INSURGO PRESENTS VEGAS PREMIERE OF

"24 HOUR THEATER"

The Insurgo Theater Movement presents the Las Vegas Premiere of 24 HOUR THEATER, a theatre challenge where artists are locked in the theater at 8PM Friday night and perform a complete show at 8PM the next night for a live audience.

The show will feature more than a dozen of Las Vegas' top theater artists, including Review Journal and Vegas Life theater award winners and members from several of Las Vegas' leading theater companies. The event will be coordinated by John Beane, Artistic Director of the Insurgo Theater Movement.

24-hour theater, the theater form that sees a show written, directed, rehearsed and performed in 24 hours or less, has been the subject of an intense international revival, with performances at the Old Vic in London and 24-Hour Play project ongoing on Broadway. This will be the Las Vegas premiere of 24 Hour Theater.

The plays – five of them, each about 10 to 12 minutes long – will be performed on September 8th, beginning at 8 PM. The random drawing from all the entries, held the night before the show, will dictate the theme. An Insurgo original addition - unused theme ideas will be drawn and used to create original songs for the performance.

This show was performed September 8th, 2007.

24 HOUR THEATER II COMING IN APRIL, 2008!

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INSOMNIAC INSURGENCY

"Piece by Precious Piece, We Are Being Stripped of Our Civil Rights (Not That I Care; I've Been a Fascist All My Life)."

"That's the theme the Insurgo folks glommed onto after a 24-hour lockdown in the Onyx Theatre, concocting from nothing (we'll have to take that on faith) a performance for the next night. The result was an hour-plus of bipolar theater. Though the ideas were far from original, several sketches were fairly provocative: a blind-date couple's privacy is shredded by computer chips implanted in them; an S&M analogy on religious devotion (which literally takes it up the ass); and a bar pick-up scene intermingling sex and ideology, climaxing in a rutting couple's carnal thrusts, orgasmically shouting out political ideas and authors. Others shot way wide of the thematic target - a woman's rambling rant about revenge sex; and a man sitting silent while text on a screen bemoaned the death of the Hacienda and other poetic palaver.

Insurgo's bid for renegade cred -- 24-hour theater, a female Hamlet -- is succeeding..."