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Theatre of Yugen is developing a new theatrical work inspired by Homer’s The Iliad in collaboration with director Dijana Milosevic (Belgrade) founder of DAH Theatre, playwright and Yugen Artistic Associate Erik Ehn (Dean of Theater, Cal Arts) and commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Theatre of Yugen’s ensemble will team with young actors in an investigation of the increasing wartime practice of using child soldiers.

Dijana Milosevic is the artistic director of DAH Teatar and Research Center located in Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1991, they were preparing their first production when Slobodan Milosevic began moving forces into Bosnia. Dah Teatar took their production to the streets and during the bombing of Belgrade, used it to discuss personal issues that arrive in wartime – causing a therapeutic as well as political effect. She is also the founder and artistic director of Art Saves Lives, a theatre-in-education project that serves at-risk youth throughout Southeastern Europe, working with both children and adults who've been personally affected by the war. Ms. Milosevic has also served as artistic director for the International Meeting of Theatre Workshops in Belgrade and has collaborated with the Magdalena Project, an international network of women in contemporary theatre. She is the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theatre.

The ensemble will look to Homer’s The Iliad, the ultimate bible of war, to provide a foundation for the theatrical base of the project, while an examination of our current era’s culture of child armies is the particular focus of the work. Associate Ensemble Member John Oglevee will serve as composer and lead musician for the Rock & Noh band.

Rehearsals open to the public. Please call 415.621.0507 for a schedule.

Dogsbody is generously funded in part by Multi-Arts Production Fund (a program of Creative Capital, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation), Association of Performing Arts Presenters Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Grant Program (a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Theatre Initiative), National Endowment for the Arts, Flintridge Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund/Grants for the Arts.

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credit: Randall Wong Press Photos and Press Release	Randall Wong and NOHspace CoPresents Waiting for Godzilla May 2nd - 11th, 2008 Friday - Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm Buy Tickets Online Now! A miniature opera in three parts, incorporating live singers/puppeteers and instrumentalists. The work explores the cultural mythos of a modern icon, but reduced to a toybox scale. The effect of watching a fantasy opera through the wrong end of a telescope. Developed at Z Space. Neighborhood Eats & Drinks

	San Franciso State University Theatre Arts Department and Theatre of Yugen Nohgaku Kai: Classical Japanese Theatre Directed by Jubilith Moore, guest artist May 15 – 18, 2008 Thursday 15th & Friday 16th at 8pm Saturday 17th at 2pm Studio Theatre, Creative Arts Building, SFSU Campus www.theatre.sfsu.edu for information / Box Office: 415/338-2467 $5 Sunday May 18th at 2pm NOHspace, 2840 Mariposa St., San Francisco, CA 94110 Box Office: 415/621-7978 $5 Often described as the art of performance, nohgaku refers to both Japanese traditional theatre forms of noh (drama) and kyogen (comedy), and kai means a gathering. Participants of this semi-intensive, performance-based training in the dance (komai/shimai) and chant (kouta/utai) of nohgaku have learned songs and dances of the nohgaku repertoire. We invite you to gather with us as they culminate their studies by performing for you. Participants include: Kanako Abe, Adela Ballester, Thomas Chinn, Megan Finley, Rachael Garcia, Will Hand, Nick Ishimaru, Chan Ith, Ryan Marchand, Tiger Lane Poon, David Roberts, Catlin Seavey, Miho Tanaka, Thu Tran and featuring Theatre of Yugen (and SFSU alumni) Joint Artistic Director Lluis Valls. Neighborhood Eats & Drinks

	Theatre du Coin presents Folies quotidiennes May 30th - June 7th, 2008 Friday - Saturdays at 8pm Tickets $15-25 Reservations/info: info@theatreducoin.org Un spectacle de scènes de Ionesco, Obaldia, Desproges, Ribes, Bigard, Frayn. Un stylo-bille géant dans le salon; un capitaine des pompiers dans la salle à manger; une perruque Louis XV au rayon électroménager; une chauve-souris à la porte; et pour terminer, un concert d'alarmes: ce spectacle du Théâtre du Coin explore les instants où le quotidien se met à dériver, à délirer, quand les objets se révoltent, quand la seule alternative à la folie est l'humour. Avec Colette Beraut, Nolwenn Carcione, Janette Didier, Francois Granade, Jean-Marc Parmentier, Pierre-Xavier Thomas, Jérome Thoméré Mise en Scène : Rebecca Scholl Régisseur : Trudy Vanhove Communication : Carole Granade Neighborhood Eats & Drinks

