Upcoming: Heddatron, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, February 10 - March 5

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Salvage Vanguard Theatre presents

Heddatron

by Elizabeth Meriwether
directed by Dustin Wills
Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 E Manor Rd
February 10 - March 5, Thursday- Saturday at 8 p.m., Sundays at 6 p.m.
(Thursdays Pay-What-You-Can at the door)
Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/145755

www.salvagevanguard.org

Like any well-made play, this one starts with a booming voice from the sky - though this booming voice arrives in the form of a hardcover copy of Hedda Gabler torpedoing into the lap of a terribly bored Michigan housewife. Suddenly, Jane Gordon finds herself captured by robots and whisked off to the Ecuadorian rainforest to perform the titular role in a robo-version of Henrik Ibsen’s famous drama. Jane’s ten-year-old daughter, Nugget, with the aid of her milquetoast father, an eager documentary filmmaker and her small arms dealing uncle must rescue her mother from the mechanical grip of her robot captors - whether she wants to be saved or not. Heddatron takes us on a hi(tech)storical journey through our trigger happy-TV-4G-machine-obsessed world to ask that great question, “What does it mean to be human?” Salvage Vanguard Theatre, with the help of the University of Texas’ tech-savvy IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, is ecstatic to offer a look at what happens when “real” robots and ever realer humans battle it out on the stage in the Austin premiere of Elizabeth Meriwether’s genre-defying head-trip Heddatron.

Feauturing: Amy Downing, Robert Pierson, Cyndi Williams, Jennymarie Jemison, Jude Hickey, Scott Daigle, Jarrett King, Matt Hislope, Kyle Lagunas, and Ava Johns
Design by: Lisa Laratta, Natalie George, Jessica Gilzow, Buzz Moran, and Lee Webster

Auditions: Heddatron at Salvage Vanguard Theatre, October 24

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Auditions for Salvage Vanguard Theater mainstage production

HEDDATRON

by Elizabeth Meriwether.

Directed by Dustin Wills.

Show performances are Feb 11- March 5 at Salvage Vanguard.

Auditions will be held October 24 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

By appointment only. Email jenny@salvagevanguard.org to schedule.

Sides will be provided at the audition. Actors will be compensated for the performance.

ABOUT HEDDATRON, written by Elizabeth Meriwether

A pregnant housewife, Jane, is abducted by robots and taken to the rainforest and forced to perform Hedda Gabler by her robot captors. Meanwhile, her family back home in Michigan trying to find her, and Henrik Ibsen is in Norway attempting to write Hedda Gabler, as Strindberg taunts him. A hilarious and savage journey to freedom.

"That's my robot heart beating itself to death inside my rock hard torso-tron."

CHARACTERS to cast

RICK GORDON / HANS ROBOT - male, early 30's - early 40's, weak but not dumb, normal in a frustrating way. Jane's husband. ROBOT: tall, glowing, muscular, articulate.

CUBBY GORDON / BILLY ROBOT - male, mid 20's - late 30's, figuratively or literally mustachioed, wears rings. Rick's brother. ROBOT: junky, visible rust, stop-start way of speaking.

MRS. IBSEN / AUNT JULIE-BOT - female, late 30's - early 50's, a pistol-whip, not to be reckoned with. ROBOT: wears a big tacky hat.

NUGGET GORDON - female, ten years old, freakishly brilliant. Jane's daughter

FILM STUDENT - male, just barely 20, in over his head. Pimples.

AUGUST STRINDBERG - male, early 30's - late 40's, sexy, sexual, if Sweden had cowboys.

Auditions: Heddatron at Salvage Vanguard Theatre, October 24

Received directly:

Auditions for Salvage Vanguard Theater mainstage production

HEDDATRON

by Elizabeth Meriwether.

Directed by Dustin Wills.

Show performances are Feb 11- March 5 at Salvage Vanguard.

Auditions will be held October 24 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

By appointment only. Email jenny@salvagevanguard.org to schedule.

Sides will be provided at the audition. Actors will be compensated for the performance.

ABOUT HEDDATRON, written by Elizabeth Meriwether

A pregnant housewife, Jane, is abducted by robots and taken to the rainforest and forced to perform Hedda Gabler by her robot captors. Meanwhile, her family back home in Michigan trying to find her, and Henrik Ibsen is in Norway attempting to write Hedda Gabler, as Strindberg taunts him. A hilarious and savage journey to freedom.

"That's my robot heart beating itself to death inside my rock hard torso-tron."

CHARACTERS to cast

RICK GORDON / HANS ROBOT - male, early 30's - early 40's, weak but not dumb, normal in a frustrating way. Jane's husband. ROBOT: tall, glowing, muscular, articulate.

CUBBY GORDON / BILLY ROBOT - male, mid 20's - late 30's, figuratively or literally mustachioed, wears rings. Rick's brother. ROBOT: junky, visible rust, stop-start way of speaking.

MRS. IBSEN / AUNT JULIE-BOT - female, late 30's - early 50's, a pistol-whip, not to be reckoned with. ROBOT: wears a big tacky hat.

NUGGET GORDON - female, ten years old, freakishly brilliant. Jane's daughter

FILM STUDENT - male, just barely 20, in over his head. Pimples.

AUGUST STRINDBERG - male, early 30's - late 40's, sexy, sexual, if Sweden had cowboys.