Videos for Upcoming: Holier Than Thou by Bastion Carboni, Poison Apple Initiative at the Off Center, June 20 - July 6, 2013

Video answers recorded by Bethany Perkins for

Five Short Answers

for One Big Question:

What Would You Do

with the Powers of Jesus?

Answer Number 1:

CJ3P0 from Bethany Perkins on Vimeo.

Click 'Read more' for additional answers . . . .

Videos for Upcoming: Holier Than Thou, Poison Apple Initiative for FronteraFest, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, January 26 - February 4

Received directly from

Five Short Answers

for one big question:

(For a FULL set of answers, see Holier Than Thou by Bastion Carboni, Poison Apple Initiative at FronteraFest, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 1/26, 1/28, 1/31, 2/04)

Answer Number 1:

Dominic the Bominic from Bethany Perkins on Vimeo.

Click for additional answers at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .

Upcoming: Woyzeck by Georg Buchner, Poison Apple Initiative, June 1 - 18

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presents

Woyzeck

by Georg Büchner

directed by Bethany Perkins

June 01, 2011 - June18

Space 12, 3121 E. 12^th St.

Buy tickets on-line at Brown Paper Tickets ($15 + $1.62 service fee)

“Every man is a bottomless pit; you get dizzy when you look down.”

Woyzeck is the story of a military barber’s struggle to support his common-law wife and child. He is ridiculed by society and subjected to inhuman experiment s by a doctor. After a year of eating only peas he begins to hallucinate and, when Marie begins to turn her attentions elsewhere, their disconnection ends in violence. Incorporating found and original text, vivid visual tableaus, and live music by Reverend Glasseye, the piece will be performed in the intimate Space 12, a multi-use performance space in East Austin.

Directed by Bethany Perkins. Original music by Reverend Glasseye. Original text by Bastion Carboni, Sarah Saltwick, and the cast. Featuring Paul Szent-Miklosy, Karen Alvarado, Bastion Carboni, Melody Herron, John Cooley, Sergio Alvarado, Kara Juarez, Jordan Cooper, and Joshua Baker. Designed by Taylor Finley (scenic) and Jen Brown (costume).

Poison Apple Initiative is pleased to close its third season with its re-reinvention of Buchner’s surreal class drama. We are an independently-run local theatre company dedicated to the production of sharp, dark tragicomedies by local and national artists. Through our participation in the FronteraFest Long Fringe, Mi Casa Es Su Teatro, and the ArtSpark Festival, we’ve garnered a reputation for giving audiences “a razor-edged experience, one with a vibration and intensity that no video or cinema is going to provide” (Austinlivetheatre.com). Next fall we will embark on our fourth season featuring the regional premier of Jakob Holder’s post-Shepardian fever-dream Housebreaking, Bastion Carboni’s reality TV satire Holier Than Thou, and new supplementary programming including the Playwriting Slam and NeWorks Reading Series.

Upcoming: Woyzek, Poison Apple Initiative, June 1 -18 (plus a funding appeal)

Received directly, an appeal to help fund Poison Apple Initiative's Woyzek via www.kickstarter.com:

About This Project: Following our successful fundraiser for our production of Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), Poison Apple Initiative is drumming up support for a new production of Georg Büchner's working class tragedy Woyzeck. This fundraiser will allow us to pay our cast, production team, band and crew for a project that has been six months in development. Our minimum goal is $1,000, but any funds raised beyond that will allow us to pay our amazing team even closer to what they deserve (which is at least $1000 a piece). Please visit www.kickstarter.com to learn more and to donate what you can.

Woyzeck is the tragic tale of a military barber's struggle to make ends meet and support his common-law wife and baby. He is ridiculed by society and subjected to inhumane experiments by a doctor. After a year of eating only peas, he begins to hallucinate, Marie turns her attentions elsewhere, and their disconnection ends in violence.

Incorporating found text, vivid visual tableaus, and live music by Adam Glasseye Beckley and his band, Reverend Glasseye, this new production of Woyzeck will be performed in the intimate Space 12, a multi-use performance and cafe space in East Austin. Directed by Bethany Perkins and featuring Paul Szent-Miklosy, Karen Alvarado, John Cooley, Kara Juarez-Jones, Sergio Alvarado, Melody Herron, Bastion Carboni and Jordan Cooper.

Keep an eye out for video interviews and clips of the rehearsal process, and please join us for the performances (Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday nights, the first three weeks of June 2011) even if you are unable to donate to this campaign.

Upcoming: Lines and Curves by Sarah Saltwick, staged reading at City Theatre, August 26 & 29

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Lines & Curves
staged reading of
a brand new play by Sarah Saltwick

Directed by Bethany Perkins
Starring Zeb West & Lynn Burnor

City Theatre, 3823 Airport Road
Wednesday, August 26, 7:30 p.m. and
Saturday, August 29 at 3 p.m.

"Are you like this with everyone?"

Max thinks it may be time for a change in his life. Tessa thinks she could be that change. But they both have a lot to learn about dating, affairs, honesty, living rooms and bedrooms. Funny, heartbreaking, sweet, familiar and strange.

A modern love story about two people and the things between them...

Two Workshop Performances with Talkbacks
Come and Comment! A great date play!
Tickets are Only $5 Buy them at the door (cash or check only!)
or online:





Sarah Saltwick is a playwright relatively new to the Austin theatre scene. You can see her short play "Wet" in upcoming Muses III, produced by The Vestige Group. In September, she'll be spending another night writing with The Loaded Gun Theory for her second Slapdash FlimFlam 24 hour play festival. Her play "Low Hanging Stars" was selected for the upcoming America Rising reading series at the Bristol Riverside Theatre in Pennsylvania. She spent last summer creating a video game inspired play during ArtSpark called "Sublimation." In Austin, her work has been selected for FronteraFest Best of Week: "She Creatures:Mythic Women" (2009) and "Parents are People" (2008, ASW Commission). Her play "Cecilia" was nominated for Best New Play 2008 by Austin Critic's Table and was originally created for ASW's out of ink festival. She is a graduate of Hampshire College. She has worked as a barista, crew member at Trader Joes and high school creative writing teacher. She now works as a booking agent at Holden & Arts Associates and always seems to have more ideas than time.