credit: A.Whitman	Theatre of Yugen's Worklights Sunday, May 25th, 2008 3 - 5pm - FREE (No-host bar) A casual monthly series for exploration of work-in-progress, play readings, and offerings by members of the Yugen Orchestra. We bring the beer and popcorn. You provide impressions and reflections. No one turned away for lack of an opinion. This month's fieldwork: Staging of Erik Ehn's saint play Wholly Joan (Libby Zilber, Lluis Valls, Jubilith Moore, Sean Aquino with Yugen Orchestra element by Edward Schocker, Suki O'Kane & Wayne Grim) Guest musicians Nancy Beckman & Tom Bickley Chu-no-mai dance by Jubilith with Nancy and Tom Neighborhood Eats & Drinks

Illustrated manuscript of Homer's Iliad	The Iliad Project : Dogsbody Work Week - June 6 - 11, 2008 Theatre of Yugen is developing a new theatrical work inspired by Homer’s The Iliad in collaboration with director Dijana Milosevic (Belgrade) founder of DAH Theatre, playwright and Yugen Artistic Associate Erik Ehn (Dean of Theater, Cal Arts) and commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Theatre of Yugen’s ensemble will team with young actors in an investigation of the increasing wartime practice of using child soldiers. Dijana Milosevic is the artistic director of DAH Teatar and Research Center located in Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1991, they were preparing their first production when Slobodan Milosevic began moving forces into Bosnia. Dah Teatar took their production to the streets and during the bombing of Belgrade, used it to discuss personal issues that arrive in wartime – causing a therapeutic as well as political effect. She is also the founder and artistic director of Art Saves Lives, a theatre-in-education project that serves at-risk youth throughout Southeastern Europe, working with both children and adults who've been personally affected by the war. Ms. Milosevic has also served as artistic director for the International Meeting of Theatre Workshops in Belgrade and has collaborated with the Magdalena Project, an international network of women in contemporary theatre. She is the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theatre. The ensemble will look to Homer’s The Iliad, the ultimate bible of war, to provide a foundation for the theatrical base of the project, while an examination of our current era’s culture of child armies is the particular focus of the work. Associate Ensemble Member John Oglevee will serve as composer and lead musician for the Rock & Noh band. Rehearsals open to the public. Please call 415.621.0507 for a schedule. Dogsbody is generously funded in part by Multi-Arts Production Fund (a program of Creative Capital, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation), Association of Performing Arts Presenters Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Grant Program (a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Theatre Initiative), National Endowment for the Arts, Flintridge Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund/Grants for the Arts.

credit: A.Whitman	Theatre of Yugen's Worklights Sunday, June 29th, 2008 3 - 5pm - FREE (No-host bar) A casual monthly series for exploration of work-in-progress, play readings, and offerings by members of the Yugen Orchestra. We bring the beer and popcorn. You provide impressions and reflections. No one turned away for lack of an opinion. This month's fieldwork: Solo dance with a printer and a laptop: Libby Zilber Lluis Valls explores The Adding Machine Yugen Orchestra element: Larnie Fox and the Crank Ensemble Neighborhood Eats & Drinks

	NOHspace Presents paige starling sorvillo/blindsight productions September 8th & 9th, 2008 Monday & Tuesday at 8pm tickets $15/$10 Students/Seniors reservations (415) 621-7978 Short Works by one of the Bay Area's most intriguing choreographer. Empire of Night explores both our romance with solitude and our fear of isolation within a context of surveillance and violence. imprint no. 2 for blind is an ensemble work on the visceral/vicious sense of family/intimacy and the evolution of a disconnected social identity. Inspired by Jose Saramago's Blindness, the story of Kasper Hauser as interpreted by Matthias Bossi of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and Richard Dawkin's The Ancestors Tale. Neighborhood Eats & Drinks What is NOHspace Presents?

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