Yockadot Poetics Theatre Festival mission "Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves." --Richard Foreman "Yell near a dot!" --Hero Magnus To showcase plays, theatrical pieces, and performance texts by poets, especially works reflective of the wide field of "avant-garde" poetics as applied to theatre and performance; to provide a platform for every layer and level of performativity and theatricality of text off the page, from improvisation to staged readings of full-length plays, with multimedia highlight events; and to stimulate, engage, challenge, provoke, and excite audiences and the community surrounding the festival with a diversity of offerings celebrating the vitality of the word.