Upcoming: The Biography of Physical Sensation, Rubber Repertory at Fusebox Festival, April 21 - 30

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Rubber Repertory, in association with Fusebox Festival

proudly presents

BIOGRAPHY OF PHYSICAL SENSATION

directed by Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope
based on the life of Jamie Damon
set design by Lisa Laratta
featuring Katie Van Winkle, Rebecca Beegle, Taylor Flanagan, Matt Hislope, and Josh Meyer

7 encore performances! April 21-23, April 27-30.

Wed. and Thurs. performances are at 8pm. Fri. and Sat. are at 7pm.

The Off Shoot, 2211 Hidalgo St.,Austin, TX 78702

TICKETS: $15. Available at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/163864.

VIDEO TRAILER: http://vimeo.com/21604712

"What's wonderful about Rubber Repertory is that they take the concepts, the tenets, the expectations of theatre, and blow them out of the water." -- Austin Chronicle

The biography is BACK. Rubber Repertory's hit show invites an audience of 35 to experience a human life through actual tastes, touches, smells, and sounds. This reinvention of the traditional biography forgoes narrative in favor of pure physical experience, placing audience members in the center of over a hundred pivotal moments of perception.

Each person who attends is invited to choose from seats of three different sizes. The size of your seat dictates the intensity of sensations you're willing to receive. Those in the smallest seats will receive low-intensity sensations--the smell of lavender and stale cigarettes, for instance--while those in the larger seats expose themselves to far livelier thrills. Once the show begins, it's a fast and feely ride through puberty and pork chops, gunshots and tetherball, party whistles and old pianos, rehabilitation and lemon cake. In other words: life itself.

BIOGRAPHY OF PHYSICAL SENSATION is based on the life of Jamie Damon, one of over 50 people who interviewed at Fusebox 2010 to be the subject of the show.

View images at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Flying by Olga Mukhina, Breaking String Theatre at the Off Center, January 28 - February 19

ALT's first take, for NowPlayingAustin's "A-Team":

Olga Mukhina’s Flying is a fast, dangerous and exhilarating ride.

Graham Schmidt and Breaking String Theatre put audiences up close to the beautiful youth of post-Soviet Russia in this 2004 piece. Olga Mukhin Qa one of those who originated the “New Drama” that came raging into Russia's mid-1990’s. It plays until February 19 at the Off Center, 2211-A Hidalgo Street (behind Joe’s Bakery on 7^th Street).

Heedless, hedonistic and rootless, a gang of six young professionals address one another only by their remarkable nicknames. Snowstorm, Blizzard, Snowflake, Maniac, Orangina and Lenochka strut, talk, preen and play hard. They revolve about one another and thrust themselves through the drab Moscow nights like shooting stars. Director Schmidt, choreographer Adrian Mishler and composer Justin Sherburn give this story a kinetic power that leaves the audience breathless at the end of the first half.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: The Biography of Physical Sensation, Rubber Repertory at Salvage Vanguard Theatre, October 14 - 30

UPDATE: Feature by Cate Blouke for the Austin Statesman, October 13

UPDATE: "The Care of Feeding of Audiences," Travis Bedard's anticipation of the participatory experience, CambiareProductions.com, October 14

UPDATE: Review by Cate Blouke for the Statesman's Austin360 "Seeing Things" blog, October 19

UPDATE: Reflections by Sarah Coleman at the UT blog Performing Arts Management, October 19

UPDATE: Review by Avimaan Syam for the Austin Chronicle, October 21

UPDATE: Bastion Carboni and Georgia Young discuss their experiences at the same performance for austinist.com, October 21

Received directly:

The Rubber Repertory in association withg the Salvage Vanguard Theatre

proudly presents

Biography of Physical Sensation

Based on the life of Jamie Damon

Directed by Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope

October 14-30, Thursdays-Sundays at 8 p.m.

Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 Manor Rd.

Featuring Jenny Larson, Katie Van Winkle, Matt Hislope, Josh Meyer, and Marcella Garcia.

Lighting Design by Megan Reilly

Tickets: Order online here, or call 1-800-838-3006

YOU PICK YOUR PRICE $15-$25

Very limited seating – 40 seats per performance. Advance purchase recommended.

In their first new show since The Casket of Passing Fancy, Rubber Repertory pushes the limits of audience participation to even more fateful extremes. Each night, an audience of 40 will be given the chance to experience a human life through actual tastes, touches, smells, and sounds. This reinvention of the traditional biography forgoes narrative in favor of pure physical experience, placing audience members in the center of over a hundred pivotal moments of perception.


Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Shakespeare's Husbands & Wives, adapted and directed by Jill K. Swanson, February 24 - March 5

In this diverse fast-food town you can even get tasty Bard bits in a quick drive-by. No carry-outs, other than the program for Shakespeare's Husbands & Wives, but you're assured of comfortable seating and a varied menu at a session only 40 minutes in length. This Wednesday through Friday only, at the Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale Road, for the modest contribution of $10.

Jill K. Swanson has appeared often on Austin stages over the past dozen years, and she is the guiding spirit at Austin Shakespeare's weekly Sunday afternoon Shakespeareklatches, more properly titled "Shakespeare Aloud." For two hours every Sunday, usually from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., the doors are open to anyone who wants to participate in reading and commenting upon whichever of the Bard's works is on the table. Right now they're reading Henry V.

Swanson assembled short scenes from seven of the plays and invited eleven actors to play them. She comments in program notes, "Shakespeare dives right in and explores these issues [of matrimonial relations], weaving all kinds of marriages into his plays, while the plays themselves are often on another subject entirely. . . . Each scene reflects a different dynamic, perhaps one you recognize from your own marriage."

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .