Upcoming: Three Short Plays by Gary Chason, ARC Alive, Bastrop, June 12Arts

Carried at Rob Faubion's www.AustinOnStage.com, June 7:

Arc Alive Staging Three Short Plays by Gary Chason on June 12th in Bastrop

The Arc Alive Performing Collective in Bastrop celebrates "Play Day" on June 12th by staging three short plays by Austin-based playwright and Hollywood director Gary Chason. The free performances will be staged at the Upstart Media Arts Center.

The plays include Terminal, the story of a dying young man with unfinished business, featuring Colleen Parnell and Clint Shumake. The story Moving in Circles sees actors Debra Orr and Savanna Darrow sharing the woes of hiring a nanny, and Madame Ripple finds Jamie Damon and Michael McGary looking for drugs with unexpected consequences.

Playwright Chason will attend the performances and participate in post-show discussions.

The afternoon event will also include additional performances by Arc Alive members and announcements of future events.

The free performances begin at 2:30 p.m. at the Upstart Media Arts Center, located at 1800 Linda at Cypress Street in Bastrop (click for map). For more information and directions, call (512) 321-2496 or visit www.UpstartBastrop.com.

Upcoming: Terminal by Susan Yankowitz, Texas State University, San Marcos, October 29 - November 1

Found on-line:

Terminal
by Susan Yankowitz
Texas State University Theatre Department
October 29-31, 7:30 p.m.
November 1, 2 p.m.

This ground-breaking collaboration with Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theatre -- an investigation into mortality -- was first produced in 1969 and then revised in 1996. Ms. Yankowitz won the Drama Desk Award for this unusual work. The original script can be found in “The New Radical Theatre Notebook” and ordered through Applause Books, 212 595-4735 or I” Types of Drama, Plays and Contexts”, at www.ablongman.com/barnettod. The later version of the play is available in Performing Arts Journal 57, Johns Hopkins Press, www.press.jhu.edu.

"Terminal sends its audience away with a passion for preserving the gift of life: its gorgeous variety, its possibilities, its essential sweetness.” Kroll, Newsweek

“…the closest thing we have to the transcendently didactic theater of the ancient Greeks.” John Lahr, New York Times

[Illustration: Dance of Death by Kazuya Akimoto from http://www.kazuya-akimoto.com/2008/2008contents/7143gallery3.html]

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