This weekend and next
IT can get mighty hot in the basement space known as the Quincy House Cage. This seems appropriate for what Knock Knock's producers describe as a "manic farce about Joan of Arc and two other guys." Playwright Jules Feiffer is best known for his political cartoons, but he has written the screenplays to such manic farces as Robert Altman's Popeye.
The Arc of Music
Conceived by Performance Space Space Performance
Directed by Gary Negbaur
At the Dunster House Dining Hall
Through this weekend
WE incorrectly reported that this was running last week. Performance Space Space Performance (formerly Performance Space Six), the group that produced the Sea Monkey's Sideshow multi-media extravaganza last May at the Carpenter Center, is behind this event, which features simultaneous acts of creativity by musicians, fencers, painters and storyteller Brother Blue.
The Miss Firecracker Contest
Written by Beth Henley
At the Loeb Experimental Theater
Through this weekend
BEFORE she wrote Crimes of the Heart, Beth Henley cooked up this slice of female oriented Americana.