I LIKE IT TO BE A PLAY EVERY AFTERNOON:

CalArts Festival Theater presents I LIKE IT TO BE A PLAY EVERY AFTERNOON, two Gertrude Stein short plays adapted with hope and humor, in it’s 6th season on the fringe

Los Angeles/Edinburgh – CalArts Festival Theater presents I LIKE IT TO BE A PLAY EVERY AFTERNOON, containing two plays by Gertrude Stein as interpreted by an ensemble of graduate acting students from the CalArts School of Theater I LIKE IT TO BE A PLAY EVERY AFTERNOON will open on August 8th. It will play from Saturday, August 8th until Saturday, August 15th at 11:45 and then Sunday August 16th and Tuesday August 18th through Saturday, August 22nd at 13:45. There will be no performance on Monday, August 17th.
I LIKE IT TO BE A PLAY EVERY AFTERNOON is a whimsical and sardonic take on modern life about THESE PEOPLE in THIS ROOM. It is a thoughtful, physical, and irreverent adventure where the characters play in the space between sense and language.  While creating meaning was not the ensemble’s initial intention, themes continue to emerge through joyful collaboration and engagement with the audience. These pieces speak to bourgeois ache, the human desire to BE WITH, and the cry from artists everywhere, “Look at us! Be with us! We are fun AND useful!”

Venue 13 was launched in 1996 as an initiative by the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama to promote the best new talent from Wales on a world stage. Now run in Collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the 2009 season presents productions of emerging artists from Wales and California.

CalArts Festival Theater has partnered with Venue 13 for 6 seasons to expand programming to include the experimental work of the students and recent alumni of the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, USA, 35 miles north of Los Angeles.

California Institute of the Arts, CalArts, is the first art institute in the United States  to offer BFAs and MFAs in both the visual and performing arts, CalArts is dedicated to training and nurturing the next generation of professional artists, fostering brilliance and innovation within the broadest context possible.

Tickets may be acquired by calling the Venue 13 box office at 07074 20 1313
Or logging on to the Edinburgh Fringe website at http://www.edfringe.com