EXCLAMATION POINT! 7
Music on the Fly
CARNY KNOWLEDGE
A Sideshow Extravaganza of Original Plays and Extraordinary Oddities
HOTEL CASSIOPEIA
A unique assemblage
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Exclamation Point 7:
Music On the Fly


An evening of inter-genre performance works featuring made-up music
Curated by Robin Smith and Christie Lee Gibson
Saturday, November 14, 7 pm
35A Channel Center Street, Fort Point, Boston
FREE

• The libretto from an opera being developed about the Marquis de Sade.
• A cabaret or two.
 • New one-act plays.
 • The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder.
 • And, in partnership with Rialto Arts, Bucanneers of Buzz: Celebrating the Honeybee, their award-winning tap, voice, video, and marimba extravaganza about beekeepers and their bees.

Stay tuned for details on taking in, and taking part in, FPTC in the months to come.

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With new works and works in progress, Fort Point Theatre Channel's seventh Exclamation Point! will feature music combined with video, acting improv, and other visual/stage components.

Featured musicians, writers, actors, actresses include: Jon Burrowes, Jorrit Dykstra, Mary Fegreus, Liz Fenstermaker, Christie Lee Gibson, Daniel Harris, Allen Phelps, Alejandro Simoes, Robin Smith, Scott Sweatt, Nick Thorkelson, Arvid Tomayko-Peters, and friends.

Reservations accepted but not required. Go to: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/83879

For more information, please contact Christie Lee Gibson, christieleegibson@gmail.com, or Robin Smith, robinjones20@hotmail.com


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A Sideshow Extravaganza of Original Plays and Extraordinary Oddities

Silvia Graziano & Marc S. Miller, Impresarios
January 28-February 6, 2010
Cambridge YMCA Theatre
820 Mass. Ave.
Central Square, Cambridge

Carny Knowledge joins short theatrical works and unique installation pieces to create an environmental extravaganza enveloping audiences and performers alike. Inspired by the sideshows of once-upon-a-time, playwrights and filmmakers, musicians and dancers, roustabouts and a concoction of practitioners of the carny craftswill create an unforgettable evening of ballyhoo, burlesque, and incomparable entertainment, sure to skin the rubes and marks of their fins, sawbucks, and c-notes.

From the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s, in most any town of any size, curious onlookers would gather near the midway of the fair or the circus to hear sideshow barkers tout the wonders available to those willing to pay just a few cents to see what they couldn't view anywhere else in those days . . . before international air travel and cable television . . . before the exploration of every corner of the planet seemed to rid the world of mystery.

Today, the sideshow is in a tough spot, but for that innocent time, it was one of the biggest draws in entertainment. Fort Point Theatre Channel believes the sideshow has meaning today even—or especially—in a world dominated by television, the Internet, and seemingly endless choices for our entertainment dollars and time.

Carny Knowledge will be Fort Point Theatre Channel’s second playfest, a place to transform ideas into workshop productions.

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Hotel Cassiopeia

Coming in Late 2010: Charles Mee's fantasy inspired by the life and work of the master of assemblage art, Joseph Cornell, will itself be an assemblage. Hotel Cassiopeia, like all our productions, will be unique.

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