Catclaw Theatre Company Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center 1860 Mellwood Avenue Louisville, KY 40206 Artistic director: Jeffrey Scott Holland catclawtheatre@gmail.com-----502.649.3378 Coming in 2009 - Click here to see what we're working on for the next year! News Blog - Our constantly-updated blog reports on what we're up to. E-mail List - click here to join our e-mail mailing list and be kept up to date on show announcements, gossip and special offers. Fundraising - Please help us bring new and exciting theatre to the area and help promote local cast and crew to a national and international level. Absolutely no donation too small! Support our endeavors by a Paypal donation, or by purchasing goodies from our neverending series of fundraising auctions on eBay! Calls - We're looking for ambitious, enthusiastic, creative, can-do people in all aspects of theatre production. We are greatly interested in all forms of theatre, past, present, and future. We like taking things apart to see what makes them tick, and then not putting them back together again. We can be extremely primitive and extremely grandiose, sometimes simultaneously. We cheerfully embrace pretentiousness in all forms. We tend to look at theatre, to paraphrase Tennessee Williams, "not as it is, but how we think it ought to be." Our recent works include: Dark Observatory at Actors Theatre, a solo performance-art piece by Jeffrey Scott Holland in which a painting is created live onstage with ongoing stream-of-consciousness patter. Toulouse-inations at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, a one-act play featuring the French painter Toulouse-Lautrec, "Jack the Ripper" suspect Francis Tumblety, and their self-destructive addictions. The Voraxium at the 1st Louisville Theatre Hop and other, secret, undisclosed locations. The Voraxium is a sort of space-age burlesque revue, in which we temporarily take over a location and declare it The Voraxium for a night. It can pop up literally anywhere, where you least expect it and with a minimum of promotion and publicity. Shoehorn at the Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center. A short play by the infamous Lexington street-performer "Grillo The Clown", described by the director as "Like Samuel Beckett with radiation poisoning". What People Have Said: "As inebriated characters dance in and out of Toulouse-Lautrec's alcohol-infused hallucinations, he struggles with a grasp of reality." - LEO Weekly "Certainly a strong visceral presence on stage, providing no small amount of sexual heat, but particularly charming was Shermia Love, whose performance of the musical number "Nothing Is Ever What It Seems" was the highlight of the evening." - Theatre Louisville "Powerful and ethereal... I loved the Fortune Teller scene with Carolyn Purcell so much, I went back to see the show a second time!" - Sherry Deatrick "Pick of the week" - Courier-Journal "You know, I didn't really like the play at the time, but I haven't been able to get it out of my head ever since. Now, weeks later, looking back, I do like it. How did you do that?" - our favorite barista at Starbucks "Bertolt Brecht is rolling over in his grave." - some anonymous email