This Saturday night I hope you can come join me in the Mission District. I will be doing a Staged Reading of an excerpt of Wallace Shawn’s excellent one man play “The Fever.” This is the piece for which I won a Bay Guardian “Upstage/Downstage” award for Oustanding Performance when I did it as part of Last Planet Theatre’s Wallace Shawn Festival. Saturday’s performance won’t be a full production — I’ll only be doing about 20 minutes (1/4) of the full play, and I’ll just have minimal staging with script in hand.

That said, my director (John Wilkins) has come up with a tight, energized 20 minute edit of “The Fever” which absolutely works as a self-contained piece. You’ll get a full on “Fever Experience” even in this shortened, rougher form. Think of it as “The Fever,” remixed and raw.

RICHARD REINHOLDT PERFORMS A STAGED READING OF WALLACE SHAWN’S “THE FEVER” (Excerpt)

DATE: Saturday 10/4
TIME: 8PM
Place: L’s Caffe, 2871 24th Street (between Bryant St & Florida St) San Francisco, CA 94110
Cost: FREE

This Staged Reading of “The Fever” is part of THE MISSION ARTS & PERFORMANCE PROJECT: “12 hours of art, performance, and cultural activities in neighborhood locations.” In addition to my reading there will be musicians, poets, singers, storytellers and visual artists performing at L Caffe before and after my 8PM slot and at other venues all around the Mission District.

More on MAPP:

The Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP), in collaboration with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), invites you to a street-level neighborhood arts extravaganza celebrating the life of Frida Kahlo; her art, her politics, her vulnerability, and her inspiration to women worldwide. This MAPP event explores the open field of themes/issues/possibilities to which Frida’s life gives spark. Join more than sixty artists as they follow any and all threads, literal or conceptual, to demonstrate the power of the legacy that Frida left in her wake. The MAPP is a bi-monthly neighborhood inter-cultural arts event that transforms garages, cafes, studios, gardens, and local businesses into make-shift arts & performance spaces where daily life meets artistic innovation and expression.

http://www.redpoppyarthouse.org/mappdates.html