HOW TO FIGHT THE REVOLUTION WHILE KEEPING YOUR DAY JOB, a new monologue by Dan Kinch, will be presented Friday, April 27th at 8 PM at the Yippie Museum Cafe at 9 Bleecker Street in New York City.
HOW TO FIGHT THE REVOLUTION WHILE KEEPING YOUR DAY JOB is the story of Jerry, a middle-aged troublemaker/activist. No longer able to keep in a more 'active' mode in the Movement, he has cobbled together a list of the things that work when bringing truth to power. With insight and humor he brings a list of the things that will allow one to fight the good fight while keeping the rent paid.
Mr. Kinch's other plays include A CLOWN, A HAMMER, A BOMB, AND GOD which premiered at the first New York International Fringe Festival and toured the United States and Europe (it was also produced on Democracy NOW for their 1997 Christmas Eve show). Mr. Kinch also authored A GOOD DAY TO PIE, a play about the activist pie-throwers of the Biotic Baking Brigade, and THE STORY OF FALLING DON, about his own experiences on 9/11. The play HOW TO FIGHT THE REVOLUTION WHILE KEEPING YOUR DAY JOB is based on Mr. Kinch's many years of research on people involved in alternative/radical politics.
The Yippie Museum Cafe is a newly-chartered museum space which celebrates and commemorates the history of the Youth International Party and features eclectic items such as LSD Guru Timothy Leary's ashes and the FBI and CIA files on leftist luminaries such as Abbie Hoffman. Dana Beal, a longtime Yippie, describes the space as "The Hard Rock Cafe of Radical Culture". The Cafe's menu is posted at http://yippiemuseum.org
OTHER PLAYS
A CLOWN, A HAMMER, A BOMB, AND GOD is a play about the Plowshares, the pacifists who take literally the Biblical admonition of Isaiah to 'turn swords into plowshares' by disabling nuclear weapons. It is based on an actual incident: On Good Friday 1994 (which fell on April Fool's Day), a Catholic Priest named Carl Kabat dressed as a clown and broke into an MX missile base in North Dakota. He proceeded to smash the silo doors on a Minuteman Missile, preventing the silo doors from opening. Father Kabat has spent 14 of the last 18 years in prison for Plowshares actions. In A CLOWN, A HAMMER, A BOMB, AND GOD, actor/Playwright Dan Kinch uses Father Kabat's action to explain the world view of the Plowshares and discuss the role of violence in pop culture.
A CLOWN, A HAMMER, A BOMB, AND GOD was originally produced by Artists In Search of... for the 1997 New York International Fringe Festival. It was subsequently broadcast on Pacifica Radio Networks' Democracy NOW! program on Christmas Eve 1997. In 1999, The Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy (LCNP) sponsored the play's production for the Hague Appeal for Peace, an international peace conference held in The Hague, Netherlands. It has since been performed over 100 times throughout the United States including a special outdoor performance in Washington, DC on the Fourth of July 2000.
A reviewer at The Hague wrote (in part): "The play touched the audience in a way I didn't expect. I became involved in the issues it tackled in a way that I had not predicted I would and it left me wanting to campaign more for something I previously knew nothing about...This play laid out to me the subliminal teachings of war in our culture that I had not noticed and is especially relevant when a new Star Wars film premieres this summer. By harnessing a story that young people know it is an invaluable addition to the campaign for education on disarmament...". Another reviewer wrote: "I saw A CLOWN, A HAMMER, A BOMB, AND GOD. You should see it. It changed my life-maybe it will change yours..."
For
information about the Plowshares movement, visit www.jonahhouse.org
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contact me about this or other plays, write to kairos_co@hotmail.com
