LISTRUNK, a brand spankin' new collective of visual and performing artists, invites you to digest our first public offering: a salon reading of Pablo Picasso's stage play
Desire Caught by the Tail
complete with Picasso-inspired illustrations, a talk about Picasso's life in Paris during World War II, and refreshments.
MARCH 11 at 8:30 p.m. Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Road, Austin $5 suggested donation Call 409-365-7306 for reservations and pay at the door.
Directed by Meghan Adriel Dwyer Illustration by Todd Mein Featuring Zeb West, Michael Ferstenfeld, Melissa Recalde, Briana McKeague, Jorge Sermini, Kelli Bland, Cassidy Risien, Steven Shirey, Courtney Outlaw and Walter Young
Connor Hopkins' The Jungle is a deeply serious work using high craft to dramatize the worst days of American industry.
Upton Sinclair's 1906 work, first published in serialization and then as a novel, caused a tremendous stir. He tells the story of an penniless immigrant family, crushed by corrupt exploitation, indifference, and unsanitary conditions of the Chicago meat packing industry. Sinclair's ambition had been to shake the American public into awareness of the inhumanity to the workers practiced by management and by capitalists -- an aim mirrored in Trouble Puppet's tag from the work, "They were slaughtering men there, as surely as we were slaughtering animals."
Lines & Curves staged reading of a brand new play by Sarah Saltwick
Directed by Bethany Perkins Starring Zeb West & Lynn Burnor
City Theatre, 3823 Airport Road Wednesday, August 26, 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, August 29 at 3 p.m.
"Are you like this with everyone?"
Max thinks it may be time for a change in his life. Tessa thinks she could be that change. But they both have a lot to learn about dating, affairs, honesty, living rooms and bedrooms. Funny, heartbreaking, sweet, familiar and strange.
A modern love story about two people and the things between them...
Two Workshop Performances with Talkbacks Come and Comment! A great date play! Tickets are Only $5 Buy them at the door (cash or check only!) or online:
Sarah Saltwick is a playwright relatively new to the Austin theatre scene. You can see her short play "Wet" in upcoming Muses III, produced by The Vestige Group. In September, she'll be spending another night writing with The Loaded Gun Theory for her second Slapdash FlimFlam 24 hour play festival. Her play "Low Hanging Stars" was selected for the upcoming America Rising reading series at the Bristol Riverside Theatre in Pennsylvania. She spent last summer creating a video game inspired play during ArtSpark called "Sublimation." In Austin, her work has been selected for FronteraFest Best of Week: "She Creatures:Mythic Women" (2009) and "Parents are People" (2008, ASW Commission). Her play "Cecilia" was nominated for Best New Play 2008 by Austin Critic's Table and was originally created for ASW's out of ink festival. She is a graduate of Hampshire College. She has worked as a barista, crew member at Trader Joes and high school creative writing teacher. She now works as a booking agent at Holden & Arts Associates and always seems to have more ideas than time.
With David Mamet's name on the playbill, one expects edgy situations and sharp language, but this production of A Life in the Theatre was one of gentle comedy and smooth edges.
It's a two-man show in which we see two male actors in an unnamed fifth-rate theatrical company sharing a dressing room. Michael Stuart is the mature actor and Zeb West is the newcomer. Mamet gives us vignettes of them over the stretch of a season or so, sketching out their initial, stiffly polite contacts and showing the development of a relationship. The notion is that the stodgy, opinionated old-school actor is going to be eclipsed by the up-and-coming future rival. The implied question is whether there will be a passing of the torch or an arm wrestling contest for it.
Ahhhh! A life in the theatre! The drafty halls, the penciled scripts, the stories you hear. The greasepaint–just vivid colors in oily goop, but somehow as evocative as Proust’s madelines–blah blah blah blah….
What is it with actors and their maddening romanticizing about life in the theatre? The surest traditions are long hours, lousy pay, inept producers, sweaty dressing rooms, falling scenery, and the wrath of critics.
The only thing that could make the job worse is some creepy old actor with an irrepressible desire to educate the uninitiated.Here we have the young Zeb West (The Red Balloon) barely tolerating the wisdom and idiosyncrasies of the old Michael Stuart (The Fantasticks)—onstage and off—in this hilarious and touching send-up of the traditions, superstitions, and vagaries of the theatre.
Directed by Mark Stewart (Bomb Shelter: Or The Modern Pinocchio).
Tongue and Groove Theatre is a sponsored project of Austin Circle of Theaters. This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
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