PINKOLANDIA by Andrea Thome, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, October 17 - November 2, 2013

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by Andrea Thome
directed by Jenny Larson

Performances run October 17th through November 2nd, 2013 at the Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd, Austin TX 78722 -- click for map

October 17th-18th 8pm
October 20th 6pm
October 24th-26th at 8pm
October 30th 8pm
November 1st-2nd at 8pm

Tickets $10 online, and $15 at the door. All tickets are BY DONATION for STUDENTS (at the door only, or email jenny@salvagevanguard.org for group/class reservations). www.salvagevanguard.org
“I always thought it was solid, the ground I walked on.”

When two young sisters are exiled with their family from Chile to a bizarre Reagan-era Wisconsin, they are forced to retreat to an imaginary world to help uncover their family’s past.

To guard herself from the unknown, 8-year old Gaby uses imagination and innocence to create her own identity in a fantasyland of talking polar bears and melting ice caps. While her 12-year old sister Beny desperately seeks answers from her parents about who she is and what happened in their past. But she is met with icy silence and growing distance as her parents arm themselves with anger and the will to forget. When Uncle Ignacio arrives, the entire family starts to feel the ice cracking beneath their feet and the truth bubbling to the top.

Traversing through a fantasy world of glaciers, talking bears and Nazi-fighting revolutionaries, Pinkolandia shows us that when you lose your country and your past, you have to invent your own.

“I want to keep my soul.
I want to remember how to run
I want to remember that I am a bear.”

“Ambitious and often beautiful new play. With a script by Andrea Thome that’s both dreamlike and dramatic… The payoffs are abundant here; the excitements and confusions of youth are palpable” –The New York Times


COMMUNITY TALK BACK EVENTS (following the performances): October 18th– Featuring playwright Andrea Thome and Paloma Diaz, from the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. October 25th – Speakers to be announced.

CAST Gricelda Silva, Elizabeth Bigger, Jude Hickey, Martinique Duchene-Phillips, Rupert Reyes, and Robert Pierson

DESIGN TEAM Graham Reynolds- Original Score, Erin Meyer– Shadow and Video, Leilah Stewart- Set, Steven Shirey- Lights, Jessica Gilzow- Costumes

About Andrea Thome Andrea Thome's plays, theatrical translations and multimedia satires have been presented both nationally and abroad. A Chilean-Costa Rican, Wisconsin-born mutt, Andrea grew up navigating the multiple landscapes and languages that inhabit her plays. She became a playwright by necessity in San Francisco, where her Red Rocket Theater Company paid their theater's rent by creating and producing a new play each month. Andrea also co-directs FULANA, a New York-based satire collective that creates cutting-edge political & cultural parodies (www.fulana.org). She has received fellowships from NYFA, New Voices/New York (Lark), the City of Oakland, INTAR, New York University (MFA Fellow), and the Women’s Project. Andrea has taught at various universities, schools and cultural centers nationwide. She helped create the Lark’s U.S.-México Playwright Exchange, which she has directed since 2006. Andrea has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2009.

PINKOLANDIA is part of the Lark Play Development Center’s Launching New Plays into the Repertoire Fellowship. As part of the LNP initiative the piece premiered at INTAR in NY and will have productions at Two River Theatre, NJ and 16th Street Theater, Chicago. This initiative is made possible with leadership support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information visit www.larktheatre.org.

MADE IN THE SVT are theater works created, produced, or presented by Salvage Vanguard Theater company members.

Salvage Vanguard Theater (SVT) is a theater company and performance hub located in East Austin. SVT creates and presents transformative high-quality artistic experiences that foster experimentation and conversation.

Visit www.salvagevanguard.org or contact Jenny Larson for more information: 512-474-7886 or jenny@salvagevanguard.org

Salvage Vanguard Theater is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office/Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future.

