THE VENICE MOOTNEY CO. 
30TH ANNIVERSARY SUMMER REPERTORY 
The Venice Mootney Co.
       (smile, frown)

for immediate release:  
30th Anniversary Summer Repertory

contact Ernest  Harding, Assoc. Producer (310) 478-7379


The Mootney Company in the Community

1976 Founded .  For The U.S. bicentennial:  Aint This It?
           a family is torn apart by the American Revolution 
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timeline continued below

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Come early and picnic !    Cork fee only $2/ each !!

ADMISSION BY SLIDING SCALE !!1

Located in West L.A. at the corner of the 10 and 405 Freeways in L.A.'s newest garden theatre space we are presenting three plays in reperatory this summer:

the world Premier  SOUTH LAKE GARDEN,  a musical in which  a band of women in contemporary China rescue abandoned female babies; 

MARK AND BARBARA FROG  "a musical for all ages"  (Venice Magazine)  in which the sex jokes fly right over the kids' heads and the blend of  science and songs is  "delightful"  (Backstage    West);

and opening with CIRCUS SHRINK,  a surreal, anti-homophobia Glenn Hopkins play from 1973.  


SCHEDULE   OF   PERFORMANCES

Aug.19, 26 (  Saturdays ) at sunset
CIRCUS SHRINK  a live, surreal comedy
THE VENICE MOOTNEY CABARET THEATRE
2508 S. Stoner Avenue
(West) Los Angeles, Ca.  90064
Phone:  (310) 478-7379;  www.mootney.org

Aug. 20, 27, Sept. 3 (Sundays at sunset)
MARK & BARBARA FROG,  a sophisticated musical for all ages
THE VENICE MOOTNEY CABARET THEATRE
2508 S. Stoner Avenue
(West) Los Angeles, Ca.  90064
Phone:  (310) 478-7379;  www.mootney.org

Sept. 1, 8  (Fridays at  sunset)
SOUTH LAKE GARDEN, world premier reading of Glenn Hopkins musical
THE VENICE MOOTNEY CABARET THEATRE
2508 S. Stoner Avenue
(West) Los Angeles, Ca.  90064
Phone:  (310) 478-7379;  www.mootney.org

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Glenn Hopkins, L.A. Red Carpet Award Winner, 2005


"Glenn Hopkins is an American Original .  Names like Johnny Appleseed,  Woody Guthrie,   Will Geer,  and Walt Whitman come to mind."             --Backstage West

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"A familiar figure on the Los Angles theatre scene,  Glenn Hopkins has written over twenty plays… melodramatic and hilarious, brash and sensitive,  frustrating yet ultimately rewarding….Hopkins writes from the heart, exploring human verities as well as human foibles.  His integrity and purpose shine through…"
                            ---Drama-Logue

Hopkins' writing for the stage has been:

"outrageous…refreshing…intriguing…important…worthwhile."  ---The Daily Bruin

"infused with lyric imagery…billowing…lovely…fun…"  ---The Hollywood Reporter

"gorged with ideas…admittedly wild…a literary volcano"  ---Cleve Herman,  KFWB                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

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community timeline,  continued:

surrogates  (1976 premier at Venice Methodist)
Our Mission Statement: "to shed light on the human condition"

1977 Emptiness (now called CIRCUS  SHRINK) 
taped by UCLA Theta Committee under Shirley Clarke 

1979 The waning Labor Movement is given a "banquet play"
DINOSAUR (also published by The  California. Theatre Council)

surrogates  David Hillbrand's U.C. Berkeley Production

ICA, London reading :: surrogates

Dramatist's Guild Grant

1980   N o t    J o b,  Chandler Hall,  Church in Ocean Park
L.A. torn by quakes; to argue with God is better than no relationship

1981 Charms  by Wayne Lindberg, Church in Ocean Park

1982, The Complex, Hollywood.  Inspired by "Radical Faeries"
The Adventures of Robin Hood Narrated by Quentin Crisp

1983,"…Robin…" again at Church in Ocean Park

1984 Geodome barnraising for the 300 block of Market Street and 
surrogates

Residency,  McDaniel College's co-production :  C O L O N Y ; 
for the (800-seat) Venice Pavilion Revitalization:
          the first lunar C O L O N Y remembers the mother planet

Jazz/Rally against Corporations Paying No Taxes

For The Committee to Monitor Poppers (banning the disco drug)
1986,   W H I T E    B R E A D    (three theatres,  8 months)
Draamalogue Award, Best  New Play

1987 LGBT March on Washington, Sylvan Theatre, Washington.Monument Grounds:
The Adventures of Robin Hood Narrated by Quentin Crisp

1989  Networking and Opening Circle for the Tongva Springs Community
University High School Campus

For Stoner Park Mural Refurbishment:
:The 60's // thesuffragette-teens, the 80's// the 20's;  homage to Jewish Progressives
Animal Husbandry 1917-1929

by permission of John Updike, for OPICA and MAHOOD senior centers
taped  for KPFK at The Ivar Theatre The Poorhouse Fair 

Site-specific musical for the Uni/Tongva Springs (still opposed by LAUSD)
The Tears of Saint Monica 

The World Health Organization Smallpox-shot scandal exposed in 
…all in the same boat ! 
Stoner Park; Uni. Community Adult School 1996-8

M E A T readings, Venice UMC,  Dramatists' Guild, NYC, Baltimore Thtr.Festival
Zionist genocide's and homophobia's Biblical roots
Premier run benefits affordable senior/homeless fam. housing, Santa Monica UMC :
M E A T, 1998- 
via A&BB Foundation grant, 2003

Residency,  The Woodstock Guild  produces: Three Made Only of Clay

M A R K   AND   B  A R B A R A   F R O G
3 years in the making; First production, Masquer's Cabaret, 2003

MRS. ROOSEVELT, Three Made Only of Clay
Readings around the country benefit the Green Party campaigns, including in W.L.A.

MRS. ROOSEVELT  (in Czech)  Prague, 2004
In Spanish, Korean, English and Farsi simultaneously, gathering after for songs
Westside Community Adult School, 2005

Red Carpet Award and State Senate Commendation 2005 
For outstanding contribution to theatre in California 

Commissioned playlet for Christmas Eve, 2005
"Okay, Mary, Seriously.  Who's the father?"
Church in Ocean Park

and currently through stories and improvisation with Asians from all over L.A.
S o u t h    L a k e    G a r d e n
(first readings in early September)