If the idea of food, ivory tinkling and screaming, sweaty men in tights sounds like a good night out, then your dreams can come true at the Rotten to the Core Gala. The evening fund-raiser hosted by local arts groups Mildreds Umbrella Theatre and Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre aims to raise funds so they can tour Rot, an original play by John Harvey. The narrative involves a man dying of the plague, a wife who longs for Arizona, strange guys in underwear, a woman with huge pyromania problems and a fetal pig. Were sure it all makes sense somehowor at least more than the Twin Peaks movie did. The evening includes a buffet dinner, drinks, piano sing-along with Keith Reynolds, improvisational free jazz music from The Defenestration Unit and live matches with the absurdist Doomsday wrestlers. Although absurdist wrestler might be a bit redundant.
Sat., Oct. 6, 7 p.m.-midnight, 2007
This article appears in Oct 4-10, 2007.
