| Asian American Theatre Company's #5 Angry Red Drum |
Thursday, October 22 5PM Festival
Kick off Party
Thursday October 22 6:30PM VIP
reception
Thursday October 22 8PM Battle of
the Ptiches
Thursday October 22 8PM Ten
Minute API Play Contest
Performances with special guest star
Kristina Wong performance
Friday/Saturday October 23-24 8PM
AARGH!!
Sunday October 25 2PM Ken
Narasaki's No-No Boy play reading
Sunday October 25 7PM Ken Choy's
Theatrical Extravaganza Lazy Susan
Kick off Party
Thursday October 22 6:30PM VIP
reception
Thursday October 22 8PM Battle of
the Ptiches
Thursday October 22 8PM Ten
Minute API Play Contest
Performances with special guest star
Kristina Wong performance
Friday/Saturday October 23-24 8PM
AARGH!!
Sunday October 25 2PM Ken
Narasaki's No-No Boy play reading
Sunday October 25 7PM Ken Choy's
Theatrical Extravaganza Lazy Susan
Philip Kan Gotanda's post-apocalyptic #5 Angry Red Drum finds two strangers determined to survive amidst the
ruins of a culture gone mad. The lone heroes establish an outpost and attempt to build a new society based on
misremembered fragments of Bob Dylan lyrics and post-post-post-modern dances inspired by a mysterious drum.
#5 Angry Red Drum is a tragi-comic genesis parable on war and peace featuring a live original sound-score.
Directed by Matthew Graham Smith
Featuring William Dao, Anthony Williams, Michael Kelly, Rich Bianca, Thomas Pang, and Dan Bruno.
SET Bruce Thierry Cheung
LIGHTING Cathie Anderson
COSTUME Margaret Whitaker
MASTER CARPENTER Aaron Niles
PREVIEWS September 26-27, 2009 (SAT 8PM; SUN 5PM)
OPENING NIGHT September 28 (MON 8PM)
RUNS October 1-17, 2009 (THU-SAT 8PM; SUN 5PM)
PERFORMANCES AT The Thick House
1695 18th Street (near Carolina Street) in Potrero Hill, SF
TICKETS $25.00
Call (415) 401-8081 or log on to www.thickhouse.org
Playwright’s Notes for #5 Angry Red Drum (by Philip Kan Gotanda 08-05-09)
I wrote "#5 Angry Red Drum" during the period of 2007-2008.
Much of the original inspiration grew out of my acute frustration and borderline despair with the latter Bush-Cheney
years.
There is a popular hamburger joint in Davis, CA, that was called, MURDER BURGER. Because of complaints, its
name was changed to REDRUM BURGER. I liked the way Red Drum sounded.
This work is the fifth in my Garage Band Series.* Loosely taken from the Dogme 95 film model of doing films with
stripped down production values, the GBS are works written with the overriding principle: Just get the work out. Out
of the body. Out on the stage. In producing, if you have an abandoned garage space, car headlights and a willing
actor, you’re good to go and everything after that, cream. In writing, it can mean forcing yourself to get out of the
way, stewarding the primary impulse to end times. Letting the immediacy of the play’s life tumble out, not over-
handling the raw stuffness of it, permitting the dots connecting traditional narrative to have wider gaps than usual.
The hope that in this process there is an alternative aesthetic that comes into play for the audience. Does it always
work? I don’t know. But I do know the GBS process is creatively most invigorating and full of pitfall insights. And a
great muse-antidote to my larger, multi-year projects.
#5 Angry Red Drum Facebook Page
Asian American Theater Company website
Asian American Theater Company Youtube Channel
ruins of a culture gone mad. The lone heroes establish an outpost and attempt to build a new society based on
misremembered fragments of Bob Dylan lyrics and post-post-post-modern dances inspired by a mysterious drum.
#5 Angry Red Drum is a tragi-comic genesis parable on war and peace featuring a live original sound-score.
Directed by Matthew Graham Smith
Featuring William Dao, Anthony Williams, Michael Kelly, Rich Bianca, Thomas Pang, and Dan Bruno.
SET Bruce Thierry Cheung
LIGHTING Cathie Anderson
COSTUME Margaret Whitaker
MASTER CARPENTER Aaron Niles
PREVIEWS September 26-27, 2009 (SAT 8PM; SUN 5PM)
OPENING NIGHT September 28 (MON 8PM)
RUNS October 1-17, 2009 (THU-SAT 8PM; SUN 5PM)
PERFORMANCES AT The Thick House
1695 18th Street (near Carolina Street) in Potrero Hill, SF
TICKETS $25.00
Call (415) 401-8081 or log on to www.thickhouse.org
Playwright’s Notes for #5 Angry Red Drum (by Philip Kan Gotanda 08-05-09)
I wrote "#5 Angry Red Drum" during the period of 2007-2008.
Much of the original inspiration grew out of my acute frustration and borderline despair with the latter Bush-Cheney
years.
There is a popular hamburger joint in Davis, CA, that was called, MURDER BURGER. Because of complaints, its
name was changed to REDRUM BURGER. I liked the way Red Drum sounded.
This work is the fifth in my Garage Band Series.* Loosely taken from the Dogme 95 film model of doing films with
stripped down production values, the GBS are works written with the overriding principle: Just get the work out. Out
of the body. Out on the stage. In producing, if you have an abandoned garage space, car headlights and a willing
actor, you’re good to go and everything after that, cream. In writing, it can mean forcing yourself to get out of the
way, stewarding the primary impulse to end times. Letting the immediacy of the play’s life tumble out, not over-
handling the raw stuffness of it, permitting the dots connecting traditional narrative to have wider gaps than usual.
The hope that in this process there is an alternative aesthetic that comes into play for the audience. Does it always
work? I don’t know. But I do know the GBS process is creatively most invigorating and full of pitfall insights. And a
great muse-antidote to my larger, multi-year projects.
#5 Angry Red Drum Facebook Page
Asian American Theater Company website
Asian American Theater Company Youtube Channel
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