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Our next performance is:

Primal Scream

Sunday, April 2nd
7:30 p.m.
(open-mic* sign up from 7:00 - 7:29 p.m.)

The Writers Place
3607 Pennsylvania, Kansas City, MO 
(SE corner of Valentine & Pennsylvania)

*Kansas City's only 

'paperless', 'unplugged' 'open-mic'

Creative Bliss / Mastermind Awards
(sponsored by The Pitch)
at
Screenland
1656 Washington, KC, MO

April 1st     7:00 p.m.
call for information:  816-421-2900



Laidback Fundraiser
(sponsored by Beth Byrd Productions)
at
Just-Off Broadway Theater
Penn Valley Park  3051 Central Street  KC, MO

April 8th    7:00 p.m.
call for information:  816-784-5020

Why OPUS???

Well, one reason is we're all interested in seeing poetry become something more lively than what's come to be expected when someone mentions 'a reading' ... we don't cower behind a shaky sheaf of paper, or rely on a microphone to get the word out, and we don't restrict our presence to the confines of a 'stage'. What you'll find at an OPUS performance is a dialogue set to poetry, and poets who aren't afraid to take their case directly into the audience. All of our performances are unique, with new material each and every month. The voices who make up OPUS are vastly different in style, in technique, delivery, and point of view. You're not going to get the usual bland treatment of words at any OPUS appearance because we don't believe poetry is any more
bland than the explosion of life itself...

Another reason for what we're up to with OPUS is that no one else is doing it quite like this! Each month we take a general theme and attack it or caress it from every angle. And because our poetry is memorized, we're able to work with the audience in a way that allows greater flexibility than the dry and stale presentations you
may be more familiar with. All we're trying to do is to bring poetry a little closer to our everyday conversations, to inject a bit of warm, pulsating flesh into an otherwise desiccated environment. We want to make you realize that poetry can be just as artistic and alive as a sculpture or a concert— something to be touched, felt, heard,
smelled and tasted. We hope you try one of our performances... because we're betting that once you do, poetry will never seem quite the same again...

 

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