Here’s the info for the reading I’m directing next Tuesday the 8th, of Ron Allen’s short play, x restrung cortex. Our first and only rehearsal is tomorrow, since the play is only 5 pages long. We’re doing something really fun and surreal with it – we’re staging the play three times in a row, interspersed with songs from Ron’s band, Code Zero.

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Poets and Predators, Ladies and Lovers,
Guitarists and Gentlemen, Singers and Seducers –

On Tuesday, July 8th, at 9:30 pm,
in the guts (or the bowels) of Hollywood,
on the corridor of Cahuenga,
remove your inhibitions and put on your fedoras for the

POETIC SALON
@ Theatre of NOTE

Password: “naked rodeo”
(no one gets in without the password)

presenting
X RESTRUNG CORTEX
a one-act play
written in the poetry of the liberated tongue
about nothing and tuxedos

by Ron Allen (playwright of this year’s EYE MOUTH GRAFFITI BODYSHOP at NOTE)
(mis)directed by Dara Weinberg
featuring actors Michelle Hilyard, Jo D. Jonz, Jemal MacNeil, and Wendi West

performing with live music by
CODE ZERO
a performance group, a band of poetic theory and magnetism:
a manifestation of that which comes before name and form:
a hyper-creative juggernaut, a point of origin
featuring musicians Randy Bellfield on drums, Tony Parker on bass, Cinjez on keyboard, Ron Bodhidharma Allen on vocals, and Sarah Cruse on vocals

Location:
Theatre of NOTE
1517 N. Cahuenga Blvd (between Hollywood and Sunset)

Date: Tuesday, July 8th

Time: 9:30 pm

Admission: Free (with the password)

Dress Code: Formal, sensual, and poetical. Please wear tuxedos, strapless dresses, high-heeled shoes, ties, bustiers, lace, paisley, and others clothes appropriate for a poetic salon.
If you’re going to wear flip-flops, please put on a lot of makeup, even if you’re a man (especially if you’re a man.)
Jeans are acceptable as long as they are so tight and so low-cut that nothing is left to the imagination.