Video Promo: I Didn't See That Coming, an evening of short plays by Mark Harvey Levine, Oh Dragon Theatre Company, February 20 - 22, 2014

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Didn't See That Coming is a collection of ten short stories featuring ordinary people in not-so ordinary situations. All written by playwright, Mark Harvey Levine.

LIMITED RUN! FEB. 20TH, 21ST, & 22ND @ 8 p.m.!!
Directed by Phil Morin, Michael Floyd.
Location: Brave New Books - 1904 Guadalupe Suite B, Austin, Texas 78705

Starring: Tatiana Artis, Ryan Campbell, Lara Christie, Michael Davis, Shelby Graham, Chelsea Hockaday, Ben Howell, Alex Kiester, Tim McCarter, Crystal J. Ramirez and Bailey West.

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Auditions in Austin for "Didn't See That Coming-An Evening of Mark Harvey Levine Plays," Oh Dragon Theatre Company, December 4, 2013

Oh Dragon Theatre Company is pleased to announce auditions for the *AUSTIN PREMIERE* of Didn’t See That Coming – An evening of Mark Harvey Levine Plays”by Mark Harvey Levine. This journey through ten short stories featuring ordinary people in not-so-ordinary situations will feature the directing talents of Phil Morin, Michael Floyd, & Jessica Helmke.

(www.markhaveylevine.com)

Auditions will be held on December 4^th, 2013 at SPACE (7915 Manchaca Road, Austin, Texas 78745 - click for map) from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Actors need to prepare a one-minute monologue and be prepared to do cold readings from the script. Roles for both men and women ages 20-40. Performance dates are February 20^th, 21^st, & 22^nd.


Please send your audition request to ohdragontheatrecompany@gmail.com.

2013-2014 season, Oh Dragon Theatre Company

Oh Dragon Theatre Company is excited to announce their 2013 – 2014 season! This season will feature the Austin premieres of two plays. Our main focus was to introduce new directors and plays to the Austin theatre community. We hope you’ll join us for what we think we’ll be an amazing year in live theatre.

The Flu Season

by Will Eno

Directed by Carl Gonzales

A love story goes bad (really bad), a play gets written in painful fits and starts, snow falls, it turns to slush. Maybe spring arrives. This is a play to remind us why sunsets make us sad, how nostalgia is like fog and why we live our lives as though we are in mourning for them.

Thursdays through Saturdays, November 7th – 16th.

grayDuck gallery, 608 Monroe Street Austin, Texas

*Austin Premiere*

DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING– An evening of my plays

by Mark Harvey Levine

Directed by Phil Morin, Michael Floyd, and Jessica Helmke

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A journey through ten short stories featuring ordinary people in not-so-ordinary situations.

February 2014 (Dates & Location TBA)

*Austin Premiere*

Tango Through The Revolution

by Adam Esquenazi Douglas

Directed by Katherine Wilkinson

In a small city in Cuba, on the night of their honeymoon, newlyweds Violeta and Moises Esquenazi begin their married life at the moment Castro is poised to take over the country. As the revolution shifts from a minor movement to a new, brutal way of life, this once simple couple is forced to reevaluate what morality and decency means in a world compromised by broken promises and fading music.

July/August 2014 (Dates & Location TBA)

For more information about Oh Dragon Theatre Company and our season, please visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/OhDragonTheatreCompany

Auditions for Dahlia, Untitled Theatre Works for FronteraFest, November 16

Untitled Theatre Works is holding auditions for Dahlia on the evening of November 16.  (Note: location has changed; please e-mail to receive the venue).  Seeking to cast 1 female, age 18-26 to play age 22; 1 male, age 25- 35 to play age 29; 1 female, age 20-30 to play age 26; and 1 male, age 25 - 50.
DAHLIA tells the story of a screenwriter whose obsession with the subject of his latest crime thriller could take him to the height of fame or the depths of insanity. Adult Subject Matter, Language and Mild Violence. DAHLIA will premiere as part of the Frontera Fest Short Fringe competition in January/February 2013.
TO AUDITION: Please send an email to untitledtheatreworks@gmail.com to schedule an appointment.

FOR MORE INFO: www.untitledtheatreworks.weebly.com

Upcoming: Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, Wondrous Strange Players at Community Renaissance Market, September 8 - 18

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present Federico Garcia Lorca's

Blood Wedding

directed by Michael Floyd

September 8 - 18, Thursdays through Sundays at 8 p.m.

Community Renaissance Market Theatre, 6800 Westgate at William Cannon (click for map)

The Wondrous Strange Players are proud to announce the opening of their newest production, Federico Garcia Lorca’s BLOOD WEDDING. Written in 1932, the play was based upon newspaper clippings that Lorca had saved for a number of years before he began work on the piece. The play was strongly influenced by the political climate in Spain at the time. The work reflects the attitudes and beliefs of the working class in the years just prior to the Spanish Civil War.

