Bedlam presents Dali/DADA

Fri, Apr 17 - Sat, May 2, 2009

  • Fri 4/17, 8:00pm
    PayWhatYouThinkIt$Worth - and Come by for a drink and dinner--Social opens at 4!
  • Sat 4/18, 8:00pm
    PayWhatYouThinkIt$Worth - and Come by for a drink and dinner--Social opens at 4!
  • Sun 4/19, 7:00pm
    PayWhatYouThinkIt$Worth - andCome by all afternoon--Social open 12-7!
  • Thu 4/23, 8:00pm
    $15
    $15, Come by for a drink and dinner--Social opens at 4!
  • Fri 4/24, 8:00pm
    $15
    $15, Come by for a drink and dinner--Social opens at 4!
  • Sat 4/25, 8:00pm
    $15
    $15, Come by for a drink and dinner--Social opens at 4!
  • Sun 4/26, 7:00pm
    $15
    $15, Come by all afternoon--Social open 12-7!
  • Thu 4/30, 8:00pm
    $15
    $15, Come by for a drink and dinner--Social opens at 4!
  • Fri 5/1, 8:00pm
    $15
    $15, Come by for a drink and dinner--Social opens at 4!
  • Sat 5/2, 8:00pm
    $15
    $15, Come by for a drink and dinner--Social opens at 4!

A bedlam double header!
Two short plays to stir the collective subconscious:

Dali’s Liquid Ladies, by Savannah Reich, is a dark and subversive comedy about three mermaids plotting to kill Salvador Dali.

Come to Dada, by John F. Bueche and company is a living assemblage of hope & despair built from dreams gathered on the Bedlam dream blog.

April 17-May 2
Thursdays through Saturdays 8pm, Sundays 7pm
opening weekend Pay-What-You-Think-it$-Worth
tickets $15, no one turned awayCome to Dada is Act One of our evening. A 45min look into the contemporary unconscious. Dozens of dreams mixed, matched, fractured and reassembled. Moving, climbing, singing, saying, wearing Tupperware and introducing the legendary impresario "Dick Dada." Led by Bedlam Artistic Director John Bueche, a magnanimous sound-scape by composer by Candy Bilyk and choreography by burlesque legend Heather Wilson.

Dali’s Liquid Ladies is Act Two. At the 1939 World’s Fair, Salvador Dali designed a surrealist funhouse, featuring umbrellas, giraffes and topless mermaids swimming around in a giant tank. Our show is a re-imagining of the funhouse from the inside out. Take a tour through your own secrets and nightmares, where even your most shameful desires come true- and mermaids might kill. Script by Savannah Reich, directed by Samantha Johns, with original music by the internationally acclaimed robotics wizard, Hot Tony Biele & custom couture by Emrys Mariel Stramer. Starring Jon Mac Cole, Mark Rehani, Kait Sergenian, Savannah Reich and Katie Melby.

(Dali’s Liquid Ladies will be touring for the month of May- check out our tour dates posted on the "Inside Bedlam" menu!)

WHY IS BEDLAM DOING THIS NOW?

1916. 1939. 2009. Our culture remains obsessed with conformity. We learn from an early age what is the appropriate way to express our desires and which dreams we should keep to ourselves.

Salvador Dali fascinated the world by spending his life exposing his own weirdness. He refused to hide his deviant fascinations, his ambiguous sexuality, or any of the confusing sloppy bits that are a part of every human being, and for that reason he will always be a kind of patron saint for every new underground art culture. Fighting in the war on shame can never go out of fashion.

Dada hit the world at the same time as mustard gas- a reaction to world war and weapons of mass destruction. Violence bludgeoned reality into bits. Dada took the bits to make non-sense of it all. Today we’re stretched and zinging on a big rubber band of hope and despair, crashing economies, world war and enormous hope for new ways and means. How does this register in the subconscious? Tell us your dreams…

Dali/DADA hopes to loudly perform a few of the things we were taught to keep quiet.