KILLING MY LOBSTER PRESENTS:

KILLING MY LOBSTER: NOTHING IS ORIGINAL!

NOVEMBER 3-20, 2005 AT SF’S THICK HOUSE THEATRE

WHAT:         Killing My Lobster: Nothing Is Original

WHERE & WHEN: Thursdays through Sundays, November 3-20, 2005
                                  Thick House Theatre - 1695 18th St. in Potrero Hill

PERFORMANCES:      Thursdays and Fridays @ 8 pm
                                        Saturdays @ 7:30 and 10 pm
                                        Sundays @ 7 pm

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
$17 general; $12 students with positive ID
10pm Saturday shows are 'pay-what-you-can'
Group rates available! Call 415.558.7721.

INFO:              www.killingmylobster.com * 415.558.7721

SAN FRANCISCO, September 1, 2005 –– This fall, Killing My Lobster gets derivative! The first three weeks in November the gang the press is calling “the hottest sketch comedy group in the Bay Area” (Contra Costa Times) presents a new comedy show inspired by movie titles, ad slogans, SPAM e-mail, thrown-away letters and to-do-lists, photos picked up off the street, various other appropriated materials, and all the “found” and previously written text the world has to offer. This production is funded in part by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and the Fleishhacker Foundation.

Killing My Lobster: Nothing Is Original is a collection of comedic vignettes for those who stop to read their junk mail and who never throw anything away. From sketches that toy with well-known source material (advertisements, magazines, plays, films, Craigslist entries, and more) to shenanigans inspired by personal man-made items left for dead in dumpsters and on sidewalks, Killing My Lobster: Nothing Is Original proves that it’s not what you steal, it’s how you use it

“We live in a recyclable society,” says Killing My Lobster: Nothing Is Original director and KML veteran Jon Wolanske. “Hip hop culture makes no bones about exposing samples. Publishers are forever in search of the next Harry Potter and Da Vinci Code knock-offs. Even the Farrah Fawcett haircut made a comeback! With this production, we’ll shine the light on our influences and on work that’s been created before us, mining it for what its worth, and coming up with some new takes on some surprising source material. It’ll be unlike any other KML show we’ve ever done, and wholly original in its unoriginality.”
 
Killing My Lobster: Nothing Is Original features veteran Killing My Lobster performers:
Andy Alabran, Andrew Bancroft, Melanie Case, Tonya Glanz, Daniel Lee, Nick Olivero and Shaye Troha. Music is scratched and sampled by SF’s very own DJ Ross Hogg and sets and visuals are designed by indie filmmaker and psycho-video guru Ryan Junell.

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.

FOR PHOTOS, PRESS TICKETS, OR OTHER REQUESTS, call 415.558.7721 or
write to press@killingmylobster.com.