Robin Morgan:
The "otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

PRESS RELEASE:

For more information, contact:
Stacey Poirier
612-207-3659
spoirier@theatreunbound.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 1, 2009

THEATRE UNBOUND MEETS SURVIVOR
8th Annual 24-Hour Play Project and Benefit Gala
Just like reality TV – but better!

Theatre Unbound is thrilled to announce this year's "Survivor" themed event. "To start with, our home audience gets to vote on which ridiculous elements the writers will have to incorporate into six new plays - a dead fish, a Bozo the Clown wig, schadenfreude - they're all fair game," says Unbound Artistic Director Stacey Poirier. "It's better than voting somebody off the island, because you actually get to come to 'the island' and watch the participants squirm their way through obstacles you helped choose!"

The 24-Hour Play Project and Benefit Gala continues Theatre Unbound's mission of providing opportunities to women artists. Playwrights, directors, and actors take on the challenge of writing, rehearsing and propelling new work onto the stage in just 24 hours! The Gala includes a silent auction complete with Survivor themed packages and complimentary cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.

DATE AND TIME
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Doors open at 7:00pm for cocktail hour and silent auction bidding
Performance begins at 8:00pm

TICKETS
$35/single, $50/pair
Reservations: 612-721-1186 or order online at www.theatreunbound.com.

LOCATION
The Neighborhood House at the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center
179 Robie Street East
St. Paul, MN 55107

PROCESS
Through our website, we invite the general public to vote among 50 ingredients such as a line of dialog, an emotion, a prop, or a stage direction. On Friday evening at 9pm, we reveal the winning ingredients to six teams of two playwrights, who must include all the ingredients in their scripts. At 6:00 on Saturday morning, the newly written plays are assigned directors, a cast, and rehearsal time. Rehearsals are conducted throughout the day - technical rehearsals skid to a halt just in time for the doors to open at 7pm. Performances begin at 8pm.

COMING UP IN 2009 FROM THEATRE UNBOUND:
Quilters
By Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek
A rich mosaic of music and drama that capture the sweep and beauty, the terror and joy, the harsh challenges and abiding reward of frontier life and the creative power of the women who lived it.

ABOUT OUR NEW HOME
The Neighborhood House features a brand new, state-of-the-art auditorium, FREE off street parking, handicapped accessibility, and walking distance to restaurants in the Westside neighborhood of St. Paul.

ABOUT THEATRE UNBOUND
Theatre Unbound produces high quality, visionary theatre created by women - powerful stories that represent women in active pursuit of their goals and desires; female perspectives on universal struggles and achievements.

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