LISPA - Naropa Alumni

Eating lot's of garlic, in Chicago, Illinois.

working a bad day job, completelly bombed after last Ukranian excursion, failure all around, was sick as a dog from some marine virus attacking everypart of me inside, but i whooped him in the end, sick of seeing the government and cops destroy the last of this beautifull earth, not sure if i should do art or wage war in the name of pluto, although it is fun watching Bush speeches, i find him the most peculiar thing to ever graze upon this redundant political marsh. will have him make an appearance in the next show we are doing, wich is bizare as all hell, and comes from god knows where, and has no name begining or end, it actually has a begining wich gets longer and longer and. rehearsing at 7 AM in a dicrepid squeky floor dance studio, feeling like a total failure and gasping fool.

my butt

sandro

Have had a very busy year, performing in Washington DC at the Great Big Drag King Extravaganza, (http://www.dckings.com/greatbig/) At Torture Garden in London and Rubber Riot in Liverpool, at Chez Moune in Paris and others, as well as teaching- I have a week long workshop coming up as part of the International Workshop Festival (http://www.workshopfestival.co.uk/) , another weekend for Wise Thoughts, and am also teaching for Bigfoot Drama Academy and at Jackson’s Lane.

And I just came back from the most amazing artist’s retreat in the Champagne country in France, near Epernay, where I was teaching in the morning and working on developing a solo show about Carny Barkers and the search for AN ANSWER in the evening. Every day there were 3 hours lunches and 5 hour dinners, all wine fuelled, tons of laughs and people drawing tattoos on each other in a 1904 empty farm/summer camp enclave. And we still managed to get lots of work done!!! Gorgeous and perfect. My French limps along… luckily physical theatre training helps overcome language barriers!

I’m also working on a French/English film coproduction called Love Bath 9/Salle des Bains Neuf that is a dramatic comedy about alternative/queer/TG relationships…

Woof… and boy are my arms tired!

Hey, and would love to take more clown classes, so if anyone has any info to share, feel free to email me…

Nice to hear about everybody…!

Lotsa Love Lazlo

Hello everyone -

Representing for the advanced course 05/06 - I just wanted to break the seal for all my class here, so:

Robin Edwards has been in an open air production of a Midsummer Nights Dream, in the first year of the new Broughton Open Air festival, in Skiption, Yorkshire - a first forrey with the bard since my days as an innocent school boy (sigh...) but, keeping to form, I did convince them to let me fall off a ladder at the end... so all is well.

Adeu - (I'm the ginger one on the right!)

For those of you who are in New York:

I am currently performing / developing a play called Wickets, an adaptation of Maria Irene Fornes' Fefu and Her Friends--

The set is an airplane, and we have built one. Really. With astroturf.

I am collaborating with Mabou Mines/ HERE Resident Artists "The School for Gifted Children" and we are having a work in Progress showing (tonight) Monday August 28, 8pm at Mabou Mines' Toronada Theatre, at PS 122. 1st Ave and 9th St. Admittance is free, bring a friend.

We will have another showing at the end of January!

for more info on the project, see: http://www.here.org/who/artists/wickets/

Liza

Hey Gang!

The Pearl is getting rave reviews! Five Stars from all over the place!

Check it out!
http://www.splitknuckletheatre.org/press.html

Saturday, August 12 at 4pm is your last chance to see The Three Sticks
Theatre Company's BORDERLINES at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage. Come
prepared for inspection at Security Checkpoint with rubber gloves and toilet
brushes!

Please check out our reviews at www.fringefestival.org.
Search for Borderlines.
Jason Bohan

Hello everyone,

This is just to let you all know how things are going with the Pearl and Split Knuckle. After a week of silence the reviews of the Pearl are starting to come out. Good reviews are always nice to have, but here at the Festival they are very important. There are literally thousands of shows going on here as well as a book festival, a music festival, a film festival and even a physic festival. So people really depend on reviews to figure out what to go see. It's still a bad system in my mind. But we had a five star review today in a very reputable festival site which will help get more people into the show. The average audience for a festival show is six people, that's right six. We are averaging about about twenty five now and hoping that the numbers keep going up. The festival is crazy and I am having to time of my life. We have producers coming in from the New Vic (a theatre in New York for those that haven't heard of it) I don't know if the Pearl would fit into their season but it is nice to be getting some attention at least.

I hope things are going well for you. Please keep sending out your thoughts, or prayers of support. It is what has gotten us this far that and the fact that the Irish, Greeks, Japanese, and Argentines are all known for being viscously stubborn people.

Thank you all
Love Michael

P.S. Check out the web site to see more pictures and the reviews that we have been getting
www.splitknuckletheatre.org

Tess is in in Edinburgh, with a show called Love Labours Won - sort of Shakespeare meets Blackadder style comedy at Gilded Balloon. The company is Roque Shakespeare. It's running 2-28 August 2006. The link is www.rogueshakespeare.com