The Marsh Rising Series

One-Night-Only performances of rising talent at The Marsh San Francisco.

Marsh Rising presents works in progress that may be ready for an extended run.

For information about putting on a Marsh Rising show, e-mail Sharon Eberhardt at sharon@themarsh.org

WIND IN A MIRROR…AYAHAUSCA VISIONS
by Josie Hyde
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 7:30pm

Josie Hyde’s Wind in a Mirror…Ayahuasca Visions is a multimedia one-woman play of ideas—a trip through the unconscious in an ayahuasca (the hallucinogenic vine of the Amazon) ceremony, climaxing in a meeting with Death, the Jester…

“Strictly speaking, that body asleep in your bed is kin to your corpse.  Occupant elsewhere.  Every night we disappear.  Without this little dab of perspective, we’d go mad.”

A surreal art video and soundtrack mixing indigenous music of the Amazon with original compositions accompanies the spoken word.

Twenty years ago, Josie embarked on a career in performance poetry.   She has performed her work in North America, Central America and Europe.  Wind in a Mirror…Ayahausca Visions is her first one-woman show.

Josie studied poetry with Kenneth Rexroth, storytelling with Spalding Gray and acting with Peter Frisch.

A QUEER DIVINE
by Sara Felder
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 7:30pm

 “There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us more alive…” – Martha Graham

 A Queer Divineis Sara Felder’s whimsical, moving and theatrical performance on art, aging, grief and revelation.  Sara ponders, juggles and finally embodies the facts of her existence:  She can’t dance and people die.  Using her signature style of integrating circus shtik and object-play with personal narrative, and for the first time an inter-active lobby display, Sara explores transitions – between birth and death, between Brooklyn and Manhattan, between ballet and modern. As her mother lays dying, Sara remembers dance class, subway rides and theater lobbies where she stumbles upon life lessons about commerce, class, race and growing old.  She is also considering a trip to the ballet.

Written & performed by
Saria Idana

Photo by
Jamie

75 minutes
no intermission

This show is 13 +

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HOMELESS IN HOMELAND
by Saria Idana
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 7:30pm

Homeless in Homeland is a 70min solo show about urban Jewish-American identity, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the human need for a place of belonging, of home. It is a piece of documentary theater based on a trip taken by the writer/performer to Israel and the occupied West Bank in 2007. Actor-dancer-poet Saria Idana weaves spoken word with cultural dance styles, the personal with the political; she speaks in her own voice and in the voices of seventeen characters, American, Israeli and Palestinian.