Monday, April 15, 2013

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 Going On Generic Ensemble Company Austin TX

 









 
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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