Group Sex Therapy, live! Jan, 5 2007

Daniel Packard’s Live Group Sex Therapy Show Fri & Sat, Jan 5 & 6, 8pm El Viejo Topo Café & Theater Plaza Pueblito Shopping Center, Stirling Dickinson 150 pesos, Reservations: 154-8701

Daniel Packard’s Live Group Sex Therapy Show runs two more nights in San Miguel. Below is an excerpt from Susan Page’s interview with Daniel Packard. 

Susan Page: You appeared here last July and everybody loved the show. Is there anything different this time?

Daniel Packard: Because the show is interactive, every show is its own unique masterpiece, and I’ve definitely got some new juicy, fun strategies for everyone. Also, before the show I invite the audience to write down fun, titillating questions and requests for advice about the opposite sex. We’ll then discuss the answers live during the show. It’s hugely entertaining and powerful to hear men and women being so honest in public. This is so much fun because the whole audience gets involved, and the humor and the learning start flying around like a beautiful, dysfunctional tornado.

SP: What are you trying to accomplish with your Live Group Sex Therapy Show? Is it really about sex?

DP: The show is more about sexual politics than sex. My goal is to create a fun, funny environment where women can learn things they didn’t realize about men. I use humor as a tool to get people to laugh and open up.

Thanks for the use of the hall

Playreaders present For the Use of the Hall

Tuesday—Thursday, January 9—11, 7pm

St. Paul’s Church, Cardo 6, 10 pesos

For the Use of the Hall, the upcoming Playreaders production written by Oliver Hailey, is a biting, mordant comedy that uses wit and laughter to delineate the plight of a group of “losers” who come together by chance in a chilly, deserted Long Island summer house. One reviewer said it had “a stage full of characters as idiosyncratic as the Sycamores of You Can’t Take It with You, and just as amiable … a blizzard of hilarity.” Another wrote “great fun … some of the wittiest lines I've heard in a long, long time in the theatre.”

Allen and Charlotte, after 20 spendthrift years together, are “hiding out” in a house that belongs to Bess, burning bogus artworks for heat and raiding a neighbor’s back porch for food. They are joined, unexpectedly, by Terry, a nun facing a crisis of belief, and then by Martin, a failed Broadway playwright, and his new wife, Alice. Bess, the departed mother of Martin and Terry, appears now and then to evoke the past or comment on the present and to bring into focus the funny, albeit desperate and ultimately touching plight to which all these zany yet very human people have come.

The cast includes Joanna Bryne, Marthe Fraser, Judy Marzulli, new reader Sondra Sperber and Michael Long. Lola Smith directs and lights will be handled by Dic Simandl.

Performances start at 7:30pm, or earlier if the house is full. The doors open at 7pm, and a 10-peso donation is requested. We are now into our busy winter season and frequently have to turn people away, so come early to ensure getting a seat.