Great Review and Discount for NOW NOW OH NOW

IN BRIEF:

• Austin Chronicle review praises NOW NOW OH NOW
  
  
• $15 discount tix this weekend ONLY for Rude News subscribers!
  
  
• GRRL ACTION is accepting applications for Summer 2012
  
  
• Austin Critics Table nominates Robert Pierson for B. Beaver Animation
  

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NOW NOW OH NOW "A mind-blowing roll of the die... The Rude Mechanicals have set a high bar in Austin for work that is original and unconventional" - The Austin Chronicle Read the full review here. Want to know more? Read the Austin Ammerican-Statesman feature article too!

$15 tickets this Friday and Saturday ONLY
for Rude News subscribers!

BUY TICKETS NOW! Use code "Rude" to get the Rude News discount.

Rude Mechs is proud to present the first fully mounted production of NOW NOW OH NOW, previously presented in various workshop versions under the working title “CL1000P.”  Inspired by evolutionary biology, the Brontës, and LARP communities, NOW NOW OH NOW invites you to enter into an interactive puzzle for the stage about the importance and impermanence of selecting for pleasure over survival. A triptych tribute to everyone’s inner geek, NOW NOW OH NOW embodies Rude Mechs’ desire to create a more tangible, social, active, and personal experience for the audience.  The performance marries serious scientific content with the nerdy pleasure of puzzles and gaming and the undeniable satisfaction of Murder Mystery Theatre. This intimate consideration of how our individual choices lead us through life and impact the world takes a locked room puzzle, a lecture on sexual selection in evolutionary biology, and the world's weirdest night of Dungeons and Dragons and weaves them all together to paint a picture of why the things you find beautiful are important to the world.

WHEN:

May 17 - June 9 | Thursday to Sunday | 7 PM and 9 PM

TICKETS:
Thursay and Sunday - Pay-What-You-Can
Friday and Saturday - $25
For Thursday and Sunday, reserve online, pay with cash or check only at the door.
For Friday and Saturday, purchase tickets online.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
NOW NOW OH NOW is created by Rude Mechs
Concept, Structure, and Content development by
Madge Darlington, Thomas Graves, Hannah Kenah, and Shawn Sides
with Lowell Bartholomee, Robert S. Fisher and Lana Lesley
Staging by Shawn Sides
Writing by Hannah Kenah
Performers: Robert S. Fisher, Thomas Graves, Hannah Kenah, Lana Lesley, E. Jason Liebrecht, and Shawn Sides

This production is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theatre Pilot and The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Rude Mechs is funded and supported in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin's future. Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com.

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NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR SUMMER 2012

Rude Mechs believes that every girl has a story to tell that is worthy of its own work of art. We are currently accepting applications for our summer GRRL ACTION program, now in its thirteenth year.  GRRL ACTION is a three-week day camp for any girl between the ages of 13-16 who is interested in expressing herself.  Girls attend morning sessions (9 am-noon) with inspiring women artists who mentor them in autobiographical writing and performance. The program culminates in two performances that are free to the public. For more information or an application, please visit http://www.grrlaction.org/workshop.php. 

Summer 2012 dates: June 25 - July 15
Have questions? Contact Madge Darlington at madge@rudemechs.com

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ROBERT PIERSON NOMINATED FOR B. BEAVER ANIMATION

We're beaming with pride to announce that company member Robert Pierson has been nominated by the Austin Critics Table in the "Acting in Leading Role" category for his work last fall in B. Beaver Animation. B. Beaver was presented as part of our Contemporary Classic Series which presents re-enactments of landmark experimental performances. Hats off to Robert and all of our friends and colleagues in the Austin community that received nominations!

BUY TICKETS NOW!

Rude Mechs is proud to present the first fully mounted production of NOW NOW OH NOW, previously presented in various workshop versions under the working title “CL1000P.”  Inspired by evolutionary biology, the Brontës, and LARP communities, NOW NOW OH NOW invites you to enter into an interactive puzzle for the stage about the importance and impermanence of selecting for pleasure over survival. A triptych tribute to everyone’s inner geek, NOW NOW OH NOW embodies Rude Mechs’ desire to create a more tangible, social, active, and personal experience for the audience.  The performance marries serious scientific content with the nerdy pleasure of puzzles and gaming and the undeniable satisfaction of Murder Mystery Theatre. This intimate consideration of how our individual choices lead us through life and impact the world takes a locked room puzzle, a lecture on sexual selection in evolutionary biology, and the world's weirdest night of Dungeons and Dragons and weaves them all together to paint a picture of why the things you find beautiful are important to the world.

