Profile: The Grad Student, Chekhov, and the Circle of Friends: The Cherry Orchard, November 5 - 21

UPDATE: ALT review of The Cherry Orchard, November 6

Thanks to permission granted by Actors Equity at the petition of several of its prominent Austin members, Chekhov's last play will be presented in Austin for three weekends.

The production of The Cherry Orchard that opens on Thursday for a three-week run promises to be remarkable.

It’s a labor of love and a celebration of friendship, an homage to Chekhov for the second time in two years. An informal association of actors calling themselves the “Breaking String” group, a reference to the stage direction that concludes The Cherry Orchard, is working with Graham Schmidt, director, who also translated the play. Schmidt has just received his M.A. from UT.

This constellation occurs partly by serendipity and partly because of a shared admiration for Anton Pavelovich Chekhov. Dr. Chekhov, who died in 1904 from tuberculosis at the age of 44, may have been the first modern playwright, if one speaks of the twentieth century. He was one of the most humane, gentle and subtle playwrights of all time.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Red, Hot and Cole, Lakeway Players, October 29-31

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The Lakeway Players produce a fall production and a spring production at the Lakeway Activity Center, 105 Cross Creek in Lakeway. The telephone number for Reservations is (512)261-1010. Tickets may be picked up at the desk in the lobby of the Activity Center.

Their website is www.lakewayplayers.com/

NEW IMAGES for Ongoing: The Trojan Women, University of Texas, October 30 - November 8

Click for ALT review, November 3

Updated with new images:

The Trojan Women

A New Adaptation
by Meghan Kennedy & Kimber Lee
Directed by Halena Kays
University of Texas Department of Theatre and Dance, Oscar G. Brockett Theatre
October 30, 31 & November 3, 4, 5, 6 at 8:00 PM
October 31 & November 1, 8 at 2:00 PM
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The war is over. A great city has fallen.

Among the rubble, women wait to hear their fate at the hands of the victorious army, struggling to survive, refusing to give in, and somehow finding hope in the most unexpected places.

Tickets: $20 adults, $17 UT faculty & staff, $15 students. Available online at www.utpac.org or by phone at 477-6060. Opening night reception immediately following the October 30 performance.

Read and view more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Pride and Prejudice, University of Texas, November 13 - 22

UPDATE: Korri Kezar's pre-opening feature on Pride and Prejudice in the Daily Texan, November 12

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The surprise of love . . .
The University of Texas Department of Theatre and Dance
presents
Jane Austen's classic novel adapted for the stage

Pride and Prejudice

November 13 – 22, 2009
at the B. Iden Payne Theatre.

James Maxwell adapts Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's timeless novel, originally published in 1813. The highly plot-driven comedy of manners set in 1811 centers on the Bennet family, a comfortable, but not excessively wealthy family living in the countryside of England. As the Bennets have five daughters and no sons, Mrs. Bennet's main objective in life is to find (wealthy) husbands for her daughters and retain Longbourn, the family estate, in the Bennet name. When Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with a wealthy landowner named Charles Bingle, Mrs. Bennet believes her problems solved. Bingly's snobbish family and his close friend and acquaintance Fitzwilliam Darcy have other ideas.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .

Upcoming: Our Town, Anderson High School, November 12-15

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Our Town

Directed by Wendy Pratt
Anderson High School Theatre
8403 Mesa Drive Austin
November 12-November 14, 7:30 p.m.

The play centers around the themes of life, love, and death, which are illustrated in the everyday routines of ordinary folk in Grover's Corners, N.H. Wilder mingles the simple and the profound in order for the audience to understand the everyday occurrences in this show are "an allegorical representation of all life." In the current Newsweek, Jeremy McCarter says, “Our Town isn't a nostalgic wallow in small town life. It's a harrowing story about human limitation--all the beauty and value we fail to recognize in our day-to-day lives"
[image © Harper Collins]

Tickets: Tickets are $5 for students and $7 for adults.
For more information please call the Anderson box office at (512) 841-1580 or visit our website at www.andersontheater.org. Info Phone: 512-841-1580

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

She Stoops to Conquer, Classic Theatre, San Antonio, October 15 - November 1

She Stoops to Conquer, approaching its last weekend in San Antonio, is elegant, witty, and stylish. Director Allan S. Ross recreates the conventions of the 18th century English theatre, including the use of a nearly bare stage, a painted partition at the rear, and the actors' respectful but self confident manner acknowledgement of the ladies and gentlemen of the public.

