Ongoing: re:Psyche, Secondhand Theatre at Blue Theatre, June 23 - July 18

UPDATE: Review by Avimaan Syam for the Austin Chronicle, July 1

UPDATE: Robert Faires' 2000-word feature in the Austin Chronicle on the origins, ensemble work and prospects for Re-Psyche, with interviews of director Marie Brown and actor Tom Truss,June 24

UPDATE from Lisa Scheps of KOOP-FM on her June 21 program "Off Stage and On the Air": "First up were folks from Re:Pysche playing at the Blue Theatre now through July 18th. Who was there? I'll tell you... we had two cast members, Rudy Ramirez and Verity Branco; we had the director, Marie Brown; we had the producer and co-creator, Tom Truss; and we were also joined by the Stage Manager (my old job), Michael Mussey (who did an awsome job playing the track and not being able to hear!!) They did a scene from the show that was Hill-Air-Re-Us!!!"

Received directly:

Second Hand Theater presents

re:Psyche

a mythic love story for the google age conceived and written by Director Marie Brown, Playwright Jenny Connell, Actor Tom Truss & the Ensemble.

Directed by Marie Brown, Music by Mother Falcon

Designed by Sonja Raney and Kevin Beltz, Lighting Design by Eric Lara

June 24 - July 18 Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7 p.m.

Wednesdays June 23 & July 7 "pay what you can night" special fundraiser -- all proceeds go to the BLUE THEATER

TICKETS: sliding scale $10-$20. Reservations 888-666-1257 or buy them online at: www.secondhandtheater.com

Blue Theater 916 Springdale Road (512) 927-1118

WHY: Because love stories never get old.

Click for more information, images and video at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: rePsyche, Secondhand Theater at the Blue Theatre, June 23 - July 18

Received directly:

Second Hand Theater presents

re:Psyche

a mythic love story for the google age conceived and written by Director Marie Brown, Playwright Jenny Connell, Actor Tom Truss & the Ensemble.

Directed by Marie Brown, Music by Mother Falcon

Designed by Sonja Raney and Kevin Beltz, Lighting Design by Eric Lara

June 24 - July 18 Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7 p.m.

Wednesdays June 23 & July 7 "pay what you can night" special fundraiser -- all proceeds go to the BLUE THEATER

TICKETS: sliding scale $10-$20. Reservations 888-666-1257 or buy them online at: www.secondhandtheater.com

Blue Theater 916 Springdale Road (512) 927-1118

WHY: Because love stories never get old.

re:PSYCHE is a Greek Myth for the Google Age. Cupid packs a gun, deus ex machinas are less than divine, and love is hard work. Listed as one of the “top nine of ’09” by the Austin Chronicle, re:PSYCHE is a play that uses humor, heightened language and spectacle to raise serious questions about vows, desire, the hard work of love and what it takes to leap.

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Our Town, University of Texas, April 2 - 11

Stage Manager:
I've married over two hundred couples in my day. . . .
M . . . marries N . . . . millions of them.
The cottage, the go-cart, the Sunday afternoon drives in the Ford, the first rheumatism, the grandchildren, the second rheumatism, the deathbed, the reading of the will --
Once in a thousand times it's interesting.
[He now looks at the audience for the first time, with a warm smile that removes any sense of cynicism from the next line.]
Well, let's have Mendelssohn's "Wedding March"!

There's a deceptive simplicity to Thornton Wilder's Our Town.

It is, after all, a play about ordinary people in a small town. Nobodies. Or, rather, Everybodies.

I encountered it early in the second half of the twentieth century because it was included in its entirety in the high school English textbook. For eleventh grade. Maybe twelfth grade. No big words. No controversy. In fact, not much drama. Boy and girl meet, court, marry, look back over their lives and the story ends in a quiet graveyard on a high hill under the wild stars.

Staging something this simple and yet this profound takes a lot of insight. Director Marie Brown has done a lot of things right, the chief of which was the decision to entrust Tom Truss with the role of the stage manager.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Our Town, University of Texas, April 2 - 11

Click for ALT review, April 8

UPDATE: Review by Elizabeth Cobbe in the Austin Chronicle, April 8

UPDATE: Sara Pressley's feature in the Daily Texan, April 2

Found on-line:

The University of Texas presents

Our Town

by Thornton Wilder

directed by Marie Brown

April 2 - 11, Oscar G. Brockett Theatre

April 2*, 3, 9, 10 at 8 p.m.; April 7 & 8 at 7 p.m.
Matinees April 3, 10, 11 at 2 p.m.

Tickets: $20 adults, $17 UT faculty & staff, $15 students available online at www.texasperformingarts.org or by phone at 477-6060.

Our Town portrays a town at the turn of the twentieth century. It is a picture of the common things, the moments that fill everyday lives, the rites of passage we all face, the things and words and habits that we pass from one hand to another, day to day, generation to generation, century to century. It is a picture of that which we may touch every day but may never see.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

[image from Scottsdale Community College: www.scottsdalecc.edu]

Upcoming: The Psyche Project, University of Texas, September 10 - 12

Found at NowPlayingAustin:

The Cohen New Works Festival Encore

The Psyche Project

September 10-September 12, 2009
Oscar Brockett Theatre, University of Texas at Austin Performing Arts Center, 300 East 23rd Street Austin

Co-created by Jenny Connell and Marie Brown in collaboration with the ensemble, The Psyche Project makes a return engagement September 10-12, 2009 at the Oscar Brockett Theatre. With generous support from the University Co-op, this event is free and open to the public.

Fast, Funny and irreverent, The Psyche Project retells the myth of Eros and Psyche, two star-crossed lovers who married in secret, ticked off the Goddess of Love, and went to hell and back to keep their marriage together. See what happens when Greek Myth goes modern, hell is a mall, and Eros upgrades from arrow to a semi-automatic. The myth of Eros and Psyche is one of the oldest love stories of the Western world – God meets girl, God gets girl, God loses girl and gets her back.

Tickets: FREE
Show times are September 10, 11 & 12 at 8:00p.m
September 12 at 2:00 p.m.

[graphic "Eros and Psyche" Copyright: ©Rebecca Sinz. http://tinyurl.com/mmo7rd]