NOW NOW OH NOW is performed for an intimate audience of only 30 people, so there will be several showings of the performance each night. The audience experience is roaming so we recommend that you wear comfortable shoes and consider leaving big purses and bags at home.

WHEN
May 17 - June 9 | Thursday to Sunday
showtimes vary, visit our website for more information

TICKETS
Thursday and Sunday - Pay Way You Can
Friday and Saturday - $25
For Friday and Saturday, purchase tickets online.
For Thursday and Sunday, reserve online, pay with cash or check only at the door.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
NOW NOW OH NOW is created by Rude Mechs
Concept, Structure, and Content Development by Madge Darlington, Thomas Graves, Hannah Kenah, and Shawn Sides*
Staging by Shawn Sides
Writing by Hannah Kenah
Performers: Robert S. Fisher, Thomas Graves, Hannah Kenah, Lana Lesley, E. Jason Liebrecht, and Shawn Sides

*Rude Mechs creates new works collaboratively, and we believe it is important to acknowledge the work that is done prior to getting the show ready for production. This work begins often with the Co-Producing Artistic Directors finding consensus around a project's concept. That done, a collaborative team refines the concept, develops content, structure and style, and gets the piece on its feet. This collaborative team eventually expands to envelop to the entire production team as the work is created.

This production is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theatre Pilot and The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Rude Mechs is funded and supported in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin's future. Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com.

NOW NOW OH NOW

NOW NOW OH NOW

is the title of the next new work by the Rudes (which you may have seen workshopped as "CL1000P"). NOW NOW OH NOW with no punctuation.

But we thought it might be amusing to some to share the full list of titles we auditioned. But before I do, I want to tell you about a rule we have in Rudelandia that roughly goes, "if you notice a typo in a postcard after it has been printed, keep it to yourself because nothing can be done about it." And there is a lot to be learned from this rule and its application to areas beyond postcardary. In this instance the rule seems to suggest that while you may prefer other titles to NOW NOW OH NOW, you should do so privately because we ain't going back.

LOVE

RUDES

Cagney and Lacey in A Thousand Plateaus

CL1000P

A Thousand Plateau

Thousand Plateaus

1000 Plateaus

A Grand Plateau

The Grand Plateau

Ten Thousand Plateaus

1001 Plateuas

A Thousand Tableaus

The Tour

The Grand Tour

Soft Treaty

"...which to me is not unlike..."

A Cordial Engorgement (!)

Plus Ca Change

The Geek Triptych

The Nerd Triptych

The Dork Triptych

Permanent Death

Journey to the End of Taste

Quack Quack Quack

Quail Quake Quiver

Where the Stallion Meets the Sun

Now and Hold on Fast

And We’re Walking

Fin de Siecle

The Affirmation of Difference over Transcendental Hierarchy

Nobody Leaves This Room

Superbig Thinky Haunted Mystery Piece

Faciality

One or Several Wolves

When the Peacock Spreads its Tail it is Beautiful, but Obvious

Beautiful, Obvious

Pressure to Make a Good Mate Decision

Anything Can Kill You

Sexual Selection and the Tertiary Markets of Melsinnvorn

The Already Defeated

Rate of Change in Hen Taste

Exponential Grown in Female Preference

Apparatus of Capture

Who Does the Earth Think It is

Halcyon Quest

Halcyon: The Reckoning

Halcyon Pursuit

Halcyon Trails

Anomaly

Ensing is Burning

The Extraordinary Adventures of Birds

Melsinnvorn: The Second Age

Beyond Melsinnvorn

The Fall of Melsinnvorn

Year Zero

Beautiful Fertile Valley

As Different As A Moonbeam from Lightning

Unquiet Slumbers

Firm As Weeds Among Stones

A Pang of Exquisite Suffering

Songs of the Grand Plateau

Life in the Grand Plateau

Still-Life of the Grand Plateau

Still Life

Bird Aesthetes

Aesthetes

One Thousand Plats

A Thousand Plats

Candles and Birds

Candles and Birds in a Locked Room

1000 Candles and Birds in a Locked Room

Candles and Birds: A Still Life in Three Parts

Candles & Feathers

Feathers & Flames

The Still Life Variations

Still Life Triptych

Still Life in Triplicate

Singing Still Life

Living Still Life

Still Life with Songs

The Melsinvorn Triptych

The Melsinnvorn Trio

The Melsinnvorn Triad

The Melsinnvorn Trisul

The Melsinnvorn Miniatures

Fine Fettle

I’ll Be Coming Around

How You Get There

Play for the Already Defeated

Termagant

Viragogogo

A Kiss is a Lovely Trick

We’re so Bored

Rude News - A Few Things to do This Spring, Starting Tonight!

