The Marsh presents DIE WELLE (The Wave) May 22 at the JCC The Marsh presents Wes "Scoop" Nisker's CRAZY WISDOM SAVES THE WORLD AGAIN The Marsh presents Marga Gomez’s LONG ISLAND ICED LATINA & Samantha Chanse’s LYDIA’S FUNERAL VIDEO (excerpt). The Marsh presents Ann Randolph’s SQUEEZE BOX The Marsh presents Ann Randolph’s SQUEEZE BOX

The Marsh presents DIE WELLE (The Wave)

“DIE WELLE (The Wave) is chilling … seductive and horrifying – an assured piece of film making.” Variety Jan 30, 2008

“DIE WELLE (The Wave) opens with a rush of energy and doesn’t let up!” Variety Jan 30, 2008

“It can happen again…Don’t miss DIE WELLE (The Wave) Der Spiegel…March 2008

The Marsh presents DIE WELLE (The Wave)

DIE WELLE plays on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 7:00 pm in Kanbar Hall at The Jewish Community Center, 3200 California Street. This is the only Bay Area screening of this film.

Tickets are $20. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org. This is a fundraiser for THE MARSH and its new elevator which provides wheelchair access to the upstairs studio theater.

This award winning feature film describes a classroom experiment in fascism conducted in 1968 by Marsh performer Ron Jones, who was then a history teacher at Cubberly High School in Palo Alto. Jones found it difficult to explain to his students how Nazi Germany could have happened and how easily it might happen again. So, during a five-day period, he led them to renounce their freedom in exchange for the prospect of becoming a group superior to their other school mates. He starts by making them sit up straight and stand before answering questions. Almost before he knew what was happening, the experiment gets out of control.

Following the film Barbara Lane, JCC Director Of Lectures and Literature, will lead a Q & A discussion with Ron Jones and students that were in the experiment.

FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY!

The Marsh presents Wes "Scoop" Nisker's CRAZY WISDOM SAVES THE WORLD AGAIN.

“His performance, laced with original songs, manages to make suffering a knee-slapper. He delivers Zen zingers with Borsht Belt timing.” New York Times

“Deeply wise, wonderfully insightful, delightfully humorous.” Utne Reader

“Scoop Nisker is the missing link between sit-down meditation and stand up comedy.”

Paul Krassner, The Realist

"Scoop's show offers exactly the kind of wisdom we need today. And it is very very funny."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet

The Marsh presents Wes "Scoop" Nisker's CRAZY WISDOM SAVES THE WORLD AGAIN

The show plays on Friday and Saturday at 8:00 pm for two weekends only, from May 16 – May 24, 2008, at The Marsh San Francisco, 1062 Valencia Street.

Tickets are $15-35 sliding scale. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

In his widely acclaimed show, Nisker explores the foolish human condition and the joys and sorrows of living in the modern age. He reveals the secrets of the Big Bang and anti-matter, explores the issues of empire, species extinction and global warming, exposes the true heart of the New Age spiritual movement and offers us the relief and laughter that only such vast perspectives can bring. His book, of the same name, based on the monologue, has just been published by Stonebridge Press.

Nisker is well known in the Bay Area as an author, radio commentator, Buddhist meditation teacher and performer. For the past 15 years he has been leading his own retreats and workshops in Buddhist insight meditation and philosophy at venues all over the world. He is an affiliate teacher at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California.

Four Performances Only!

The Marsh presents Drama Desk nominee and GLAAD Award winner Marga Gomez in LONG ISLAND ICED LATINA plus Samantha Chanse performing an exerpt from LYDIA’S FUNERAL VIDEO.

The shows play on May 28^th & 29^th at 8:00 pm and on May 31 at 5:00 pm & 8:0 pm at The Marsh Studio Theater, 1074 Valencia Street in San Francisco. For tickets, the public may call Brown Paper Tickets at 800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org.

Tickets are $15-$35 sliding scale. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

LONG ISLAND ICED LATINA is an intoxicating comedic memoir of her awkward adolescence in Massapequa, Long Island, mixing equal parts cultural confusion, chronic virginity, mother-daughter instability and a splash of polyester fashion to paint a sardonic picture of her uprooted life as the new brown girl in a white high school.

LYDIA’S FUNERAL VIDEO depicts a not so distant future when abortions are legal only within 28 days of conception. Lydia Clark-Lin is doggedly pursuing her career when a mysterious being claiming to be an hours-old embryo invades her dreams, announces that Lydia is both pregnant and dying and commands her to create a video to be screened at her funeral before terminating the pregnancy. A sold-out, full-length production of this play, directed by Wilma Bonet, premiered at the Dark Room in February.

"When I first saw [Squeeze Box], I was deeply moved. Ann Randolph's amazing work, both as a writer and fellow performer, touched my heart and my mind so profoundly that I felt it belonged on the New York stage."
— Anne Bancroft

"She goes in and out of these characters. She's a bit of a genius. I've been around, and I haven't seen so much talent in one person since I married Anne Bancroft. I've got to say that these are two great Anns, and I am glad that they hooked up together."
— Mel Brooks

"Rubber faced Randolph is wickedly hysterical." — Los Angeles Times

"Randolph allows us to see ourselves in and among people who seem utterly removed from our urban existence." — LA Weekly

The Marsh presents Ann Randolph’s SQUEEZE BOX.

The show plays Saturday at 5:00 pm and Sunday at 7:00 pm from May 17 through June 29 on The Marsh Main Stage, 1062 Valencia Street.

Tickets are $22-35 Sliding Scale on Saturday and $15-35 Sliding Scale on Sunday. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

The Marsh is proud to present the Bay Area premiere of Ann Randolph’s SQUEEZE BOX, produced Off-Broadway by the legendary Mel Brooks and the late Anne Bancroft. The show tells the painfully funny story of Randolph’s crazy minimum wage life working the graveyard shift at a homeless shelter for mentally ill women even as she pretends to be a hugely successful ‘consultant’ to Harold, an impassioned accordionist and man of her dreams. It is through this unlikely cast of characters that she finds her own answers to life’s big questions.

"When I first saw [Squeeze Box], I was deeply moved. Ann Randolph's amazing work, both as a writer and fellow performer, touched my heart and my mind so profoundly that I felt it belonged on the New York stage."
— Anne Bancroft

"She goes in and out of these characters. She's a bit of a genius. I've been around, and I haven't seen so much talent in one person since I married Anne Bancroft. I've got to say that these are two great Anns, and I am glad that they hooked up together."
— Mel Brooks

"Rubber faced Randolph is wickedly hysterical." — Los Angeles Times

"Randolph allows us to see ourselves in and among people who seem utterly removed from our urban existence." — LA Weekly

The Marsh presents Ann Randolph’s SQUEEZE BOX.

The show plays Saturday at 5:00 pm and Sunday at 7:00 pm from May 17 through June 29 on The Marsh Main Stage, 1062 Valencia Street.

Tickets are $22-35 Sliding Scale on Saturday and $15-35 Sliding Scale on Sunday. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

The Marsh is proud to present the Bay Area premiere of Ann Randolph’s SQUEEZE BOX, produced Off-Broadway by the legendary Mel Brooks and the late Anne Bancroft. The show tells the painfully funny story of Randolph’s crazy minimum wage life working the graveyard shift at a homeless shelter for mentally ill women even as she pretends to be a hugely successful ‘consultant’ to Harold, an impassioned accordionist and man of her dreams. It is through this unlikely cast of characters that she finds her own answers to life’s big questions.