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GET YOUR WAR ON
created by Rude Mechs | directed by Shawn Sides
adapted by Kirk Lynn from the internet comic by David Rees
Winner of the "Total Theatre Award" for "Best Original Work from an Ensemble" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
(One of five awards given out of over 1800 shows at the Festival)
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PRODUCTION HISTORY Kiasma Festival , Espoo City Theatre (Finland): The Off Center (Austin, TX) Aurora Nova/Assembly Room (Scotland): Galway Arts Festival (Ireland) 59E59 Theatres in NYC (Under The Radar Festvial) Original Mainstage production in Austin, TX: January 19 - February 11, 2006 April 28 - May 14, 2005 |
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WHAT THE CRITICS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT DAVID REES' “GET YOUR WAR ON” www.getyourwaron.com "GYWO is the most original cartoon to emerge since...well, ever. Raw, enraged, sardonic, hilarious, despairing and impossible to pigeonhole."- ROLLING STONE |
WHAT THE CRITICS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT RUDE MECHS'' “GET YOUR WAR ON”
"A history lesson that sprays scorn liberally (in both senses)...a slick production...devilishly deadpan actors...in the vein of of the slacker comedies of Mike Judge [and] the satire of Jon Stewart" - The New York Times "One of the smartest and funniest plays I've seen in a long time. Go out and buy a ticket right now." - CurtainUp.com "contains some of the funniest ridicule of a president and his policies I've ever heard on a stage...a hilarious grasp of absurdity...both retro and devilishly au courant...the live-theater equivalent of a wildfire" - The Washington Post “Rarely has political theatre so enmeshed the sardonic and the sincere...Rees’ comics, faultlessly realized by the cast and director Shawn Sides, are antic, paranoiac, and trenchant.” - The Village Voice “a gleeful retrospective of Rees’s work...with a wry humor that manages to feel both fresh and pointed.” - The New Yorker "delivers some of the most cogent and hilarious criticism of six years of the war on terror available in any entertainment medium today" - Show Business Weekly "Get Your War On is in the motherfucking house, and it is glorious. I laughed my ass off, but maybe only to keep from crying and tearing chunks of my hair out." - The Philadelphia Weekly "The show was fucking hilarious, but five years and two days after 9/11 and nearly four years into Iraq, I kind of cried, too." - Philadelphia City Paper "fast-paced and ingeniously choreographed laugh-a-second romp...a healthy release of nearly incessant laughter. (There’s just one word to express the audience response on the night I saw the play: howling.) - Gothamist.com |
"Director Shawn Sides choreographs the interplay among the projected images — important dates, bits of clip art, silly graphics — with a giddy precision that would make Busby Berkeley proud. This frenetic, faux-primitive approach is both a plausible equivalent to and a sly continuation of Mr. Rees's clenched-jaw minimalism." - The New York Sun "fiercely literate...satirical, ironic, and generally pissed-off" - The Washington City Paper "Inspired...quick-witted...no-holds-barred, genuinely pissed-off theater" - DCist.com " a 70-minute brilliant and sardonic blitz" - The Austin American-Statesman "a liberation of one's political soul in a cleansing explosion of laughter" - The Austin Chronicle "A performance not to be missed!" - The Daily Texan "a tightly wound, high-precision performance of political-comic-strip hilarity!" - Austinist.com "it strikes sparks to ignite the beaten-down, dark and dormant liberal-radical left that has been licking its paws too fucking long!" - The Austin Chronicle "Liberals are such immature, repugnant people...The Taxpayers probably got boned again...Oh, these whacko liberal theatre groups and their hateful hijnks!" - choice comments from NewsBusters (Exposing and Combating Liberal Media Bias) |
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OTHER USEFUL INFO* The fall 2007 tour cast of GYWO features Lowell Bartholomee, Ron Berry, Jason Liebrecht, Lana Lesley, and Liz Wakehouse. Previous cast members include Kirk Lynn, Amy Miley, Chad Nichols, Robert Pierson and Sarah Richardson. * Be Warned! GYWO contains adult language and content. * For more information about David Rees and the original “Get Your War On” visit http://www.getyourwaron.com. ABOUT DAVID REES David Rees was working a crummy magazine job when Operation: Enduring Freedom inspired him to make his cartoon "Get Your War On." The satire about the war on terrorism became an internet phenomenon. "Get Your War On" now appears in every issue of Rolling Stone. Sales of the two GYWO books have raised almost $100,000 for land mine removal in western Afghanistan. David's other comics include "My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable" and "My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable," which appears every Thursday in the Guardian.
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