SLEEPLESS NIGHT 2011

Miss COUCH PLAY at The SandBox? No worries, catch the show during Sleepless Night, November 5th at 11pm @ The Colony Theatre!

p.s. IT'S FREE


Click on the link below for more info:
http://sleeplessnight.org/?p=450

Less Than A Week

Sharks. There were sharks all around me, giant sharks, and rows and rows of teeth. The shore was crowded with lions and bears, driving a pod of angry crocodiles back into the underwater frenzy. Overhead, pterodactyls, those ancient flying beasts I know too well, screeched and swirled in the mad October wind. Then the skies opened up, and I couldn’t see anything anymore.

That’s when it hit me. Less than one week until COUCH PLAY by Theo Reyna. I wouldn't miss the US premiere, even if it meant my life.

I was over 300 miles from THE SANDBOX in Miami Shores, and I was going to have to think fast. I dodged the advances of several great whites with the agility of a synchronized swimmer and grabbed a smaller one by the nostrils as it tried to clamp down on my arm. I mounted it, took its fins in my hands, and wrenched it, belly up, to the surface. As a pterodactyl swooped in, unable to resist the easy kill, I looped the end of a shoelace around its beak, hopped on its back, and named him Larry under my breath. Things were looking up.

I nosed Larry into the clouds to try to rise above the storm. We had nearly made it out when Larry was struck by lightning and completely disoriented. We plummeted to the beach. I wrestled his neck as we dove and managed to come down inland of the bears and lions. I'm not sure exactly how close I was. Before Larry had come to a stop, I leapt away and was running. I’ve been running ever since.

Whatever it takes, no matter what comes, on Friday October 21, I’ll be where the art is. I will see COUCH PLAY by Theo Reyna. I'll sip a glass of wine, relaxed on a couch as the smooth sounds of CILICA remind me that the past is only a dream.

I won’t lose hope. I am the master of my destiny.

Couch Play Promo

Check it out! Huge thank you to Carrie Martinez for making this video happen. Don't forget, COUCH PLAY happens one week from today!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv3jmWkzKVY

It's ALIVE!!! Cast of COUCH PLAY kick things off.

COUCH PLAY October 21st & 22nd!

COUCH PLAY

What happens when you mix courage with vision? Hope. At least, that’s the idea. But things do go wrong. Join the Man Research Theatre at its US premiere of COUCH PLAY, by Theo Reyna.

Thebes entices his roommate Mac into a mountainous desert in search of a free couch, but fails to tell him of the more subtle forces at play. With little food or water, surrounded by despair—literally—besieged by a lion, and with only the aid of a mad scientist and a bucket of sand, will Thebes and Mac escape to their once normal lives? Will they get the couch home or forever lose their deposit? Will they survive? When the abstract becomes real, what can be trusted? Stephen Elliot Kaiser directs this dramatic farce which explores the consequences of trying to manufacture hope. Find out what ensues when salvaging the experiment—and their lives—requires risking the life of one of their own.

And fear not, while Thebes and Mac worry about bringing their couch home, Man Research will have brought the couches to you. Lean back and enjoy the show in audience seating made up entirely of couches! Limited engagement, October 21st and 22nd at 8pm at the SANDBOX, 9806 NE 2nd Ave in Miami Shores. Entry by donation, $5-$25, cash only. For more information call (305) 527-8561.