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“Most Promising Debut” (SF Bay Guardian, 1998) to “Best Theater Company” (SF Weekly, 2008)

The 2009 Fury Factory festival takes places June 9 – June 27, 2009

The festival is co-hosted by Theatre of Yugen, and events will take place at Yugen’s NOH Space and Traveling Jewish Theatre – both located on the corner of Mariposa and Florida Streets in San Francisco.

Detailed Schedule More Info about the Mainstage Shows foolsFury’s Big1-OH!

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Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
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Sara Zimmerman
(foolFURY)

7:00 PM
Dandelion Dance Theatre
7:00 PM
Bond Street
7:00 PM
Dandelion Dance Theatre
7:00 PM
JUST THEATER & MUGWUPIN 8:30 PM Witness Relocation
8:00 PM
Theater of Yugyen “Shuron”
8:00 pm
Bond Street Theatre & Exile Theatre of Afghanistan
9:00 PM
Hand2Mouth
9:00 PM
16 17 18 19 20 21
Bond Street Theatre & Exile Theatre of Afghanistan
7:00 PM

Sold Out

Butchlalis De Panochititlan
7:00 PM

Tickets still available for June, 19th, but the 20th is SOLD OUT

FoolsProof Theatre
7:00 PM
Mondo Bizarro
Ragged Wing Ensemble

8:00 PM
foolsFURY
8:00 PM

Sold Out

Theatre of Yugen “Pretty” 8:00 PM

Tickets still available for June, 19th, but the 20th is SOLD OUT

David Szlaza’s “Gadget”
8:00 pm

Sold Out

FoolsProof Theatre
9:00 PM

Tickets still available for June, 19th& 21rst, but the 20th is SOLD OUT

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JUST THEATER & MUGWUPIN
Zac Jaffee Christy Funsch & Andrea Kuchlewska

7:00 PM
Under the Table
7:00 PM
The Dance Animals
Davina Cohen

8:30PM
David Szlaza’s “Gadget”
8:00 PM
Theater of Yugyen “Shuron”
8:00 pm
Butchlalis De Panochititlan
9:00 PM
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Travelling Jewish Theatre

470 Florida St.
(btwn. Mariposa & 17th Street)

Tickets:

15 $ (General Admission)
12 $ (Groups, Students)



35 $ (3 Show Pass)

75 $ (Unlimited Show Pass)
NOHSpace

2840 Mariposa St.
(btwn. Florida & Alabama Street)

Workspace Limited

2150 Folsom Street

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This June, foolsFURY is proud to bring to the Bay Area a dazzling sampler of electrifying ensemble theater. The 2009 FURY Factory is right around the corner, and this year the festival goes international. Our third biennial festival of cutting-edge theater includes fascinating productions from Afghanistan and the UK, in addition to a stellar US line-up from around the country.

I believe that challenging times are fertile ground for great creative upwelling. In this post-9/11, post-W, mid-economic meltdown world we are in a profoundly uncertain time, struggling with deep questions about our identities, our culture, our place in the world. The shows we’ve selected examine these issues, and shed light on our lives in startling, evocative ways – from Hand2Mouth’s karaoke-absurdist exploration of Americana, Repeat After Me; to Beyond the Mirror, Exile Theater’s search for cultural identity through three decades of war and occupation in Afghanistan; to the excoriating look at romance and partnership in Witness Relocation’s anarchic dance-theater spectacle, Vicious Dogs on Premises. FoolsFURY will, of course, have our own entry in the festival, a work-in-progress showing of the amazing play we are developing with Sheila Callaghan.

I am thrilled to be able to present so much unique work to our audiences in the Bay Area, and to help these many brilliant artists give their work longer lives. We are also honored that the Network of Ensemble Theaters is convening their national summit around the festival.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to join with dozens of the country’s most creative theater makers. See and be moved by one, two, a handful or all of these ground-breaking works. Full festival passes are available for $75 and offer access to all FURY Factory performances and panel discussions. Register separately for workshops online for only $75 each.

Ben Yalom,
Artistic Director, foolsFURY

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foolsFURY’s Big 1-Oh

That’s right, we’ve hit the Big 1-Oh. So we’re throwing down with music, entertainment, and lots to eat and drink. Come celebrate our 10 years making boundary-bending, thought-provoking theater.

Saturday night June 27th, 8:30 pm – 2 am
at Workspace Limited, 2150 Folsom (btwn 17th/18th)
8:30 pm until Late

Tickets are cheap, cheap, cheap!
$10 in advance, $15 at the door

www.brownpapertickets.com

There will be plentiful BEER and other tasty drinks including our very own FOOLSFURY COCKTAIL (sweet and fun with a hell of a BITE), great music, prizes, and an all-around crazy good time.

And yes, it IS pride weekend. So come start out with us fools, and then off into the madness….

Party treats from Hebrew Beer, Rainbow Grocery, Whole Foods, Trader Joes and more!

Mainstage Shows (in order of schedule):

Name of company:
Dandelion Dance Theater (San Francisco)

Name of piece:
We Love You to the End of the World

World and Mutt 49 Crosses the Line
We Love You…is a fairytale-like collision of dance and theater that explores the ways we process images. Told from the point of view of a child watching television, it unfolds through the surreal landscape of the American media machine.