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POWER-UP by Allison Orr, Forklift Danceworks and Austin Energy, October 21 - 22, 2013

PowerUP

a performance by the employees and machinery of Austin Energy

September 21 & 22, 2013

MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS AT THE FORK LIFTS WEBSITE STARTING AT 10 am ON THURSDAY, SEPT. 5th

On the grounds of the Travis County Expo Center and in the shadow of Austin’s Decker Power Plant, Forklift will premier one of our most ambitious projects to date—PowerUP—a performance featuring the employees and machinery of Austin Energy. Performed to an original score by Graham Reynolds and accompanied by a string orchestra led by Austin Symphony Conductor Peter Bay, PowerUP will feature 40+ linemen and electrical technicians, bucket trucks, cranes and field trucks, a set of 20 utility poles, and an audience of 6,000+ people!

Artistic Director Allison Orr and her team have been shadowing and getting to know these employees for nearly two years now, and we are inspired by their commitment and passion for their work. These technicians and linemen are true cowboys—people who are willing to do whatever it takes, in all kinds of weather and at great personal risk, to make sure you and I can turn the lights on every day. Our hope is that through PowerUP, each audience member will leave with a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the work of these vital but often unseen men and women.

Stay up to date on the creation of this dance via our blog and check out our recently completed Kickstarter campaign. See our list of generous backers and help make it happen by making a donation today!

We are grateful to the following sponsors who are helping make PowerUP happen.

Terawatt Presenting Sponsor: Applied Materials

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STOP HITTING YOURSELF, a work in progress by the Rude Mechs, September 19 - 28, 2013, 2013

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is proud to present

STOP HITTING YOURSELF
A work-in-progress production of a new play created by Rude Mechs

Sept. 19 - 28, 2013 (Thurs - Sat) at 8 p.m.
at The Off-Center, 2211-A Hidalgo Street, near E. 7th Street and Robert Martinez (behind Joe's Bakery) - click for map
All tickets $10.00 - available at: http://rudemechs.com/

Rude Mechs invites you to join us for a bare-bones work-in-progress showing of STOP HITTING YOURSELF as we get ready for the world-premiere in Lincoln Center's LCT3 program in NYC January 2014.

We presented the first draft of this new play in April 2013 at our venue, The Off Center, as part of Fusebox Festival's Machine Shop Series. This time around, we are focusing on script, staging and music. So you won't see any scenic design, but a bare-bones lighting design and the same costumes we used in the last production.

ABOUT THE PLAY With Stop Hitting Yourself, Rude Mechs is embracing the fundamental beliefs underlying late-stage capitalism and indulging in our version of 1930's Hollywood glamour. Part Pygmalion, part Busby Berkley, part self-help lexicon -- all while dancing around a queso fountain. Rude Mechs borrows from the plots of 1930's musicals to dig into the contemporary conservative dilemma: how to honor steely individualism without disavowing the virtue of charity. Tap dancing, fine dining, and the missionary position will all be employed in order to help all Americans stop hitting yourself.

COLLABORATOR UPDATES We are thrilled to welcome new collaborators to the show's development process. Company member Joey Hood is stepping in to replace Matt Hislope as he is off living his dream in Kansas. And we are thrilled to work for the first time with Scenic Designer Mimi Lein and Costume Designer Emily Rebholz as they join Company members Brian Scott (lighting) and Graham Reynolds (original score) on the design team.

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GUEST BY COURTESY by Jenny Larson and Hannah Kenah, April 18 - 20, 2013

 
[Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. -- click for map]

and the Fusebox Festival present

Guest by Courtesy

created by Hannah Kenah and Jenny Larson, written by Hannah Kenah
performed by Jason Hays, Hannah Kenah, and Jenny Larson, with an original score by Graham Reynolds

Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd.
April 18 - 20 at 3 p.m.

Click to purchase tickets via the Fusebox Festival


Click for Austin Live Theatre review, November 8, 2011



Come ye. Come ye and observe this sorry entry into that hopeful realm of female comedy.
In the deeply pro-feminist setting of a masonic hallway, Hannah Kenah and Jenny Larson stage a two-women, one-man, two-arms, one couch, imaginary props, terrible miming, genre-bending, era-bending, woman-bashing, man-worshipping show that plumbs the depths of desperation and duration.

