This winter BCKSEET will mount Eric Bogosian's love-diatribe to American mischief, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll. This one-handed tour de force dissects the generations nurtured by Rock 'n Roll, strips off their leather pants and unplugs their fenders. Don't miss the opportunity to see BCKSEET's Artistic Director, G DeCandia, tackle a dozen characters in a play that "shakes the cage of a complacent country engulfed by homelessness to ask just exactly who, if anyone, is home" - Frank Rich, New York Times.

The show previews on Wednesday, February 18th, opens Thursday, February 19th at 8PM and runs Thursdays to Saturdays until March 14th. All performances will take place at the Society Hill Playhouse's Red Room located at 507 S. 8th Street in Philadelphia. $21 tickets include one drink and are available through the Society Hill Playhouse's box office at 215.923.0210 or online at www.comcasttix.com. Seating is general admission, with group sales available for parties of ten or more.

The 2008 - 2009 Season marks BCKSEET's first as a REPERTORY COMPANY in which nine actors will portray all nineteen roles throughout the season. Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll boasts two members recently back from a stint the North Pole in BCKSEET's holiday hit The Eight: Reindeer Monologues. Artistic Director, G DeCandia wowed audiences with self-inflation and sex appeal as "Hollywood;" Andrew Borthwick-Leslie shocked the masses sharing his tale of Rudolph's compromised innocence as "Donner." DeCandia stars; Borthwick-Leslie directs.

BCKSEET collaborates with community organizations on each production to raise awareness and funds for local causes. Bogosian's piece will benefit ActionAIDS: www.actionaids.org. A Philadelphia-based organization in partnership with people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, ActionAIDS works to sustain and enhance quality of life. They provide a range of direct services and take an active and professional approach to leadership in service, education and advocacy. BCKSEET will donate $1 from each full-priced ticket to ActionAIDS for the run of the show.

BCKSEET is a small theatre company with a big attitude, offering competitive programming in education, outreach, and new works. Our second annual fall fundraiser of The Wall brought out more patrons than our first production in 2007, and this winter promises to expand BCKSEET's programming offerings in a special collaboration with Society Hill Playhouse's New Works Festival. After Sex, Drugs... the REP COMPANY will mount one more full-length show in the spring: Nicky Silver's tragically comedic Raised in Captivity.

HISTORY
Founded in 2000 at Emerson College in Boston, BCKSEET Productions burst onto the Philadelphia theatre scene three years ago as the resident theatre company of the Red Room at the historic Society Hill Playhouse. An active member of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, BCKSEET has participated in the Philly Fringe/ Live Arts Festival, Free Night of Theatre, and SPARK Showcase Festival. BCKSEET continually strives to "entertain, educate and enlighten" its audiences with exciting world premieres and innovative explorations of classic works. BCKSEET Productions is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH INITIATIVE
BCKSEET collaborates with community organizations on each production in order to raise awareness and money for local causes. By selecting socially-important texts and linking their thematic elements to pertinent contemporary struggles, BCKSEET highlights the plight of those charities who have been strapped in the "bckseet." One dollar from every full-priced admission will be donated to the John J. Peters Institute for Lake Street Extension, Action AIDS for Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and The Mazzoni Center for Raised in Captivity.

EDUCATION INITIATIVE
BCKSEET Ignition is a project-based curriculum for artists ages 12 through adult, designed to help students develop a better understanding of theatre as an art form through hands-on experimentation, collaboration, and reflection. IGNITION helps the student evolve to a more heightened awareness of self and environment and encourages her to formulate a broader perspective on the world using theatre as the lens through which to view it.

The program's full curriculum includes classes on creating original work, theatre outreach, private voice and acting lessons, and audition technique, and strives to create resourceful, innovative artists who excel independently as well as within an ensemble.

ABOUT SOCIETY HILL PLAYHOUSE
Housed in the Historic David Garrick Hall, the Society Hill Playhouse (SHP) has played a pioneering role in the Philadelphia's theatre community since its inception in 1960. As Philadelphia's first professionally operated theater to bring both American and European premieres to the area, SHP has laid the groundwork for younger theatres throughout the Delaware Valley. During its forty-seven year history, SHP has produced hundreds of area premieres on its Main Stage: from Brecht/Weill's Threepenny Opera in 1962 to Rachel Wyatt's Crackpot in 1996. The second stage "Red Room" opened in 1986 with William Gibson's Handy Dandy, and saw premeries of Manual Puig's political drama Kiss Of The Spider Woman in 1987, and Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild in 1988.

Long-running "popular theatre" pieces include Nunsense and Menopause the Musical. Most recently onstage at the Playhouse: She Loves You, a musical tribute to the Beatles'through an audio visual 60s retrospective.

For more information, please visit www.bckseet.com.