The story of BLOOD WEDDING concerns a young engaged couple approaching their wedding day. As the day comes closer, the Bride (Cameron Holmes) begins to realize she is still passionately drawn to her ex-lover, Leonardo (Austen Simien). Complicating the matter is the fact that Leonardo’s family was implicated in the deaths of The Groom’s father and brother. The Bride must choose between the Groom (Steven Brandt), who can provide wealth and security, and her heart’s desire, Leonardo. The choices the young lovers make lead to a deadly confrontation in the woods, spurred on by the involvement of The Moon (Sabrina Tarbutton) and a mysterious Beggar (Casey Allen).

Featuring a cast of both seasoned actors and newcomers, this updated version of the poetic classic is sure to be remembered. The cast includes company members Steven Brandt, Sabrina Tarbutton, Casey Allen and Christl Climans. Newcomers to the company include Cameron Holmes, Austen Simien, Terrie Cooper, Dustin Beyer, Kat Eason, Mike Dellens, Thomas Epling and Anne Gomez-Guzman. The production is directed by Wondrous Strange company member Michael Floyd (Chaotic Theatre’s Lysistrata and A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Sound Design and original music was composed by Taylor Kirk. The production is stage managed by Jessie Robles.

Tickets are on sale now. More information can be found at www.bloodwedding.weebly.com. Showdates are September 8-11 and September 15-18 at the Wondrous Strange Theatre inside The Community Renaissance Market located at 6800 Westgate Blvd. Austin, TX 78745. Doors open at 7:30pm and show starts at 8pm. This production contains mature themes and mild violence and is suitable for audience members ages 13 and up.

Auditions for Blood Wedding by García Lorca, Wondrous Strange Players, July 12 and 13

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Auditions for Lorca's

BLOOD WEDDING

The Wondrous Strange Players announce auditions for their upcoming production of BLOOD WEDDING, written by Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca. This exciting production, directed by Michael Floyd, will include elements of traditional theatre, chant and poetry and will open in early September. For more information on the production, please visit www.bloodwedding.weebly.com.

Dates: July 12 and 13, 2011

Times: 7 pm - 10pm

Location: Wondrous Strange Players Performance Space, located inside the Community Renaissance Market at 6800 West Gate Blvd, Austin, TX 78745

Please prepare the following:

-Theatrical Resume

-Headshot or Current Photo (optional)

-Anticipated Schedule through end of September

-Dramatic monologue not to exceed 2 minutes

Appointments are not necessary. We are seeking a large variety of men and women. You must be at least 13 years old to audition for this production. If you have any questions, please contact the director at mikefloyd.casting@gmail.com.

Lysistrata, Chaotic Theatre Company at City Theatre, May 28 - June 6

Lysistrata is a surprise in the compact canon of Greek drama. It's Aristophanes' clever satire of two usually unassociated aspects of manliness -- the male as warrior and the male as lover. Swordsmen in each case, although of quite different aspect.

There's a historical context of great seriousness to it involving wars between Greek city states in B.C. 413. That may partly explain why this text was awarded only third place in the theatrical competition that year. That background has dropped away in the 2500 years since that time, and Lysistrata stands -- erect -- on its own merciless mockery of the awkward aspects of human lust. Let's face it -- an aroused man is a bizarre sight, with his manly pride and attention concentrated in a yearning member, usually hidden. Nothing is more urgent for him that the business immediately at hand -- and if there were only some way to take him firmly near the short and curlies, one could lead him just about anywhere.

The Chaotic Theatre Company, established in 2009, has taken on familiar classics with the evident aim of giving them distinctive interpretations. Their Alice! was a psychotic adventure in the wonderland of an institute for the insane and their Midsummer Night's Dream was an effective although unadorned version of that familiar Shakespeare text, assisted by a guitar band.

Their Lysistrata is an intriguing two-speed interpretation. The thesis -- never really exploited or completely explained -- is that the events we are witnessing take place in some undefined future time. The company combines an anonymous but intact translation of Aristophanes' mocking, often ribald text with monologue commentaries delivered by individual actors. Jenny Lavery, Aja McMillan, Elexia Lowe and Donovan McCallum reflect on our culture's commercialisation of sexual themes, speak of uneasy feelings about sexual self images and seek to define manliness and womanliness. This additional material is credited in the program to them and to director Michael Floyd, whose program notes evoke the same themes.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Ongoing: Lysistrata, Chaotic Theatre Company at City Theatre, May 28 - June 6

UPDATE: Review by Ryan E. Johnson for examiner.com, June 3

UPDATE: Review by Barry Pineo for Austin Chronicle, June 4

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The Chaotic Theatre Company presents

Lysistrata

A Comedy of Sexual Politics
May 28 - June 6
Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m.
matinees on Sundays and on Saturday, June 5
City Theatre, 3823 Airport Boulevard (behind the Shell station)
Tickets available at www.ChaoticTheatre.com

ADVISORY: This production contains, strong language, adult content and nudity.

