Yahoo!! It's SPRING!! Spring is breeding season, and as the temperatures
rise and the trees start to bloom, our bi-annual festival of independent
artists is bursting at the seams with talent, humor, intelligence, beauty,
and all around good times.

(Note: In order to devote as much focus and energy to the festival as we
possibly can, we've put Readingground Blogazine on hiatus until June 3rd.
Check back in for an article from Ethan Barshay!)

*breedingground productions presents*
*SPRING FEVER FESTIVAL 2007
May 16 - June 2
*TICKETS ON SALE NOW! <http://www.breedingground.com/festival>
http://www.breedingground.com/festival

[image: SFF07 logo]

*A MOUTHFUL OF BIRDS* directed & soundpainted by Tomi Tsunoda
*CHESS'D! *and *MARE COGNITUM* written by David McGee
*THE LATE EDUCATION OF SASHA WOLFF* directed by Josh Hoglund
*LOOKING BACK* composed & directed by Edward Ficklin
*MISSING TIME* written by Michael Brandt
*THE NUMBER JANE* written & performed by Julie Katz
*SIMULACRA: A MODERN MYTH* conceived & directed by Gerritt Turner
*MUSCLEBOUND* written by Michael Feldman
*THE PORCH PLAY: PLAY FIVE* written by Zachary Hug

plus, free short films before each evening performance!
*THE DISTANCE OF WHAT YOU SAID FROM YOUR MOUTH* short films by Charlie Bass

and a free Visual Art Gallery with work by
Charlie Bass, Jimmy Cahill, Rebecca Moore, Jen Jennings, Christie Bridges, &
Brian Dominguez

*THE FLAMBOYAN
*107 Suffolk Street, btwn Delancey & Rivington, NYC
F to Delancey, JMZ to Essex -- walk 2 blocks east on Delancey, turn left on
Suffolk

*$10 PERFORMANCES* *or $5 GROUNDWORK
also, check out our
$16 EVENING PACKAGES <http://www.breedingground.com/festival/evenings.php>
http://www.breedingground.com/festival/evenings.php

*

*
FEATURED ARTISTS*
Each week we'll be posting 3 short video interviews with Festival Artists to
help you learn more about who these amazing artists are and the work they're
doing for SFF07.
This week's Featured Artists are:

[image: Julie Katz]
Julie Katz
*The Number Jane
*$10
watch the interview
http://www.breedingground.com/festival/07artists/Katz.php

I have noticed that I am an amorphous being. With my mother I am "getting
married in June" and "employed." My friends would refer to me as the "wild
one" with an "entertaining drinking problem." My boyfriend brags to his
friends about his "sexually deviant vixen that enjoys being cheated on."
Whatever the company, I know who I am. It's when I'm alone that things
become vague...* The Number Jane * is the story of the discerning women who
recognize the necessity for multiple role-playing in their everyday lives.

"Julie Katz is hilarious in every role she touches."
-nytheatre.com-

[image: David McGee]

David McGee*
Chess'd!
*$10
watch the interview
http://www.breedingground.com/festival/07artists/McGee1.php

There's this ninja, and this guy in a white tuxedo, and they're playing
chess on one of those life-sized chess boards, only they don't know the
rules. They're also trash-talking each other in a faux-Elizabethan dialect
and threatening each other with deadly weapons. Then this guy dressed like
Vince Lombardi comes in with a team of medics, and it all kind of goes
downhill from there. *Chess'd! * is about completely clueless people
wielding deadly power. The inspiration for which I think is probably fairly
evident. Have you *looked * at a newspaper recently? But *Chess'd *! is also
about the way that people communicate--all the trappings of heightened
speech can be in place, and we can repeat ourselves ad infinitum in absurdly
convoluted ways all we want, but at the end of the day, what is anybody
actually saying to anybody else?

[image: Zachary Hug]
Zachary Hug
*The Porch Cycle: Play Five*
$5
watch the interview
http://www.breedingground.com/festival/07artists/Hug.php

Julia Bennet has a laundry basket on her head and a tennis racket in her
hand. She is at war with an errant bat. It is three in the morning on a
Tuesday night when she decides it is time to move out of this house.
Enlisting the help of her adult children, Julia begins packing up the
history of the family Bennet, and discovers that after countless dead pets,
the suicide of her eldest daughter, and some frightening experiences with
reality television, she is content to be "that spooky lady on the hill, who
teaches piano to those brave enough to try." Also...she finds a raccoon in
the attic. In the conclusion to the five play "Porch Cycle," the family
Bennet is re-united for one last reading of their own private porch play.

A reading of *Play Five* will be presented as part of the SFF07 Groundwork
series.

*breedingground productions: arts with smarts.*
www.breedingground.com <http://www.breedingground.com/press/index.php>

*More starving artists than you can shake a chicken bone at.*
--Time Out NY

*The breedingground collective is behind this ... it's only five years old
and clearly has energy and creativity to burn.
*--The Gothamist

*The energy and the attitudes at the festival felt great to me: I encourage
everyone to take in this show or any of the others for a look at some of the
adventurous new theatre happening at the edges of downtown's creative scene.
*
-NYTheatre.com-

*Spring Fever brings artists together ... Park Slope producers have created
a "Spring Fever" that may prove to be contagious among fiscally challenged
arts groups.
*-GO Brooklyn-

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