Drama. Nature Theater of Oklahoma's NO DICE is Kelly Copper's transcription of that company's triumphant 4-hour dinner theater event. The dinner is a bologna sandwich and Dr. Pepper. "Though NO DICE often threatens mere silliness, its creators have crafted a generous reflection on art-marking. Just as a tatty piece of green velvet hung in the shape of a proscenium arch transforms the space into a theater, Liska and Copper show how an odd hat or cocked eyebrow can change a phone chat into a play. They don't condescend to the material; they delight in it. As one character effuses, 'You're taking the boring part of my life and making it into art.' And that isn't boring at all"—The Village Voice.

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Nature Theater of Oklahoma is an OBIE Award-winning New York based performance group under the direction of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper. Since 2004, they have applied extreme formal manipulation, and superhuman effort to create ensemble theater from readymade materials, found space, overheard speech, and observed gesture.