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Out On the Edge Festival

by Various artists

10/19/2006 – 11/11/2006
The Theater Offensive
Hall A


“Festivals by their nature, are celebratory beasts, but few have remained as defiantly exuberant as The Theater Offensive's Out on the Edge Festival.”

The Boston Globe

Additional Information

» Queer Theory

»Los Big Names

»Beakman in Person!

»Nut/Cracked!

»The Mother of All Enemies

»Chocolate Cocoa on a Winter's Night

»Shackles & Sugar

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Check out the World Premiere where ivory tower meets gritty gutter! Also featuring TWO shows by your favorite TV cult-hero & Bread & Puppet ringmaster--including a kids' show! Don't miss our superstar of comedy, direct from Off-Broadway! Plus get your tickets now for the dance-theater show that will rock Boston with a BANG!

To purchase tickets, visit each individual production page for specific date and time information (or scroll to the bottom of this page and select a performance).

MAINSTAGE SHOWS

Los Big Names
Starring Marga Gomez
Directed by David Schweizer
Thursday October 26 -Sunday October 29
at the Roberts Studio Theatre
Lovingly lethal comedy about celebrity genes and family relations! Tour-de-force tribute to Marga's famous showbiz parents, their flamboyant friends and the colorful world of New York's Latino nightclub circuit of the '50s and '60s. Wet your pants laughing with this award-winning "Sweet and Saucy" stand up comic and co-founder of Culture Clash! "Coast to coast raves! A jolt of theatrical electricity! Hilarious!"-The New York Times

Nut/Cracked
Starring David Parker and The Bang Group
Friday November 3 - Saturday November 11
at the Roberts Studio Theatre

"Hugely Entertaining Vaudeville-Inspired Send Up! Funny and Clever! Substantial Choreography and First-Rate Performances!"

"Impressively Executed!
Squeamishly Suggestive!"

"Immensely Talented!" "Dazzling!"
"Superb Ballet Training!" "Riotous!"
The Boston Globe

Not your niece's Nutcracker! Her favorite Christmas show is torn limb from limb in this irreverant new vaudevillian ballet that mixes American swing, jazz and hints of Tchaikovsky with the traditional orchestral suite. Nothing is sacred--Nut/Cracked twists and melds tap dancing, singing and even thumbsucking(!) into a percussive ode to American eclecticism! Co-produced with Pearl Productions.

Beakman in Person!
Starring Paul Zaloom
Saturday November 4 - Sunday November 5
at the Roberts Studio Theatre
TV cult-hero Zaloom IS the oddball, madcap scientist he portrays on CBS's hit series Beakman's World! Over the top, interactive science theater for kids of all ages! Zaloom amazes audiences with an interactive, science-comedy whirlwind of death-defying and belief-suspending demonstrations of intriguing scientific principles! Come see why the LA Times says, "The irreverent Beakman can satisfy nearly anyone's curiosity! Energetic, sarcastic, engaging, and funny!".



The Mother of All Enemies
Starring Paul Zaloom
Directed by Randee Trabitz
Wednesday November 8 - Saturday November 11
at the Roberts Studio Theatre
Bread & Puppet's circus ringmaster brings new meaning to the term "puppet regime"! Peek behind the scenes at this hotly politicized burlesque queer-ing of traditional Middle Eastern shadow puppetry. The protagonist, a gay Arab immigrant artist, must outfox hordes of pursuing adversaries to find true love! Can he escape Homeland Security, Al-Qaeda, Minutemen vigilantes AND The Buttfart Genie? Paul juxtaposes this craziness against the uproarious, true story of the US Marines' attempts to recruit him to be their Arabic translator!

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