Images by Kimberley Mead: Early Girl, Paladin Theatre at Salvage Vanguard, July 29 - August 22

Images by Kimberley Mead for

Early Girl

A drama by Caroline Kava

Paladin Theatre Company

directed by Charles P. Stites

July 29 to August 22, Thursdays through Sundays
8:00 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and 5:30 p.m. on Sundays
Tickets: $15.00 on Thursdays and $20.00 on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
Performances will be held at Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd.

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For Tickets and Information: AusTIX at 474-TIXS (8497) or online at www.NowPlayingAustin.com/Austix

Early Girl features the talents of WENDY ZAVALETA and KEYLEE PAIGE KOOP, as well as KAREN ALVARADO, ROSE FREDSON, ASHLEY SPILLERS, LINDSLEY HOWARD, with special guest MOLLY KARRASCH as "SALLY."

"Early Girl is a fascinating look behind the scenes at a brothel - the passions, the rivalries, the jealousies, and the frustrated ambitions. Each woman has a unique story to tell: one is looking for her future; one is burying her past; one woman is looking for love; another is seeking a home; one is searching for a revelation; and Lana, the madam and master manipulator, pulls the strings for each of the ladies in the house. Early Girl allows the audience to see how the prostitutes in Lana’s house interact with each other, and how each woman deals with the toll the profession takes on them. It’s a funny, sexy, honest, and powerful play."

(CAUTION: This play contains nudity.)

Click to view additional images by Kimberley Mead.

Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Paladin Theatre at the Off Center, May 6 - 30

Charles Stites fits so entirely and comfortably into the horrible male characters of David Mamet that one has to wonder if the man is, in fact, acting.

Mind you, he is an actor of great presence and élan vital, as anyone could see when he was onstage in City Theatre's Glengarry, Glen Ross by Mamet and in the title role of its Tartuffe by Molière. It's just that for this new theatre grouping Stites chose Mamet's 1974 one-act, he directed it, and he portrays the central character Bernie Litko, an assertive, energetic total asshole who entirely dominates this series of blackout sketches.

The press photo captures pretty precisely the relationships among these four characters. Bernie expostulates; the self-effacing Danny listens to Bernie as if he were Moses coming down from the Sears Tower with a long list of commandments on sexual relations; Deborah the illustrator is sweet and uncertain; and Joan the kindergarten teacher, with no male in her life, is the outsider, Deborah's coach and her neglected roommate.

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