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October 12, 2005
Friends of 20 Minute Loop
We are very excited to announce our musical
participation in Karen Penley’s theater performance
“Not the More Lovely” at www.NOHspace.org in Theater of Yugen
(Fridays and Saturdays, September 30th-October 22nd,
NOHspace, 2840 Mariposa St., SF, 8 PM, $12-15 sliding
scale. For tickets/information, call 415/662-6826.
Street parking is pretty easy in this neighborhood).
Karen Penley is the founder of Circus Proboscis and
the grizzled, moonshine-slugging veteran of two
previous productions in San Francisco.
Greg Giles, founder of 20ML, has written some lovely
tunes for her show that have been arranged and will be
performed with the help of Nils Erickson, Kelly
Atkins, and Mike Romano. Mike, our drummer, is
showing off his musical virtuosity by playing the
piano for the performance. What a snooty braggart.
“Gee, look what I can do! I’m so talented! Duhrrrr!”
This show features the performers Janaki Ranpura, Gary
Dailey, Liz Jahren, Carrie Peters, Jeff Wagner, Julie
Reid, and, of course, Karen Penley herself. Ian
Robertson and Jeff will also be contributing some
music, and Sean Jones will be providing animation.
Like Mike Romano, they are all jaw-droppingly
brilliant.
Here is Karen’s description of the show:
“NOT THE MORE LOVELY is a circus ride through the
manic grin of polite society into a subterranean world
of ferals, glamours and the insistent mutterings of
magic trying to find its way out. “It is a carnivalesque physical theater show with
poetic text. The story will be told through a dreamscape of
half-remembered images dredged up from the sub- and
unconscious, small jewels glinting in the dark,
outrageous characters careening and posing and a
landscape that is forever changing, one minute
traveling so deep in the ground you smell the dirt,
the next, throwing us up into the kitsch of ModBeat
60s green glass beaded curtains.”
Here is Greg’s description of the show:
“At one point, my mechanical toy elephant rolls
poignantly across the stage floor; I don’t remember
much of anything else, I was so distracted and moved
by the sight of the elephant.”
Please attend for a very different and thrilling
evening of music and theater.
Love,
20ML
PS: If you’d like to see us in our more traditional setting, we have two other shows in October, one in San Francisco and one in Berkeley. Check out our SHOWS page for more details.
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