Sideshow Physical Theatre to Present Elephant's Graveyard at Mondavi Center
10-08-2009
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Sideshow Physical Theatre to present Elephant’s Graveyard at Mondavi Center
October 8, 2009; Davis, California— Sideshow Physical Theatre, the resident professional company in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UC Davis, will present Elephant’s Graveyard, a new work by UC Davis faculty member Jade Rosina McCutcheon, at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts Friday-Saturday, October 23-24 and October 30-31, 2009, and Sunday, October 25 and November 1, 2009. The performances, presented as part of the American Movement Series, will begin at 8 p.m. (the Sunday performances begin at 2 p.m.) in the Mondavi Center’s Vanderhoef Studio Theatre on the UC Davis campus. Tickets are available from the Mondavi Center Ticket Office at 530.754.2787 or online at MondaviArts.org.
Elephant’s Graveyard writer and director Jade Rosina McCutcheon, actors, and composers will take questions from the audience in a Post-performance Q&A in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre immediately following the Sunday afternoon performances on October 25 and
November 1.
Elephant’s Graveyard, a new work written and directed by Jade Rosina McCutcheon, takes a good look at getting older and being ‘put out to graze.’ The performance explores the ways we deal with our elderly and our fears of old age and dying. Dr. McCutcheon, an Australian director and scholar, is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UC Davis. She has written numerous books and articles; her most recent book is Awakening the Performing Body.
Sideshow Physical Theatre is a resident performing company of the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts and the resident professional company in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UC Davis. It is devoted to the exploration of new performance forms and the consequent creation of interdisciplinary work that merges text, dance, video, and film into productions that are viscerally, artistically, and intellectually challenging.
Della Davidson, a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, is the artistic director of Sideshow Physical Theatre. Davidson received her MA from University of Arizona in 1983 and was the artistic director of the award-winning Della Davidson Dance Company in San Francisco for 15 years before coming to UC Davis in 2001.
Past productions by Sideshow Physical Theatre include The Ten P.M. Dream, The Desire to Return to the Safety of Day, A Dream Inside Another, Fierce/Pink/House, and Collapse (suddenly falling down).
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What: Sideshow Physical Theatre
Elephant’s Graveyard
When: Friday-Saturday, October 23-24, 2009 • 8 p.m.
Sunday, October 25, 2009 • 2 p.m.
Friday-Saturday, October 30-31, 2009 • 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 1, 2009 • 2 p.m.
Where: Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
Vanderhoef Studio Theatre
University of California, Davis
Admission: $30 Adults • $15 Students & Children
Discounted tickets available for UC Davis faculty, staff and students.
Tickets/Info: 530.754.2787
866.754.2787 (toll-free)
http://www.MondaviArts.org
530.754.5402 [TDD]
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