a hot, hot, hot twofer of the young war and sandwich (see belowa), in a hot double bill. i was in europe, so didnt play, but recorded some fusking (fusking! sure!) hot stuff for it. including the brand new "chicken song" with mr. alec duffy.

written by jason craig and the ensemble
music by dave malloy
directed by mallory catlett

with peter blomquist, jason craig, sarah engelke (awesomely taking over my piano shoes), rod hipskind, jessica jelliffe, heather peroni

reviews here, here and here

"Panel's ultimate power is one of a torrent of vivid word-images, at once fleetingly familiar and disconcertingly askew. It is as if being swept into a waking dream, ineffable and unsettling on its surface, yet seductive and enticing in its power as it pulls you down, ever down in a swirling alliterative whirlpool of lust, longing and loss....Dave Malloy's original compositions tend toward Satie-inflected wistfulness in Panel; Animal is primarily two-fisted Kurt Weill cabaret."

-Brooke Stowe, Theater2k

"Cheerfully obscene...the company obsesses over the filthiness of consumption. While individual characters slash and stab each other, collectively they skewer American greed. Accompanied by Kurt Weill-style pounding piano, Sandwich would have made Bertolt Brecht proud (if Brecht had had a plushy fetish). Stab whom you have to for a ticket: Sandwich is play-making at its meatiest."

-Helen Shaw, Time Out New York

the young war

GAWK II festival, theatre reflective, nyc, january 04
san francisco fringe festival, the exit theatre, september 04
dublin fringe festival, october 04
montreal infringement festival, june 05

• first first
• mucus
• apart
• first
• banana split
• goat

written by jason craig,
then workshopped and stuff by the ensemble,
peter blomquist, jason craig, rod hipskind, jessica jelliffe, heather peroni

music by dave malloy
directed by mallory catlett

love and eggs. hot video (includes making out): here

with jeremy diffey on sax

best of sf fringe 04
reviews: here and here

"...a multifaceted, fragmented, evocative piece that manages to be funny, edgy, affecting and oddly sexy as well."

-Robert Hurwitt, SF Chronicle

sandwich

san francisco fringe festival, exit stage left, september 03
bigger version, exit on taylor, sf, march 04

• the sandwich
• pig (craig/malloy)
• baby rabbit (craig/malloy)
• rabbit (craig/malloy)
• chicken (craig/malloy)
• butterfly (craig/jelliffe/malloy)
• whale
• "...and let the dirt take you"
  

written and composed and arranged and put together and stuff by the ensemble,
jason craig, jessica jelliffe, dave malloy and heather peroni;
parnell klug took on the cat the second time,
and meredith eldred directed a bit.

a really fun show about food, vegetarianism and god, chock full of really fun songs. now recorded in extreme stere-ereo studio fidelity. theyre over there. look, right over there!

best musical, sf fringe 03
reviews: here, here, here, here and here

"With its bacon sizzling on a hotplate, anti-meat-eating plaints followed by mock-gory bunny-bashings, musical knives, piano-playing buffalo and militaristic armadillo, Sandwich is a casually madcap creation that isn't just funny and thought-provoking but funny about its thoughts and need to provoke. It's deceptively crisp, remarkably tight, cagily convoluted and curiously refreshing."

-Robert Hurwitt, SF Chronicle