In the near future, war and sexual appetite rule the minds and bodies of our impassioned characters. In opposition to the lustful society, Lysistrata summons the women of the land to unite in a radical act of civil disobedience;vowing to withhold all sexual contact from every man until a peace treaty is signed. Come observe the heightened tension swell, until the climax of the show releases all.

This production, directed by Michael Floyd (A Midsummer Night's Dream), moves the action out of the past and sets it in the Athens, Greece of the distant future. However, this future is eerily similar to the Greece of Aristophanes' time. Proving that history tends to repeat itself, the men are sexually addicted war mongers. Women are mistreated and viewed only as sex objects. Even the politics and dress of these future citizens echoes Ancient Greece.

The women, tired of losing their lovers and sons to war, decide to turn the tables on the men! Led by our heroine, Lysistrata, the women vow to withold all sexual contact until the men declare peace in all of Greece. This sets in motion a battle of the sexes that ends in hilarity. Punctuated by personal observations from the actors and actresses themselves, the production sets out to not only make you laugh but also to think about the state of sexuality in our modern society.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Auditions and Tech Call: Lysistrata, Chaotic Theatre Company, March 27

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The Chaotic Theatre Company announces auditions for

LYSISTRATA
by Aristophanes

The Chaotic Theatre Company is seeking male and female actors for their upcoming production of the classic Greek sex comedy Lysistrata. For this production, all actors must be 18 years of age or older. Actors should prepare a one-minute classical monologue of their choosing. Actors should bring with them a resume, headshot and their anticipated schedule through mid-June. Some roles do require nudity. Please address all questions to director Michael Floyd at mo_floyd@hotmail.com

Auditions will be held Saturday, March 27 from 10am - 2pm at the Dougherty Arts Center. For company information, visit www.chaotictheatre.com.

Technical Call for Lysistrata

We are also seeking the following technical positions:

Makeup and Hair Design
Costume Crew
Lighting Designer
Light and Sound Board Operators
Running Crew

Auditions and Tech Call: Midsummer Night's Dream, Chaotic Theatre Company, January 6

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CHAOTIC THEATRE AUDITIONS: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Fresh off the explosive run of ALICE! at The Vortex, the Chaotic Theatre Company is holding auditions for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. We are currently seeking 15 cast members for this imaginative production of the Shakespeare classic.

Shakespearean experience is preferred but not required. Please prepare and bring the following to the audition: a Shakespearean monologue of no more than 1 minute, a theatrical resume, your anticipated schedule through the first weekend of March 2010 and a headshot (if available). Also be prepared to read sides from the script.

Production runs late February through early March. Auditions will be held at the Dougherty Arts Center (Green Room) on January 6th from 1pm to 5pm.

If you would like to audition but cannot make the audition times or if you have any questions, please contact Michael Floyd directly at mo_floyd@hotmail.com.

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CHAOTIC THEATRE CREW CALL: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

The Chaotic Theatre Company is currently seeking volunteers for the following crew positions for its upcoming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Stage Manager
Costume Construction and Design
Hair and Makeup Designer
Lighting Designer
Set Designer

Production runs late February through early March. If you are interested in any of these positions, please send your resume and any questions to Michael Floyd at mo_floyd@hotmail.com.

Ongoing: After The Fall, Austin Drama Club,

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Upcoming at the Austin Drama Club

After The Fall

by Arthur Miller
Sept 17 through Oct 3, Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m.
japhyfernandes@live.com for details and location

Arthur Miller? Why does that ring a bell? He wrote Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and All My Sons which still get done on a regular basis around the country. But what do you know about the playwright himself? Tangled in the McCarthy red scare of the 50s, he tangled himself in several relationships with very different types of woman. You may remember one of the gals as Norma Jean.

Some names may have changed to protect the guilty but After The Fall is still as austobiographical as it gets.

Come peek inside the life of the man who gave us these great plays. A long drama with three intermissions ....

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Richard III, Austin Drama Club, July 30 - August 22

He was standing at the gate when I walked up. East 7th and Concho. This looked like the place.

"Is this where the play is?"

He looked me over.

"Yeah. Go ahead. The house is open."

Yes, it was open. And it was a house. Dark inside, with rough fabric curtains hanging between the entry and the kitchen, and then between the kitchen and the living area. Cooler this time, with an air conditioner laboring away in the depths of the room. Singly or in couples, the audience gathered. Friendly enough. Waiting, though. Quietly murmuring.

The lights dimmed, a curtain moved aside. Barely visible in the low light, a man in a scruffy suit stood there, then lurched forward toward us, into the playing space.

"Now is the winter of our discontent. . . ."

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