2, 2002 Music for America's New War Strikes Back! by Tom Miller (available on CD)
From the opening stage direction:
"The playing
area overlaps the audience like a wave, creating islands of spectators
and scenes in pools of colored light, against a background of images
and
text created by visual artists, accompanied by musicians and sound
artists,
embodied by dancers and actors. Or, it may be the voice of a single
bard.
But two bards are better than one. Alternating voices give life to the
words that follow that flow from the mouths of nameless people, just
people.
What actually happens on stage might best be indicated by the white
space
between blocks of text: Movement, music, and drama in harmony and
counterpoint
fill the white space. The text indicates words that may be spoken as
dialogue
or monologue, overlapping the action, or appearing as subtitles."
This is a drama
about people
caught up in events that are happening right now. An epic unfolds
before
our eyes. When we look away, we hear it. When we drown it out, we enact
it. It penetrates our consciousness on every level.
Jessica Arnold, famed writer-director of A View of the Dome, Independence, Cheese, CFI, and Bash, now brings us the most eccentric off-the-wall impressionistic expressionistic vision of our own reality we've ever seen. From the pen of Shamrock McShane, theater writer for MOON MAGAZINE, author of The Votive Pit, Ball, and Boston Baked Bean, whose on-stage appearances include, most recently JULIUS CEASAR Music by Josh Lederman -- Live -- With Arturo Escamilla and Teague Johnson Performances by . . . Scott Davis (The Fable Factory, Glengarry Glen Ross) Josh Lederman (The Funky Miracle) Shamrock McShane (Macbeth, Oleanna) Jessica Arnold (Marie
and
Bruce)
And, hmmmm…
What to do late-night Friday? We bid a fond farewell to…
Terranova Catering Company 14 SW 1 AV Downtown Gainesville 378-7810 receptions, weddings, banquets, dinners, luncheons Don't miss - Every Friday night around midnight -- Terranova Midnight Masque Street Theater goes digital and multi-phonic with video on the side, and up front and center is . . . You! Join in the fun! It's freakin FREE. Terranova fine catering . . .14 SW 1 Avenue, just east of Market Street Pub on First Avenue in beautiful downtown Gainesville Meet the Big Head People! Learn the answer to every question your soul seeks to know from the high exalted holy shamanswami Tukar Garaji.
Terranova Gallery featuring Artwork by Susan Lawrence BUT THE MIDNIGHT MASQUE WILL RETURN! Watch for us on the street downtown, and just wait until we find our new home! |