Sellout warning. We had to turn people away last weekend. Advance tickets are highly recommended.
LAST VOYAGE OF THE OMEGA is an original science-fiction comedy about a crew of hard-partying space travelers that mistakenly set their stasis chambers to three billion years to avoid a nasty hangover. Stranded on planet Earth, they find that their ship’s shields are the magnetosphere and all life has evolved from their dead skin cells. The crew of Janet, Reyna and Prepiel enjoin a battle with Carlotta Catorce, the saucy and sassy incarnation of Cthulhu, for the hearts and minds of the human race.
Episode 2 - Space Babies!
Performances: August 1st, 2nd, 8th, 9th with doors at 10pm, show about 20 minutes later.
Tickets: $12. Pay at the door or purchase on the web at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/8257
Location: Stage Werx at 533 Sutter St. Cross street is Powell.
Info: http://www.knifebeatsfinger.com or 415.385.6296
Episode 2 by Helena Nolan, Jon Fast and Sean Kelly
Directed by Helena Nolan
Starring: Chris Aguinaldo, Tina Arriola, Melissa Craven, Spy Emerson, Camron ‘Teiwaz’ Assadi, Bryce Byerley, Jon Fast, Michael Russo, and Mike Spiegelman
Costumes by Tina Arriola
Sound Design and Audio Tastiness by Tim Pratt (aka Timmmiii)
Production Design by Andrea Cohen
posted by admin at 5:22 pm
Hey, hey, we got some more coverage. This piece was in 96 hours last week and on sfgate.com. Full article after the leap
A noir play set in a bar - what could be more old-school San Francisco? In “The Heavy Hand,” playwright Sean Kelly creates a contemporary whodunit and laces the often humorous plot points with serious themes of dependence and addiction.
“It came out of a one-page playwriting exercise I did a year ago,” Kelly says. The sketch comedy veteran - he was in one of the groups that started the annual San Francisco Sketchfest - says he took the noir form to be able to lighten heavy subjects with snappy dialogue. “It’s a play about dependency and a play about people using dependency … as a way to avoid taking responsibility or growing up.” … <read more of this on sfgate>
-Reyhan Harmanci
posted by admin at 2:16 pm
Tavern, pub, dive — call it what you want, once you are captured within the voracious vortex of your local watering hole, it can be hard to break free. Sean Kelly’s latest play, The Heavy Hand, brings the dive bar dilemma to uncomfortable life. Set almost entirely in shabby Irish establishment Shenanigans, the play reveals the apathetic entrenchment of patrons and proprietors alike being drowned in a tsunami of liquor and thwarted ambition. Beloved teetotaling bartendress Raquel (Eden Nelson) presides over the bar with her “heavy hand” while her sorrowing widower Pop (Jon Fast) gambles their meager profits away in a series of reckless bets. A bevy of bevvied-up regulars (including a wickedly funny Cristina Arriola) exchange banalities and distant dreams, while sex, death, and even rock-and-roll are thrown into the mix for good measure. If you’ve never succumbed to the slow sweet poison of the bar round the way, you might not quite recognize the painful sincerity behind the wistful dialogues about art, love, heartbreak, Japan, and the Bahamas, but as any dive bar connoisseur will tell you, much of it rings all too true. This inaugural production at the spanking-new downtown venue Stage Werx pours neat. (Gluckstern, sfbg.com 2/13/08)
posted by admin at 6:05 pm
Opening Thursday 2/7! Check out KnifeBeatsFinger’s newest original play.
The Heavy Hand is a gritty bar-room family drama of addiction, love, romance and murder. A skilled bartender tries to save what’s left of her family while pouring drinks for the people who are hopelessly in love with her … until someone gets hurt. Will anyone escape from the depths of alcohol, sex and drugs to break out on their own? Or will greed, and the torrid affairs of the heart, steal hope from a brighter future? One thing is for sure, no one will be left unscathed by machinations of The Heavy Hand.
Premiering downtown at the wonderful Stage Werx Theatre, a re-imagined space designed and operated by the theatrically-inclined McKenzie Sisters.
The Players: Tina Arriola, Maggie Mason, Eden Nelson, Esther Selk, David Chambers, Jon Fast and Mike Spiegelman.
Directed by Helena Nolan. Written by Sean Kelly. Set by Paul Andrew Hayes. Costumes by Sheena Pee.
Seats are only $12 in advance or at the door. Seating is limited.
Advance tickets: http://www.acteva.com/go/kbf
Wheelchair access available.
Mature themes and language.
Address:
533 Sutter Ave SF, CA 94102
gmap: http://tinyurl.com/35lese
Show Dates:
Thursday 2/7 8PM
Friday 2/8 8PM
Saturday 2/9 8PM
Sunday 2/10 2PM
Friday 2/15 8PM
Saturday 2/16 8PM
Sunday 2/17 2PM
Thursday 2/21 8PM
Friday 2/22 8PM
Saturday 2/23 8PM
Sunday 2/24 2PM
posted by admin at 5:51 pm
Knifebeatsfinger’s new production The Heavy Hand begins rehearsing at StageWerx shortly. We’ll be bringing our newest creation to you in February. Stay tuned for more details.
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