		IN BRIEF: This issue is dedicated to telling you we are in rehearsal until May. In the meantime, here are just a few events to keep you busy - our friends are making great art that we hope you will get out and support! WEDNESDAY MARCH 14TH!!! Kirk Lynn to moderate the post-film Q&A at Austin Film Festival's screening of Trip to Bountiful - more below Rubber Repertory presents JUBILEE, their last show in Austin for a while, Jubilee, at The Off Center. You cannot miss this. Rude Mechs is super proud to host Gloria's Cause, by Dayna Hanson (choreographer, I've Never Been So Happy), and presented by Dance Umbrella as part of Fusebox Festival. Go see it! Grrl Action Summer Workshop Summer Workshop dates are June 25 - July 15. Contact madge@rudemechs.com to get an application. A wee Rude update. Austin Film Festival presents A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL part of their Made in Texas: Adaptations Series When: Wednesday, March 14th at 7:30pm Where: Texas Spirit Theater at the Bob Bullock Museum Tickets: $5 (print this newsletter and get $1 off the ticket price when you show it at the door!) Parking: Free parking in the museum parking lot after 6pm Our own Kirk Lynn will moderate the post-screening Q&A, with Producer Dennis Bishop (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, HBO Pictures, “Dexter”) in attendance! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see one of the finest stage-to-screen adaptations of all time, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, written by legendary playwright, Horton Foote (inaugural recipient of Austin Film Festival’s Distinguished Screenwriter award). This moving, magnificent film won the hearts of moviegoers and theatergoers everywhere in the 1980s, as well as a Best Actress Academy Award for star Geraldine Page. Page won the Oscar® for her portrayal of Carrie Watts, a sixty year old woman living with her son and daughter-in-law in 1940's Houston, Texas. Carrie wants nothing more than to return to her hometown one more time before she dies, but her son and his wife don't think it's a good idea. Picking the right time, Carrie escapes and begins her trip. Rubber Repertory presents JUBILEE When: April 5 - April 21, 2012 Where: The Off Center Tickets: $15 (Thursdays are PWYW) Get Tix Here What's wonderful about Rubber Repertory is that they take the concepts, the tenets, the expectations of theatre, and blow them out of the water." -Avimaan Syam, Austin Chronicle This will be Rubber Repertory's last show before an indeterminate hiatus, and they're looking for more than just a good idea; they're looking for atonement. They want to find the very proper time to sound the trumpet. They want to put on the clothes that will make them disappear. They want to arrange their bodies in a way that gives real comfort. Part dance and all devotion, JUBILEE is a nonstop, non-narrative, and non-denominational leap of faith. [NOTE: To carnal minds they may appear to act absurdly, but the path of duty is rarely the path of safety.] ABOUT RUBBER REPERTORY: Since 2002, Co-Directors Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope have created some of the most unique theatre in Texas. With shows such as Biography of Physical Sensation, The Casket of Passing Fancy (2007 Rockefeller MAP Fund grant), Surprise Annie, RED CANS, At Home With Dick, and the American premiere of Wallace Shawn's notoriously "unstageable" A Thought in Three Parts, Rubber Rep pushes boundaries and creates work that's high on invention and surprise. Their productions have garnered B. Iden Payne and Austin Critics Table Awards for "Outstanding Theatrical Innovation," "Outstanding Direction," "Unique Theatrical Experience," and "Outstanding Late-Night Adventure." For more information, visit www.rubberrep.org. Dance Umbrella and Fusebox Festival present GLORIA'S CAUSE When: April 26-27, 2012 7:00 pm, and April 28, 2012 9:00pm Bonus: Dayna Hanson's band, Today!, plays Friday, April 27, 2012 at Fusebox's late night venue. Where: The Off Center Show Info: Fusebox Festival website Tickets: Get your Fusebox Festival Pass while there's still a discount available! Inspired by the complex ironies of the American Revolution, Gloria’s Cause is a full-length dance theater work by 33 Fainting Spells’ co-founder Dayna Hanson (the amazing woman who choreographed the dances in I've Never Been So Happy). Co-commissioned by On the Boards and Under The Radar Festival, this rock-driven piece exhumes the colonies’ forgotten players and offers a layered, colorful and gritty look at the roots of America’s inequities. ABOUT DAYNA HANSON: A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography and 2010 United States Artists Oliver Fellow in Dance, Hanson is joined by longtime collaborators Dave Proscia and Peggy Piacenza. Seattle-based performers Wade Madsen, Maggie Brown, Paul Moore, Jim Kent, Pol Rosenthal and Jessie Smith join the cast, together creating a kinetic, darkly funny world where incongruous sources clash and morph. After multiple presentations of 33 Fainting Spells' work by Dance Umbrella in the past, Dayna returns to Austin in this co-presentation between Fusebox and Dance Umbrella, hosted by Rude Mechs. Tell the nearest Grrl to apply to Grrl Action Summer Workshop! When: June 25 - July 15, 2012 Where: The Off Shoot (2211-A Hidalgo St., Austin, TX 78702) The Grrl Action Summer Workshop is a three-week intensive workshop for teenaged girls, run by Rude Mechs, in which girls envision, create, publish, and perform original works for the stage based on their own life experiences. The three-week intensive culminates in two performances that are free to the public. Don't miss them! Support Grrl Action: Grrl Action is reliant on donations from the community and local foundation grants. We hope you will contribute to sustain this invaluable program. A Rude update seems in order We premiered I've Never Been So Happy in Los Angeles at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theater in October, and while we were having a blast, building good houses, and getting mixed reviews, we happily accepted a few awards for INBSH from the B. Iden Payne Awards. At the same time, we produced a beautiful re-creation Mabou Mines' amazing play, The B. Beaver Animation, to somewhat confused houses. We promise to offer a little more background and support for the next installment in our Contemporary Classics series. The Method Gun, a project of Creative Capital, was filmed by OntheBoards TV and is available at ontheboards.tv - we get 50% of all the income, so download away! Just remember that video of live performance is, well, video of live performance... We mounted a wee work-in-progress showing of CL1000P (working title, still, yes), which we are rehearsing right now for a full production in May. Stay tuned! Then we toured The Method Gun to Brisbane Powerhouse's World Theatre Festival in Brisbane Australia - could not have had more fun. If you were ever curious about what the City of Austin could have done with the Seaholm, check out Brisbane Powerhouse.

