Upcoming: American Bear by Larry Mitchell, Theatre en Bloc at the Hideout Theatre, November 25 - December 17

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American Bear: A play about home

by Larry Mitchell

November 25 - December 17, Thursdays - Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Sunday matinees at 5 p.m. on November 27, December 4, December 11

Hideout Theatre, 617 Congress Avenue (click for map)

Tickets are $15 and can be reserved by contacting Theatre en Bloc at theatre.enbloc@gmail.com, or by calling 512.522.4083
Tickets will be available for “walk-up” purchase at 7PM each performance night
For more information, visit theatreenbloc.org.

American Bear is a play about how we define home and family, especially during times of family crisis. Is family forever? How far can the bonds of family be stretched before they snap? Why is it that families tear themselves apart. When isn't blood thicker than water?

American Bear is the journey of two brothers, Eddie and Jules, struggling to find themselves in the wake of their parents’ untimely death. Eddie, who has been gone for many years, returns to the boys' childhood home for the funeral with his new fiancée, Lonnie, in tow. As the three work through the history of family strife, it is more than sibling rivalry that comes between the two brothers.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Seller Door by Larry Mitchell, Sustainable Theatre at East End Flats, June 3 -

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Seller Door

by Larry Mitchell

June 3 - June 19

Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 5 p.m. Monday, June 13 is Industry Night.

East End Flats, 2931 E 12th Street (click for map)
Tickets: $10 - $20 per person
Info Phone: 512-534-0692

Seller Door is a play about a barker, and the people he gets to go through a door and what happens to those people once they go through. A careful and crafted blend of sharp, concise movement with a strong focus on the precision of the words. Approached through the lens of the silent comedy masters, Chaplin and Keaton for the specificity of movement. Seller Door carries a quick wit and much of the humor comes from a specific focus on pace and rhythm.

Auditions for Seller Door, Sustainable Theatre Project, March 31 - April 1

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STP is holding auditions this week - weekend for Seller Door by Larry Mitchell.

It is a comedy about a barker, the people he gets to go through a door and what happens to those people after they go through the door.
We're seeking 7 actors, male and female, of all ages and types.
Auditions will be held:
6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 31st - April 2nd.
Appointment only. Email sustainable.theatre.project@gmail.com to reserve a time. We will contact you with confirmation and info on where the auditions are being held!

Upcoming: Sustainable Theatre Project's fundraiser for Seller Door by Larry Mitchell (ongoing)

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The Sustainable Theatre Project is documenting the life-cycle of a new play Seller Door.

What does “life-cycle” mean? It means we’re going to film every aspect from planning to production of a live performance. Everything from auditions and production meetings to artist interviews and a live performance will be filmed, edited and produced in a one-of-a-kind documentary/recorded live performance DVD set. The project includes three specific areas of focus: The Play, Sustainability and the Video Series.

It’s like funding three projects in one! A live performance, conceived and executed sustainably and a professionally produced film!

ABOUT THE PLAY

Seller Door is a play about consequences. It’s about a Barker, the people he gets to go through a door and what happens to those people once they go through the door. For the live production, STP will use an empty space, a non-traditional theatre space, perhaps a store front or vacant warehouse. Without giving too much away… there will be a Barker, a thief, 25 lbs. of pretzels and a room that fills with… well, that would be giving too much away. The execution of the play will be an experiment attempting to blend the “fourth-wall”, observer based, story-telling theatre of tradition with the contemporary shift toward audience participation, experiential theatre that has become popular as of late. With Seller Door, STP strives to create an event that is equal parts story/observation and experience/participation that will uphold the ritual of theatre and embrace the newest trends in theatre.

Campaign goal: $3500. Open until January 24.

Click on image or click here to go to page with video and funding appeal. . . .

Dead White Males by William Missouri Downs, Sustainable Theatre Project, August 19 - September 11

Fascism isn't funny but it offers huge targets for satire.

The premise is familiar: an eager novice takes up a new calling, infused with idealism, and finds that not only is the actual day-to-day work grueling but the authorities are self-serving, hypocritical and exploitative.

