Performance: Saturday Nov. 12, 8pm, local food tasting and concessions from 7-8pm.
Workshop: Sunday, Nov. 13 1pm
Free

Read about it in the Montague Reporter here.

RiverCulture's Producers' Series presents an evening of performance in Food City after closing. Experience Food City with Missoula Oblongata's The Daughter of The Father of Time Motion Study.

Set in a time when people knew the difference between sacrifice and compromise and could differentiate between a robot and a walrus or a hole in the ice and the ice itself, this play functions as its own mini-series to highlight this remarkable period when everyone understood and knew how to use the 18 hand movements prescribed by Time Motion Study. Posing big questions like: Can inefficiency be cured?; If a robot is smarmy, is it only a reflection of our own smarminess?; And what exactly does it take to get oneself on a postage stamp?

The event will kick off with a local food tasting. Concessions will be available from the aisles prior to the start of the show.

Local food tasting and product showcase includes:
Chase Hill Farm, Jeannette & Mark Fellows, Cheese

Green River Ambrosia, Garth Shaneyfelt; www.greenriverambrosia.com;
Mead, Honey Wines, beverages

Lou's Upcycles; Lou Leland, Clothing and accessories made of recycled plastic bags.

Myron's Fine Sauces; Myron; www.ChefMyrons.com

Real Pickles; Dan Rosenberg www.realpickles.com

Tastes and Tales Cookbooks
Lynne Rudié, Graphic Design
P. Ann Pieroway. Author, Bass Pond Press (www.basspondpress.com)
Louise Minks, Artist, Millworks Studio, Montague Center. (www.louiseminks.com) Louise is the artist for the covers and chapter dividers of the first four books.
Lynne is the artist for the Lobster book (and will be for the apple book).

Here are the book titles
Taste and Tales of New York
Taste and Tales of Massachusetts
Taste and Tales of Coastal New England
Taste and Tales of Cape Cod ... and the Islands
A Taste of Cranberries ... and some Tales too
A Taste of Lobsters ... and some Tales too

Coming soon
A Taste of Apples ... and some Tales too

Free, Food City, 250 Avenue A, Turners Falls, more info here.

Sunday: The Missoula Oblongata Intensive In Collaborative Writing and Performing

In a rigorous and action-packed 3 hours, students will be led through a condensed version of The Missoula Oblongata's collaborative method for creating original theater. Students will share their impossible dreams for performance, generate original text, experiment with expansive possibilities for making that text physical, and will use salvaged and found materials to create design elements for their piece. The workshop will culminate in student presentation of one to five minute collaborative performances

Sunday November 13, 1pm at the Brick House, 24 Third Street, Turners Falls.  Workshop is Free but limited to 25 people. RSVP here.

The Missoula Oblongata is an experimental theatre company dedicated to creating and touring original work. Lights, sound, and sets are all homemade, transportable, and operated by the performers themselves. This allows them to perform in venues which are accessible-financially and geographically-to a larger population than the regional theatre system serves. They meet unlikely audiences in their neighborhoods, their parks, their favorite music venues, and their homes-and transform these spaces into temporary, anarchistic theaters.