 
Guest by Courtesy pretends to answer the question, what the fuck should a girl do with all her spare time, and decisively proves that women are not sane. Two cousins – one poor and single, one rich and married – wage their bizarre relationship over the course of a failing afternoon tea. The work was developed by Jenny Larson, artistic director of Salvage Vanguard Theater, and Hannah Kenah, company member, performer and writer for the Rude Mechs, and scored by Graham Reynolds, Austin’s best-loved composer of all things brilliant.
Come and see them not know what kind of show they are making. A dance show? A clown show? A play? Discover how much you can tolerate. Test the limits of your patience for women floundering.
“Larson and Kenah, with perfect comic timing and tempo, keep us laughing for a good solid hour” – Austin Chronicle
Special thanks to our guest directors Will Davis and Kathy Catmull, and the extraordinary understudy, stage manager, and jack of all trades Jay Byrd.

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STOP HITTING YOURSELF, Rude Mechanicals at the Off Center, April 4 - 21, 2013

Rude Mechs will present the first work-in-progress showing of

 



Stop Hitting Yourself
The show runs April 4 - April 21, 2013, Thursday - Sunday at 8:00 pm., at The Off Center, 2211 A Hidalgo, Austin, TX. 

Tickets: Thursday and Sunday - Pay What You Can; Friday and Saturday - $12 - 25 Sliding Scale. 

Tickets go on sale March 4th at www.rudemechs.com. 

The final weekend tickets will also be available through Fusebox Festival. 

Purchase with credit card in advance. Cash only at the door.


"At tonight's party you were observed and those observations are currently being compiled into a list of the things you need to be taught. We have one month to perfect you. In one month, we're going to have another party. The difference is at this next party, the Queen will be in attendance. Improvement. Succor. Fate. Queso. Wardrobe. Charity. Belief."

Once a year at the Charity Ball a single worthy cause is selected to benefit from the Queen's annual good deed. Families of note compete to find the citizens most in need and deserving of assistance. This year, a socialite has discovered a wildman in the forest and brings him home to improve him. The wildman's desire to save the natural world and to bring about an era of love and harmony is a sure-winner. Now she must teach him how to eat and dance, how to bow and flatter, how to behave in society so that his cause can be victorious.

Rude Mechs is currently embracing the fundamental beliefs underlying late-stage capitalism and indulging in some 1930's Hollywood glamour. Part Pygmalion, Busby Berkley, part self-help lexicon -- all while tap-dancing around a queso fountain. STOP HITTING YOURSELF borrows from the plots of 1930's musicals to dig into the contemporary conservative dilemma: how to honor the steely individualism of Ayn Rand without disavowing the ministry of Jesus Christ. Tap dancing, fine dining, and the missionary position will all be employed in order to help all Americans stop hitting yourself.

Some of the Many People Involved: Hope Bennett, Thomas Graves, Heather Hanna, Matt Hislope, Hannah Kenah, Lisa Laratta, Lana Lesley, Jason Liebrecht, Kirk Lynn, Graham Reynolds, Brian Scott, Shawn Sides, Paul Soileau, Dallas Tate, plus awesome technicians, crew, and Rude Mechs company members keeping it awesome.


STOP HITTING YOURSELF is a commission of LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater. LCT3 produces shows by new playwrights, directors and designers - new ideas in a new space. Additional creation support comes from National Endowment for the Arts and MAP Fund. Rude Mechs is supported by the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.

Rude Mechs is an ensemble-based theatre company that has created a genre-defying cocktail of over 25 original plays that we produce in Austin, TX, and tour nationally and internationally. Our most recent productions include "The Method Gun", "Get Your War On" and "I've Never Been So Happy" which have all toured to such far-flung destinations as New York City, Los Angeles, New Haven, Columbus, Boston, Portland, Philadelphia, Helsinki (Finland), Edinburgh (Scotland), and Brisbane (Australia). Since our inception in 1995, we've received over 180 awards and nominations for artistic excellence and, most recently, the company's production "The Method Gun" was recognized by both Time Out New York and New York Magazine as one of the Top 10 theatrical events of 2011.

