THE THREEPENNY OPERA by Brecht and Weil, Playhouse Smithville, May 24 - June 9, 2013

(Playhouse Smithville, 110 Main St., Smithville)

presents

The Three Penny Opera

a musical

directed by john daniels, jr.

starring Matthew Torrez as Mack the Knife

book by Bertolt Brecht/Music by Kurt Weill

May 24 - June 8, 2013

Join the Playhouse Smithville cast for this classic musical. This is a world in which capitalism fosters greed, love doesn’t last, and double dealing is the golden rule while celebrating sinners for their inextinguishable life-force and the pure energy that radiates from their misconduct. They are bad-bad-bad and they make the best of it. A romantic comedy that is fun like none other with music like none other directed by john daniels, jr. (sic) like none other.

All this and Mac the Knife too… “Oh, the shark bites with its tooth dear and he keeps them pearly white…”

Opens Friday, May 24, 7:30pm. Show runs May 24, 25, 30, 31, June 1, 7, 8 (7:30pm).

Tickets are $15.00 at http://www.playhousesmithville.com/ or call 512-360-7397 for reservations.

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WHAT'S GOING ON? (from Brecht's Good Person of Szechuan), Generic Ensemble Company at the Salvage Vanguard, May 3 - 11, 2013

Generic Ensemble Company in conjunction with the Lucky Chaos Theatre Project presents

What’s Goin’ On? (Workshop)

Friday-Saturday May 3-4; 10-11, 8 pm

Salvage Vanguard Theatre (2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722 - click for map).




 








 
What’s Goin’ On is a an ensemble-based, original performance reinterpreting Bertolt Brecht’s classic play, The Good Person of Szechwan, exploring binary notions of Good/Evil, Male/Female, Wealth/Poverty, Coercion/Consent and Artifice/Authenticity. Simultaneously critiquing Brecht’s treatment of gender, sexuality and orientalism in Szechwan while also drawing inspiration from it, this show examines the question: What does it mean to be virtuous in our current historical moment, when societal pressures and inequality continue to marginalize our bodies and lives?
Created from scratch by the performance ensemble, What’s Goin’ On? employs new text created by ensemble members layered with activist aesthetics, choreographed movement, indeterminate games, quotidian rituals made extraordinary, and simultaneous conflicting actions to present a dense and complex collage. Drawing material relevant to ensemble members’ daily lives, What’s Goin’ On? reflects the individual identities and personalities of each collaborator, while also reflecting The Generic Ensemble Company’s continued commitment to make the invisible visible through bold, socially relevant, body-centered theatre that showcases mostly-queer identified, mostly-people of color who are mostly women-identified.
This piece is an in-progress performance featuring: Morgan Robyn Collado, Kimberly Curette, Kirsche Dickson, Ashley Hicks, Anna McConnell, James McMaster, Julie Moore, Julián Padilla, Saray de Jesus Rosales, Wendy Vastine, Leng Wong, and kt shorb with support from Kimberly Alidio, Margaux Binder, Paige Binder, and Laura Khalil.
Tickets are sliding scale $5-10.
What’s Goin’ On? is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.
 
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Upcoming: Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht, Hutto HS Drama Department at Rollins Theatre, May 26

Hutto ISD Theatre Department 

 proudly presents

 

Mother Courage and Her Children

by Bertolt Brecht
Saturday, May 26 at 2 & 7:30 p.m.
Rollins Studio Theatre, Long Center, Riverside at South First St. (click for map)

A soul evoking production brings to life Bertolt Brecht’s timeless story of Mother Courage and Her Children. Told through the eyes of a powerful ensemble, this condensed epic story packs a punch with Eric Bentley’s contemporary translation.

The cast and crew are comprised of Hutto High School students who embrace a sophisticated and mature approach to staging as the life of Mother Courage is recounted. A wandering peddler dependent on war tackles motherhood and survival but is frequently distracted seeking out the next sale and opportunity to line her own pockets. Audiences are challenged by the powerful silence of Kattrin, her daughter, in contrast to the brutality of war with the natural instinct of human survival. The question then becomes, is Mother truly courageous or a coward in her decisions as she places business before her children with real life consequences lingering.

Mother Courage and Her Children plays at the Rollins Studio Theatre at the Long Center For The Performing Arts on Saturday 26th May, 2pm & 7.30pm. Tickets are $10 for Children and $15 Adults. Proceeds will go towards the Theatre Department, allowing students to be awarded scholarship assistance to attend the State Thespian Convention.