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CLASSIC ABSURDITY FESTIVAL (Plays, Staged Readings & Absurd Sketch Comedy!) Wednesday, February 20 to Saturday, March 2 7pm-11pm (see below for details) from 'pay what you can' to $20 (see below for details) ----> Event Description <----------------------------------------------- CLASSIC ABSURDITY PRESENTS ... From the heart of San Francisco, deep in Fringe territory EXIT Theatre presents a three-ring festival of its signature absurdist fare. Featuring three classic absurdist Main Stage Plays, late night Sketch Comedy and early evening Staged Readings. Get all of the below (as much as you want!) for the price of a $35 ALL FESTIVAL PASS good for ALL performances in CLASSIC ABSURDITY!! The program includes: Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:30pm, classic absurd plays THE BALD SOPRANO by Eugene Ionesco UBU ROI by Alfred Jarry THE CONDEMNED MAN'S BICYCLE by Fernando Arrabal Tickets $12 - $20 sliding scale for each play. *** Saturdays at 7pm, staged readings of more obscure absurdist fare ... THE CHINESE WALL by Max Frisch directed by Meredith Eldred on 2/23 @ 7pm LOW IN THE DARK by Marina Carr directed by Alison Tassie on 2/23 @ 7pm RESOUNDING TINKLE by N.H. Simpson directed by Bill Peters on 3/2 @7pm PICNIC ON THE BATTLEFIELD by Fernando Arrabal directed by Rafel Klopotowski on 3/2 @ 7pm Donations requested--pay what you can! *** Fridays & Saturdays at 10PM it's mikl-em's ABSURD NIGHT LIVE! mikl-em (veteran of Banana, Bag & Bodice and Popcorn Theater) has engineered an intersection for a car crash of sketch comedy and Absurdism. Featuring a hot-shot ensemble cast (mikl-em, Ben Burke of 'Attaboy and Burke', Tryntje 'DUCKGIRL' Rapalje, Sophie Henry, Chris DeJong, and Scout) and local luminaries as guest hosts (Ed "Bishop Joey" Holmes on 2/22-23 & Donald the Nut of 3 Day Stubble on 3/1-2) Borrowing from the rich and giving to the absurd, the Absurd Night Live crew pulls from sketch comedy archetypes and Absurdist forefathers to hatch sketches like you've never seen and won't ever forget. Your smileage may vary. Tickets $10. Limited Seating! DETAILS on the main stage shows: ****** THE BALD SOPRANO by Eugene Ionesco. Ireland's Asylum Theatre presents a stripped down, sent up, furiously funny adaptation of Ionesco's classic comedy which won rave reviews at the Edinburgh and Cork Fringe Festivals. "Wonderfully portrayed ^� will have you in stitches " -- Irish Examiner. ****** UBU ROI by Alfred Jarry. 100 years after it caused a riot in Paris, this hilarious half Macbeth, half schooolboy potty mouth forerunner of the absurd, still delivers dangerous truths about the corruption of power. Directed by Rebecca Novick. ****** THE CONDEMNED MAN'S BICYCLE by Fernando Arrabal. A fever dream worthy of Dali emerges from the repression of Franco's Spain as a Freudian fairytale with socialist ideals and sadistic undertones. Directed by Rafael Klopotpwski. 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