Elbo Room (Venue Partner)
647 Valencia St
415.552.7788
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LDM
- When
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Friday Jan 8, 2010 (6:30–9pm)
Friday Feb 12, 2010 (6:30–9pm)
Friday Mar 12, 2010 (6:30–9pm)
- Where
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- Price
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$5 at the door (or more for a reserved table thru LDM website)
- Links
Opium’s Literary Death Match, co-created by Opium’s founding editor, Todd Zuniga , Elizabeth Koch & Dennis DiClaudio, marries the literary and performative aspects of Def Poetry Jam, rapier-witted quips of American Idol’s judging (without any meanness), and the ridiculousness and hilarity of Double Dare.
Each episode of this competitive, humor-centric reading series features a thrilling mix of four famous and emerging authors (all representing a literary publication, press or concern--either online or in print) who perform their most electric writing (in eight minutes or less) before a lively audience and a panel of three all-star judges. After each pair of readings, the judges—focused on literary merit, performance and intangibles—take turns spouting hilarious, off-the-wall commentary about each story, then select their favorite to advance to the finals.
The two finalists then compete in the Literary Death Match finale, which trades in the show’s literary sensibility for an absurd and comical climax to determine who takes home the Literary Death Match crown.
