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Street Scene, July 2006

Encore Performance of Bullet Point!

That's right, you have one more chance to see my one-man play Bullet Point, the world's first PowerPoint tragedy and the surprise hit of the 2007 Rogue Performance Festival. (It was a surprise hit mainly to the author, who is amazed at the audience's response to this show.)

Bullet Point will be appearing in a double-feature with Tony Imperatrice's wonderful one-man show Confessions of a Church Organist: A Sordid Tale of Sex, Booze and Hymns Saturday, March 24, 7:oo PM at Ashtree Studios, 1035 N. Fulton in the Tower District. Cover is $10, and a portion of the proceeds will go to finance the 2008 Rogue Performance Festival.

If you didn't get a chance to see Confessions of a Church Organist, it's a great show that gets my highest recommendation. The true life story of how an atheist became a church organist and all the crazy adventures along the way. Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, and delightfully entertaining. The story includes all the standard elements of family dysfunction, alcoholism, and illicit sex. Not suitable for persons with religious sensitivities. Strong language, sexual themes, drunken stories.

Here's your last chance to see two Rogue hits for the price of one! Come early — Tony and I sold out Ashtree during the regular Rogue, and this show promises to be even crazier.

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Supermarket interior, Summer 2006

The Rogue is over. And I am just beat.

Two years ago, I started referring to the Rogue Performance Festival as the Bataan Death March Performing Arts Festival. That year, the Festival had suddenly grown in something so big, that I started to feel that working on the Rogue had become an endurance contest that would drive anyone to exhaustion.

Two years later, the Rogue is bigger and working on it is even tougher. When you look at the stats of this year's Rogue, the sheer size of this thing is absurd. Seven days of performances. One hundred performance companies, dance troupes, filmmakers and individual performers and visual artists. Over 200 performances. If I had a brain left, I'd calculate how many hours it would take you to see everything that was in the 2007 Rogue.

Producing the Rogue is hard work, and the Rogue Volunteer Corps who make it all happen are an amazing group of people. They work like demons. When situations arise, they immediately take responsibility and fix the problem on the spot. Many of the Rogue Corps are performers who are juggling their own Rogue shows while working on the Festival. There are few for-profit companies that work as efficiently or successfully as the Rogue Festival.

I did 12 performances in six days. Six days when I practically lived in my costume. Six days when I often forgot to eat. I'm so tired I can barely see, but I wouldn't trade this experience for anything.

Opening Night of Bullet Point — It's a Hit!

Thanks so much to the audience at Sunday night's opening of my new one-man show Bullet Point. It was great to have a full house for opening night — on a Sunday, no less! — and even greater to get such a wonderful audience response. The audience seemed to enjoy themselves through the entire performance, and the applause at the end was truly gratifying.

The extremely talented Mia Paschal (who has a one-woman show in the Rogue called This Lily Was (Fontana) that you shouldn't miss) was kind enough to post a review of Bullet Point on the Rogue website. Check it out here.

I was also very pleased that Rogue performer Barry Smith was in the audience and he said he enjoyed it. Barry's own one-man multimedia show Jesus in Montana is a brilliant piece of work and one of my top picks what you must see at the Rogue Festival.

Putting on a new play, especially a one-person play, is a terrifying experience. Going into Sunday's performance, I had absolutely no idea if this show would work. Getting such a strong response from the audience was a great experience.

So if you were not Sunday's performance, check out Bullet Point. There's four more days to the Rogue Festival, this Wednesday through Saturday. You have two more chances to see Bullet Point, and you should also see my two other shows, Thread and 'Dentity Crisis. And see everything else at the Rogue, while you're at it!