Goldsmith's work is a clever comedy of manners in which the men are all self-important bumblers of one sort or another and the women are there to set them right. There's rakishness; tom-foolery; and a decisive old harridan ruling her country manor, her husband, and her foolishly impulsive son. And, of course, courtship.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Nosferatu, Weird City Theatre Company at Dougherty Arts Center, October 22 - November 1

If you're looking for dark and spooky, then Weird City Theatre Company has got dark and spooky for you, down at the Dougherty Arts Center for the Thursday to Sunday Halloween weekend.

These connoisseurs of the unnerving have blended Bram Stoker's Dracula and F.W. Murnau's unauthorized German expressionist knock-off of the novel for a short, satisfying evening of the eerie.

You could view the 84-minute video of Murnau's 1922 silent film as preserved by the Cinemathèque française with an orchestral soundtrack either at Google video or at YouTube, but it may well be more fun to see Weird City reincarnate both the characters and the ghosts of those actors now long dead and gone.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, Different Stages at Vortex Repertory, November 13 - December 5

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Different Stages presents
Thornton Wilder’s

The Skin of Our Teeth

November 13 – December 5, 2009
The Vortex, 2307 Manor Road (map)

Thursdays – Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7 p.m.
No Performance on Thanksgiving Day, November 26
Added performance Wednesday, December 2

Pick your Price: $15, $20, $25, $30

Different Stages opens its 2009–2010 season with Thornton Wilder’s comedy The Skin of Our Teeth. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is the satiric story of the extraordinary Antrobus family down through the ages from the time of the war – any war. They have survived flood, fire, pestilence, the seven year locusts, the ice age, the pox and the double feature, a dozen wars and as many depressions. Ultimately bewitched, befuddled and becalmed, they are the stuff of which heroes and buffoons are made. Their survival is a wacky testament of faith in humanity.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Poe Reading, Penfold Theatre at Starco, Round Rock, November 3

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Murder Ballad Murder Mystery, Tutto Theatre at Vortex Repertory, October 23 - November 7

Murder Ballad Murder Mystery is imagined and delivered as a clown show balanced precariously on deep and true traditional ballads.

Those ballads are deep, because stories of passion, violence and murder are rooted somewhere pretty close to our shared DNA; true, because they contain archetypes of our culture. The restless husband; the innocent and defenseless girl-child; the rapscallion, the rapist, and the rowdy. Including, of course, musicians and theatre folk.

Playwright Elizabeth Doss, who appears here as the female half of a Bonnie-and-Clyde type duo, began this piece while living in Spain, perhaps spurred to re-examine her own cultural traditions.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Luminalia, Austin Shakespeare 25th Anniversary Fundraiser at Trattoria Lisinia, Driftwood, Texas, November 15

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Austin Shakespeare will celebrate its 25th Anniversary with a Luminalia, a 17th century masque combining pageantry, poetry, dance, music, spectacle and feasting. Originating in the court of Charles I of England, the event celebrates "The Triumph of Light" with entertainments of the era.

The Luminalia will be held at the Mandola Winery in Driftwood, TX on Sunday, November 15, 2009 from 5-9pm, and concludes with dinner and drama at Trattoria Lisina on the winery grounds.

Traditionally, Luminalia guests arrive in costume and masks, and participate as dancers and actors in the evening's production. To encourage attendees in their roles, masks created by local artists will be auctioned on the Austin Shakespeare website (www.austinshakespeare.org/luminalia) leading up to the event. The Stellar Ticket package includes masks and the option of period dance instruction for the masque, as well as preferred dinner seating and transportation to and from the event.

