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!
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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