For more information about this production and all things rude, visit www.rudemechs.com.


Read more about Rude Mechs to Present Work-in-Progress Showing of STOP HITTING YOURSELF, 4/4-21 by austin.broadwayworld.com
Rude Mechs will present the first work-in-progress showing of "STOP HITTING YOURSELF."
"At tonight's party you were observed and those observations are currently being compiled into a list of the things you need to be taught. We have one month to perfect you. In one month, we're going to have another party. The difference is at this next party, the Queen will be in attendance. Improvement. Succor. Fate. Queso. Wardrobe. Charity. Belief."
Once a year at the Charity Ball a single worthy cause is selected to benefit from the Queen's annual good deed. Families of note compete to find the citizens most in need and deserving of assistance. This year, a socialite has discovered a wildman in the forest and brings him home to improve him. The wildman's desire to save the natural world and to bring about an era of love and harmony is a sure-winner. Now she must teach him how to eat and dance, how to bow and flatter, how to behave in society so that his cause can be victorious.
Rude Mechs is currently embracing the fundamental beliefs underlying late-stage capitalism and indulging in some 1930's Hollywood glamour. Part Pygmalion, Busby Berkley, part self-help lexicon -- all while tap-dancing around a queso fountain. STOP HITTING YOURSELF borrows from the plots of 1930's musicals to dig into the contemporary conservative dilemma: how to honor the steely individualism of Ayn Rand without disavowing the ministry of Jesus Christ. Tap dancing, fine dining, and the missionary position will all be employed in order to help all Americans stop hitting yourself.
Some of the Many People Involved: Hope Bennett, Thomas Graves, Heather Hanna, Matt Hislope, Hannah Kenah, Lisa Laratta, Lana Lesley, Jason Liebrecht, Kirk Lynn, Graham Reynolds, Brian Scott, Shawn Sides, Paul Soileau, Dallas Tate, plus awesome technicians, crew, and Rude Mechs company members keeping it awesome.
The show runs April 4 - April 21, 2013, Thursday - Sunday at 8:00 pm., at The Off Center, 2211 A Hidalgo, Austin, TX. Tickets: Thursday and Sunday - Pay What You Can; Friday and Saturday - $12 - 25 Sliding Scale. Tickets go on sale March 4th at www.rudemechs.com. The final weekend tickets will also be available through Fusebox Festival. Purchase with credit card in advance. Cash only at the door.
STOP HITTING YOURSELF is a commission of LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater. LCT3 produces shows by new playwrights, directors and designers - new ideas in a new space. Additional creation support comes from National Endowment for the Arts and MAP Fund. Rude Mechs is supported by the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.
Rude Mechs is an ensemble-based theatre company that has created a genre-defying cocktail of over 25 original plays that we produce in Austin, TX, and tour nationally and internationally. Our most recent productions include "The Method Gun", "Get Your War On" and "I've Never Been So Happy" which have all toured to such far-flung destinations as New York City, Los Angeles, New Haven, Columbus, Boston, Portland, Philadelphia, Helsinki (Finland), Edinburgh (Scotland), and Brisbane (Australia). Since our inception in 1995, we've received over 180 awards and nominations for artistic excellence and, most recently, the company's production "The Method Gun" was recognized by both Time Out New York and New York Magazine as one of the Top 10 theatrical events of 2011.
For more information about this production and all things rude, visit www.rudemechs.com.

Read more about Rude Mechs to Present Work-in-Progress Showing of STOP HITTING YOURSELF, 4/4-21 by austin.broadwayworld.com

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Invisible, Inc. by Paul Menzer, Hidden Room Theatre at Rolllins Theatre, Long Center, January 11 - 20, 2013

by Dr. David Glen Robinson and Michael Meigs

Outside the Austin skyline was bright and magical as ever while enthusiastic crowds gathered for last Thursday’s preview and Saturday’s performance of Invisible, Inc. The Hidden Room Theatre created a delicious, dark and intriguing world in the Rollins black box theatre at the Long Center, emerging from the secret shadows of the historic York Rite Masonic Temple on W. 7th Street and going big time. It's too bad that the company and its director and proprietary matriarch Beth Burns can't occupy that venue for a longer term, because Invisible, Inc. is an elegant and witty entertainment. It’s their first theatre outing since last year’s multiple-award-winning Rose Rage.


