THIS IS THE THING / Kirk Read full-length show

THIS IS THE THING
by Kirk Read

music by Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney
video by Liz Singer
props and design by Doug Hansen and Kirk Read

at the Garage, 975 Howard @ 6th Street, San Francisco June 10-14, 2008
Tuesday through Saturday, 8pm

Tickets: $12-15, 1-800-838-3006
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/32515

More info: http://www.kirkread.com

Writer/performer Kirk Read creates an evening of stories about sex work,
hallucinations and the apocalypse. Read learned to perform in a touring
Virginia evangelical youth group, with some in his hometown expecting
him to become a preacher. Instead, Read became an escort and an avowed
fan of magic mushrooms. In short, Read is a different sort of preacher.
Read's stories weave in and out of Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney's
soundscape, creating an atmosphere of magical trance. Read's humor and
acute observation, together with Mooney's trippy, layered music and Liz
Singer's shimmering video installation, will take you to church. Expect
to hear stories about a 450 pound sex work client, people with dietary
restrictions, the Brady Bunch and touring through rural Alabama with
genius strippers.