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	> Press Release < To download high-resolution photos, right-click on images		Opening & Press Night Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 8:00 pm @ Flashpoint's Mead Theater Lab
			Kimberly Gilbert in Taffety Punk Theatre Company's suicide.chat.room Photo by Colin Hovde
			Tonya Beckman Ross, Kimberly Gilbert, and Matthew R. Wilson in Taffety Punk Theatre Company's suicide.chat.room Photo by Colin Hovde
			Tonya Beckmoan Ross, with Liz Maestri and Paul Edward Hope in Taffety Punk Theatre Company's suicide.chat.room Photo by Colin Hovde
			Kimberly Gilbert, with Liz Meastri in Taffety Punk Theatre Company's suicide.chat.room Photo by Colin Hovde
			Kimberly Gilbert and Matthew R. Wilson in Taffety Punk Theatre Company's suicide.chat.room Photo by Colin Hovde
			Paulina Guerrero, choreographer of Taffety Punk's suicide.chat.room, in rehearsal Photo by Marcus Kyd
			Taffety Punk Theatre Company's suicide.chat.room in rehearsal Kimberly Gilbert and Matthew R. Wilson Photo by Marcus Kyd
			Taffety Punk Theatre Company's suicide.chat.room in rehearsal Matthew R. Wilson, Liz Maestri, Paul Edward Hope, Kimberly Gilbert, Lise Bruneau Photo by Marcus Kyd
			Taffety Punk Theatre Company's suicide.chat.room in rehearsal Matthew R. Wilson, Lise Bruneau, Elizabeth Abt, Liz Maestri, Kimberly Gilbert, Paul Edward Hope Photo by Marcus Kyd

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We chose a name with classical reverberations and modern kick.
The term “Taffety Punk” appears in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well,
and in that context means roughly “a well-dressed whore.”
Sound a little crazy?
Consider that 400 years later Uta Hagen, lamenting the death
of the actor-driven theatre in America,
likened actors to prostitutes pimping themselves to producers.
The word punk now is used to describe members
of a rebellious counter culture or a
smoldering substance used to ignite fireworks.

Our company members grew up in the punk underground,
and there honed an artistic aesthetic that
embraces the positive and the possible.
The greatest lessons we learned from Punk Rock:
be who you are and fight for your ideals.
We continue to do so today, in whatever costumes we are wearing.

We are Taffety Punks.