One special appeal is that its leads are Robert Matney and Liz Fisher, a young husband and wife pair who enjoy the sort of respect and affection in Austin that Alfred Lunt and Margot Fontanne had on Broadway from the 1930's through the 1960's. Noël Coward wrote his 1933 Design for Living for that famous couple; coincidentally, Austin Shakespeare will be doing that work in this same venue in just a few weeks. Now, there's a thought experiment: substituting Matney and Fisher for Miller and Merino.


Burns presents a gorgeously designed package. Ia Ensterä's set makes the black box into a Manhattan highrise living room with a broad window at deep center stage, decorated in Art Deco via Bela Lugosi. At the audience's far left stands an upright piano that's part of the same playing space; at the far right there's a tumble of furniture representing a garret somewhere far downtown. With furniture shifts the central playing space can belong to either of these. With a shift in lighting, the flare of a spotlight and a change in the image at deep center stage, the space becomes a theatre complete with proscenium.


Patrons desiring premium seating can pay a bit extra to settle at one of the four-person nightclub tables on the floor with the performing space, where they'll be handsomely welcomed and entertained by an amiable professional magician who does up-close illusions and prestidigitation. On Saturday evening the company's Master of Magic (coach) J.D. Stewart was resplendent, gregarious and astonishing. He left us dumbfounded with his skills. We have no idea how those playing cards flew invisibly through the air or those coins appeared impossibly at his bidding.


Invisible, Inc. is soaked with atmosphere and its spookiness is boosted when the lights first go down and that upright piano erupts into lengthy evocative passes of the keys by the invisible Graham Reynolds. His score for MIDI-assisted player piano punctuates the action with the same dexterity as the big Wurlitzer organs at the cinema palaces of the 1930's.


Menzer’s play offers us the world of vaudeville magic acts and magicians in the 1930’s. The potential for a peek behind the magician’s cabinet is immense, and the playwright gives us several such peeks on our way through the story. The characters present magic turns in every scene, their very gestures accented with flash paper. Handcuffs fall off wrists; cards appear and disappear; straitjackets and cabinets cannot contain them. The disappearance of objects, people and reality raises the tension and the ante, and the onslaught of illusions challenges the audience’s perceptions and certitudes.


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Upcoming: spacestation1985 by Natalie George at the Off Center, September 13 - 22

by Natalie George

playing at the Off-Center 2211-A Hidalgo St., near E. 7th and Robert Martinez (click for map)

September 13 - 28, Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Saturday late shows at 10:30 p.m.; matinee at 2 p.m. on Sunday, September 16

Click to purchase tickets via Eventbrite: $12 general admission; $19.85 'mission control' premium seating

Click for additional information at the website

spacestation1985 is a live action science fiction psychological roller coaster coming to austin texas in september of 2012. it is the story of two down and out nasa cast-offs, dr. richard gergen and lieutenant norman james kilroy, who are blasted into space in the year 1985 by a mysterious privately-funded space exploration group.

their mission?

to be the first men to mine the tail of halley's comet. however, while working 30 day alternating shifts, the mission begins to take a turn...into not only the deepest corners of our solar system, but the very darkest corners of the human mind.

from the minds of the award-winning sketch comedy team THINK TANK,comes an 8 bit kubrickian dramedy unlike anything you have seen live on stage before. (unless you saw their run of the show in New York City, then it will be a lot like that....only with new exciting twists and a reloaded amazing design team, don't believe me? see for yourself...)

live puppetry!

oringinal score by graham reynolds!

sound design by buzz moran!

scenic design by ia enstera!

lighting design by natalie george!

costume design by benjamin taylor-ridgeway!

the acting chops of jason newman & bradley carlin!!

and

directed by jeffery mills!

