from C'ville Weekly - Charlottesville, Virginia - July 3-9, 2001


Say Cheese

By Annaliese Moyer

Event: No Shame Theater
Date: June 29, 2001
Place: Live Arts LAB

The newest opportunity for creative performance in Charlottesville is No Shame Theater, the local realization of a national phenomenon. Every Friday night the public is invited to bring a three to five minute performance piece to present at the Live Arts LAB space. Sign up begins at 10:30 p.m., and performances begin at 11p.m. The bar is open and the crowd tends to get involved in the short plays, songs, improvisation, poetry, dance, and other shameless exhibitions. Content ranged from Poe's devilish writing to God's divine planning. Door prizes are often given out but can be kept only if the winner returns the next week with a performance piece inspired by their door prize. Last week's rubber hand inspired an almost epic poem, and who knows what this week's fuzzy antlers might yield?

Allison Taylor and Justin Wolf both took tickets and performed.
Saffron
Emcee Clinton Johnston performed his confessional ode "UVA Girls."
Live Arts' Resident Director Fran Smith tended bar.
Jessica "The Real" McCoy
Craig Girard was the lucky winner of a pair of fuzzy antlers.


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