Stanford University Live presents Counting Sheep: A Guerrilla Folk Opera featuring Lemon Bucket Orkestra
Bing Concert Hall Studio
Stanford University, 327 Lasuen St, Stanford, CA 94305-5005 USA
8:00 PM, Thursday, February 8, 2018

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[8:m PM entrance and feast]
[show ends 9:m PM]

Lemon Bucket Orkestra

• Eli Camilo: trombone;
• Nathan Dell-Vandenberg: trombone;
• Oksana Hawrylak: art and design;
• Michael Louis Johnson: flugelhorn;
• Os Kar: savage drum, vox;
• Marichka Marczyk: accordion, vox;
• Mark Marczyk: violin, vox;
• Alex Nahirny: guitar;
• Mike Romaniak: sopilka;
• Jaash Singh: darbouka;
• Ian Tulloch: sousaphone;
• Stephania Woloshyn: dance, tambourine, vox.

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Because of the participatory nature of this event, it was darn near impossible to take any notes. Or rather, I could have taken notes, but then I wouldn't have really been part of the show. So I didn't. Here's what I recall:

• We enter Bing Studio to be directed to sit at a large banquet table, and soon the actors are serving us a delicious vegetarian meal. If I'd thought about it, it would have been smart to take a photo of the menu posted outside in the lobby. Another missed opportunity! Anyways, we had: pierogi, borscht soup with sour cream, cucumber salad, bulgar wheat, country bread, pickles and water. No vodka (what!?).
• Dinner changes to a party, with sing-along in Ukranian and eventually, dancing on the table tops
• The party is interrupted by bad news: Viktor Yanukovych has rejected the EU association agreement, choosing instead to align with Russia.
• Multiple confrontations with the riot police, escalating in intensity
• Wedding of the revolutionaries
• Battling with the riot police
• Arrival of the snipers
• Funeral scene

Jeff Kaliss posted an interesting promo article for SFCV.

Rebecca Wishnia posted a review of one of the later performances in Oakland on SFCV.

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2018 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2018 event list! ☸ On to the next event!