Monday, February 26, 2007

Jaguar at the Rogue!

The 2007 Rogue Performance Festival, Fresno's biggest, baddest and weirdest arts event, runs March 1-10, with 100 different acts. Because you've been extra good children this year, you get to see Jaguar Bennett in THREE different productions, including the world premiere of my new show, Bullet Point, the world's first tragedy told in the form of a PowerPoint presentation.

Here's the full Jaguar lineup at the 2007 Rogue (click the links to go the show's page at the Rogue website:

Bullet Point: a new play by Jaguar Bennett, premiering at the Rogue. Larry Driscoll has problems. His company is under SEC investigation. His partner is selling him out. Death stalks his family. His wife won't sleep with him, and he suspects God feels the same way. But Larry can't think about distractions; he's making the most important PowerPoint presentation of his life. The world's first tragedy told in the form of a PowerPoint presentation, Bullet Point explores how a modern tragic hero's cosmic hubris is expressed through the technology of total information control. At Ashtree Studios, 1035 N. Fulton. $4. Sun. March 4, 8:45 PM; Wed. March 7, 8:45 PM; Fri. March 9, 7:30 PM.

Thread: written and directed by Christine Autrand Mitchell, premiering at the Rogue. Also starring Gabriela Lawson and Suzanne Garcia. When a monster unravels, is there a man underneath? Lisle Thread is the perfect consultant—silent, efficient, professional. Lisle is an expert at resolving troublesome situations. But when a somber but beautiful woman moves in across the hall, his carefully constructed life starts to unravel…. At Dianna's South, 726 N. Fulton. $7. Sat. March 3, 4:00 PM; Sun. March 4, 2:30 PM; Wed. March 7, 7:00 PM; Sat. March 10, 8:30 PM. More info at Entandem Productions.

'Dentity Crisis: by Christopher Durang. Directed by Julie Lucido and Janine Christl. Starring Ashley Hyatt, Lori Gambero, Adam Schroeder, Jessica Reedy and Jaguar Bennett. Recovering from a nervous breakdown, Jane is nursed and nagged by her relentlessly cheerful mother, and confused by her oversexed brother—who keeps changing into her father, her grandfather and her mother’s French lover. Eventually all (including Jane’s psychiatrist, who undergoes a sex change operation and swaps places with his wife) change characters again and become Jane herself—leaving her with no identity at all and pointing up the near impossibility of self-identification in our uncertain times. At Studio 65, 2965 N. Maroa. $7. Fri. March 2, 8:00 PM; Sat. March 3, 8:00 PM; Sun. March 4, 5:00 PM; Fri. March 9, 10:00 PM; Sat. March 10, 7:00 PM. More info at Epic Theatre.