Start your Halloween on a Thursday... THE ART OF BLEEDING AT THE STEVE ALLEN THEATERTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 9PMTWO SHOWS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE:OUTSIDE @ 9:00 "HALLOWEEN HIGHWAY" a Cautionary Tableau of Automative CarnageINSIDE @ 9:30 "MAGIC AMBULANCE THEATER" With Abram the Safety Ape, RT the Robot, and The Art of Bleeding Nurses PLUS Guest Perfomances by: MARGARET CHODANNY SHORAGOSATANICATHE TULSA SKULL SWINGERSLOS NINOS DE LA TIERRA
HALLOWEEN HIGHWAYA loving tribute to the gore-spattered highway safety films of bygone days, this never-before staged interactive performance recreates the grisly sights, smells, and sensations of a multi-vehicle freeway pile-up. Staged amid wrecked cars and enhanced by various effects (multimedia and sanguinary) Halloween Highway offers both a cautionary example and a chance to indulge your inner rubbernecking ghoul, visit with the dead and dying, and callously rub elbows or what-have-yous with the Art of Bleeding nurses tending the injured.MAGIC AMBULANCE THEATERFeaturing our beloved mascot ABRAM THE SAFETY APE and friends, Magic Ambulance Theater was recently described in an LA Alternative cover story thusly: "The Art of Bleeding’s principal characters weave chatty stories that are equal parts The Muppet Show, softcore porn and Laurel and Hardy, combining pratfalls and guffaws with eroticism and aggressive, playful confrontation. Nearly naked nurses cavort with puppets --â€Abram the Safety Ape†and “RT the Robot Teacher†attempt to lecture on achieving True Safety Consciousness -- and in this fall’s shows, the ante is upped considerably... while previous shows have been stellar, these upcoming performances represent Art of Bleeding at a grander, more disturbing scale."
SPECIAL GUESTS Special guests include the incomparable comedian/dancer MARGARET CHO,and, DANNY SHORAGO of America's favorite lounge-punk-comedy band THE FUXEDOS, the infernally talented stripteuse SATANICA, the macabre puppetry of LOS NINOS DE LA TIERRA, and the monster-masked musicantes of THE TULSA SKULL SWINGERS (rumored to be alter egos of the miscreants behind the acclaimed midnight comedy series, The Tomorrow Show).Where: Steve Allen Theater, 4773 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood.Tickets: $10. NOTE: This a ONE-NIGHT event with limited seating. ADVANCE TICKETS are HIGHLY recommended.
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WE'RE NOT REALLY A BAND.
MORE OF A PERFORMANCE GROUP THAT HAPPENS TO USE SOME ORIGINAL MUSIC.
Art of Bleeding is a multimedia medicine show featuring a distressingly inappropriate mix of fetishized nurses, psychobabbling hand-puppets, subliminal manipulation, scratchy old safety films, and Grand Guignol effects.
BELOW IS A MONTAGE FROM A COUPLE OF OUR EARLY EVENTS.
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We use a lot of 1970s Health & Safety films. (Come to our shows, and you'll see!)
BELOW IS OUR 2006 VALENTINE PATCHED TOGETHER FROM THOSE FILMS:(If YouTube is down, try: http://artofbleeding.com/valentine-movie.html)
