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Bay Area Premiere

Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?

written by Caryl Churchill
directed by John Fisher

May 30 - June 16
At The Costume Shop (1117 Market Street) Map It

Do countries really behave like gay men? Meet Sam and Jack and watch as they fall in love and become obsessed as only gay men can become obsessed.

This masterfully provocative play comes from the hand of Britain’s most controversial and profound playwright.

The production stars Bay Area favorite Rudy Guerrero (The Motherf***er With the Hat, Food Stories, Carnival.) Also presented are the controversial dialogue plays Seven Jewish Children^† by Caryl Churchill and Seven Palestinian Children by Deborah S. Margolin. These plays “talk to one another” about the crisis in contemporary Palestine.

^†Admission to Seven Jewish Children is free of charge. Separate admission to Seven Jewish Children is at 9:00 pm on the night of the show (4:00 pm for matinees). This admission does not cover admission to Drunk Enough to Say I Love You or to Seven Palestinian Children. Seven Jewish Children is 'an amateur production.' The performance of Seven Jewish Children is appoximately fifteen minutes in length.

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Gay Pocket Guide SF/
Theater Rhino FUNdraiser

Sunday, April 21 from 3 - 6 pm
at The Cinch, 1723 Polk Street    Map It

Join us for a fun-filled afternoon to help support Theatre Rhinoceros!!

Laurie Bushman (Castro Theatre Sing-Alongs Host), Kim Larsen (GayPocket Publisher), dj davidmahr, special guest entertainers, and, of course, our annual Cover Model Search Finalists
                                                           ... will make sure you have a great time!!!

Theatre Rhinoceros Winter Appeal

This year we’re thirty-five and blissfully middle-aged thanks to you. With your generous donations last year we achieved a record year of donor support! Thank you! In these challenging economic times we still need your help. Please keep the Rhino a long-running hit with a generous donation this year.

Download the donation letter you can print and send back with your gift »

Castro Street Fair Auditions

Meet the Next Queer Stars!

See Auditioners for The Rhino at the Castro Street Fair.
The scenes are from All About Eve and A Streetcar Named Desire

Cover Model Winner David

Rhino Beer Bust FUNdraiser at The Cinch

Thank you to Gaypocket for making their search for a 2012 Cover Model help Theatre Rhino Raise Fun and Funds

Visit the set on Flickr for more information on each photograph!

Press Information

Bronstein At Large's Comments

Leah Garchik Covers Us
(search for "Rhinoceros" in the column)

Our secession is in Variety

Best Theatrical Act of Political Defiance

The debacle surrounding Proposition 8 — the state's Constitutional ban on same-sex marriage — particularly outraged the local performing arts community, many of whose members are gay.

After the election, Theatre Rhino, America's longest-running queer theater company, declared itself "an extraterritorial state that recognizes, encourages, and condones same-sex marriage."

According to the company's artistic director, John Fisher, Theatre Rhino decided to symbolically secede from the Golden State "to create a safe/legal space for Married Same-Sex couples in the State of California."

The company marked the decision with a special secession ceremony at its base in the heart of the Mission on November 21, following a performance of the show One Hundred Years of Queer Theatre.

Fisher later conceded that the whole thing was a publicity stunt, but not for the theater. "It's a publicity stunt for same-sex marriage," he said.

— SF Weekly
More at SF Weekly.com

Proclamation:

For thirty-one years our Mainstage has been a space of hallowed ground for Same-sex couples and it cannot continue as such if it does not recognize Same-sex Marriage.

In recognition of the thousands of queer lives portrayed on our stage and the thousands upon thousands of queer people who have inspired, witnessed and been inspired by those lives, our Mainstage must secede from the State of California.

The Board of Theatre Rhinoceros and I therefore declare our Mainstage seceded ground and proclaim our theatre an extraterritorial state that recognizes, encourages and condones Same-sex marriage.

A “plaque of secession and proclamation” will be unveiled on Friday, November 21, 2008 at 10 pm, immediately following the performance of 100 Years of Queer Theatre.

Come and raise a glass in recognition of this event and the eventual triumph of same-sex marriage over the forces of repression, exclusion and intolerance. Admission is free and open to the public.

— John Fisher

Foundations Supporting Theatre Rhinoceros

Theatre Rhinoceros is funded by the generosity of the following organizations:

San Francisco Grants for the Arts

The The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

The San Francisco Art Commission

The Dramatists Guild

The Zellerbach Family Foundation

The James Hormel Foundation

The Horizons Foundation

The Bob Ross Foundation

The Walmart Foundation