SMALL PRESS TRAFFIC'S
POETS’ THEATER JAMBOREE 2003

Please join us for four wondrous & bizarre evenings of poets’ theater! Reservations are recommended. Please call 415-551-9278 to make yours. As the Jamboree is a benefit for SPT, admission is $10 per night for everyone. This year’s jamboree is curated by Taylor Brady, Brent Cunningham, Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, & Kevin Killian.

Friday, January 24, & again Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 7:30 PM

Cecilia Dougherty, "Kevin and Cedar" (2002, world premiere). In this
revealing portrait of San Francisco bohemia, Kevin Killian and Cedar Sigo
play themselves as Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, trapped in a
destructive affair in an untidy SOMA apartment, surrounded by debris and
the flickering madness of their own poems. Video, 8 minutes, 10 seconds.

Karla Milosevich and Kevin Killian, "Love Can Build a Bridge." It’s
another sleepy dusty delta day in Marfa, Texas, the site of the famous
mystery lights and the home of Donald Judd’s art farm in West Texas. The
great American minimalist has died, and his survivors gather together to
hear his will read in the town’s one bar, Roy’s Cotton Club. This exciting
tale of conceptual art, country music, long-ago feuds and present-day
shamanism gathers together an eccentric cast of artists, poets, filmmakers
and painters, including Laurie Reid, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Bob Linder, Kota
Ezawa, Yedda Morrison, George Kuchar, Cliff Hengst, Anne McGuire, Scott
Hewicker, Craig Goodman, Norma Cole, Gerald Corbin, Wendy Kramer, Rex Ray,
& Wayne Smith.

Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 7:30 PM
Friday’s program repeats.


Friday, January 31, 2003 at 7:30 PM

An evening of short plays #1

Yvor Winters Puppet Play, directed by Andrew Joron
"Celeste & Sirius" by Kathleen Fraser, directed by Stephanie Young
"Some Prologues" by Stacy Doris, directed by Shakrah Yves
"Fancy Another Day Gone" (1936) & "Domestic and Unavoidable" (1935) by Lorine Niedecker, directed by Taylor Brady
"Equally Balanced Buckets" by Sean Finney
"The Seventh Game of the World Series" by David Hadbawnik
(INTERMISSION)
"Beckon" by Jocelyn Saidenberg & Wendy Kramer
"All the Thing You Are" by Taylor Brady
"PPL IN A DEPOT" by Gary Sullivan, directed by Del Ray Cross
"Manual for a Block" by Wayne Smith


Friday, February 7, 2003 at 7:30 PM

An evening of short plays #2

Yvor Winters Puppet Play, directed by Andrew Joron
"But Seriously, When I was Jasper Johns' Filipino Lover..." by Eileen Tabios
"95 Old Men" by Mary Burger
"She Tells Her Daughter" (1923) by Djuna Barnes, directed by Elizabeth Treadwell (produced with the kind permission of Sun & Moon Press)
"La Gnossienne" by Elizabeth Treadwell
(INTERMISSION)
"New Wave Bad Hair Day" by Brian Bauman, directed by Kevin Killian
"Hellen on Wheels" by Nadine Maestas
"Glow Farm, Glow!" by Lauren Gudath
"Hail Guantanamo!" by David Buuck
"Its night, the ash" or "Su noche, la ceniza" by Stefani Barber
"Theater of No Feelings" by Brent Cunningham