Repurposed Theatre to Stage World Premiere of THE HORSE'S ASS AND FRIENDS

Repurposed Theatre is proud to present their second production, the World Premiere of The Horse's Ass and Friends by Megan Cohen, directed by Ellery Schaar. An evening of original short plays by Megan Cohen (SF's most-produced female playwright, Theatre Bay Area "Keep An Eye On" Emerging Artist Honoree, and a Neo-Futurist), The Horse's Ass and Friends is a painfully funny night of vaudeville that finds the ticklish spots between feminism, love, and shadows.

The Horse's Ass and Friends stars a pair of Conjoined Twins with one major dilemma, a Pageant of the Seasons complete with snowflake operetta and a shadow puppet show about death and monsters. And for a grand finale, Cohen saddles up history's greatest half-human, half-equine metaphor for a ride through power dynamics and carrots: The Horse's Ass, a hilarious postmodern vaudeville act with two women spending a fleet forty minutes taking turns being the (horses) butt of the joke.

The show will run from December 3, 2015 - December 19, 2015: Thursday -Saturday at 8pm. All performances will take place at Exit Theatre, located at 156 Eddy St, San Francisco, CA 94102. Tickets prices $10- $30 each. Tickets available at www.repurposedtheatre.com

Opening Night will take place Friday, December 4th, 2015 at 8pm.

Megan Cohen Dubbed "a ruthless innovator" by SF Weekly, playwright Megan Cohen has also been called "funny, erudite, and poignant" (Poetry Monthly), "torturous" (Backstage), and "highly engaging" (Huffington Post). Her scripts have been performed in New York, Seattle, Scotland, Australia, and London, and she's the most frequently-produced female playwright in the San Francisco Bay Area, where 50+ of her scripts hit stages in 2014 alone. Her artistic partners have included A.C.T., Playwrights Foundation, PianoFight!, SF Playhouse, Impact Theater, San Francisco Neo-Futurists, Performers Under Stress, Stanford University, and SF Theater Pub. She's thrilled to be partnering with Repurposed Theatre for the first time. Website: MeganCohen.Com Twitter: @WayBetterThanTV

Ellery Schaar is the Artistic Director of Repurposed Theatre in San Francisco. Her NY directing and producing credits include Most Massive Women Wins Access Theatre, Quickes 13th Street Repertory, In the Shadow of The Lighthouse Tomorrow's Gold New Work Series eyeBLINK productions, One Act Play Festival Keagan Theatre Company, Evolution of the B Fresh Fruit Festival 08, They Call Me Q! NYC Fringe Festival 2013 *Encore NYC Fringe Series: Solo in the City! to it's Off Broadway run at St. Luke's Theatre. Ellery associate produced the national collaboration Come As You Are! Celebrate Queer Sex! at Brava Theatre San Francisco in co-production with Boston's Theatre Offensive. Come As You Are was a national celebration of the riots at Stonewall and pieces were performed through the United States including Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Seattle, Alaska and Portland. Most recently Ellery directed and produced the World Premiere of Drowning Ophelia by Rachel Luann Strayer at the Mojo Theatre Space. She holds a B.A. in theatre and dance from the University of California at San Diego.

Repurposed Theatre is a theatre company created by Artistic Director Ellery Schaar committed to producing new work from emerging playwrights, and creating site specific devised theatre in the Bay Area. Repurposed Theatre's Hot Box Sessions is designed for emerging artists of all caliber to workshop and present original works, while the Destination Theatre takes theatre out of the black box, infiltrates it into the outside world, using site specific locations in and around the Bay Area as its venue. You never know where you might go or what might happen when this company takes some of the most obscure locations and repurposes them into interactive theatrical events.

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