B.Iden Payne Award Committee Invites Applicants by August 20

Sent Saturday, August 17:

From: Elena Weinberg
Subject: BIP Membership Drive

 

Hello Theatre Producers!

Elena here, from the B. Iden Payne Awards Nominating Committee. I'm reaching out to y'all today to let you know that we are approaching next season, and we are looking for new members for the Nominating Committee. The deadline is fast approaching -- if you would like to apply, please send a letter of interest (can be written in the body of the e-mail) and resume to Kelsey Kling (kelseykling@gmail.com) by this Tuesday, August 20.

Please pass this along to anyone you work with (or have worked with) that you feel may be qualified to serve on the committee and interested in doing so. We will be conducting interviews shortly after the application window closes.

Best,

Elena

Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph, Capital T Theatre at FronteraFest 2013, January 25 - February 6

by Michael Meigs



Rajiv Joseph's collection of two-character scenettes for Gruesome Playground Injuries appeals to the young and restless.  Students at Texas State did it last semester, and Capital T confided it to Kelsey Kling via their New Directors Program for presentation at the FronteraFest Long Fringe.

Many audience members at both venues can identify strongly with this pair of awkward losers.  They're searching for something, but they don't know what it is.  Doug and Kayleen first become aware of each other in primary school.  For some inexplicable reason, over the course of perhaps 15 years they never really find one another, perhaps because they're too much alike; the subtly resonating theme in the piece is one of precisely self-guided defeat.  If you care about each other, why aren't you able to take care of one another?




Director Kling provides a dressing area for each actor, situated on either side of a central playing space.  We experience the satisfaction of voyeurs and theatre fans as we glimpse Jason Newman and Laura Artesi, each in a personal space, changing costume, props and makeup between scenes.  The transformations are entertaining in themselves. Newman's assorted bandages, patches and bloody shirts establish his maladroit character with a certain affectionate humor.  The isolations of staging reinforce the theme of the piece.

The actors open the action by entering the central area and perching on a couple of institutional examining tables.  We quickly understand that they're in the nurse's office at school, probably waiting to be picked up by concerned parents.  Doug has smashed his face in a playground accident; Kayleen is ill.  Much of the comedy in this initial scene comes from body language -- splayed limbs, spontaneous moves, sudden jerks, all the awkwardness and coltishness of young persons who haven't yet mastered the functioning of their own bodies.  Doug's a goofus; Kayleen's a worried, distracted dreamer.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .
 

Video: Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph, Capital T Theatre, January 25 - February 6, 2013

Capital T's short video picks the best of the 196 words of Jillian's Owen's comments in the Austin Chronicle, January 31. Gruesome Playground Injuries is a sweet, moody piece about a couple of friends who never made it together but were always there for one another. It gives Jason Newman the opportunity to demonstrate intensity and range and introduces the sometimes gawky and sometimes beautiful Laura Artesi. An Austin Live Theatre review is forthcoming.






presents



Gruesome Playground Injuries

by Rajiv Joseph
directed by Kelsey King

Capital T at FronteraFest 2013, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd.

Remaining performances: Saturday Feb 2nd 12pm; Monday Feb 4th 8pm; Tuesday Feb 5th 8pm; Wednesday Feb 6th 8pm

In a very different kind of love story an accident prone dare devil and a corrosive masochist navigate friendship, love and the squishy parts that lie in between. As they mature from accident-prone kids to self-destructive adults, their broken hearts and broken bones draw them ever closer.

Cap T is proud to present this quirky love story of self inflicted wounds and the healing we need from others starring Jason Newman and Laura Artesi and directed by Kelsey Kling.

GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES by Rajiv Joseph, Capital T Theatre at FronteraFest, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, January 25 - February 6, 2013

presents



Gruesome Playground Injuries
by Rajiv Joseph
directed by Kelsey King

Capital T at FronteraFest 2013, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd.


ONLY 7 PERFORMANCES
Friday Jan 25th 8:15pm
Saturday Jan 26th 9:30pm
Wednesday Jan 30th 9pm
Saturday Feb 2nd 12pm
Monday Feb 4th 8pm
Tuesday Feb 5th 8pm
Wednesday Feb 6th 8pm

In a very different kind of love story an accident prone dare devil and a corrosive masochist navigate friendship, love and the squishy parts that lie in between. As they mature from accident-prone kids to self-destructive adults, their broken hearts and broken bones draw them ever closer.

Cap T is proud to present this quirky love story of self inflicted wounds and the healing we need from others starring Jason Newman and Laura Artesi and directed by Kelsey Kling. 

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The Collection by Harold Pinter, Hyde Park Theatre, September 17 - October 3

First of all, you are NOT going to get to see Joey Hood frolicking naked in a bathtub. That's just the way it goes. The Collection is not that kind of play. I guess that photo was just to good to pass up.

Ken Webster's a Harold Pinter man. During Hyde Park Theatre's FronteraFest of short stage pieces back in January, the usual program of five thirty-minute pieces came up short when a couple of performers cancelled at the last minute. WKen hustled and got performers from a Long Fringe piece to provide an excerpt from their piece. For the remaining slot, he appeared himself, reading Pinter's stern Nobel Prize acceptance speech. One didn't have to agree with Pinter's adamantly leftist, anti-government sentiments to appreciate the eloquence of the text or the restrained ferocity with which Webster delivered it.

So it's no surprise that to see Pinter's The Collection mounted by Ken and his collaborators. "Fellow travelers" would be an appropriate term if it didn't have a McCarthyesque tinge. After all, Webster and the Hyde Park Theatre just celebrated his 30th anniversary of theatre work in Austin.That's a long trip and one hopes that it will go on and on.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .