CUNNING LINGUAL
BALLISTIC INJECTION

The High Performance Core-tete
featuring

T. Crane • Alice Tepexcuintle
Kedrick James • Sheri-D Wilson
Directed by Hilary Peach
Music by Coat Cooke

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Festival 199 2

A western dream ... a suicide mission ... vision and velocity... big buckaroos and
bigger cars ... what haunts you ... the small twinge of a cactus blossom in the
beer boottle light through the prism of your own tears ...crying for
happiness ... moose love and falling asleep ...just your spurs kicking in the
deserted street ...
■ Alice Tepexcuintle
ALICE TEPEXCUINTLE is noted for her guerilla poetry antics in such unsa-

vory locations as The Mohawk Gas Station and McDonalds. She has made
numerous television appearances and performed in last years Vancouver
Fringe Festival as part of the Grunt Callery Performance Poetry Series. Alice
has published two books, Orange Trucks Road and Plane Crash Survivors,
and is currently working on her third book, Big Buckaroos She is hoping to
become the first poet in space.
The story is a journey thru self-recognition, learning to forgive yourself. It
takes place in an empty space, it could be a dream, or one of those moments
you find your heart speaking to you. The Turkey Dance of self pity, The
Process of anger and release, The Ecstasy of letting go ... Captain Hamlet
resides in each of us, regardless of who we are. It is the voice of conscience
and guilt, the voice of our self stripping down. The No Bullshit chorus of
Captain Hamlet is the real reflection of what he is saying. The piece came
from an assignment to write about what haunts us, it freaked me a bit to
discover everything haunts me, and so at the risk of becoming self-indulgent, I wrote the Hamlet File. This piece is dedicated to the memory of
Katherine Jacobs, and the creative power within us all.
■ T. Crane
T. CRANE is a performance poet who hails from Calgary and has been active
in Vancouver for the past six years. He has performed in everything from
libraries to major concert venues. His most recent work, Entropic Details, a
one man show with musical accompaniment was performed as a part of the
1992 Du Maurier jazz Festival. T. Crane has self-published three books, and
four plays. He has recently released an audio cassette entitled I ave & Pali.t.i.c.s., and has a new book due out on Caitlin Press next year.

Fellow poet and friend Hilary Peach called a special meeting at The City
Scape Cafe. Our assignment, if we chose to accept it, was to write about "the
thing that haunts you". The next thing that happened ... O my god! 0 my gods!

There ARE modern day vampires!
■ Sheri-0 Wilson

SHERI-D WILSON, poet/playwright/performer is well known to Vancouver
audiences for her innovative and irreverent style. Sheri-D returns to perform
in the Fringe after performing at Seattle's BUMBERSHOOT Festival. Sheri-D's
Confessions: A Jazz Play,. performed at Tamahnous, was nominated for
three Jessie Awards. Upcoming in October: Surrey Art Callery 's Women in
Surrealism, Taboo X Two, and Basic Inquiry's The Body Project, The Brain
Wash . Watch for SWERVE!

A detritivor is a microscopic life-form which decomposes dead matter and
makes its nutrients available for new li(e. They occupy only about two
percent of the entire cycle of life, yet nothing could exist without them. This
performance is a story about a new-born Atlas being crushed beneath the
weight of a dying world . The Detritivors are his path of salvation through
language and the imagination . Artists are society's detritivors, and this work
is a celebration of their true role and value in the world.
• Kedrick James
KEDRICK JAMES has been writing, publishing, and performing poetry for

the past eight years. He has produced and performed in several multimedia
and experimental voice ensembles and worked with many internationally
acclaimed composers and performers. He is the Director of the Small Press
Action Network and is the Artistic Director of the Vancouver Free Press
Festival. He is the Poetry and Small Press editor of NOISE. He was an editor of
ANERCA and is presently working on his second book of poems.

THE LINE-UP
l . ONE FACT ABOUT A MOOSE
2 . CONJURATION
3. I COUNT - THE INVITATION
4 . NEW BORN ATLAS
5. COUNT II - BLOOD COUNT
6. 29 RULES ABOUT HORSES
7. TURKEY DANCE
8. WORMS IN THE LUNGS OF THE SOIL
9. GUN LOVE
l 0 . Ill COUNT - KILLERMAN, 0 KKK
11. THE PROCESS
12. SONG OF THE DETRITIVORS
1 3. A BLIND ACT OF FAITH
14. BLUE ECSTASY
15. IV COUNT - SISTER BLOOD
16 . MALARIA (THE SNAKE)
COAT COOKE is a multi-instrumentalist/ composer who has worked with

Marilyn Crispell, Wayne Horvitz, and Vinny Golia. He has collaborated with
Edam Dance for the last four years and leads his own groups, The Coat Cooke
Quintet, The Stellar Saxophone Quartet, and The Evolution. Coat has toured
Canada and America, and his work is available on three C.D.s on 9 Winds
Records.
Coat's will be selling his C.D.s after the show.
A Book version of the Cunning Lingual Ballistic Injection will be
available in a limited edition, signed by the authors . To order a copy
please leave your name , address and contact number on the form at
the bar.

a. note from the director, ..

A grea.f Jea.l of con.fempora.ry poetry auffera from. a. lack of tbea.fre, a. failure

to come a.live in. tlbe apa.ce in. wbiclh. it ia being performed. !Likewise, a. lot of new
Ca.n.a.dia.n. theatre suffers from a kind of terminal rea.liam in i ta writing; tll.e inability

to sing, The forma.fion of the Higlb lPerforma.nce Core-tete evolved out of a Jeaire to
combine the ma.gic an.cl ritua.l of a. sfageJ performance with tbe inspired language of the
poetic vision,
Four performance poet• lbave eaclb wriHen a. fifteen minute piece on "tbe
thing wbicll. I.aunts you" . Tlbese I.ave been: integraieJ fo create a Cunning !Lingua.I
lBalliatic linjecf;on, The performance ;s intriguing beca.use each piece is as unuaua.l a.nJ
dynamic ll.8 it. writer, yet tlhey all express tll.e 11!.ared experience of being human,
T!l.;s s!l.ow was an experil!l!1enf in forllll , Form reveals. I wa.nted fo provide an
opportunity for poets fo move beyond tl!.e page and revea.l tl!.eir expression in anotber
dimenaion., Xn t!l.is X believe we I.ave succeeded, T hia piece revea.ls a part of ea.ell. of
tll.eae four poet• tll.at hlll not been seen before.
Sometlbin.g magic iba.ppens between tlbe page and tlbe stage , Theatre is a. form
wl..id, aelf-destrucfa aa aoon ll8 it is complete, Tb.ii ia b.ow we learn about death,
Poetry ia a. form wl!.iclb rings an.J resonatea in its completion, Tibia is lbow we learn
about life.
Hilary lPeaclb

HILARY PEACH is a director, performer, poet and the theatre editor of NOISE

magazine. She is interested in working in experimental forms, particularly in
combining poetry with an acting process. She will be performing her new
work, Chien Lunatique, in the 1993 Women In View Festival and departing
shortly afterwards to work in Massachusetts .
SPECIAL THANKS TO:

The Glass Slipper
Sue Phillips
Meaghan Munroe
Ralph Eppel
Hsin Chen
Roger Baird
Ed Oleksiuk
Lindsay Kenyon

Rita Bozi
Roots Round-up
Alan Spragg
Kate Weiss
Tamahnous
Veda Hille
Laurie Long
The Noise Crew

Micki Maunsell
Babs Chula
CCK
B.F.
OK Spring
George Peach
Ainslie Peach