Madtown Liberty Players

Madtown Liberty Players 2010 Summer Schedule:

We'll perform for a 2-hour block Saturday mornings on the Capitol lawn, during Farmers Market. Come look for us!

• July 3
• July 17
• Aug 21
• Sept 11
• Oct 16

The 2010 season features pieces about enviro-disaster, race-based discrimination against immigrants, Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, the Afghan Wars and a reprise of our classic piece on bank bailouts.

Madtown Liberty Players' spring organizing meeting for the 2010 summer season will take place on Thursday April 8 at 6:30 PM at David K's electric blue house, 1714 Winnebago St. Interested folk are welcome to attend. Feel free to email players@madlibplayers.org with questions!

Take a look at the YouTube clips below for some idea of what we do!

The 5 pieces from Madtown Liberty Players' 2009 summer lineup:

The Mousetrap:

Witness:

Health Care Hootenanny:

Black Masque:

Last Dance of the Polar Bears:

Capitol Lawn performances take place on Saturdays from 9 AM - 11 AM. Look for us on the square!

Sat July 25
Sat Aug 8
Sat Sept 12
Sat Oct 3

MLP will also appear in the Willy Street Parade on Sunday Sept 20!

This year's lineup of playlets:

The Mousetrap: A mortgage banker's plan goes awry!
Witness: An animal fable about torture!
Black Masque: A reflection on the burden of the masks worn by/imposed on people of color.
Health Care Hootenanny: Can Single-Payer find a partner at the dance?
Last Dance of the Polar Bears: An eco-disaster waltz!

Cast photo! From left: Jimmy (asparagus), Lizzie (pineapple), Alma (corn), Gail, Billy (broccoli), Ruby (broccoli), David, Jess, Roger, Laurie, Kel, Flora (yam), Sue, Ted, Sorrel (mutant tomato), Sashie (tomato). Many thanks to the Vegetable Defenders for performing with Madtown Liberty Players in the debut of "Tomato Mutato"! Check back soon for more pictures! Meanwhile here's a larger version of the cast photo!

Madtown Liberty Players will open this summer with 3 short works in rotation on the Capitol Lawn during the Farmers Market on Sat June 21, from 10 AM - 12 noon.

• Last Dance of the Polar Bears: An eco-disaster waltz!
• Important Message: When George Bush wiretaps the Founding Fathers... WWJD? What Would Jefferson Do?
• Stones: Reflections on the carnage of war.

Future Capitol Lawn performances are scheduled for...
Sat July 19
Sat Aug 16
Sat Sep 13
Sat Oct 4

PARTICIPANTS NEEDED!

Saturday March 15 @ 3 PM (gather at 2:30)

Procession of Mourners
to mark
5 years since the US invasion of Iraq

Madtown Liberty Players have created 13 Mourner figures with full costumes and
papier mache faces to represent the victims of 5 years of U.S. warfare and
occupation upon Iraq. See practice photos:

http://madlibplayers.org/img/mourners.html

*** WE NEED 6-7 VOLUNTEERS WILLING TO WEAR A MOURNER COSTUME! ***

On Saturday, Mar 15 we will meet at the State St corner of the Capitol at 2:30
PM, get into costume, practice basic movement and gestures, then at 3:00
process slowly down State Street and back. We'll have a drum and we will
periodically cry out together in anguish. Some figures will carry babies.
We have practiced this and it is pretty overwhelming. We'll be done by 4 PM.

*** It's EASY to participate! We'll show you how to move. While many actions
on the Left engage the head; this one wholly engages the heart. If that's
for you, please *** email or phone now *** so we can be confident that all
our beautiful figures will be populated on Saturday!

Contact now:

Ted McManus
kinbote@charter.net
241-0259

On March 9, Madtown Liberty Players collaborated with Students for a Free Tibet to create 11 giant puppets for the Tibetan Return March in Chicago on Mar 10. Click for workshop photos.

Sat Sep 15, 10 AM - 12 noon on the Capitol lawn: Four short acts in rotation:

• Last Dance of the Polar Bears
• 3 Ways To Cook A Chicken
• Important Message
• Flushed Away!

Sun Sep 16, 11 AM: Giant puppets in the Willy Street Parade!

Thur Sep 27, 5 PM at UW College Library: 10' tall Liberty will raise her torch as a reading lamp for the ACLU's Banned Books Week!

Saturday August 11
10 AM - 12 Noon
Capitol Lawn
Free!

MADTOWN LIBERTY PLAYERS
present
political street theater
on the
Capitol lawn!

4 short pieces in rotation:

- IMPORTANT MESSAGE: Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson are illegally
wiretapped by the President! (YouTube video)

- FLUSHED AWAY: The President is flushing our money, our sons and daughters,
and our civil liberties down a Giant Toilet to pursue his war in Iraq.
Citizens, grab your plungers!

- DANCE OF THE POLAR BEARS: An eco-disaster waltz!

- 3 WAYS TO COOK A CHICKEN: Recipes for our warming planet. Bawwwk!