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June 16 - July 17, 2011
at the Manny Fried Playhouse

It's baaaaaack!!!
 
sUBVERsIVE sHORTs 2011
-14 provocative new shorts by playwrights from all across America
-10 different directors
-Over 20 different actors

THREE (OUT OF FOUR) STARS!
"This is the kind of political theater that screams from the boards and into the lobby.  It's the kind that enters your mind in the auditorium and stays for hours, or days."
Ben Seigel, GUSTO MAGAZINE 6/24/11

PERFORMANCES:
June 16 - July 17
Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays @ 8pm  Sundays @ 6pm
(no performance Sunday, July 3)

Darth Vader on Planet Walmart?
Bert & Ernie investigated by Congress?
Joan of Arc in a Terrorist Training Camp?
Adam & Eve hiring a Publicist?
IT COULD ONLY BE sUBVERsIVE sHORTs!!!

     sUBVERsIVE sHORTs -- one of the world's only new play showcases devoted exclusively to American political theatre -- is back and stronger than ever with another batch of brand spankin' new shorts by radical playwrights from all across the Country!  
     This year's showcase -- installment #5 -- features fourteen powerful short plays taking on every controversial subject you could ask for.  With ten different directors and over twenty different actors, we couldn't fit it all into one night.  So this year's sHORTs features two separate line-ups of amazing new works playing on alternating nights.  

HERE ARE THE LINE-UPS:

ARTAUD NIGHTS playing June 16, 18, 24, 26, 30 July 2, 7, 9, 15, 17 ABSOLUTES by Craig Abernethy, San Diego, CA Directed by Kurt Schneiderman* Starring Sara Ball & Eric Mowery* WAR SHADOWS  by Mark Lloyd of Buffalo, NY Directed by Annette Daniels-Taylor Starring Candace Whitfield &  Barry Williams JOAN AND JIHAD by Catherine O'Connor of Washington, D.C. Directed by Colleen Neumann* Starring Sara Ball*, Paul McGinnis, & Vanessa Stipkovits POLITICALLY INCORRECT DATING by Henry Kimmel of Atlanta, GA Directed by Kurt Schneiderman* Starring Sara Ball & Eric Mowery* LOVE AND POLITICS IN THE PROPHYLACTIC AGE Written & Directed by  Justin Karcher of Buffalo, NY Starring Daniel Morris PEACE AT HOME by Catherine O'Connor of Washington, D.C. Directed by Colleen Neumann* Starring Murry Galloway, Nathan Miller, Tim Stuff, & Vanessa Stipkovits A VIEW UNASSISTED by Craig Abernethy, San Diego, CA Directed by Kurt Schneiderman* Starring Sara Ball & Eric Mowery*

BRECHT NIGHTS playing June 17, 19, 23, 25, July 1, 8, 10, 14, 16, 17 DON'T ASK by Rich Rubin of Portland, OR Directed by Kelly Beuth* Starring Robert Bozek, Tamara  Hopersberger*, Brittany Kucala*, & Paul McGinnis WHO SHE WAS, IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE by Pandora Kew of Buffalo, NY Directed by Kelly Beuth* Starring Cierra Cappas, Connor Graham Pandora Kew, Randi Langdon, & Breanna Simmons GUBMINT by Mark Saunders of Hillsboro, OR Directed by Virginia Brannon* Starring Jack Agugliaro* &  Tamara Hopersberger* SMALL WORLD by Jeff Stolzer of New York, NY Directed by Bob Van Valin Starring John Jacoby & Paul McGinnis THE EMPIRE  STRIKES OUT by Fred Jensen of Amherst, NY Directed by Michael Fanelli* Starring Robert Bozek, Tamara Hopersberger*, & Scot Kaitanowski DEATH PANELS by Michael O'Donohoe of Chicago, IL Directed by Lara Haberberger* Starring Heather Fangsrud* TWEAK by Diane Sampson of San Francisco Directed by Tamara Hopersberger* Starring Sara Ball, Scot Kaitanowski, & Eric Mowery*

    It's an extraordinary line-up of plays -- come to both evenings and see 'em all!  The final performance (Sunday, July 17th) will be a marathon performance featuring BOTH line-ups back-to-back.  This evening's presentation is also an actors' benefit night with all proceeds going to the actors.
    sUBVERsIVE sHORTs 2011 is brought together by Overall Director Kurt Schneiderman* with Set Design by Ashley Bobbett, Sound Design by Bob Van Valin, Lighting Design by Patrick Medlock-Turek, and Technical Direction by Rachel Zeller*.  This year's sHORTs was curated by Gina LaChacz, the selection committee was comprised of Gina LaChacz*, Lara Haberberger*, and Virginia Brannon*.
    Performances are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 6pm from June 16th through July 17th.  PLEASE NOTE: no performance Sunday, July 3rd.  All shows are at Subversive Theatre's regular performance venue The Manny Fried Playhouse at 255 Great Arrow Avenue on the third floor of the Great Arrow Building in North Buffalo.
    Tickets are $18 general admission or $13 for students, seniors, and Subversive Theatre members.  Bring your playbill when you come back to see the other line-up of shows are receive a $5 off discount with the purchase of your next ticket.  Doors open one half hour before each performance.
    For more information, give us a call at 716-408-0499.

* = indicates members of the Subversive Theatre Collective