The Marsh Presents Rebecca Fisher's THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE DISASTER The Marsh Berkeley presents Azeem's Rude Boy The Marsh Presents Dan Hoyle's "TIINGS DEY HAPPEN" The Marsh Presents Todd Lejeune's DON'T LET GO OF THE POTATO The Marsh Berkeley presents Erica Lann-Clark's SHOPPING FOR GOD

WHEN: January 20 – April 28, 2007
No Show April 7.

SHOWTIMES:
Though March 25
Saturdays at 8:30 p.m.
Sundays at 7 p.m.

From March 26 - April 28
Saturdays only at 8:30 pm

WHERE The Marsh San Francisco
1062 Valencia Street, between 21 and 22 streets

TICKETS: $15–$22 sliding scale
For tickets, call 800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

For more information, call 415-826-5750 or visit The Marsh website at www.themarsh.org

“Smart, challenging, disarmingly funny and unmistakably affecting.” Rob Hurwitt, SF Chronicle

Memphis, Tennessee.
A house with white pillars and black maids.
Country clubs and aerobics classes.
Drugs and murder.
A story of the new South.
Tragic, comic, startling

WHEN: January 4 – January 27, 2007

SHOWTIMES: Thursday through Saturday at 8:00 pm.

WHERE: The Marsh Berkeley at the Gaia Arts Center
2120 Allston Way (near Shattuck), Berkeley
Across from Berkeley downtown BART

TICKETS: Tickets $15-22 Sliding Scale
For tickets, call 800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

For more information call 415-826-5750 or visit www.themarsh.org.

"Equal parts dramatic realism and dreamlike surrealism, Azeem's Rude Boy delves into the darkest side of human nature with intellectual intensity and undeniable wit, leaving captivated audience members craving more.” San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Developed with solo performance master David Ford with additional support from Reg E. Gaines (Tony Award Nominee/ Bessie Award winning writer of “Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk”), Azeem's one-man show tells the story of Johnny Burke, a Jamaican-American factory worker. Confronting his troubled past with humor and brutal honesty, Johnny takes us from the streets to an insane asylum to solitary confinement, visiting places in his tormented psyche where few would dare to tread. Told with comic wit and raw conviction, Azeem peoples “RUDE BOY” with unforgettable portraits in what the San Francisco Chronicle’s Peter Hartlaub called a “a tightly paced, entertaining and powerful one-man show.”

WHEN: Now through May 25, 2007

SHOWTIMES: Now through June 23
Thursday and Friday at 8.00pm;
Saturday at 5:00 pm
No shows Thursday May 31, Friday June 1 or Saturday June 2

WHERE The Marsh San Francisco
1062 Valencia Street between 21^st & 22^nd Streets

TICKETS: Tickets $15-$35 Sliding Scale
For tickets, call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

For more information call 415-826-5750 or visit The Marsh website at www.themarsh.org

Now in its sixth extension!

A "smart, engrossing, funny, challenging and moving look at the too-neglected story of Nigeria's bloody oil politics...a gallery of indelibly etched portraits…of hustlers, warlords, prostitutes, oil workers, mercenaries, thieves, killers and the American ambassador —Rob Hurwitt, SF Chronicle

Dan Hoyle, creator of the hit shows "Circumnavigator" and "Florida 2004: The Big Bummer” returns to The Marsh in his new one-man play about Nigerian oil politics based on the year he spent there as a Fulbright scholar.

When: Now through April 6, 2007
No Show March 24.

Showtimes: Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m.

Where: The Marsh San Francisco, 1062 Valencia Street at 22^nd

Tickets: $15 to $22, sliding scale
Call 1.800.838.3006 or online at www.themarsh.org.

For more information call 415.826.5750 or visit www.themarsh.org

“An engaging theatrical monologue, this darkly comic Cajun coming-of-age tale doesn't lack for much....Sprightly and affable, with a sly, self-effacing wit.” Rob Avila. SF Bay Guardian.

When your dad has a baboon ass from passing out on the toilet, and you're in jail for beating up the guy in Cajun reeboks, and mom says you ain't datin' that girl no more, then it's time to take Aunt Tatut's advice and Don't Let Go Of The Potato!

The Marsh is proud to present ‘DON’T LET GO OF THE POTATO,”a one-man comedy created and performed by emerging Bay Area monologist Todd LeJeune. This darkly humorous autobiographical piece offers a vivid portrayal of growing up in the cultural backwaters of rural Louisiana, exploring through a very personal lens a complicated landscape of racism, class tension, and domestic conflict. With adroit comic instinct and unflinching social observation, LeJeune reveals the disturbing truth, hidden beauty, and profound lessons behind the cloak of misguided religion, familial alcoholism, loyal friendship, and the transformative power of being average

WHEN: Now through April 29, 2007

SHOWTIMES: Sundays at 3:00 pm.
No Show Sunday April 8.

WHERE: The Marsh San Francisco
1062 Valencia Street @ 22nd Street

TICKETS: Tickets $15-22 Sliding Scale

For more information call 415-826-5750 or visit www.themarsh.org.

“Clark is a spark plug — winking, nodding, and cracking jokes with pitch-perfect timing.....Revelatory and bittersweet." Aaron Sankin. SF Bay Guardian.

"Erica Lann-Clark is fiercely funny and commits outrageous acts of comic clairvoyance to get at uncomfortable truths." Martin Sheen

The Marsh is proud to present Erica Lann-Clark’s newest solo show "SHOPPING FOR GOD." Erica is a Viennese Jew whose family escaped certain death by running to Czechoslovakia, then Cuba, then Brooklyn, where she grew up listening to tales of a vanished world. In this hilarious, reckless and ultimately heroic story, Erica stops at nothing, including wild drama therapy sessions between Germans and Jews and a tumultuous exploration of the she/god, to find out if it’s possible to reconcile with people you've hated for years. She is an irresistibly comic story teller, a master at finding the pain and making it funny. Her journey is not only universal, it offers unique insight into one woman’s need to balance the books, to reconcile her past, her family and her dream of freedom.