S.T.A.B. Announces Performers And Show Details For FeverFest 09: Friction

The newly formed Small Theatre Alliance of Boston (S.T.A.B.) has taken over producing duties of FeverFest, the annual summer festival started by Whistler in the Dark, exploring diverse styles and bringing together disparate artists from the small stages of Boston. Now in its fourth year, the festival moves across the river to the Factory Theatre. This year's artists toy with the theme: Friction. Inspired by this theme, seven pieces by seven companies create their own friction on the Factory stage this August:

FeverFest's favorite repeat offenders imaginary beasts are back with their ensemble adapted version of a play by Angelo Beolco, the father of commedia dell-arte. Weasel tells the tale of a man who loses his wife to a richer man, and travels to the city to win her back.

Moondance with your Sweet Thing down Cypress Avenue, the Way Young Lovers Do. would you meet me? - a piece created by Veronica Barron and Company - uses the songs of Van Morrison to investigate memory, dreams, and the friction that occurs when people, places, things transform from one state to another.

This & That Theatre Group presents The Old Woman, a modernistic play about an unwelcome visit based on a story by Russian modernist Daniil Kharms.

Returning to FeverFest just weeks after premiering the full-length version of Shh! (a piece they developed at last years' FeverFest!) New Exhibition Room brings you Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, a new play about Jesus, boxing, and Mama's boys, conceived and created by NXR Co-A.D. Dawn M. Simmons and local playwright John J King.

After runs in Cambridge and NYC this winter, FeverFest newbies Bright Lights & Burning Nights Old Time Circus and Travelling Road Show bring an excerpt of their folk opera The Disappearing Man & Other Sad Songs.

Fresh off the (platform) heels of their spring hit The Superheroine Monologues, Phoenix Theatre Artists teams with Boston Actor and Writer Bob Murphy for the international comedy Iron Over the Curb, or Bollywood Ending.

Whistler in the Dark presents Timothy Callahan's Friction of Dust, explores the memory and the residue of guilt and regret that builds over a life.

FeverFest 09: FRICTION runs August 6 - 16 at the Factory Theatre, 791 Tremont Sreet, Boston, MA. Show times are Thursday - Saturday at 8pm, with 4pm performances on Saturdays and Sundays. All tickets are general admission, $20; student and senior tickets available for $15. There will also be a special PAY WHAT YOU CAN Preview night on Wednesday, August 5, at 8pm ($5 minimum). All tickets available online at www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/feverfest-09-friction_157021/.

The Small Theatre Alliance of Boston (S.T.A.B.) is a collaborative venture of local theatre artists and companies. In addition to producing FeverFest 09, we hope to serve Boston's small theatre community by fostering cooperation, audience development and growth.

Still in the incubation phase, the newly formed alliance includes a wide range of participants, currently: Bad Habit Productions, Counter Productions Theatre Company, The Factory Theatre, Imaginary Beasts, Mill 6 Collaborative, New Exhibition Room, Orfeo Group, Theatre on Fire, Whistler in the Dark, and writer/director John J King.

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