Camposition | 1000 Homosexuals

1,000 HOMOSEXUALS

a new play by Michael Yawney

co- Presented and co-commissioned by Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami Dade County and Camposition.

World Premier: November 20, 2008 - 8PM
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami Dade County - Carnival Studio Theater

Future Performances:
November 21, 2008 - 8PM
November 22, 2008 - 2PM
November 22, 2008 - 8PM
November 23, 2008 - 2PM

For tickets go to: Arsht Center

BECOME 1 of 1,000 go to 1000Homosexuals.com.

1,000 Homosexuals tells the story of Anita Bryant's 1977 crusade against gay rights.
The play is adocumentary/fantasy/comedy presenting Anita just the way she would want,
as a musical Joan of Arc battling a powerful and perverse gay mafia. Due to Anita’s
concern for her family, her career, and her warm feelings for homosexual men, she resists
taking a stand against a county-wide gay rights ordinance. After she heeds God’s call to
take heroic action, Anita pays a heavy price for her stand. She becomes a national
laughingstock, receives pornographic hate mail and death threats, and her network
television show is cancelled. The play bends documentary sources such as government
records, newpaper stories, and underground gay manifestos into a twisted carnival of
70s-style sex and faith.

THE BUGCHASERS

Dancetheater by Octavio Campos
inspired by the Slap and Tickle Show, Susan Sontag and www.bareback.com.

World Premier: October 25, 2007 - Carnival Center of the Performing Arts - Studio Theater
Future Performances: October 26 & 27, 2007

VIDEO PREVIEW

Presented and co-commissioned by Miami Dade College, The Center for Cultural Collaborations International,
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami Dade County, and Camposition.

Choreography: Octavio Campos
Texts: Matt Glass
Costumes: Diana Lozano
Video: Bec Stupak
Music: Zeena Parkins, Livio Tragtenberg, a.o...
Dramaturgy: Michael Yawney

Performance: Natasha Tsakos, Diana Lozano, Heather Maloney, Ron Headrick,
Octavio Campos, Matt Glass & Joshua Nardi

Sex is different now. There are new questions. And lies.

The Bugchasers is an evening-length performance that explores the nature
of desire in a marginalized world where new forms of communication and a
fraught sexual epidemiology have altered the experience of intimacy.
“Bugchasers” are young men who compulsively seek to become HIV positive,
eroticizing risk in a game of viral Russian roulette where the shared bond of a
communicable disease substitutes for love.

The Bugchasers incorporates theater, dance, music and video to ask
whether the human need for belonging and contact has led to a new eroticism
or become a monstrous force for self-annihilation.
It is a story of accelerated love in our time.

Who is that person on the other side of the mattress? How can you be sure?

WARNING: This performance is not recommended for a first date.