Fascination
a new play by Kevin Killian and Wayne Smith
Friday, September 6, 8 PM
$5-10 sliding scale admission

You'll be watching this play, with its strange echoes of CITIZEN KANE and ALL ABOUT EVE, and asking yourself, “Wait a second! Didn’t I see this before?” Sure you did, it’s the life of David Bowie, written up in pageant form by local writers Kevin Killian and Wayne Smith. London…the late 60s…a group of young UK poets and musicians rallies around the aging Mime maestro, Lindsay Kemp, and from The LAB emerges David Bowie, the man who sold the world, to storm London’s fickle pop charts. Next he conquers New York, where his life is endangered by fanatical fans, and gets jiggy with black soul music in the Philadelphia of Young Americans. At his side, his indomitable soulmate Angie. The two of them keep inventing themselves over and over. Bing Crosby dies. Marc Bolan sings The Prettiest Star. The ultimate rock couple, Carly Simon and James Taylor, enters the twisted, androgynous Bowie world and their lives collapse like those little bags of popcorn. Then Bowie goes to Berlin with Brian Eno, heroes, just for one day. With a cast of local poets, painters, musicians and video makers including Norma Cole, Kota Ezawa, Craig Goodman, Cliff Hengst, Scott Hewicker, Tanya Hollis, Kevin Killian, Mac McGinnes, Karla Milosevich, Yedda Morrison, Rex Ray, Laurie Reid, and Jocelyn Saidenberg.

This performance is presented in conjunction with Fascination: The Bowie Show, an exhibition at Gallery 16, at 1616 Sixteenth Street, August 15-Sept 30, call (415) 626-7495 for more information about the exhibition.