Mess America: A Nation in Various States of Dis-dress

November 20 – 22, 2009

Little Theatre, CSUN

Fri/Sat/8pm and Sun 2pm

Tickets ($5 students / $10 non-students) available at the door or in advance at the AS Ticket Office.

For more information contact: Dr. Jeanine Minge at jeanine.minge@csun.edu

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This performance experience of movement, sound, and imagery critically explores the current state of the nation. Mess America parodies the longest running beauty pageant in the United States and paints a vivid picture of a symbolic institution that reveals much about sexual politics and commercialism, big business and small towns, discrimination and ethnocentrism, fear and desire.

• Director: Jeanine Minge
• Assistant Director: Trisha Neimeyer
• Sound Design: Michael Deragon
• Choreography: Trisha Neimeyer
• Projections: Ashley Beard
• Costume Design: Paula Fleischer
• Assistant Designer: Michele Clevering

Cast

• Soldier: Nabil Suleiman
• Sextween: Emelie Castillo
• Pageant Mother: Michele Clevering
• Pageant Princess: Trisha Neimeyer
• Educated Beggar: Asya Mazurova
• Corporate Figure 1: Wade MacDonald
• Corporate Figure 2: Lee Jay Heller
• Husband: Ricky Alex
• Stilted Tele: Jeffrey Sands
• Henchman 1 (slave): Ricky Alex
• Henchman 2: Paula Fleischer
• Henchman 3: Sheila Boateng
• Henchman 4: Xavier Joven
• Henchman 5: Tetsuya Ogi
• Henchman 6: (slave) Dominique Harrison
• Lycra Draped Dancer: Trisha Neimeyer
• Bride: Dominique Harrison