BINGO WITH THE INDIANS Gets Extended Through 6/13 At Rogue Machine

In a shabby New England motel, 3 members of a NY theatre group have arrived with a scheme. As the evening darkens and unravels...so do their ambitions and secrets. This dark comedy--from Pulitzer-nominee Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter, Nocturne) is a visceral, provocative, oddball piece about a group of artists desperately trying to force a place for themselves, and how far they will go to get what they want. This West-Coast premiere marks the debut of Rogue Machine's ‘Off the Clock,' a late-night series of bold, taut, intoxicating theatrical concoctions for the artistically daring crowd.

Playwright Adam Rapp is also a novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker, and musician. He is the author of numerous young adult and adult novels. Rapp's novel The Buffalo Tree was censored by the Muhlenberg School Board. His award-winning plays include Nocturne, Finer Noble Gases, and Red Light Winter, which sold out its initial Steppenwolf run in Chicago and transferred to a hugely successful Off-Broadway run that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2005. Rapp completed a two-year playwriting fellowship at The Juilliard School. He directed his first film, Winter Passing with Zooey Deschanel and Will Ferrell in 2005 and was a creative consultant for the television show The L Word. Rapp was a member of the Bottomside, which released the independent CD The Element Man in September 2004. He is currently a member of Less the Band, which released Bear in April 2006. Bingo With The Indians was originally produced at the Flea Theatre in NYC in 2007, directed by the playwright himself for the group of 20-something actors in the Flea's company. Playwright Marsha Norman describes him as "a writer the world was going to listen to for as long as he felt like writing...he writes like nobody else, his fierce poetic power as inescapable as the doom that waits for his characters." Rogue Machine's is its first production anywhere else.

ANDREW BLOCK (Director) has been active with Rogue Machine since its first production, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, where he was seen as Samuel Pepys. A native of New Orleans, he received his MFA from DePaul University in Chicago, his BFA from Adelphi University in NY, and spent some time in between running a high school theatre program in TX. Since landing in L.A. 4 years ago, he has been working in commercial, VO, film and TV. His Directing credits include Dancing at Lughnasa, 12th Night, Noises Off, and City of Angels.

BINGO WITH THE INDIANS runs through June 13, 2009 at ROGUE MACHINE in Theatre Theater, 5041 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90019. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30pm and Sundays at 4 pm. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased by calling (323) 960-7774 or at www.roguemachinetheatre.com

 

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