[Peace] The 7-Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act (a play) - 9/24

[Susan Parenti]

Hi friends--I really recommend seeing this performance. Missoula  
Oblongata is a politicized, politicizing theater ensemble.
susan p

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> From: Unit One/Allen Hall <lhaber at illinois.edu>
> Date: September 23, 2013 2:41:18 PM CDT
> To: <sparenti at illinois.edu>
> Subject: The 7-Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act (a play) - 9/24
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> The 7 Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act (a play)
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> presented by Der Vorführeffekt Theatre
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> Tuesday, September 24
> 7pm
> Main Lounge of Allen Hall
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> In the wilds of Siberia, Charles Darwin goes off in search of the  
> Yeti. Through the lens of the real life allegory of the Flying  
> Wallendas’ famous high-wire act, two performers on a tiny stage  
> unfold Darwin’s laboratory, unfurl anatomic diagrams of the yeti,  
> and try to tease out the difference between miracles and non-miracles.
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> Written, designed, directed, and performed by some of the members of  
> The Missoula Oblongata. For the last seven years, The Missoula  
> Oblongata has toured North America extensively, to critical and  
> audience acclaim. The Santa Fe Reporter said of the company’s work:  
> “A night at the theater has never looked so delightfully weird… 
> Bizarrely frolicsome, cogently playful, sweetly surreal...Such is  
> the genius of The Missoula Oblongata--quirky, but also exquisitely  
> made and elegantly presented."
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> The 7-Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act is Donna Oblongata’s first  
> original play independent of The Missoula Oblongata. Donna’s  
> theatrical work has been cited by Rolling Stone as one of the  
> reasons Baltimore had the “Best Scene in the Country” and by the  
> Baltimore City Paper when it named DIY Theater as the city’s Best  
> Trend: “...the productions are big, bold, and unendingly impressive."
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