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Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art winner Susana Cook

Seven Women and an Angel Will Lock Themselves in a Theater During the Last Fourteen Days of the Millennium Performing The Conga Guerrilla Forest Amazing Facts From the Bush of Revelations
December 19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-1999 9pm At WOW cafe -59 East 4th Street (Bet. 2nd & 3rd Ave)Take F to 2nd Av -6 to Astor Place Tickets : 10 dollars Information: (212) 777- 4280

Conga Guerrilla Forest, a parable of the beginning and the end, to be featured at W.O.W cafe theater for fourteen consecutive nights from December 19th to 30th 1999. Inspired by a popular exhibit at the Bronx Zoo and presented at the end of the millennium, (some say the end of the world), the show considers the theory of human origin in the Congo Gorilla Forest---where we started, what we became. During the millenium madness seven women try to announce the future and to understand the past. Y2K, heroes and prophecies, destiny and origins, memory and prophecies, prophecies and property.

" ... there's going to be fourteen nights with fourteen shows ... and then..... The Last Stop. Where we started what we became. The bifurcated road to clean our sinful behaviour patterns and join the good spirits in a period of torment and hard labor in the steaming hot netherworld. Conga Guerrilla Forest The end of the line. The journey's end. The terminal point."

Written and Directed by Susana Cook

Performed by Jennifer Steil, Ira Jeffires, Imani Henry, Sacha Yanow, Migdalia Jimenez, Cynthia Hampton-Sosa, Lara Crete and Susana Cook