Brava's 2009-2010 Season Opens this Month

After a summer of preparation, Brava gets ready to open its much anticipated 2009-2010 season. The second season under the new Artistic Director Raelle Myrick-Hodges looks like Brava has no intention of slowing down anytime soon.

Brava's season opens with
Action! Futurism Projected and Performed
October 18, 2009
4:00pm $10 (films and plays, featuring Thais)*
6:00pm FREE Theatrical Performances Only
7:30pm $10 (films and plays, featuring Futurist Life Redux)*
*both shows available for $15

Brava brings rarely viewed films of the Futurism Movement and original plays as it joins the week long celebration of the 100 year anniversary of Futurism in collaboration with SFMOMA, Italian Cultural Institute, UC Berkeley, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and The San Francisco Center for the Book.

fu·tur·ism (fych-rzm) n.
+A belief that the meaning of life and one's personal fulfillment lie in the future and not in the present or past.
+An artistic avant-garde movement that took technology and speed and incorporated every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, theater, film, fashion, textiles, literature, music, architecture and even gastronomy.
+A complex movement of artists who were imperfect, at times very mean, but saw the importance using modernity as inspiration and making use of the characteristics of the machine age.

In their manifesto, "The Futurist Cinema" (1916), F.T. Marinetti and his cohorts create the following equation: "painting + sculpture + plastic dynamism + words-in-freedom + composed noise + architecture = synthetic theater." Brava brings these rarely viewed films and live plays together to investigate this ideal of synthetic theater. The film program includes Anton Giulio Bragaglia's Thais (1916) - the only surviving futurist film, as well as Futurist Life Redux (2009), a remake of a lost film with contributions by George Kuchar, Michael Smith, Martha Colburn, Shannon Plumb, and Lynn Hershman among others

Brava, in Association with Precarious Theater, opens
The Kitchen Reading Series
The Visit
October 12, 2009 7:30pm
$15 (includes food and drinks)

In the Kitchen Series, we will invite you to join us for wine and small plates of home-cooked snacks, inclusive in our ticket price, and then join us in sitting together on the main stage of Brava for a uniquely theatrical reading. So please, come to the kitchen, get to know us, pull up a chair, and let the feast begin!

October 12 will feature The VisitAn off-the-wall tragi-comedy about the sweet seduction of greed when a rich heiress returns to the impoverished town of her childhood. The reason for her "visit" - to get the townspeople to kill her ex! This just might be the perfect macabre parable for our own financially challenged times.