Melissa Livingston-Weaver and Shannon Weaver, partners also as A Chick and A Dude Productions, appeal on IndieGoGo with a goal of $5000 to support their staging at the Hyde Park Theatre of Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet, February 16 - March 3. Click on the IndieGoGo logo to go to the appeal page.
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presents
David Mamet's Pulitzer-Prize-winning play
Glengarry Glen Ross
directed by Melissa Livingston-Weaver
February 23 - March 10, Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd St. at Guadalupe (click for map)
Tickets are "sliding scale": Thursdays $10-20, Fridays-Saturdays $15-25.
For tickets/reservations, visit www.achickandadude.com, call (512) 921-4264 or email achickandadude@gmail.com.
This production contains very mature themes and strong language.
A Chick & A Dude Productions presents David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross--a hard-hitting portrayal of cutthroat office politics--through sharp dialogue and strong social commentary. The 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama is directed by Melissa Livingston-Weaver (2003 B. Iden Payne winner for Best Director of a Drama and 2011 B. Iden Payne nominee for Best Director of a Drama).
A dark dramatic comedy, Glengarry follows the lives of four smalltime, cutthroat real estate salesmen grinding out a living by pushing overpriced, undesirable plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their share of the American dream. Company big wigs Mitch and Murray declare a month-long 'sales contest'. The top salesman wins a new Cadillac and the bottom two men lose it all--egos, money and their jobs. The four salesmen sweet-talk, plan, and scheme for the perfect client and the hot 'Glengarry' leads, which Mitch and Murray make clear are for 'closers' only. How far will the four go to get to the leads in order to schedule a 'sit' at the perfect victim's residence?
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announces the southwestern premiere of
Paradise Key
by Dean Poyner
directed by Melissa Livingston
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd St. at Guadalupe (click for map)
Thursdays - Saturdays, March 31 - April 16, 8 p.m.
Tickets for the show are “sliding scale,” $10-$20 on Thursdays and $15-$20 on Fridays and Saturdays and are available online at www.achickandadude.com. To reserve seats, call (512) 921-4264 or email achickandadude@gmail.com.
Playwright Poynor Visits Austin to Host an after-show Q & A Session on Friday, April 8
Paradise Key takes place in the summer of 1951. A hidden U.S. Army safe house in the Florida Keys provides the backdrop for this intense physical and metaphysical drama in which Counter-Intelligence Agent David Dunn (Shanon Weaver) has just one night to extract a possible vaccine for Polio from the mind of former Nazi physician Werhner Halb (Tom Green). By using early CIA interrogation techniques—both psychological and physical—David attempts to discover the truth about Halb’s formula. As the Faustian bargain unfolds, we learn that Halb conducted experiments on human subjects in Nazi concentration camps. Halb will only offer information about the formula if David can first prove that he is a man, complicit in the consequences, able to accept that in order to become the hero, one must first embrace the monster.
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THE NEW ORIGINALS
at the FronteraFest Short Fringe
Friday, January 28 at the Hyde Park Theatre
program starts at 8 p.m.
Tickets for the festival can be purchased at www.hydeparktheatre.org.
THE NEW ORIGINALS borrows from over 130 different films to create an original dark comedy!
It’s a stormy night, and the Barkeep and the Drunkard are discussing the merits of yet another drink. Enter The Lady In Red and The Guy In The Hat. Their car has broken down up the road, and they are need of assistance. The Drunkard has a wandering eye, and The Guy In The Hat can’t seem to do anything right…can the relationship last the night?
The New Originals is a campy, dark comedy, told using ONLY lines of dialogue from over 130 established films. Starring Shawn Ferrell as The Barkeep, Shanon Weaver as The Drunkard, Chris Loveless as The Guy In The Hat, and Victoria Harrison-Weems as The Lady In Red. Directed by Melissa Livingston.
