Know Theatre - A Stage Set for Alternative Theatre


		'Fringe For A Night' Cincyfringe.com launch party & Festival announcement Featuring special performance by David Gaines' 7(x1) Samurai On Stage: March 13, 2010 6:00 pm – Doors Open Happy Hour begins 6:45 pm – cincyfringe.com unveiling, 2010 Fringe lineup announcement and other special surprises 7:30 pm – 7(x1) Samurai by David Gaines 9:00 pm on - Bar Series for a Night Cincyfringe.
	*Tickets are required for entry into 7(x1) Samurai.* Entry to website unveiling and festival line-up announcement is free.**

Overview	Know Theatre’s Cincinnati Fringe Festival is just around the corner…but we can’t wait another second. We’ve chosen the shows. We’re building a new website. We want to Fringe! Join us at the Know Theatre on March 13, 2010 for 'Fringe for a Night'. In addition to announcing the 2010 Festival line up, we’ll be unveiling the brand new cincyfringe.com. Following the announcement, we’re proud to present a special performance David Gaines’ 7(x1) Samurai, the 2009 Festival Critic’s Pick of the Fringe. Fringe for a Night starts at 6:00pm with happy hour drinks in the Underground. At 6:45 pm we’ll be unveiling the new website and giving you a run down of the 2010 Festival lineup. At 7:30 pm, we’ll all move upstairs for a performance by one of the most attended shows in the history of the Fringe Festival, 7(x1) Samurai. Kurosawa's epic tale of victimized peasants, marauding bandits, and samurai warriors – is retold at comic breakneck pace, through movement, by one exhausted and ridiculous actor. This piece is performed in an original energetic style with accompanying gibberish and vocal sound effects. This unusual style of theatre is like Kill Bill meets The Magnificent Seven in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. It is original, different, riveting to watch, and very funny. Tickets are required for entry into 7(x1) Samurai performance and are $12. Entry to the Underground for the website unveiling and Fringe Festival line-up announcement is free. You can purchase online www.knowtheatre.com or call the Know Theatre box office at (513)300-KNOW (5669).
Cast	David Gaines studied for two years at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France, after which he formed The Moving Picture Mime Show in London - which toured Europe and the world for 10 years. He then accepted M. Lecoq's invitation to join him on the faculty of the Ecole Lecoq as a professor of mask and movement. Since leaving Paris, he has taught workshops around the U.S. and acted in plays from Waiting for Godot to The Brothers Karamazov. He taught for three years at the UMKC graduate school of Theatre before moving to the DC area. He is a member of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, has co-written and directed two shows for YBY Theatre in Salzburg, Austria, and recently has created two new solo pieces: A Little Business At the Big Top, performed at the 2008 NY Clown Festival; and his acclaimed 7(x 1) Samurai opened (and was voted 'Best Solo Performance') in the 2008 Capital Fringe Festival, then ran for 6 weeks and sold out at the Warehouse Theatre in Washington DC.