Category: Productions

SHE WAS BORN
an original play
created by Nat & Veronica
a Rude Fusion projectWhen: Sept. 17 – 26, 2015
Thurs – Sat at 8:00 p.m.
Where: The Off Shoot
Tickets: $15.00 available athttp://rudemechs.com/shows/swb.htm

“Enchanting, then alarming, ultimately heartbreaking… the definition of unmissable.” – NOLA Defender 2014

There are very few creatures capable of Parthenogenesis.

In this rare and extraordinary form of asexual reproduction, mothers procreate without a sexual partner and give birth to exact genetic copies of themselves. This means that in an undisturbed environment, the life cycle of such an organism has the potential to become an infinite loop, repeating itself over and over for eternity. This is either a form of immortality or utter absurdity. Or both.

Meet SHE. SHE is a bug. SHE is alone. SHE is a parthenogenetically reproducing invertebrate. And SHE wants to know why she is here.

In Nat & Veronica’s She Was Born a group of only twenty audience members is invited into a giant paper pod to bear witness to the full life-cycle of this imaginary extraterrestrial insect. She Was Born explores motherhood, mortality and the idea that, biologically speaking, reproduction is the sole purpose of existence. It’s a story both completely alien and strangely familiar; after all, everything that ever lived was born.

Nat & Veronica are a creative team dedicated to the creation of provocative and viscerally rich performance work with a strong focus on audience experience. Driven by a desire to find new and powerful potential in live performance their work combines visual spectacle, presence based performance and subtle humor to explore the problem of how to live. They have presented work at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans and Mount Tremper Arts and were artists in residence at LiveArts Bard. Currently, they split their time between New Orleans and New York’s Hudson Valley. For more information, visit  http://www.natandveronica.org.

TENDER ROUGH
ROUGH TENDER

a workshop production of a new play by sarah saltwick
produced by groundswell
as part of Rude Mechs’ Rude Fusion series

When: August 21 – 24 at 8:00 p.m.
August 27 – 29 at 8:00 p.m.
August 30 at 2:00 p.m.
Where: The Off Center
Tickets: $15.00 available at http://rudemechs.com/shows/trrt.htm

It’s the hottest summer on record in Austin, Texas. Bell is at capacity, working to empty her life; Mike is trying to fill his up. As Bell serves pancakes at a 24-hour diner, she dissolves her troubles in drink – lots and lots of drink. Mike’s sorrow over losing a woman he rescued from her burning house feeds his need to conquer his loneliness and the wildfire blazing just outside of town. They meet at a party, but it takes the whole play for them to really see each other through sex, isolation, natural and unnatural disasters. TENDER ROUGH ROUGH TENDER asks us to look again at what we think we know, and asks us all to tell each other how we want to get the things we need.

To connect with groundswell, visit http://groundswellatx.wix.com/trrt.

Coming Soon from Rude Mechs

Match-Play
October @ New York Live Arts
The Pearl Dive
October 18 @ Mongers
The Method Gun  November @ ZSpace
Stop Hitting Yourself
November @ Cal Performances
Now Now Oh Now
December @ The Off Center