Stolen Chair's The Accidental Patriot opens tonight at the Milagro Theater, but that's not the only offering the company has running this month.  On dark nights at the Milagro, Stolen Chair has commissioned a series of short works inspired by the themes of Patriot. 

SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION ALERT: My comedy group, Audience of Two, is performing next Tuesday night, but you should come to the theater for all of these interesting sideshows.  The programming ranges from farcical to musical to avant-garde, and the tickets for these evenings are only $12.  

You can read more about the series (which is called Pirates, Patriots, and Patricides) here, but here's a sampling of blurbs to give you a taste of just how varied the programming is.

Dunmore Bad and Good:

What do Michelle Obama, Lani Guinier, and a slave from the American Revolution era have in common? Well, they're the triple threat on Barack Obama's presidential campaign, that's what! But are they volunteers or hostages? Watch and learn.

The Lunar Adventures of Dar and Matey, Estuary Pirates, Episode 2: Danger in 1/6 Gravity!:

Adventure! Daring! Romance! Pirates Dar and Matey find themselves transported to the moon! The only way back is to help the King of the Moon Kuna Luna save his beautiful daughter from the Terrible Titan of the Moon Tim!

soundpaintingSOPHOCLES: 

soundpaintingSOPHOCLES is a set of improvised inter-disciplinary compositions for instrumentalists and actors. The composition uses different scenes from Antigone as points of departure. The performance features an on-stage conductor who sculpts the improvisation through a complex sign language called Soundpainting. World-class musicians and actors respond to the conductor's gestures by shaping their improvisation as signed. Musicians might jump from an up-tempo swing-feel to a splatter of pointillistic sound, as actors, tangled in a conflict, suddenly reveal their whirring interiors through a set of repetitive actions. The result is a three dimensional aural collage that up-ends expectation and blurs the boundaries between music and theater.

And much, much more.  See you next week!