Tickets are $125 each with Stellar ticket packages at $250, and corporate tables seating 4-8 people (or as arranged) are available beginning at $1000-$5000. Additional event information can be found on the website or by calling 512.673.3609. Reservations will be booked through November 9th by calling 512.470.4505.

Upcoming: In The Shadow of Giants, Craig Toungate at the Silver Spur Theatre, Salado, November 14

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In the Shadow of Giants
Silver Spur Theatre, Salado
November. 14, 7:30 p.m.

Austin vocalist-actor Craig Toungate recounts history of Texas Revolution in story, song

About 173 years ago, a young man named Meredith Toungate heeded the call from Col. Wm. Barrett Travis asking for reinforcements at the Alamo. His 21stcenturyancestor, Austin actor-vocalist Craig Toungate, brings Meredith's "his-story" to life as a riveting presentation of the Texas revolution.
In the Shadow of Giants will be performed one night only at the Salado Silver Spur at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 14. The presentation will be followed by an interview of the artist, a member of the Grammy Recording Academy. (www.craigtoungate.com)

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Hamlet, City Theatre, October 22 - November 15

Director Jeff Hinkle and the City Theatre cast led by Aaron Black as Hamlet give us a gripping up-tempo version of the famous events in Elsinore. Elapsed playing time from the first challenge on the battlements to Hamlet's dying gasp, "The rest -- is silence" is just a little more than two and a half hours.

That fits the play well within the max bounds for today's young movie-going public and gives them the bonus of a break in the middle for snacks and bathroom. The nearly full house for opening night offered the encouraging prospect of a well attended four-week run to open City's fourth season.

It's a good ride, with some surprises along the way.

Aaron Black paints a two-speed Hamlet. From the first, alone or speaking to us directly in his monologues, Black establishes the prince's intelligence. His deft timing and effectively calibrated pauses show Hamlet's mind at work and establish a bond with the audience.

In company with any but Horatio or the player king, however, Black speeds up, provokes and antagonizes. His diction is precise but as his lines move toward rant, he seems to be less the master of his own thoughts. They burst forth in hectoring images.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Ongoing: Two Play Readings by Phoenix Theatre at UT, October 22-23 and 25

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Phoenix Theatre Company Presents Inaugural Performance

The Phoenix Theatre Company’s first production plays October 22-23 at 8 p.m. and October 25 at 2 p.m.. The performance includes a staged reading of The Brick and the Rose by Lewis John Carlino and The Mint Julep Trilogy by Nick Zagone and will be presented in the Lab Theatre, University of Texas.

The company is a student run group led by senior student Matrex Kilgore. The mission of The Phoenix Theatre Company is to provide the community with diverse types of theatre while embracing the highest quality of artistic merit.

Upcoming: Steven Dietz on the Art and Craft of Playmaking, Austin Scriptworks at the State Theatre, November 10

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presents
in its Dramatis Personae Series

Steven Dietz on
The Art & Craft of Story Making

Tuesday, November 10 7:00-9:30 pm
The State Theatre,719 Congress Ave.

General Admission $40, Austin Scriptworks members, $25
information and reservations: 512.454.9727; info@scriptworks.org

[image: Ralph Barrera, Austin Statesman]

This master class with nationally-renowned playwright Steven Dietz will focus on the "living play." Simply putting words and action onstage does not "activate" a play, so what narrative strategies bring a theatrical story to life? Steven Dietz will describe candid and tangible tools of the playwright's craft used to make a play move, change, and push forward. In short: come to life.

Steven Dietz is one of America's most widely produced playwrights. Since 1983, his more than 30 plays have been regularly produced regionally, off-Broadway and internationally. His latest plays Yankee Tavern and Becky's New Car will be among the most produced plays at local and regional theatres this coming season. Mr. Dietz divides his time between Seattle and Austin, where he is professor of playwriting at the University of Texas.

ABOUT AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS Austin Script Works is a playwright-driven organization that seeks to promote the craft of dramatic writing and to protect the playwright's integrity by encouraging playwright initiative and harnessing collective potential. The Dramatis Personae series was initiated to provide area playwrights a place to experiment with their craft and to expand their careers. Austin Script Works is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, and is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and by individual donors.