Swaying amid genders, sexual orientations, life and death, and knowledge and mystery, Mutt 49 Crosses the Line explores what it is to be “in between” through quasi-fictional indie rock band Mutt 49, a conglomeration of drag queens, Buddhist spirits, punk rockers and more.

Name of company:
Witness Relocation (NY)

Name of piece:
Vicious Dogs on Premises

“Magnificent” (The New Yorker) dance theater ensemble Witness Relocation brings us the disturbing, chaotic, and painfully hilarious Vicious Dogs on Premises. An explosion of theater, fight-dog training, post-modern dance, scenes from a play by award winning Romanian author Saviana Stanescu, rock and roll, the show order is changed nightly, with performers unaware which roles they are playing until the curtain rises. All this on a Pepto-Bismol pink set that looks like it was ripped out of Barbarella.

Name of company:
Bond Street Theater (New York) and Exile Theatre of Afghanistan (Kabul, Afghanistan)

Name of piece: Beyond The Mirror

A journey through three decades of war and occupation, Beyond the Mirror is the first collaboration between Afghan and American theater companies. Referencing the past 20 years of Afghan history, it is told through myths and memories, family histories and first-hand accounts, traditional dances and live music, story-telling and filmed montages, Beyond the Mirror weaves an intricate tapestry of events, both desperate and hopeful.

Name of company:
Hand2Mouth
(Portland)

Name of piece: Repeat After Me

Mining popular American music from the last hundred years, Repeat After Me samples Karaoke, outlandish theatricality, exhaustive dances, and absurdist humor in this imaginative work that questions what it means to be a true American. Celebrated Portland ensemble Hand2Mouth pushes boundaries, creating surprising theater that is bold and accessible.

Name of company:
Fools Proof Theatre (Liverpool, UK)

Name of piece:
Je Suis Dead

Three strangers’ lives collide after a train accident. As daily life crumbles around them, strange ancestral figures start breaking through the cracks. Stories tangle into an increasingly confused knot, while three ordinary people desperately cling to what they believed was reality. Who, when, where? What the hell is going on and whose story is it anyway? The latest from this brilliant international physical theater ensemble.

Name of company:
Butchlalis de Panochtitlan (Los Angeles)

Name of piece:
The Barber of East LA

The Barber of East L.A. is about queer Latinos living in Eastside LA neighborhoods. They live precarious lives and they know it – dreaming about leaving while resisting impulses to flee. It is a multi-generational look at estrangement between family, community and institutions as well as the attempt to create these communities. A collaboration with acclaimed playwright, director and MacArthur Genius Fellow Luis Alfaro, Barber explores gender identity and its consequences as this company of brown, female masculine bodies perform themselves, each other, and imagined characters.

Name of company:
Theatre of Yugen (San Francisco)

Name of piece:
Shuron and Pretty

In Shuron two priests agree to travel together as they return home from religious retreats. Flush with pride for their own sect’s teaching, each attempts to show the other the enlightened path. When a religious debate turns into a duel, the prayers fly fast and furious.

In Pretty a young girl is abducted and eventually murdered, leaving her father not only to grieve for her memory but to see her transfigured in the limelight of the press. A demon play in the Noh tradition, Pretty is hectic, piercing, and thrilling.

Name of company:
Under the Table (Brooklyn)

Name of piece:
The Only Friends We Have

A dark and physical comedy about three eccentric friends each trying to wrestle the world into submission. Plagued by social dysfunction as well as an actual plague, the trio declares war first on the resident bug population, and then on each other. Featuring slapstick, puppetry, improvisation, and confessions worthy of reality television, The Only Friend We Have marks the return of UTT to San Francisco, where foolsFURY has been thrilled to host their works Fever Pitch and SOLO: A Two Person Show.

Name of company:
David Szlasa (Berkeley)

Name of piece: Gadget

David Szlasa’s hit interactive media installation about the making and after effects of the atomic bomb returns to the stage. Intended to simultaneously bring humanity and humanness to the collaborators of the Manhattan Project through original and archival interviews, while provoking the audience to question their own understanding and opinions of the creation of the atomic bomb and its effect on society, Gadget is brilliant experiential and experimental piece, hailed as “a fierce, tightly focused work that puts viewers squarely in the hot spot” by the SF Chronicle.

Works in Progress

The Dance Animals (San Francisco); Cave in Cave Out
Davina Cohen (New York); I’ll Crane for You
Deborah Eliezer and Silvia Girardi (Berkeley); Run if You Care About Dying
Deborah Slater Dance Theater (San Francisco); Men Think They are Better Than Grass
foolsFURY (San Francisco); Port Out, Starboard Home
Just Theater & Mugwumpin (Oakland and San Francisco); And I need that. This is all I need
Just Theater (Oakland); Take Me to the Bridge
MondoBizarro (New Orleans); Morrina
Ochlos Theatre Workshop (Hercules); Medea3
Ragged Wing Ensemble (Berkeley); So Many Ways to Kill a Man
Sara Zimmerman (Oakland); Aphasia
Zac Zaffee, Christy Funsch, and Andrea Kuchlewska (San Francisco and New York);
And So We Became American

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