RENEGADE THEATRE EXPERIMENT ANNOUNCES ITS SPECTACTULAR SOPHOMORE SEASON: 2 GROUNDBREAKING FARCES

At Renegade Theatre Experiments first annual benefit fundraising event, 100 patrons enjoyed a catered dinner; an evening of music, dance, and comedy performed by Renegade players and friends of the company; and the announcement, by artistic director Sean C. Murphy, of RTEs thrilling second season.

SAN JOSE, CA-April 12, 2003-At Renegade Theatre Experiments first annual benefit fundraising event, 100 patrons enjoyed a catered dinner; an evening of music, dance, and comedy performed by Renegade players and friends of the company; and the announcement, by artistic director Sean C. Murphy, of RTEs thrilling second season.

The first show, Paul Lucass The Dice House, satirizes psychiatric quick fixes" in a post-modern world but also looks deeply at the function of chance in our lives. The play-which comes straight from last years Edinburgh Fringe Festival-concerns too rival psychiatrists, one invested in traditional methods and one a proponent of dice theory," the idea that every life decision should be put to a roll of the dice. When the traditionalists wife succumbs to the alluring abandon of dice theory, he enlists an anxious patient for a commando mission to raid The Dice House." The Dice House is home to random hijinks and loopy characters, leading director Russ Marcel to dub the play a farce on acid."

The season winds up with Avery Croziers Eat the Runt, a complex skewering of bureaucracy and political correctness powered by an astonishing metatheatrical stunt. An art gallery has selected a leading candidate for the opening of Grants Manager. When not one, but two people arrive claiming to be that candidate, weird interviews turn weirder as the gallerys staff tries to sort out the truth. In a masterstroke, Crozier designed the play in such a way that any of the eight-person cast could-on any given night-play any of the eight non-gender-specific roles. Each night at the theater, the audience will cast the show from the eight-person ensemble of men and women, creating one of 40,320 possible casting variations. Martin Denton of NYTheatre.com called Eat the Runt a play to see over and over again."

Renegades inaugural season kicked off in June 2002 with Sin, Wendy MacLeods modern morality play, which blends comedy and drama in telling the story of a woman who reevaluates her life in the wake of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. In August of 2002, Renegade rounded off its first season with Hear Me Roar: womens images of self, an evening on the theme of womens body image and self-worth in American culture featuring Chocolate Cake" by Mary Gallagher, Inner Struggle" (choreographed by RTEs Evangeline Maynard) and The Most Massive Woman Wins" by Madeleine George.