Upcoming: Mastering Sex and Tortillas by Adelina Anthony, Southwestern University, October 25

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Adelina Anthony: Mastering Sex and Tortillas

October 25, 7 p.m., free admission
Alma Thomas Theater Southwestern University, Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Fine Arts Center 1001 East University Avenue Georgetown

Adelina Anthony identifies as a queer chicana/indigenous feminist woman and as a performer of multi-faceted identities. She creates a space for people of different identities to come together for performance art. Her creative use of comedy makes the show fun and entertaining while discussing and raising consciousness around issues of race, gender, class and sexuality.

In 2001, "How to Become a Tortillera" and "Papi Duro: F.B.I. (Fearless Bucha Instigator)" premiered and became the foundation for Mastering Sex & Tortillas. Invited by Dr. Alicia Gaspar de Alba to ponder the question, "Why do you love being a Chicana lesbian?" Adelina responded with the high-femme & high-drama diva La Profesora Mama Chocha. This character comically deals with her own dyke drama, while teaching her class some valuable lessons on "tortillerismo." Adelina brought down da' house and received the first of many standing ovations as the closing performer at U.C.L.A.'s historical conference "Otro Corazón: Queering the Art of Aztlán."

Ten months later, Tongues (a Latina lesbian collective) invited Adelina to perform at one of their special events at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica. Adelina used this opportunity to premiere the debonair, Papi Duro. This old-school butch examines the historical (albeit invisible) role of jotería during the Chicano Movement. Finally, these segments coalesced into Mastering Sex & Tortillas, a performance work exploring sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity and other interconnected issues from a queer Chicana perspective.

A few months later, Dr. Emma Perez, Dr. Scarlet Bowen, and Gregory Ramos made it possible for Mastering Sex & Tortillas to participate in U.T.E.P.'s 2002 National Endowment for the Humanities Series. Over the years, Adelina work shopped the show and it went through many transformations. In 2003 the show went on hiatus as Adelina entered graduate school at Stanford University… but the show is BACK!

Tighter than Mama Chocha's mini skirt and as some Chicanas will say, "Hey, man, even MORE funnier than ever!!" Part stand-up, part performance art, part teatro, and not to mention exciting and fresh improvisations--this unique show has lots of buttery Xicana flavor. Mastering Sex & Tortillas is a hilarious and unflinching examination of Xicana/Latina lesbian sexuality.

[Photo Credit: Weenobee.com ]

review by LA Weekly, December 14, 2006

Adelina Anthony is associated with ALLGO, a statewide queer people of color organization

Upcoming: The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, Mary Moody Northern Theatre, St. Edward's University, November 12 - 22

UPDATE: Click for ALT review, November 16

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The Life of Galileo

by Bertolt Brecht, translated by David Hare
Directed by Michelle Polgar
November 12-November 22, 2009
Mary Moody Northern Theatre
St Edward's University, 3001 South Congress Avenue

In 1609, in a small study in Padua, Galileo Galilei raises a telescope to the skies. What he finds there reverberates from the streets of Padua to the Vatican palace in Rome, sparking a debate that threatens his very survival. From master playwright Bertolt Brecht comes a theatrical discourse on reason, faith, power and the tension arising from scientific progress running headlong into age-old assumptions.

Featuring Equity guest artists David Stahl and David Stokey.

Tickets: Season and Flex passes go on sale August 26 through the MMNT box office. Passes start as low as $40 for four shows.
Box office hours are Monday–Friday from 1–5 p.m. Info phone: 512.448.8484

Map to St. Edward's University (theatre is at eastern end of campus)

[image is taken from the article Galileo and The Telescope, 1609 published by American Physical Society]

Wikipedia on Brecht's The Life of Galileo

Upcoming: Bat Boy, The Musical, Texas State University at San Marcos, November 11 - 22

UPDATE: KOOP-FM's Lisa Scheps talks with director Kaitlin Hopkins and plays music from Batboy, The Musical, November 16 (30 min.)

