Immediate family: Madeline ffitch, Sarah Lowry, Donna Sellinger. Extended family: C. Leo Gebhardt IV, Travis Sehorn, Nick Stocks, Peter Dolan, Robert O'Brien.
Influences
The Marx Brothers, Maurice Sendak, Tove Jansson, Paula Vogel, The Shuttlecoque Sporting Hour, The New Enthusiast Movement, The Nonsense Company, and The Suitcase Royale.
This week, Madeline's new play, "Go to the Chateau", to be performed for an audience of two at a time in a moving car, will open to an already sold-out run, so don't bother calling. Not even if you're a rotting mermaid. This play was made possible by a grant from the Massachusetts State Arts Council. Yes!
Donna has one-upped this by performing her telephone play, "One Pair" with people she doesn't know, for an audience of no one (as was the intention). This project can be found in Wham City's Box Set, which was available through whamcity.com, and also for sale at the Whitney, but is now sold out.
Why do we keep advertising for things which are sold-out? No one knows.
We are creating our new full length play "The Last Hurrah of the Clementines" to tour nationally this summer, to the Berskhire Fringe Festival, Whartscape, Bedlam Theater, and to other places which will be listed on this page more and more and more.
Travis Sehorn, of Travis Sehorn and the Pebble of Light, also a handsome, stylish, and stalwart "Family Circus" fan (as we all are), will write music and tour with us this summer! Let it be known that he is a Missoula native.
Besides all of this, mid-tour we will be hanging out in Baltimore for three days, since we have been accepted to be part of Artscape, which is a very big and fancy thing, apparently. We will be part of the "midway" and will essentially be hosting an old-fashioned prom party a la the one in "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", a book which Madeline loved and Donna thought was a snooze-fest. This will be an interactive performance/installation thing.
Do you want us to perform for you and your pals in your town? Are you a tenacious live performance promoter on the West coast? It is well worth inviting us, as we are even now booking the tour!
Also, coming a year-and-a-half on the heels of the phenomenal and and puzzling success of The Tempest (who likes getting all dressed up to hang out in a subway station, anyway?) a production of King Lear, done in the same style is being planned for late September. Buy your red carnations now!
the new episode of the snowghost community show is online, and you can hear and see you guys in the background, and snowghost makes a "you know what they say about x (whereas x is a string that contains the string y)? something involving y!" http://www.wccatv.com/snowghost/014 i'm didn't stop thinking about that thing you told me to think about, the mailing thing.
