Video: Boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Capital T at Hyde Park Theatre (extended to June 30)

Extended to June 30, Thursdays - Saturdays at the Hyde Park Theatre:

Auditions for Boom and for Exit Pursued by a Bear, Capital T Theatre, April 15

We need Women.

Capital T is excited to announce auditions for its next 2 productions of BOOM and EXIT PURSUED BY A BEAR. We need 3 actresses that range from 18-27 years of age for these production. All actors will be paid. Auditions will be held this Sunday evening April 15th at Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd St. at Guadalupe (click for map). Audition by appointment. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Contact us at capitalttheatre@gmail.com with a resume and recent pic.Roles:

Jo – Female – 20 Year old - BOOM
An undergraduate journalism student. She is funny, impulsive, intelligent, attractive and an external processor. An outsider.

Nan Carter - 27, female EXIT PURSUED BY A BEAR
Southern,
pretty and quick, like deer.
Naive and trusting but fed up with her husbands abusive behavior.

Sweetheart – 20 – female EXIT PURSUED BY A BEAR
Southern, Aspiring actress who is currently a stripper.

About the Plays BOOM by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb runs Thurs-Sat May 31- June 23. A marine biologist hosts a journalism student in his subterranean biology lab for an erotic “casual encounter.” As disaster looms upon the planet, the fate of their “date” takes on monumental importance. BOOM is an epic and intimate comedy of evolution, loneliness, and how to survive. Rehearsal for BOOM will begin immediately. EXIT PURSUED BY A BEAR by Lauren Gunderson runs Thurs-Sat August 16-September 8. Nan decides it’s finally time to leave her abusive husband Kyle and make a run for it…but not until she’s tied him up, covered him in honey and invited the neighborhood bear in for a snack. Lauren Gunderson’s gut-busting, outrageous revenge comedy about dreams, healing, and the simple joy of tying a dickhead to the living room chair. Rehearsals for EXIT PURSUED BY A BEAR will begin in July.

Upcoming: Boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Capital T Theatre, May 31 - June 23

presents

boom

by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

Directed by Mark Pickell

Costume Design by Cheryl Painter

May 31st-June 23rd

Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm

Hyde Park Theatre 511 W 43rd St (click for map)

A marine biologist hosts a journalism student in his subterranean biology lab for an erotic “casual encounter.” As disaster looms upon the planet, the fate of their “date” takes on monumental importance. BOOM is an epic and intimate comedy of evolution, loneliness, and how to survive.

Costume Design by Cheryl Painter

Cast

Jo – TBA

Jules – TBA

Barbara – Katherine Catmull

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb – Playwright is a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include boom (TCG’s most-produced play 2009-10), T.I.C. (Trenchcoat In Common), Hunter Gatherers (2007 ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award, 2007 Will Glickman Prize), Colorado,and Multiplex. His work has been seen Off-Broadway and at theaters across the country including at Ars Nova, SPF, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Seattle Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Public Theatre, Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep, Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theatre, Dad’s Garage, and in the Bay Area at Encore Theatre, Killing My Lobster, Marin Theatre Company, Impact Theatre, and The Bay Area Playwrights Festival. He is under commission from South Coast Repertory and American Conservatory Theater, and is a Resident Playwright at the Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco. He holds a degree in Theater and Biology from Brown and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He likes to promote himself online at www.peternachtrieb.com.

Thomas Jenkins on Tragedy, including Will Eno's Play at Trinity University, September 29 - October 8

Link to the feature in the San Antonio Current, received directly:

The Wicked Stage on Tragedy, A Tragedy

September 28, 2011

By Thomas Jenkins

I’ve been thinking a lot about tragedy lately; partly, that’s because we—all of us—have just experienced the anniversary of 9/11, and it’s hard to separate that date, and those events, from the notion of tragedy, writ large. Partly, it’s because I’m considering the creation of an entire course on tragedy at Trinity: I already teach a combined Greek and Roman Drama course—in which tragedy naturally looms large—but to go from fart jokes in Aristophanes to infanticide in Seneca has always produced a bit of whiplash. (My students, to their credit, bravely soldier on.)

But, mostly, I’ve been pondering tragedy since I’m indirectly responsible for the show that’s going up at Trinity this weekend: Will Eno’s laconically-entitled Tragedy: A Tragedy. I first read the play a few years ago while burrowing my way through a number of modern tragedies, including Edward Albee’s wickedly subversive The Goat, which the author significantly subtitled “Notes towards a definition of tragedy.” (Trag-odos literally means ‘goat song’ in Greek, in commemoration of a sacrificed kid; and, to be frank, things look very bad for the goat in The Goat.) I didn’t actually see an animal slaughtered on stage (only mimetically, thanks) until Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s wonderful Hunter Gatherers (at the Hyde Park Theater in Austin): when dinner is preceded by the ritual dismemberment of a lamb, more than just comedy is on the table.

But Eno’s Tragedy: A Tragedy is another animal (so to speak) altogether. It’s less an investigation into ancient notions of communal taboo than a meditation on contemporary media: how we live, die, and grieve together as a news cycle.

Read more at the San Antonio Current . . . .

Read ALT's 'Upcoming' page on Will Eno's Tragedy: A Tragedy at Trinity University, San Antonio. . . .

Images by Alan Trammel: Hunter Gatherers, Capital T Theatre, October 14 - November 6

Images by Alan Trammel received directly from Capital T Theatre:

Capital T presents

Directed by Mark Pickell

Sound Design by Adam Hilton

Costume Design by Cheryl Painter

October 14th – November 6th 2010

Thursday-Saturday at 8pm

Hyde Park Theatre 511 W 43rd St

“Outrageously libidinous knockabout farce meets penetrating social satire in Peter Nachtrieb’s hilariously revelatory comedy, an almost two-hour laugh riot.”—San Francisco Chronicle

"Like a mash-up of the most brutal episode of Wild Kingdom and any episode of South Park" —San Francisco Bay Guardian

Pam and Richard are hosting their best friends, Wendy and Tom, for their annual dinner get-together. An animal sacrifice kicks off the evening, followed by a little more sex, violence, deception, revelations, wrestling and dancing than previous years. A darkly comic evening where the line between civilized and primal man is blurred, and where not everyone will survive long enough to enjoy the brownies for dessert.

The show features an all star cast including B Iden Payne and Austin Critics Table nominees and winners Kenneth Wayne Bradley (KILLER JOE, BUG), Rebecca Robinson (SICK), and Liz Fisher (DYING CITY) and introduces recent award winning actor and LA transplant Brad Price to Austin. The show will be directed by Mark Pickell who won both the B Iden Payne award and Austin Critics Table award for the last dark comedy he directed...

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