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Bat Boy: The Musical

Book and Lyrics Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming
Music by Laurence O’Keefe
Directed by Kaitlin Hopkins
Nov. 11-14, 18-21 at 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 15, 22 at 2:00 p.m.
$10 general, $ 7 students

Ripped from the headlines of the Weekly World News, Batboy: The Musical is a cult hit about a half-boy, half-bat discovered in a cave. This campy, satirical twist on the modern musical comedy tells the amazing story of a strange boy with pointy ears, his struggle to find a place in a world that shuns him, and the love that can create both miracles and madness.

Hailed as “darkly funny, but curiously touching’, Bat Boy contains a driving, upbeat score, featuring rock, rap, and other musical styles. Director Kaitlin Hopkins was a Drama Desk nominee for her role in the 2001 New York production; fellow faculty member Jim Price was also in the original cast.

Upcoming: Bohemian Cowboy by Raymond King Schurtz, Theatre 4S NYC at Hyde Park Theatre, Sundays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, November 17 - December 20

UPDATE: Review by Spike Gillespie of FronteraFest 2010 production, for austinist.com, January 27

UPDATE Review by Elizabeth Cobbe at Austin Chronicle, December 3

UPDATE: Review by Ryan E. Johnson at examiner.com/austin, December 1

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Theatre 4S NYC,
the Jean And Ken Campbell Foundation,
and the Boulder Heritage Foundation
are proud to present the world premiere of

Bohemian Cowboy

written and performed by award-winning playwright and actor Raymond King Shurtz.

Hyde Park Theatre, 511 West 43rd Street
November 17 - December 20, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Sundays at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $18; for seniors and students, $16. Box Office: 512-479-7529.

In November of 2005, Raymond Dean Shurtz walked into the desert in Clark County, Nevada, The Valley of Fire, and simply disappeared. For two years, Nevada detectives, Nevada Search and Rescue, psychics, private detectives, and family and friends searched for his body. Mr. Shurtz has never been found.

A honky-tonk singer, a cowboy, a carpenter, and a traveler of mythic proportions, the senior Mr. Shurtz left an array of mysteries as a "disappearing specialist". In an attempt to unravel these mysteries, his son writes and performs the legacy his father left him, using the same characteristics as his father, the original "disappearing specialist" and "bohemian cowboy".

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Guest by Courtesy by Hannah Kenah and Jenny Larson, workshop at Salvage Vanguard, November 8

Advertised in the Evil Dead program and found on-line:

Guest by Courtesy

Written by Hannah Kenah
Created by Hannah Kennah and Jenny Larson
Original live and improvised piano score by Graham Reynolds
Performed by Hannah Kenah, Jenny Larson, and Jason Hays

November 8th 2009 at 5 p.m.
at Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 E. Manor Rd

A “tea,” even though it can be formal, is nevertheless friendly and inviting. One does not go in “church” clothes nor with ceremonious manner; but in an informal and every-day spirit, to see one’s friends and be seen by them. A smaller room is preferable, too much space with too few people gives an effect of emptiness which always is suggestive of failure.

Tickets $10, sold at the door only

Upcoming: The Nerd, Way Off Broadway Community Players, Leander, November 6 - 21

present


The Nerd
by Larry Shue
directed By Michael Johnson

November 6 - 21, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.
10960 E. Crystal Falls Pkwy, Leander

Now an aspiring young architect in Terre Haute, Indiana, Willum Cubbert has often told his friends about the debt he owes to Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-GI whom he has never met but who saved his life after he was seriously wounded in Vietnam. He has written to Rick to say that, as long as he is alive, "you will have somebody on Earth who will do anything for you"—so Willum is delighted when Rick shows up unexpectedly at his apartment on the night of his thirty-fourth birthday party.

But his delight soon fades as it becomes apparent that Rick is a hopeless "nerd"—a bumbling oaf with no social sense, little intelligence and less tact. And Rick stays on and on, his continued presence among Willum and his friends leading to one uproarious incident after another, until the normally placid Willum finds himself contemplating violence—a dire development which, happily, is staved off by the surprising "twist" ending of the play.

