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Love and Light
LOVE AND LIGHT
Written and Performed by Leigh Fitzjames
Rehearsal Director Vahdat Yeganeh
Pre show with San Fran yogatainment legend NONA FENDER!!!!
"The performance was phenomenal. Music, danse, social commentary, and a healthy dose of charisma and eroticism. Great stuff." - liveyogamusic.com
"Frikkin hillarious and poignant" - Sarah Campus
"Hilarious and entertaining"- The White Horses
Joe Goode Annex
499 Alabama Stret #150
San Francisco 94110
Thursday, June 13 7:30 pm
Friday, June 14 7:30 pm
(as part of a North American tour)
Pre show with San Francisco yogatainment legend NONA FENDER!!!!
Q&A follows "Making Yoga a Dramatic Txt"
TICKETS: $18
Students and yoga teachers $12
TWO NIGHTS ONLY!!
After playing to audiences in Auckland, Montreal and NYC, here is a play for yogis and non yogis alike to laugh at the strange path one takes to prove that they are on a higher spiritual journey.
Meet Celine - heart broken after having a one night stand with her guru Bikram Choudhury (founder of the popular self titled hot yoga practice). Giving up a successful career as a designer she locks herself in her apartment for 90 days in order to find spiritual transcendence and prove to her lover how 'spiritual' and devoted to yoga she really is. With no company but for the help of her elderly Indian housemaid Abha, can she really elevate herself above all worldly attachments (sex, friends, money, food) through yoga?
Writer and Performer Leigh Fitzjames
Love and Light marks Fitzjames's North American debut as both playwright and performer, after writing and performing spoken word (Bowery Poetry Club, Rising Voices), jazz (J&L Jazz Duo) and acting in experimental and musical theatre (Miss Saigon, Little Shop of Horrors, The Shelter's Soarward Holiday Party, Massive Company's The Girls Show, Redmond Barry Theatre's Shanty). With a mix of spoken word, yoga poses and song, Love and Light meditates on Fitzjames's obsessive yoga practice and self discovery - the stretching, the philosophy, the teacher crushes and more.
Rehearsal Director Vahdat Yeganeh
Iranian born Vahdat is the founder of Boston Experimental Theatre Company (2008). Some of his experiences in theater include directing "Spurt of Blood" and "To Have Done with the Judgment of God", "The Misunderstanding" (2011); "There Is Another Court: An Evening with JonBenet Ramsey" (2011); "Trim: The Tyger Woods Story" (2010); "The Other Woman" (2009); "Crying Deer" (2009); "Play Strindberg: Dance of death"(2007), which won him the best directing award from KCACTF (2007); working as the production Manager and associate director for the Children Theatre Company in Boston (2005-2007); and directing "The Most Honest Murderer of the World" ( Iran, 2000). Vahdat also worked with University of Massachusetts Boston, American Repertory Theatre, Nora Theatre, Underground Railway Theatre, and Shakespeare Now! Theatre Company.
Nona Fender (pre and post show)
A Good Times Yoga class with Nona Fender is sonically elevated by her beloved EEnor, rockstar extraordinaire, & is often supported by a live rhythm section and electronic elements. The BEnders raucous whimsy carries you high and low in musical waves of ecstasy, reflection, and down & dirty playful wildness. All normality will be transcended. Familiar poses become brand new adventures. Opportunities for expression become room for outrageous expansionYoga naysayers will be converted, the pious will party!
Here are some interviews about the show:
Bikram Yoga Montreal
http://blog.bikramyogamtl.com/en/?p=231
It's All Yoga Baby
http://www.itsallyogababy.com/bikram-yoga-dramatized-new-play-opens-in-montreal-nyc/#more-5450
We'ar Yoga
http://wearyogaclothing.blogspot.ca/2012/05/love-and-light.html
showloveandlight.tumblr.com
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LocationJoe Goode Annex (at Project Artaud) (View)
401 Alabama St (near 17th)
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
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