NOTE: Change of dates, added performances JANUARY 27 30, February 3 - 6 Deena Metzger serves on the Advisory Board of Cafe Intifada. Emma Rosenthal Cafe Intifada ______________________________ UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE LA VERNE CALIFORNIA Dreams Against the State is set at a time when the governments activity against its citizens is so extensive and extreme that dreaming, the very essence of the individuals life and spirit, is declared illegal. Six people, inhabited by the dreams and nightmares of history, in the form of seven historic characters, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Dashiell Hammett, Rosa Luxemburg, Victor Jara, Camilo Torres, Ethel Rosenberg and Velvel a last survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, find their way to a desperate sanctuary, hoping to survive through such community. Dreams played for two and half months in 40 different private and public spaces, peoples homes, in community centers, churches etc. and then again at 7 Stages in Atlanta. Its first production was motivated by the disastrous nuclear accident at the Three Mile Island power plant, as this production speaks to the collapse of the electoral system, the Patriot Act, Homeland Security and the consequent dire threats to democracy in the United States. Written by Deena Metzger and directed by Steven Kent, the play, in this form, emerges from a thirty year friendship and creative, spiritual, political alliance that earlier had inspired them to recover and re-invent the Eleusinian Mysteries as they had been practiced for 1500 years until their suppression by the Christians in the fourth century CE. The Mysteries, and the descent into the underworld for rejuvenation and inspiration, become the invisible scaffolding of the play, as the characters take refuge in the underworld for their survival. January 27 30, Feb. 3 5 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. Cabaret Theater University of La Verne 1950 3d Street La Verne CA 91750 Costs: $8/$5/$3 FOR RESERVATIONS CALL: (909) 593 3511 ext 4386 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give the gift of life to a sick child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's 'Thanks & Giving.' http://us.click.yahoo.com/lGEjbB/6WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