An Intern's Perspective #5

The workshop production of 'CL1000P' has closed. The artistic team will review all of the awesome notes they received from audience members and begin rehearsals in March for their bigger and better 'CL1000P' (the title, however, might not make it). Until then they will be in Australia performing their hit show, 'The Method Gun' at the Powerhouse Festival in Brisbane.

I had a wonderful time stage-managing and already miss it. It was exciting to be in the middle of all the bustling artists, all providing their expertise on something specific. I've learned a lot! One thing I learned was that Shawn Sides, one of the actresses in the show, is usually the director of the shows at Rude Mechs. I embarrassingly said to a crowd of UT MFA candidates, at their colloquium, that there really isn't a director. Ha!

While they're away I'll be looking after the Off Center as renters use the space, so there will definitely be more adventures to gossip about!

An Intern's Perspective #4 (CL1000P HAS OPENED, Y'ALL)

I haven't blogged in a while and it's high time for a Rude report.

The past couple of weeks have had me in crazy mode. Finishing the set, prepping lights, staying on top of rehearsal- it all takes a small toll after a while, but only in the sleep department. Thankfully, I had a day where I slept for 15 hours. Thank heavens for that!

ANYWAY, the first week of shows have been performed to highly receptive patrons. It's so nice to see those seats filled with smiles and discerning looks. At the nightly talkbacks, audience members have offered wonderful thoughts on the show- what works, what doesn't quite work. Everything is generally positive and constructive. Things people like so far: audience interactivity, going on a journey, and strange stories. An example of these three things combined is getting to walk through a diorama! What???

One more week of shows for the workshop production of 'CL1000P'. If you can't make it and are dying to see what this show offers, the company will stage a full blown production in May. Will they take a few ideas from the talkbacks? Will they amend a few parts? Will it be even crazier? Check back for more info!!

An Intern's Perspective #3

So, the preliminary construction for 'CL1000P' is almost there. (Flats are up, screws are in, joint compound lathered on.) After that, we just need to fancy it up. Actors learned a very beautiful song called 'Dido's Lament' and have also restructured Acts II & III for the better. Act III has really taken off. It's funny, heartfelt, and strange all in one. Seriously, it's extremely difficult to get through a rehearsal without laughing hysterically (in a good way). What else? The lovely Linnaea- the other intern- has just begun costume fittings for the actors. Oh, and there will definitely be interpretive dancing.

This just in: all normal $10 tickets for the show have sold out. Luckily, there are still tickets available for the Patron Preview benefit night. I hear there will be food and most importantly, special attention from the cast and crew. The people who reserve for that specific night 'contributes to the Rude Mechs' ability to keep making thoughtful, pushy, award-winning theatre.'

-Blake