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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:35:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: randy@monkeybiz.Stanford.EDU
Message-Id: <200104271935.MAA10839@monkeybiz.Stanford.EDU>
To: xtras@funfolks.org
Subject: Far Side of the Moon, 5/5/01 2 pm

hey now!

i didn't realize ting and a conflict when i bought her a ticket for this event:
Robert LePage's multimedia extravaganza (with a soundtrack by Laurie Anderson
and puppets by Henson's workshop), "the Far Side of the Moon"
a one-man play, at Zellerbach Playhouse, Saturday 5/5/01.

we're dead center in the 12th row; ticket was $41.40 (discounted...i think
full price was $46). interested? here's an excerpt from the ad copy for this
event:

Cal Performances is pleased to introduce the Bay Area to one of international 
theater's leading visionary artists: Canada's Robert Lepage. As audiences at 
BAM's Next Wave Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, and London's Royal National
Theatre already know, Lepage has written, directed, and performed some of the 
most innovative theater of our time - spectacular fusions of media,
movement, text, and music that link together the familiar and the fantastic. 

In this West Coast premiere, Lepage gives a solo performance gravitating about 
what many believe to be the ultimate achievement of the millennium: the voyage
to the moon. Based on the dreams and ideas of poets and scientists of the 
centuries and the actual occurrences of those stirring years when a world
reached for the moon, The Far Side of the Moon also features an original score 
by renowned performance artist Laurie Anderson. 

Co-produced by Ex Machina, Harbourfront Centre, le Theatre du Trident, 
the Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater, Hancher Auditorium, 
and Cal Performances.

if you want to read even more about this event, here's a link to the
program notes:
http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/season/0001/notes/pdf_files/lepage.pdf