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The INFRINGEMENT festival is taking New York

One year after the RNC.  New York takes itself back.

What is the Infringement?  see our mandate

Music, performance, action, puppetry, marching.

All events are at the Player's Theater Loft (115 MacDougal Street, between W. 3rd and
Minetta, 3rd floor), unless otherwise noted.

All events are pay what you can, unless otherwise noted.  All money goes to the artists involved.

Thursday Sept. 1:

At Theater For The New City, 155 First Ave. (between 9th
and l0th Sts.) in Manhattan:

All are invited to attend a run-through rehearsal of HOMELAND, by Gene Ruffini, a powerful drama about America in the near future under a repressive regime. The run-through rehearsal -- no interruptions -- will be held Thursday Sept. 1 at 7p. Best to get there by 6:30 pm. The play tells
the story of a librarian, his teacher wife and their gay daughter who defy the Patriot Act, by trying to help a beautiful Indian girl who faces incarceration as an enemy alien, and are destroyed by the totalitarian government. The ending is stunning.  The play runs Sept. 8-25, Thurs-Sat at
8 pm and Sun at 3p.  

At Player's:

8:00:  Mother Dis-Courage from the Subversive Theatre Company (Buffalo, NY) 

9:15:  KAWAISOO (THE PITY OF THINGS) by Jason Grote, directed by
Laramie Dennis, with Kate Benson

A meditation on consumerism and globalization in the immediate
aftermath of 9/11.  Ellie, a bereaved (and somewhat loopy) woman, gives a
tour of a suburban grocery store to her ex-husband, a worker for a poverty
NGO who was killed in the WTC attacks.

10PM-??, At CBGB's 313 Gallery:  IFNY Kickoff party.   There is a cover at this event.

KUMA will play, and we would love volunteers to do short performances afterwards.  A great cabaret evening.  We'll be making a performance list over the week.  Anyone can apply.   It's basically a performance open mic with advance sign up, and a great time to kick off the fest and get to know
the community of folks around you.  Possible performances include "10 dollar hooker, or FDR's bathtub", and you.


Friday Sept 2nd:

7PM:  KAWAISOO (THE PITY OF THINGS)

7:45:  Blue Box Productions 10 Minute Plays:
     ASL by Gary Winter
     CIA Play by David Marcus
     Has the Whole World Gone Crazy? by Elizabeth Emmons


8:30: Mother Dis-Courage

9:45:  Armand Ruhlman

10:30:  Bryan and Marcy:  Songs of Love and Protest

11:30:  Der Kosmonaut:  The Fall of New York

       The Fall of New York analyses the social, political and cultural crisis
       of New York in the 1990's under the regime of Rudy Giuliani.
       Der Kosmonaut takes the story and condenses his epic manuscript into a
       30 minute poem with his mix of underground electronic music music
       along with images of a bygone New York. The Fall of New York also
       collects and mixes post
       9/11 poetry and his collection of politically and socially critical
       repertoire over the past decade.


Saturday, Sept. 3rd:

Car Stories

Montreal's longest-running theatre experiment and the only show ever to be kicked out of a Fringe festival will be sending three spectators at a time on a guided journey through the streets, alleys and parked cars of New York's Urban Wonderland.  The show runs 7:30pm to 10:30pm, with a new show every 30 minutes.  Go to Kenny's Castaways (157 Bleecker) during showtime and look for someone wearing colored sunglasses or e-mail optativelabs@yahoo.ca to reserve.  Videos available on our website.

3pm:  Bushiva is revealed in Washington Square Park.  Bring yourselves, your friends and maybe some cans to bang on.  Bushiva will make sporadic appearances all weekend.

4:30PM:  Der Kosmonaut: the Fall of New York

6:15: W-Mart in Baghdad from The Blacklist Committee for Unsafe Theatre

        An anti-war farce about the opening of a Wal-Martesque department store in present-day 
        Baghdad.

6:45:  LINDSAY by Monica Raymond, directed by Billy Christopher

7:15  Blue Box Productions

8:00:  KAWAISOO (THE PITY OF THINGS)

8:40: Bryan and Marcy: Songs of Love and Protest

9:15:  Mother Dis-Courage

10:30:  Massey

11:30:  Rectangle Club

Sunday Sept 4th

2-5pm:  CAR STORIES  starts at Kenny's Castaways, 3 spectators at a time, look for someone wearing colored sunglasses.

3pm:  Bushiva in the parks: come play.  Bushiva may be making the Washington SQ. Park Union Square Circuit, check back for details

5:45:  LINDSAY

6:00:  Mother Dis-Courage

7:15:  W-MART IN BAGHDAD

8-10pm:  CAR STORIES  starts at Kenny's Castaways, 3 spectators at a time, look for someone wearing colored sunglasses.

7:45:  KAWAISOO (THE PITY OF THINGS)

8:30:  Massey

9:30:  Pretty Flowers

Pretty Flowers will give a great inringement send off with such political hits as Laura's Bush,
It's Not My Fault and Separate Church and State.

after:  drinking, carousing, planning the future, and maybe more BUSHIVA!!!
 

IFNY is looking for MC's for each night.  If you're interested, contact us here.

We'll also be blogging the festival at http://ifnewyork.blogspot.com/  beginning Monday, Aug 29th.  Check back regularly for updates and commentary.

Now come out and Infringe with us!!!

peace,

Ross and Brian

call us: (212) 501-2282

e-mail us: ifnewyork@gmail.com