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Past Events
Deb Moore, Marty Kent and Meg Rosser of the X-plicit Players did a musical set as part of a benefit for several Berkeley organizations that provide physical shelter for people who lack such (i.e. those whom pop-culture types call "the homeless").
Headlining were Berkeley icons Country Joe McDonald, Carol Denney, Marc Silber with Will Scarlet, and Buzzy Linhart.
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St. Valentine's Day! Thursday, Feb 14, 2002
1 pm -- Veiled Body of Love
People's Park, Berkeley (see a map)
A Group Body of nude people, pressed together in a warm and friendly clump, wrapped around our outer boundary with a single, large piece of stretchy cloth (the "veil"), strolls and stumbles through the park and nearby street. The conversations and exchanges within the group are the Body's "thoughts"; its interactions with people and the place through which it moves are its "actions".
People joined us as "internal organs", moved outside but near us as friends, kept a bit of a distance and gawked, and bitched at us because we weren't "helping the homeless", while they threw their own lives down the toilet! Ah Berkeley!
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We committed radical acts of friendliness, walked in a Group Body and celebrated the spirit of Mythic Berkeley, as usual.
See more details here.
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Sunday, April 29, 2001 --- People's Park, Berkeley
The 32nd Anniversary of People's Park
Once again we took the stage in the heart of mythic Berkeley, along with a handful of other staunch "counter-culture" types, including Carol Denney and host Wavy Gravy!
For 8 years we've been very honored to be part of the anniversary of the Park. While the X-plicit Players aren't primarily a "stage" parformance group, we have come up some very interesting pieces for the Park, including The Rite of Clarification (2000), Nature and Boxes (1998-9) and The Body of Refuge (1997). After our time on stage, we moved around the Park cavorting with the people through the afternoon. A marvelous time was had by all...
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Who were the X-plicit Players?
The X-plicit Players were a psychedelic performance group based in Berkeley, California.
From 1992 to 2002 we performed "interactive theater" around the US (and recently, in Canada) -- We dealt intimately and palpably with Body in many forms, beginning with our own flesh bodies, and the bodies of our willing audience members -- We cultivated alternative functions of touch, alternative experiences of Body -- We used language, voices, instruments of sound and music, paintings, and videos to reach and move our audiences and each other -- We fought to stay naked and free on the streets and in the parks of our town, experiencing Body in the social realm; experiencing the social body of Berkeley -- Our performance was both a forum where we share the results of our Body studies, and a laboratory where we advanced them together.
The X-plicit Players were directed by Debbie Moore and Marty Kent.
You can read about our "artistic background" from a 1998 federal court case.
Here's the transcript of a 1998 interview with Vanguard, a British zine.
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![[The X-plicit Players]](Images/XpLogo.gif)
