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REDCAT Presents the Sweeping Multimedia Theater Work of Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen

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November 16, 2005, Los Angeles--REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater presents the West Coast premiere of Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen's DUGOUT III: WARBOY (And the Backboard Blues). This work is both a love story between a minor league baseball player and a barrelhouse piano player, and an investigation of invented memory. Jo Harvey Allen stars, with original music by Terry Allen, Richard Bowden (Texas fiddle and mandolin), and Lloyd Maines (steel guitar). This new piece is the third installment of the epic DUGOUT series, and it runs at REDCAT from Thursday, December 8 - Saturday, December 10 at 8:30 p.m.

DUGOUT I (2002) was an exhibition consisting of six large multimedia tableaux made up of evocative objects such as piano keys, baseballs, and a taxidermied coyote. It had its first showing in Texas, and has subsequently been exhibited in multiple museums and galleries. DUGOUT II (HOLD ON to the House) (2004) began the exploration of the invention of memory through sculpture, music, film, and theater in the context of 1950s America. The work was exhibited at three separate Los Angeles cultural venues: the L.A. Louver Gallery, Santa Monica Museum of Art and The Skirball Center, and often was accompanied by extemporaneous performances and readings.

DUGOUT III: WARBOY (And the Backboard Blues) (2005), the culmination of this evolving epic, is a semiautobiographical, transgenerational story written, directed and produced by Terry Allen. Loosely based on the lives of his parents, the piece encompasses themes such as baseball and jazz, love and death, true stories and lies, Cold War paranoia, and a boy growing up in West Texas. It was first presented on NPR in 1994 as an audio drama. Since then, the endeavor grew to include multi-media art installations, a music theater piece, CD, DVD, and book. This December, the fully realized theatrical production premieres at REDCAT.

Terry Allen is a sculptor, painter, installation artist, musician, composer, and writer who has received numerous awards, including multiple Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and has been inducted onto the Buddy Holly Walk of Fame. Born in 1943 in Wichita, Kansas, he was raised in Lubbock, Texas. Mr. Allen earned is BFA in 1966 from Chouinard Art Institute, the predecessor to the CalArts School of Art. His art has been exhibited internationally and is represented in major private and public collections. He has recorded eleven albums of original music, including his most recent, Salivation.

Jo Harvey Allen is an actress, singer/songwriter, artist, and photographer who also grew up in Lubbock, Texas. She has appeared in film, radio, and theater works in the U.S. and abroad. She has received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and Art Matters grants. Ms. Allen's work in film includes a starring role in David Byrnes' True Stories, as well as co-starring roles in Fried Green Tomatoes and Second Hand Lions. She has performed one-woman shows such as A Moment's Hesitation and Counter Angel, both Off-Broadway productions, in addition to collaborating with her husband and son in theatrical productions. She resides with her husband Terry in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for innovative visual, performing and media arts, is located at the corner of W. 2nd St. and S. Hope St., inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex. DUGOUT III: WARBOY (And the Backboard Blues) runs Thursday-Saturday, December 8-10, at 8:30 PM. Ticket prices range from $32-20, with student discounts available. Seating is general admission. Tickets may be purchased at the REDCAT box office -- located at the corner of 2nd and Hope Streets, by calling 213.237.2800, or by clicking here.

REDCAT benefits from an endowment created through the generosity of The Walt Disney Company; The Sharon D. Lund Foundation; Robert B. Egelston; Lee and Lawrence J. Ramer; and Dorothy R. Sherwood.

REDCAT's 2005-06 season programming is generously supported by The Herb Alpert Foundation; American Composers Forum of Los Angeles; The Annenberg Foundation; Anonymous; Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund; California Community Foundation; The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation (Corporate matching gift); CEMAT (Centri Musicali Attrezzati, Rome); City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department; CONACULTA; Margit Sperling Cotsen and Lloyd Cotsen; Cultural Services of the French Embassy; Delphi Capital Management, Inc.; e-flux; Étant Donnés, The French-American Fund for the Visual Arts, a program of the French American Cultural Exchange; The French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE; French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Harriett and Richard Gold; Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg; Elyse and Stanley Grinstein; Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater; IIC (Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles); The Japan Foundation Performing Arts JAPAN; La Colección Jumex; kurimanzutto; L.A. Louver Gallery, Inc.; The Sharon D. Lund Foundation; Steve Martin; National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; E. Nakamichi Foundation; Phaedrus Foundation; Vicki Reynolds Pepper and Murray Pepper; The Puffin Foundation, Inc.; V. Joy Simmons; The Skirball Foundation; SONORA, in collaboration with Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and White Cube Gallery, London.

As CalArts' downtown center for innovative visual, media and performing arts, REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, introduces diverse audiences, students and artists to the most influential developments in the arts from around the world, and gives artists in the Los Angeles region the creative support they need to achieve national and international stature. REDCAT is a center for experimentation, discovery and charged civic discourse.

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