From Fringe to Boog

Last Saturday Murder on the Bare Stage had its final performance for CapFringe, and this evening I'm getting ready to head up to New York with Genna Davidson for the Boog Poets Theater event tomorrow evening, part of Boog City 7 Poetry, Music, and Theater Festival. Genna will do the Antigone Idyll.

Genna Davidson

During the Fringe, before our second Murder show on Wednesday, July 17th, Genna gamely performed "Antigone Buries her Brother's Body Against Orders of the King" guerrilla-style, around the corner from Fort Fringe and all the goings-on under the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent.  On 6th street, in a driveway just above New York Avenue, in front of a green door with a graffiti helicopter on it, she "held high the urn of finely-wrought bronze" and invoked the Goddess Justice amidst the thick atmosphere of teeming, steaming D.C. streets and sidewalks, connected in point and line to the Capitol Dome and government monuments, presences as vaporous as mirage. At least tomorrow night, in the East Village's Sidewalk Cafe, she won't have to contend with the noise of traffic, although it's likely we'll be facing a rowdy Boog crowd.

Incidentally, on the lineup for the evening, I've been called on to play Lew Welch, on book, in Jesse Glass' Poets Theater piece "Poetic Fictions: A New Age Dawns At Longshoreman's Hall, San Francisco, June 11, 1964!" along with other poets playing poets Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen. We're to sit around a table talk-show style, with moderator (also played by a poet), and
SCRATCH
THE TRUE FACE OF A MOTH
INTO A BLACK SURFACE
W/A PIN

THE LINES GLOW & CONNECT
THE LINES GLOW & CONNECT
THE LINES GLOW & CONNECT

until "the water jug is way past empty."
 
[as quoted from the Glass piece]


Here's a link to a notice and schedule of the festival as a whole

Boog City 2013

And Poets Theater Night begins at 5:30 pm, Sunday August 4th (tomorrow)

Sidewalk Cafe

94 Avenue A
New York, New York 10009