Bedlam Theatre

Paint the Town by Milwaukee’s Insurgent Theatre
with
The Little Skeleton That Could Not by Lamb Lays with Lion
and music by
To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie

Performances: 7:30pm Friday 1/16 (with Speed’s The Name)
7:30pm Saturday 1/ 17 (with The Wars of 1812)
2pm Sunday 1/18

Lecture: 2pm Saturday 1/17 (FREE)

Tickets: $5-25 suggested admission at door

at Bedlam Theatre
1501 S. 6th St, West Bank, Minneapolis 55454.

Box Office: 612-341-1038 // www.bedlamtheatre.org
January 5, 2009; Minneapolis, MN: Lamb Lays with Lion is proud to continue it’s commitment to original and experimental performance by partnering with Bedlam Theatre to present Paint the Town, an original work by Milwaukee-based Insurgent Theatre.

Presented January 16-18, 2009, Paint the Town is the tale of the inspired revolutionary Nadia Mensche, her brother Arthur and her partner Big Red. To free Nadia from the bonds of those who love her, Big Red slaughters her family in a wave of brutal terrorist attacks. More than just Nadia’s story of personal and social revolution, Paint the Town is Insurgent Theater’s call to the radical core of the creative class in action!

Along with musical collaborators To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie, Lamb Lays with Lion will open each night with their work The Little Skeleton That Could Not. First performed in November, this challenging and humorous work questions the nature of info-tainment, performers and the malleability of truth. Lamb Lays with Lion is here to describe, channel and filter the world around you, not to make it easier for you to understand.

In addition to music by To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie there will be music to close out the night on Friday and Saturday. Local rockers Speed’s The Name will play Friday and The Wars of 1812 will wrap it up on Saturday.

On Saturday, January 17th, there will be a free lecture/discussion by Artistic Directors Jeremey Catterton of Lamb Lays with Lion and Rex Winsome of Insurgent Theatre. Catterton will speak about the work of Lamb Lays with Lion and a Theatre of Disruption. Winsome will outline his work "Towards a Practical Revolution" and the methods by which Insurgent Theatre and he pursue the revolution through theatrical practice.

About The Performers:

Insurgent Theatre is a Milwaukee based theatre company founded by Tracy Doyle and Rex Winsome, producing locally written plays and other performance art. Insurgent has been producing bad-ass DIY theatre in Milwaukee since 2003. Always independent local writers, directors and actors. Never compromising to the establishment. Insurgent’s goal is nothing less than to take the future of theatrical production (from words, to actors, to audiences) out of the clumsy hands of obsolete bourgeois institutions, one production at a time. Step aside, our revolution is inevitable.

Paint the Town is directed by the cast: Kate Pleuss, Rex Winsome, and John Kuehne; with assistance from Jonathan Schneider, formerly of Theatre X.

www.insurgenttheatre.org

Lamb Lays with Lion is an Original and Experimental theatre company dedicated to the exploration of unique and radical new forms, virtual and spectral expressions, and the thrust into a new age of art; one in which expectations are checked at the door, to be replaced by ear plugs and open minds.

The Little Skeleton That Could Not is directed by Jeremey Catterton and features Jayne Deis, Melissa Anne Murphy, Ashley Smith and Julia Mae Fairbanks.

www.lamblayswithlion.org

To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie are a Minneapolis-based quintet who appear courtesy of Kranky Records. TKAPB have joined the pop and noise manifestoes into a cohesive whole, producing a near perfect storm of structure and chaos, melody and noise, the precise and the random. Fused into their own unified musical theory of everything, their music at times soothes while simultaneously grabbing your throat.

To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie is Jehna Wilhelm, Mark McGee, Jesse Ackerley, Andrew Berg, and Tom Helgerson.

www.myspace.com/tokillapettybourgeoisie