 2008 Awards |
...Besides feedback from dozens of thrilled CAFF participants and artists, Horse Trade was drawn to its main principle: “…to provide all artists, emerging and established, with the opportunity to produce their play no matter the content, form or style and to make the event as affordable and accessible as possible for the members of the community...” |
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A high-octane and high-glucose ride though the world of non-partisan political satire, as seen by “stand-up performance artist” Jonathan Pereira. American Cake is a startlingly refreshing blend of personal and political comedy that not only entertains, but makes you think. It’s Red, Blue, and Green friendly… and free cake at every show! Tickets: $12
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Great Hymn of Thanksgiving/ The Nonsense Company Around a dinner table, three actor / musicians sing, pray, beat forks, deliver the news, and snap between scenes in mid-sentence in this brutal but timely deconstruction of War-on-Terror-speak by internationally-known avant-garde composer Rick Burkhardt. Torture, ticking time bombs, faux-Middle-Eastern folk tales, broken clocks, unreliable waiters. Tickets:$ 10 |
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A tour of lives in transition. Before one settles on a
lifestyle, career, religion, or partner, if one ever does, hosts of
adventures, personalities and (pre)occupations influence the unmanageable
tug of war between vocation and diversion. Comical characters recount life's
best and worst bouts amid fate, will, and whim.
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Leaving Normal “Have you ever tried to fit your life into a suitcase?...Your actual life – memories, regrets, feelings, loves, hatreds, heartache?” Join Eileen on this journey as she searches for acceptance, solitude and the cure to a genetically inherited broken heart. A one-woman comedy incorporating improvisation and movement, Leaving Normal is a bus ride of hope, fear and self-perception that explores the geography of pain. Come for the ride or come for the twizzlers! |
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ExcesSecret Circus: Olga and Björn host this entirely unpredictable (yet lovingly delightful) production that features audience tampering, two wildly comic ExcessoMimes (Gluttony and Lust), an outlandish game of Operation (you're the doctor!™), video and audio montage, tap dancing, outrageous fun and mild nudity. Tickets: $10 |
Two in the Bush! A female Rabbinical student teams up with exotic dancers, taking their show on the road to senior's homes. Tickets: $15 |
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A tour of lives in transition. Before one settles on a
lifestyle, career, religion, or partner, if one ever does, hosts of
adventures, personalities and (pre)occupations influence the unmanageable
tug of war between vocation and diversion. Comical characters recount life's
best and worst bouts amid fate, will, and whim.
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What now? She’s obsessive. He’s gay. The faucet’s still leaking. And baby makes three. Oh. And they’re 9. See what happens when these two youngsters play a twisted game of house in Working it Out. Tickets: $7
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Great Hymn of Thanksgiving/ The Nonsense Company Around a dinner table, three actor / musicians sing, pray, beat forks, deliver the news, and snap between scenes in mid-sentence in this brutal but timely deconstruction of War-on-Terror-speak by internationally-known avant-garde composer Rick Burkhardt. Torture, ticking time bombs, faux-Middle-Eastern folk tales, broken clocks, unreliable waiters. Tickets:$ 10 |
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