Yockadot Poetics Theatre Festival April - May 2007 Alexandria, Virginia, USA Immediated. Theatricality of the word. Where language and its expression are of equal importance. A text festival. A variety of exciting events and goings-on. Engagement with the audience. Spirit of experimentation with language and form. Sui Generis. Exploring how poetry crosses over into theatre and performance. Hilarity. The incursion of experimental, poetics-informed poetry into the realms of performance and theatre. The mainstream. Showcasing a new and rigorous direction in theatre. Yockadot Poetics Theatre Festival. The possibilities of the performed text. A transformative, creative project. The re:Verse of the theatre world’s anti-text, anti-writerly bent. A forum for poetry performance. Infusing contemporary poetics with the vitality of live action. Redefining drama. A tent with several poles, Cirque du Poetry Theatre. The performed text as installation. The recontextualized poem. A festival of text-driven plays and performances. Commedia Erudite. Radicality that actually reaches, inspires, ignites. Performing the Word, Sounding the Noise. Banging the Gong. A platform for improvised writing and performance practices. Backdoor approaches to connecting language with audiences and readers. Bringing a certain presence to poetry that can’t be achieved by page alone. Personal hipster nonsense words stolen and/or invented for purposes of this event. Drastic practices, and comic relief. Did we mention improvisation? A new way of listening. A new way of listing. The stage atilt. Synethesia. ConTextualized euphoria. Yockadot Poetics Theatre Festival. Peeling the phenomenological layers of language and its expression, of context and meaning. Plays or performance texts exemplary of the wide field of “avant-garde” poetics, meant by their authors for staging. Diverse offerings, including music, dance, and satire. Alternative venues, and the text its own space. A baring of souls, the bearing of terms. Dancing bears (with adequate funding only). THEatre! POetry! PErformance! A strong text festival in the Mid-Atlantic. Diversity. Fluid definitions, fluid poetics, fluid aesthetics. Flarfeneugen. A festive festival. A party. An event. Shows of Shows, and further reflexivity as to that. Don’t forget conTextualized euphoria. A yell near a dot. Immediated. Performativity of the word. Where language and its expression are of equal importance.