Dead White Males is a valentine to those teacher-victims and a savage attack on administrators of educational systems. The Sustainable Theatre Project stretches a bit by linking the play to recent battles over the Texas education curriculum, but that wouldn't bother the likely audience in Austin for this staging. In fact, the company gave the intro an Alamo Drafthouse feel by running news clips and cartoons for the twenty minutes or so before the start of the live action.

Downs sets the tone from the very first moments, with a trio of evaluators sitting in on one of the first classes of tender, earnest Janet, a newly recruited teacher. Janet (Molly Fonseca) struggles to maintain discipline in the class from hell as the administrators interrupt her with impossible, smarmy instructions and corrections. Our villains are a useless Ph.Ed named Dr. Ozzy Mandias (flashing neon sign here! cf. Shelley's poem of the same name about the statue of an ancient, vanished mighty king), a sycophantic "master teacher" Woods (Beth Burroughs) and non-committal Principal Pettlogg (Dennis Kelleher Bailey). The lesson is a fiasco, mostly because poor Janet never gets the opportunity to present it.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Call for Actors: Dead White Males by William Missouri Downs, Sustainable Theatre Project

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Sustainable Theatre Project is currently looking for actors for its upcoming production...

Sustainable Theatre Project is currently looking for actors for their upcoming production of Dead White Males by William Missouri Downs and directed by recent ALT APPLAUSE award recipient Derek Kolluri. The production is still in the early stages of development and we are looking for interested parties. The tentative dates for the production run are 3 weeks in August with rehearsals starting around July 1st. All actors will receive a stipend. The roles that we are looking to fill are:

Doris: An older science teacher certified to teach history. 30-50ish.
Ms. Woods: An art teacher certified to teach science. 30-40ish.
Principal Pettlogg: The principal. 40-50ish.
Master Teacher Burns: A master teacher. 30-50ish.
Dr. Ozy Mandias: A new member of the school board. 40-50ish.

Once we've recevied your info we'll contact you with more information about audition dates and send a set of sides for you to read and prepare.

For information about our company's mission and previous productions, please visit our website at www.sustainabletheatreproject.org

If you are interested in setting up an audition please send a resume to sustainable.theatre.project@gmail.com

Contact: Sustainable Theatre Project sustainable.theatre.project@gmail.com
Website: www.sustainabletheatreproject.org

Auditions: Dead White Males by William Missouri Downs, Sustainable Theatre Project

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Wanted for Sustainable Theatre Project's production of the comedy Dead White Males by William Missouri Downs:

three women (average age 40) and two men (average age 50)

Synopsis:

Janet is a new teacher at Thomas Paine Elementary. She is certified to teach art, though at Thomas Paine she teaches history. Today is the day she will be given her first evaluation. Evaluating her classsroom are Dr. Ozy Mandias, Principal Pettlogg and Master Teacher Burns, three administrators determined to undermine the educational setting with semantic educational theory and bumbling attempts at politically correct rhetoric. If this day marks the first test of Janet's ability as a teacher, this school year will test her passion to be one.

Janet is assigned a mentor named Doris. Doris has been a teacher of science for some time, despite her certification to teach history. Ms. Woods is another teacher at Thomas Paine Elementary, certified to teach science, yet currently teaching art. The three women, all in different stages of their careers, struggle to keep order in the classroom and composure in administration meetings. Ultimately, they struggle to keep their jobs.

Janet must decide with whom she is allied: the administration or her fellow teachers.

Amidst this turbulence, how can one young albeit passionate teacher have any energy left to accomplish her main purpose: teaching our children?

Details and contact information at their website: www.sustainabletheatreproject.org

Jack and Jill, Sustainable Theatre Project at the Hyde Park Theatre, March 18 - 27

Jack and Jill is "a romance," according to playwright Jane Martin, the mysterious alter ego of Jon Jory, retired artistic director of the Theatre of Louisville. The Mother Goose reference implies a jaunty comedy approach, but Jack and Jill is anything but that.

