Upcoming: The Dudleys, Tutto Theatre at the Blue Theatre, May 6 - 22

Found on-line:

Tutto Theatre presents
The Full-Stage Premiere of
The Dudleys!: A Family Game

by Leegrid Stevens
directed by Gary Jaffe
6 – 22 May 2011
Wednesdays – Saturdays, 8:00 p.m., Sundays, 7:00 p.m.
The BLUE Theatre, 916 Springdale Road (click for map)
Fridays and Saturdays: $15 General Admission
(GACA/Senior/Student: $12 & Priority Seating: $20)
Wednesdays & Thursdays are Pay-What-You-CAN
Name Your Own Price w/ Donation of Non-Perishable Canned Food Item(s) to benefit Hope Food Pantry at Trinity United Methodist Church [Price without donation is $12]

Featuring the artistic contributions of Actors: Alex Cogburn, Katie Dahm, Robert Deike, Spencer Driggers, Braden Hunt, Jenny Keto, Rachel McGinnis, Blake Smith, David Meissner, and Erin Treadway; Set Designer: Chase Staggs; Lighting Designer: Natalie George

Original ChipTune Music Composed and Performed Live by: Steven Gridley.

This evocative, new play translates the adolescent memories of a young man into a malfunctioning 8-bit video game, the kind he used to play as a child. A life-size video game onstage provides the setting in which the characters must score points and overcome obstacles as they navigate their way through the dangers of their own family. The Dudleys! features original video and a live 8-bit band of Atari's, Gameboy's, and Commodore 64's performing original chiptune songs, a new genre of electronic music in which old video game consoles are hacked and reprogrammed as synthesizers. The Dudleys! pits the two dimensional side-scrolling world of fun and happy endings up against the confusion and aimlessness of real life.

Click to view the play's website

Upcoming: Post-Oedipus, The Getalong Gang at the Blue Theatre, March 25 - April 11

UPDATE: Review by Cleve Wiese for Austinist.com, April 15

UPDATE: Review by Barry Pineo for the Austin Chronicle, April 8

UPDATE: Review by Ryan E. Johnson at examiner.com/austin, April 2

UPDATE: Review by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Austin Statesman "Seeing Things" blog, March 29

UPDATE: Austin Creative Alliance interviews Jenny Gravenstein, Nicole Portwood and Stephen Cruz about Post-Oedipus, March 29 (audio, 11 min 20 sec)

UPDATE: Bastion Carboni interview Spencer Driggers for Austinist.com, March 26

Received directly:

The Blue Theatre and the Getalong Gang Performance Group
present

POST-OEDIPUS
a play by Steven Gridley

March 25 – April 11
Thursdays – Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.
The Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale Road
Tickets: $15 at www.post-oedipus.eventbrite.com

The BLUE Theatre and Getalong Gang Performance Group present the Austin premiere of Post-Oedipus, a radical re-working of Euripides' play The Phoenician Women. Post-Oedipus chronicles the tumultuous events of Oedipus' family after his fall, using warped time, musical interjections, chaotic revelries, and intolerable silences to unravel the mental state of a family after disaster. At once a stunning family drama and a jaunt into the absurd, Post-Oedipus will delight and challenge audiences.

Coming off their most recent project, the Austin Critics’ Table-nominated Arthuriosis: A Metal Opera, the Getalong Gang’s Spencer Driggers and Zenobia Taylor join forces to direct and choreograph this memorable production. Designed by Stephen Pruitt and featuring Jenny Gravenstein (Critics’ Table winner and B. Iden Payne nominee), Nicole Portwood, Seth Thomas, Steve Cruz, Michelle Turner, Helyn Rain Messenger, and James Brownlee.

About the BLUE Theatre The BLUE Theatre is a versatile artist-operated performance space on Austin's east side. Post-Oedipus marks the first collaboratively-produced performance by the BLUE and the Getalong Gang.

About the Getalong Gang Performance Group Named one of “10 companies that are charging up Austin theatre" by the Austin Chronicle, the Getalong Gang Performance Group strives to challenge the hearts and minds of its audience and show them a great night out, as well. Husband and wife team Spencer Driggers and Zenobia Taylor have been melding their respective disciplines (theatre, dance) since 2006 to form an unique, genre-defying brand of performance that's been recognized multiple times by the Austin Critics’ Table, B. Iden Payne awards, and Chronicle best-of lists in 2008 and 2009. Critically acclaimed and award-winning productions like Arthuriosis, Dolly Would and Ben Franklin: A Rock Opera have helped to cement the Getalong Gang’s reputation for bringing the unexpected to Austin stages.