For Immediate
Release
LOCALLY
LAUDED STORYTELLER TIM BARSKY JOINS LOCAL CUT-UPS KILLING MY LOBSTER FOR KILLING
MY LOBSTER KISSES A TOAD
Killing My Lobster Kisses a Toad
Comedic Vignettes for the Endearingly
Enchanted
(sketch comedy all about fairy tales)
March 3-13, 2005
The Theater of Yugen/Noh
2840 Mariposa Street, San Francisco
Performances:
Thursdays and Fridays (and
Wednesday, 3/9) @ 8 p.m.
Saturdays @ 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.;
Sundays @ 7 p.m.
Tickets: $12-17, available at www.killingmylobster.com beginning
February 5
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, February 4, 2005––Killing My Lobster today
announced that local storyteller and musician Tim Barsky has joined the
design team of the sketch comedy group’s new production, Killing My
Lobster Kisses a Toad, at The Theater of Yugen/Noh March 3-13.
Called “invigoratingly original” by the San Francisco Chronicle and
“revolutionary” by The Oakland Tribune, Barsky’s work includes his
hip-hop retelling of Dante’s Inferno The Bright River
recently extended until February 9 at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts.
Barsky will write and perform a live original score for the production,
featuring live flute and looped beatboxing in addition to other
instrumentation. Tickets for Killing My Lobster Kisses a Toad are
available now on www.killingmylobster.com
and at the door on the night of each performance. Killing My Lobster Kisses
a Toad is made possible by support from The Flieshhacker Foundation.
“We have been fans of Tim’s incredible work since he has
been in the Bay Area, and we are thrilled that he will be joining us for Kisses
a Toad,” said Killing My Lobster Artistic Director Paul Charney.
“His interest in and experience with forms of mystical storytelling and oral
histories make him possibly the best person to collaborate with on a show that
riffs off of and distorts the fairy tale genre. We have a lot to learn from him
over the course of rehearsals, and we know that he will truly enliven the
experience for our audiences.”
<>Promising laughs for young and
old, from Little Boy Blue to the old woman in the
shoe, Killing My Lobster Kisses a Toad is the first sketch production in
the
group’s seven-year history conceived and directed by a female member: Melanie
Case. Case led the writing process of the show, incorporating tales from
the Brothers Grimm and Edward Gorey into the writing process, and encouraging
performers to improvise with established characters from the first day of
rehearsals forward.
Killing My Lobster Kisses a
Toad features regular KML performers Tonya
Glanz, Emily Helfgot, Nick Olivero, Shaye Troha, and Jon
Wolanske. Joining the cast for this production are Shotgun Players
company member Andy Alabran and Illbilly Productions company
member Andrew Bancfroft. Additional members of the design team include Giao-Chau
Ly (set and props), Jamie Munger (costumes), Jarrod Fischer
(lights), and Craig Helmholz (sound). Killing My Lobster Kisses a
Toad is executive produced by Paul Charney and Marc Vogl and
produced by Sean McGinn.
Tim Barsky is a traditional Jewish storyteller and
musician who has also worked extensively in the hip-hop community. A graduate
of Brown University, he has also studied at the Berklee School of Music, and
with the renowned Chassidic folklorist and archivist Fishel Bresler. He has
worked as a program coordinator for The Providence Black Repertory Company, and
has performed on the street and in theatres in North Africa, Europe, and the United States. His work has been performed recently at The
Exit Theatre in San Francisco, The Blackbox Theatre in Oakland, and The
Finborough Theatre in London, UK. A former artist-in-residence at AS220 in
Providence RI, he has also been a guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art,
London. More information on Barsky may be found at www.timbarsky.com.
Melanie Case has written and produced her two-woman show, The Sho
Show, in Los Angeles. She has also performed off-off Broadway at the
American Living Room Festival (HERE) in a Scared Circle Theater production of Green
Eyes Dreaming and Les Cenci in Paris with the Black Moon Theater
Company’s director Rene Migilaccio. She also teaches improvisation at A.C.T.’s
Young Conservatory.
KILLING MY LOBSTER is a Bay Area non-profit theater and film production
company. Hailed by the SF Chronicle as “the closest thing we have to
Second City” and heralded as “an orgy of comic genius” by Comedy Central, KML
has created original work for HBO, is a two-time winner of the Best of the
Fringe Award at the SF Fringe Festival and was voted "Best Comedy
Group" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. The group also produces the
annual Hi/Lo Film Festival, monthly Kabarets at the Make-Out Room and has
created numerous award-winning short films taking home the Golden Spire Prize
at the SF International Film Festival. For more info: www.killingmylobster.com.
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