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Click below for video interview of WOBCP founders Dave Bachman and Tracy Cathey by www.austin-artists.com (9 min.)

Upcoming: The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, Breaking String Theatre Company at the Blue Theatre, November 5 - 21

UPDATE: ALT review of The Cherry Orchard, November 6

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Breaking String Theater** presents
an Actors’ Equity Association Members Project Code Production…

The Cherry Orchard

A Comedy by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Lyubov Ranyevskaya went to Paris to escape her past; she returns to Russia to discover that her ancestral home, and her beloved cherry orchard, are about to disappear forever. In this haunting tale of love, loss, and human frailty, Lyubov must endure the unimaginable, and realizes that even as the axes fall on the trees, a new life is being born.

More than a century after it was written, Chekhov’s last and most beloved play still holds audiences spellbound with its unexpected majesty and dramatic power. Chekhov also finds comedy in our failures to live up to those ideals we consider sacred. As Breaking String theater artists, we hope most of all to bring Chekhov’s warmth and generosity of spirit to our audiences.

Some of Austin’s finest performers have come together to perform this new translation from the original Russian. Featuring a remarkable artistic ensemble with Babs George *, Dirk van Allen *, Bernadette Nason*, Ev Lunning *, Matt Radford, Nigel O’Hearn, Liz Fisher, Sarah Gay, Robert Matney, Robin Grace Thompson, Noel Gaulin, Maarouf Naboulsi, and Cody Chua.

The off-stage talent includes Graham Schmidt as director and translator, Adam Hilton providing first-class sound design, Rommel Sulit delivering a stunning set, Jen Rogers designing an exceptional lighting layout, and Buffy Manners beautifully costuming the cast.

Performances at 8 o’clock p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, November 5 - 21 at the Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale Road

TICKETS: Suggested donation of $15-$25 at the door
Reservations available only at www.breakingstring.com

* Members of the Actors’ Equity Association. This is a Members’ Project Code production.
**Breakin’ String Theatre is a provisional name for this collaboration of artists.

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Upcoming: Sick by Zayid Dohm, Capital T Theatre Company at Hyde Park Theatre, November 5 - December 5

UPDATE: Review by Javier Sanchez at the Daily Texan, November 18

UPDATE: on-line review at "Window, Rare and Strange," November 15

UPDATE: Review by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin at the Statesman's Austin360 "Seeing Things" blog, November 9

UPDATE: Review by Ryan E. Johnson at examiner.com/austin, November 20

UPDATE: Review by Bastion Carboni at austinist.com, November 21

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presents

Sick

by Zayd Dohrn
Directed by Mark Pickell
November 5-December 5, Hyde Park Theatre

Sick is an uproarious look at a family of germ-ophobes who have severe allergies to everything from Cheez-Whiz and cleaning supplies to city air. As prisoners inside their vacuum-sealed home and garbed in non-allergic clothing, they live each day in terror that a stray mold spore or chemical will sneak into their lives. When Dad brings home one of his graduate students, the family’s fear crescendos– with chaotic comedic consequences.

“…a young Edward Albee, daring to write humor that hints at danger inside American families”
Dallas Observer

Listen to an interview with Playwright Zayd Dohrn

Read a New York Times Feature Article on Dohrn

About the Playwright Zayd Dohrn’s plays, including Sick, Magic Forest Farm, and Reborning, have been produced and developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Marin Theatre Company, Summer Play Festival, Alliance Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Southern Rep, and Kitchen Dog Theater, among others. He received Lincoln Center’s Lecomte du Nouy Prize, the Theatre Masters Visionary Playwrights Award, the Sky Cooper Prize, and the Jean Kennedy Smith Award, as well as residencies and/or commissions from Ars Nova, Dallas Theatre Center, Chautauqua, and the Royal Court Theatre of London. He earned his MFA from NYU and was a two-year Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at Juilliard.

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