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In true Elephant fashion we are, once again, paving our own path. Our critically acclaimed sell-out 12th Season featuring all World Premieres by Los Angeles playwrights (Love Bites Volume 6 & 7, Tim McNeils Anything which garnered 3 LADCC awards including Best Production, Best Direction, Best Lead Actor, Gena Acostas Tooth and Nail and Tony Fosters Asleep on a Bicycle) was not only an ambitious undertaking- it was a overwhelming success!!! The Elephants 13th Season (2009) line-up attempts to keep the momentum going by offering daringly fresh perspectives in three world premieres and our annual short-play festival. A cult favorite and Elephant hallmark: the 8th installment of Love Bites 8.0 returns on Valentines Day, The Idea Man: a new play by local playwright Kevin King will be directed by Artistic Director, David Fofi, Block Nine: a film noir homage by our own Tom Stanzyk will be performed by one all male cast and one all female cast in rep, and lastly, we will produce another heart wrenching bittersweet tale by Elephant playwright Timothy McNeil (Anything, Los Muertos) entitled Supernova. Prepare yourself for a truly remarkable 13th Season
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The World Premiere of LOVE
BITES, Vols. VIII
February
14 - March 14, 2009 Performances
are at: “Love
Bites demonstrates that the Elephant Company can produce original material
with depth and quality. The level of writing, acting and direction is
above many of the company’s peers.” |
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The World Premiere of
THE IDEA MAN May
8 June 6, 2009 Special
Matinee performances (PLAYCARE): Join
us for a post-show TALKBACK with the playwright, director and actors after
these performances: Performances
are at: CLICK HERE For More Information or to Purchase Tickets THE IDEA MAN takes us into that great gaping gulf between labor and management. This biting commentary on class warfare by playwright Kevin King with the Elephants award-winning Artistic Director, David Fofi, at the helm will take you into the trenches, boardrooms, bedrooms, and barrooms of todays industrial world where exploitation is a given.
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The
World Premiere of BLOCK NINE August 14 September 19, 2009 Performances
are at: CLICK HERE For More Information or to Purchase Tickets The story of an undercover cop's journey into an underworld full of jailbreaks, guns, bodies, and booze! But this trip to the dark side is told with a special twist. It will be performed in rep with an all male cast and an all female cast! BLOCK NINE explores sexuality, gender, stereotype, romance and aggression. Oz this aint! Its a campy, unapologetically same sex retro-noir two-point pirouette of a 30s-gangster homage. Come packin heat and Tell em Cody sent ya!.
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The
World Premiere of SUPERNOVA November 20 December 19, 2009 Performances
are at: CLICK HERE For More Information or to Purchase Tickets It begins with a simple phone call. An exchange between two withdrawn strangers. Fate intervenes in the life of Mable Davies, an isolated housewife stuck in a cruel and loveless existence, who must decide if she is capable of taking a cosmic leap of faith. The award winning author of ANYTHING and LOS MUERTOS brings us this bittersweet look at losing love and finding it again.
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7
REDNECK CHEERLEADERS 08' Opens
Fri, Jul 18 Sat, Aug 30 Performances
are at: CLICK HERE For More Information or to Purchase Tickets ROTATING CAST FOR AUGUST 08' August 22nd – Friday August 23rd – Saturday August 24th – Sunday August 28th – Thursday August 29th – Friday August 30th – Saturday ROTATING CAST FOR SEPTEMBER 08' September 12th – Friday September 13th – Saturday September 18th – Thursday September 19th – Friday September 20th – Saturday September 25th – Thursday September 26th – Friday September 27th – Saturday ROTATING CAST FOR OCTOBER 08' October 3rd – Friday October 4th -- Saturday
CRITIC'S PICK! --LA Times & ReviewPlays "A
HELL OF A GREAT RIDE! ... "Lots of fun and wickedly sexy developments...People lept to their feet in uproarious applause...it was simply delicious!" --LA Splash Somewhere in Hollywood, near Santa Monica Boulevard and Vine, lines between reality and fiction, art and life, are crossed again and again as a playwright directs his autobiographical play in a Hollywood 99-seat theatre. In 7 REDNECK CHEERLEADERS, watch what happens as actors play actors playing rednecks, and see who transforms the most. It's a little congregation of misfits ready to become someone else and tell the story of small-town boy who is willing to be a cheerleader for love.
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ASLEEP
ON A BICYCLE Opens Sept 5, Performances
are at: CLICK HERE For More Information or to Purchase Tickets Capping the Elephant’s season of world premieres is Tony Foster’s Asleep on a Bicycle. Foster’s sexy dreamscape features: an ax-wielding ancestral rival to Lizzie Borden; a big-hearted lesbian nun; a late great Italian screen siren; a dream-child named after the family cat who grows up before our mind’s eye; a hot screenplay by some flavor-of-the-week writer geek whose high six figure manuscript stars a tough-talking vagina; and sundry others who figure grandly in the waking dream of a young woman who may or may not be lost in a fatal coma following a bizarre bicycle accident. This trippily surreal comedy manages to touch places in our hearts and obscure corners of our collective unconscious.
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ANYTHING
November
30th through January 27th (off Dec 23-Jan 2) Performances
are at: For
More Information or to Purchase Tickets: 323.960.4410
CRITIC'S CHOICE "An
offbeat love story with humor and heart..." "The terrific cast is incapable
of a false moment." "...a mesmerizing, uproarious performance not to
be missed." "EXTREMELY FUNNY... EXTREMELY HEARTFELT..." "McNeil and Fofi do a hell
of a job creating a story that is original and new..."
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Show Dates -TBA Performance
at: Betwixt
and between, there’ll be the Elephant’s now-expected moveable feast of
readings, workshops, 2nd stage shows, and LA24/Rushes. In mid-January,
keep an eye out for a one-night only, fully staged reading of The San
Francisco Play by company playwright Louis Doug Jacobs, author of the
Elephant’s recent critically-acclaimed sell-out hit comedy 7 Redneck Cheerleaders.
Hearts aren’t the only thing broken in Jacobs’ play whose action all takes
place on the day of “the Big One,” the 1908 quake that changed the Bay
City and its inhabitants forever. Be forewarned, this tale features a
sexually-addled mother-smothered scion of a prominent Nob Hill family
who’s visited by a larcenous team of thespian con artists posing as Helen
Keller and Annie Sullivan |
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LOVE
BITES, Vols. VI & VII
February
14th through March 9th & May
2nd through June 7th. Performances
are at:
“Love
Bites demonstrates that the Elephant Company can produce original material
with depth and quality. The level of writing, acting and direction is
above many of the company’s peers.” |
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TOOTH
AND NAIL May
15th through June 15th. EXTENDED through June 28th! Extension Performances: June 19, 20, 21, 27 and 28 at 8pm.
Performances
are at: Elephant playwright Gena Acosta joins the fun with her fresh from the pen comedy, Tooth and Nail. Acosta’s uproariously dysfunctional family seizes the Elephant Space on in early May and runs through mid-June. Leaping into territory touched on by such comic masters as Durang and Guare, Acosta’s off-the-rail comedy threatens to become the company’s next break-out hit.
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