Martin's two-character play is energetic and witty, but it's a portrait of two individuals incapable of merging two I's into a We. Jack is a big, bashful stumbling guy, all thumbs and vulnerability -- the anti-macho -- and Jill is bright, together, to-the-point, competitive and irredeemably selfish -- the antithesis of traditional femininity. Act I presents their courtship, marriage and frustrations; Act II presents their lives and successive encounters after divorce. They remain linked in the syzygy of mutual attraction, closer and then farther apart, unable to live together and yet unable to live apart.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Jack & Jill by Jane Martin, Sustainable Theatre Project at the Hyde Park Theatre, March 18 - 27

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is proud to announce its first full-length production, a very honest story about the ups and downs of falling in love:

Jack & Jill
by Jane Martin

Austin’s newest theatre company, Sustainable Theatre Project, begins its inaugural season with Jane Martin’s Jack & Jill: A Romance, winner of the 1997 Theatre Critics’ Association award for best new play. The first of a planned five-show season,Jack and Jill is a story about falling in love and the all the joy and heartache that follows. Jane Martin’s understanding of the complexity of being in love, her fair portrayal of both sides of the partnership and her stunning, roll-off-the-tongue dialogue make this modern, all but fairy-tale romance undeniably entertaining. The play’s relevance lands wholly as an honest portrait of the couple in love, fighting to be together and for a sense of self.

B. Iden Payne nominee Derek Kolluri and FronteraFest 2010 Best of Fest actress Molly Fonseca fill the roles of Jack and Jill.

Jack & Jill: A Romance runs March 18 -27, Thursday through Saturday, 8 p.m. at Hyde Park Theatre 511 W. 43rd, Austin, TX 78751. Tickets are $10 - $20. Sustainable Theatre Project is offering special rates for all “couples,” (parties of two). The first ticket is $10 - $20 and the second is free. Tickets can be reserved by contacting Sustainable Theatre Project at sustaianble.theatre.project@gmail.com, or by calling 512.479.PLAY, and will be available for “walk-up” purchase at 7 p.m. each performance night. For more information, visit sustainabletheatreproject.org.

Upcoming: ms by Molly Fonseca, Sustainable Theatre Project at FronteraFest,

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by Molly Fonseca, Sustainable Theatre Project
FronteraFest Short Fringe at Hyde Park Theatre
Thursday, February 4 - program starts at 8 p.m.

ms explores one patient's journey from unfamiliar doctor visits and tests to an inevitable diagnosis. Like many unexpected journeys the path is sometimes frustrating, terrifying and amusing, but it is always unknown.

Molly Fonseca's one-person play strives to open the lines of communication about disease and what it does not only to our physical bodies but also to our hearts. How do we recover in the face of this new information and how do we find the strength to keep moving forward?

Making its Austin premiere at FronteraFest Short Fringe, ms offers a peek into the mind of a reluctant patient who is as unsure of the next step as is the audience who is joining her.

Reservations via Hyde Park Theatre.

Upcoming: Six Plays by Larry Mitchell, Sustainable Theatre Project at Hyde Park Theatre, December 14

Post card picked up December 2 at an Austin theatre venue. Hyde Park Theatre calendar lists this event for Monday, December 14, 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. with no further detail.

Travis Bedard provides the following:

Join Sustainable Theatre Project for readings of 5 short plays and an excerpt from an upcoming full-length show to be produced in the fall by Sustainable Theatre Project. All plays penned by Sustainable Theatre Project Resident Playwright, Larry Mitchell. Come join us and be introduced to the company and our playwright. ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Featuring STP Company Members...Molly Fonseca, Derek Kolluri, Larry Mitchell, Ryan Hamilton

and we're pleased to be working with...Mason Stewart and Kelli Bland!

This event is an introduction to the company members and a fundraiser for upcoming productions of Sustainable Theatre Project.

We look forward to your attendance and thank you in advance for your support.

We are pleased to announce that this event has been sponsored by two great Austin restaurants: The Clay Pit and Saba Blue Water Cafe. Our thanks to Bali Singh of Clay Pit and Joe Reynolds of Saba. Look forward to Saba eats on the 14th while enjoying some delicious wine provided at cost by Christian Robinson at Twin Liquors at 16th and Guadalupe.