October 22nd, 2007 Los Angeles, CA –
Los Angeles theater is about to bring Los Angeles back to its roots! With the universal language of physical artistry, the First Annual Los Angeles Physical Theatre Arts Festival (LAPTAF) brings together three imaginative, profound, and hilarious performances that will have audiences splitting at the sides, rending at the hearts and remembering that theater is a place, above all, to have fun!

As the studios learned in the early days of Hollywood with the international success of such luminaries as Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and the Marx Brothers, physical-based performance is the bridge to all cultures, all languages and all ages!

Evolution proves it! We all come from the same tree of life, sharing the same basic body, right down to the same genetic structuring! Imbibing this firm belief of the body as the primary organizing principle, a new physical training center [via]Corpora (Latin for "Through the Bodies") has organized LAPTAF which includes such local veterans as mime-extraordinaire Mitchel Evans, comic duo Ten West and new sensation to LA, the Grand Guiginolers de Paris, led by Debbie McMahon. The festival consists of two alternating evenings of presentations, offering a lighter fair for all ages, and a darker one, for adults only.

Holiday Season is upon us and what could make it more dynamic and unforgettable than the sharing of heartfelt laughs, gut-wrenching screams and truly tender moments with our families as well as our extended communities!