still not convinced...
what about the talents of Jennymarie Jemison, Gricelda Silva, David Higgins, Dallas Tate, Noel Gaulin, Kelly Hassandras, Dani Pruitt, & Christopher Shea

and did we mention SPACE PUPPETS?
SPACE PUPPETS!

join us aboard spacestation1985...

www.spacestation1985.com

(Poster art by Duncan Gillis)

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Guest by Courtesy by Hannah Kenah and Jenny Larson, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, November 4 - 19

by Michael Meigs

On their opening night Hannah Kenah and Jenny Larson attracted an audience with lots of youngish faces more often lit by footlights, spots and stage lighting than by house lights. Those audience members were happily anticipating an entertainment that had been in gestation for two years. The two well known and well liked Austin actresses had presented workshop versions of Guest by Courtesy in May and November 2009 as part of the SVT's Works Progress Austin series.

They begin your evening with a lengthy cryptic tableau, a kōan of the brash physical comedy that is to come. The brightly lit black box performance space is anchored by a sofa set at center stage, draped with a white sheet. Two pairs of motionless bare feet are on view, the only parts visible of two persons seated or more likely reclining beneath that cover.

There's a silent motionless prologue going on here for those who aren't busy finding seats, climbing past audience knees, texting, listening to the hectic top 40s soundtrack or chatting: whose feet are we seeing? The pair at stage left are slim and almost self-effacing but there's a gauze bandage wrapped around one big toe; the pair at stage right are strongly defined, forthright with fiercely rampant big toes, the sort of feet that might be used for kicking butt. You have about twenty minutes to place your mental bets; I got mine wrong.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Arts Reporting: Austin Chronicle Readers ' Theatre Picks

The Austin Chronicle's annual 'Best of' issue, arriving today and tomorrow features only three names related to Austin live narrative theatre. Appearing under 'Arts & Entertainment' in the readers' poll are actress Barbara Chisholm, Zach Theatre artistic director Dave Steakley and musician/composer Graham Reynolds. The Chronicle critics' poll for arts & entertainment includes none at all, although it gives three nods to improv and sketch individuals and events.

Images: A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits by C. Denby Swanson, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, February 11 - March 6

UPDATE: Robert Faires interviews playwright C. Denby Swanson, Austin Chronicle, February 11

Received directly:

Photos by Chris Shea for A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits by C. Denby Swanson, which features puppetry by Connor Hopkins and is based on the narrative of an 18th century English physician to the king who after investigating the matter believed that countrywoman Mary Toft had given birth to a stillborn rabbit.

It's directed by Jenny Larson with music by Graham Reynolds. The cast includes Robin Grace Thompson, Nitra Gutierrez, Halena Kays, Shaun Patrick Tubbs, Connor Hopkins, and Matt Hislope - with Josh Meyer as "The Stork." video design by Lee Webster, light designs by Megan Rielly, sound design by Buzz Moran, and costumes by Jessica Gilzow.

See additional images 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: Classical Crossover with A Clockwork Orange, PKW Productions, Alamo Lake Creek, August 2

Received directly:

PKWproductions Brings Back Their Most Uniquely Powerful and Disturbing Combination of Music and Film with A Clockwork Orange

PKWproductions director P. Kellach Waddle and a host of Austin's finest classical musicians will present once again an extraordinary classical event with two live chamber concerts to accompany Stanley Kubrick’s controversial cult classic A Clockwork Orange as the “Music and a Movie” series continues on Sunday, August 2 at 8 p.m. at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek.

Second only to this series' flagship event, Amadeus, PKWproductions has received more demand to repeat this event than any other in the series' nearly 4-year history since PKWproductions’ first "Music and A Movie" presentation of A Clockwork Orange in November 2008 met with a near-sold out audience.

Since the film’s teenage miscreant Alex DeLarge is famous for drinking drugged milk and listening to Beethoven, the entire program is dedicated to the iconic German composer. The pre-movie concert's theme is "Obscure Beethoven" with a presentation of three of Beethoven's lesser known works and in a special intermission concert, three of Austin's most prominent composers (P. Kellach Waddle, Graham Reynolds and Peter Stopchinski) will present three brand new pieces on themes of Beethoven.

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