Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
The fifth work in the celebrated playwright's Garage Band Series, Philip Kan Gotanda's #5 Angry Red Drum is the story of two world-refugees determined to survive with style amidst a post-apocalyptic universe gone mad. When a mysterious drum appears, it awakens their lost memories and inspires them to create a new society.
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The last date listed for #5 Angry Red Drum was Friday October 16, 2009 / 8:00pm. (view all dates)
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Great piece of theatre. Vibrant performances in a comedic existential nightmare, smart direction, great production value and a smoking hot bowling alley tranny.
Thick House is an intimate theater located on San Francisco's Potrero Hill.
Website: http://www.asianamericantheater.org/
#5 Angry Red Drum is a tragic-comic parable reminiscent of an early David Lynch film. This world premiere features a live original sound score using traditional and found instruments, misremembered fragments of Bob Dylan lyrics, and post-post-post modern dance. This is where Beckett meets Burning Man.
Message from the playwright
I have a new play, #5 Angry Red Drum, put up by the new Asian American Theater Company at Thick House Theater in SF. I like this one. A lot. It’s a fun, disturbing, comedic romp. It’s what small theaters should and can best offer – an indie theatrical experience to the slick and expensively produced. Very talented artists whom you may not have seen before, but should and will, doing work that bends minds with a world of dirt, blood, bad jokes, guns, cross dressing, human sacrifice and great love, in no particular order. This is not your mainstream critic’s choice. This is the extreme people’s choice, the retro community organizer’s choice - hip, slapstick, violent. And yet, with a heart. You should all come and see #5 Angry Red Drum. Soon. Fast. Now. We have this weekend and then two more weeks after that. Everybody must get stoned. And in this play, they do, with very hard rocks, while hula-ing to Skeeter Davis. Matthew Graham Smith directs. With very heavy stones.
--Philip Kan Gotanda (10/03/09)
The mission of the Asian American Theater Company (AATC) is to inspire, develop, and present Asian and Pacific American stories. AATC also produces and promotes the education and training of artists. Through the theatrical expression of the diversity of APA experiences, AATC aims to enrich American theater and increase the presence of Asian American stories on stage.
