Experimental

Heidi Hendrickson has an obsession, a compulsion really - she has 150 cats in her eleven hundred square foot apartment, including sixty dead ones in the Frigidare. She has an especially intimate relationship with the alpha cat, one King Cat Calico who keeps trying to escape this hellish tuna filled, feces stained prison, to no avail.

KING CAT CALICO FINALLY FLIES FREE! is a fun filled exploration of loneliness, possession and the need to claim one's place in this uncertain world. Featuring a cameo by Rush Limbaugh, singing(literally) the praises of Oxy-Contin, or what he lovingly refers to as his "little blues."

Note: running time is 90 minutes. no intermission

BONUS: On Fridays & Saturdays (after KING CAT) SOSE hosts Elke Luyten performing her corporeal mime solo performance piece "Here Is Someone". "Here Is Someone" integrates richly detailed movement scores with text from Antonin Artaud and music by Charles Ives. This special presentation begins at 10pm and patrons are invited to stay free of charge. Running time for "Here Is Someone" is 20 minutes.

Winners' Circle: Moving Arts' 12th Annual Premiere One-Act Festival, featuring the winner and finalists of Moving Arts Premiere One-Act Competition.

This year's festical includes:

THE GRAND DESIGN by Susan Miller. Directed by Ronnie Clark

CORNERED by Rosemary Frisino Toohey. Directed by Tina Polzin.

THE BOY WHO WAS BORN WITH A TAIL by Matt Casarino. Directed by Lanny Lighthill.

THE NORMAL CHILD by Phillip William Brock. Directed by Michael David.

THE CAPTAIN by Chirs Leavins. Directed by Paul Nicolai Stein

"There is plenty of risk and reward involved when all five plays are true originals being staged for the first time. The real success comes in seeing that the actors are inspired to follow suit and make the right decisions with such unique material. It’s obvious that the Moving Arts Ensemble is doing all it can to remain daring and original. Each play is thought provoking and original." --- Josh Barry, LASplash Magazine

Comprised of a series of short vignettes set to original music, HYPERBOLE: epiphany explores life's ordinary moments of birth, adolescence, death, love, faith and chaos in extraordinary ways. The stories of epiphany are brought to life with music, stylized movement, digital video, theatrical effects and the use of over fifty puppets and masks. The HYPERBOLE series is self-described by the Rogues as "hyper-theater," more akin in style to a live music video than to a play. The more than 20 songs featured in HYPERBOLE: epiphany, selected from over forty local musicians and music groups, is an eclectic mix that ranges in style from originally composed chamber orchestra pieces, to rock, punk and the wildly experimental. The music serves to score each storyline and drive the plot of each mini-play. HYPERBOLE: epiphany will feature music written and recorded by many LA artists including The Ditty Bops, Jack Irons, Run Run Run and Ben Phelps (a featured percussionist at Disney Concert Hall).

SLOW & TIGHT 3 once again takes eight of the best scripts ever written for Fast & Loose, prepared with loving care over the course of two months (as opposed to the 24 hour time limit of F&L).

The result is a wonderfully eclectic night of theatre that includes:

* A support group for people who each never learned to do something... IMPORTANT...

* A class where three beautiful women learn a special skill...

* A clown on the edge meets his match at the latest birthday party...

* And lots more, that to describe would be to ruin, but suffice it to say you'll see pirates and balloon animals and young lovers and wheelchairs and guns and strange things falling from the sky.

SLOW & TIGHT. You know you like it that way.

In Shawna Casy's The Aegean Sea, two lonely souls have a chance encounter at sea. Normal rules do not apply at Sharon Yablon's The Party, a shindig thrown by two sisters with terrible social skills. Temple Dog by Wesley Walker takes us to an Asian temple where two friends from Los Angeles encounter a spirit from the underworld. And twin sisters Jenna and Barbara learn that practice makes perfect in Zimmerman's The Wasps, as they prepare for their coming out party in a world without oil.

TRIPLE CROWN is a Sacred Fools late-night, fun-spirited competition where actors, writers & directors compete against other actors, writers & directors for your entertainment.

And You… You get to choose which three come back the next week... and which don’t.

Triple Crown – How it works -- In A Nutty Shell

1. The Best Short Original Scripts Are Chosen By the team of Producers.

2. "Teams" (writers, directors and actors) are put together by the individuals who submitted the chosen scripts.

3. Each “team” rehearses on their own.

4. On Saturday Night, just after the mainstage show, "teams" will compete against other "teams" for the Audience's pleasure.

5. At the end of the show, the audience chooses which three pieces come back the following week. And of course... which pieces don't.

6. The following week, the returning pieces compete, this time against other new pieces, written, acted and directed by other new teams. All of this, for the amusement of the Audience.

8 playwrights + 8 directors = 9 five-minute plays based on the theme 'Just This Once'. This is the ensemble's 2005 installment of the annual Late Night 5 - Minute Play Series, culled from over 100 submissions from across the U.S.

'The Bad Man of Griddle Gulch' by Bill Robens, directed by Piotr Uzarowicz

'Bed Play' written & directed by Kiff Scholl

'The Best of BTO' by Marty Barrett, directed by Gina Garcia

'A Clear Sunny Day'by Henry Meyerson, directed by Mark McClain Wilson

'Dress Black' by Ellen Lewis, directed by McKerrin Kelly

'Nobody Eats the Ass' by Claudia Choi, directed by Eric Kmetz

'Sedate-O-Bot' by Bill Robens, directed by Kiff Scholl

'Torture Chamber' written and directed by Christopher Kelley

'Unhealthy Appetites' by Steven Korbar, directed by Stephen Alan Carver