THE STONEWATER RAPTURE by Doug Wright, Round About Players, University of Texas, February 21 - 23, 2013

[performing at the University of Texas Student Activities Center, 2201 Speedway - click for map]


 

The Stonewater Rapture

by Doug Wright

Feb. 21,22,23 @ 8 p.m.
SAC Black Box, 2201 Speedway
FREE ADMISSION
Run time: apprx. 50 minutes


Whitney and Carlyle, two West Texas teenagers, struggle to practice what they believe is right while reaching the peak of their sexual awakening. With pressure from their peers, parents, and church to behave a certain way, the two sexually repressed teenagers lie and create facades in order to continue believing in a God they are beginning to question. Characterized by sex, deceit, and the betrayal of their religion, The Stonewater Rapture paints the complex and painful relationship between faith and inner desires.

Cast: James Sandison as Whitney, Raquel Watson as Carlyle
Directed by: Sean Tecson & Danya Gorel
Technical Director: Melinda Wright
Marketing Director: Sylvia Hinojosa
Stage Managed by: Drea Olivares

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Opening this week in Austin, January 1 - 6, 2013

Opening This Week

in the Austin - (*) San Antonio region

January 1 - 6, 2013

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Opening in Austin . . .

 

CLOWNING AND PHYSICAL COMEDY, Salvage Vanguard Jan. 2 - 4, 2013

Different Stages at the City Theatre

St. Albert the Great Catholic Church, Austin, January 5

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IN SAN ANTONIO (nothing announced)
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Upcoming: Quills by Doug Wright, Different Stages at the City Theatre, January 4 - 26

presents

Quills

by Doug Wright

City Theatre, 3823 Airport Blvd, Ste D map
January 4 – 26, 2013
Thursdays – Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 5:30pm

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Different Stages continues its 2011-2012 season with Doug Wright's Quills. Sex. Perversion. Violence. These are the themes of the tales that drip from the ink-laden quills of the notoriously irreverent Marquis de Sade in this Obie Award winning play. Confined to the Charenton Asylum for the Insane for the outlandish escapades he'd committed during the Napoleonic Era, the Marquis continues to pen his stories to the delight of the young seamstress, Madeleine, and to the scorn of Charenton's devout Abbe de Coulmeir. When the Abbe attempts to silence the Marquis by taking his quills, his ink, and his paper, something intriguing occurs: the Marquis still finds a way to voice his scandalous yarns. As the Abbe's religious devotion clashes with the Marquis's dedication to freedom of expression, the audience is treated to a tale of wit, irony, blasphemy, philosophy, and the struggle for power told partly as a blend of comedy of manners and Grand Guignol with a dash of grotesque exaggeration and a soupcon of gore.

Directed by Norman Blumensaadt (Is Life Worth Living?) Quills features Craig Kanne (You Can't Take it with You) as the Marquis de Sade and Jean Budney (Is Life Worth Living?) as his wife Renee Pelagie. Travis Bedard (Doctor Faustus) plays the director of Charenton Asylum. Joe Hartman (Vampire Lesbians of Sodom) plays the Abbe de Coulmier, a priest at the asylum. Melissa Vogt-Patterson (Humpty) plays the seamstress, Madeleine. Tony Salinas (You Can't Take it with You) plays the architect.

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