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Fixing the Last Henry Staged Readings @Crashbox
Rude Mechs Presents
When: November 16 & 23, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.Where: Crashbox, 5305 Bolm Rd #12, 78721
Tickets:Written by Kirk Lynn
Directed by Alexandra Bassiakou ShawThe fourth installment of our Fixing Shakespeare series. We take Shakespeare’s least-produced works and adapt them with our Rude cunning to share the raw power of what a Shakespeare play must have felt like on opening night. This time we’re tackling Henry VIII. How is it possible that even after eight Henrys, England could still think it was a good idea for a man to be king? Queen Katharine and Lady Anne Bullen have other ideas. Henry VIII was Shakespeare’s last play – in part because he burned his fucking theatre down during the production. (Maybe.)
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They, Themself and Schmerm @Crashbox
Rude Mechs Presents
When: November 11 & 12, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.Where: Crashbox, 5305 Bolm Rd #12, 78721
Tickets:Written and performed by Becca Blackwell
Developed with Ellie Heyman
In collaboration with Jill Pangallo and Jess BarbagalloPart classic standup comedy special, part teen zine vomit confessional, They, Themself and Schmerm is Becca’s disturbingly hilarious personal tale of being adopted into a Midwestern religious family, trained to be a girl, molested, and plagued by the question, “How do I become a man and do I even want that?” Becca engages in loving confrontation with the audience, asking what it truly means to be authentic in these meat carcasses.
“It would have taken me two years of focus groups to make being molested that funny.” —Young Jean Lee
It takes a village. This project is presented by Rude Mechs, along with Fusebox Festival, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, and the University of Texas at Austin’s LGBTQ Studies and Performance as Public Practice Programs.
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They, Themself and Schmerm @Crashbox
Rude Mechs Presents
When: November 11 & 12, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.Where: Crashbox, 5305 Bolm Rd #12, 78721
Tickets:Written and performed by Becca Blackwell
Developed with Ellie Heyman
In collaboration with Jill Pangallo and Jess BarbagalloPart classic standup comedy special, part teen zine vomit confessional, They, Themself and Schmerm is Becca’s disturbingly hilarious personal tale of being adopted into a Midwestern religious family, trained to be a girl, molested, and plagued by the question, “How do I become a man and do I even want that?” Becca engages in loving confrontation with the audience, asking what it truly means to be authentic in these meat carcasses.
“It would have taken me two years of focus groups to make being molested that funny.” —Young Jean Lee
It takes a village. This project is presented by Rude Mechs, along with Fusebox Festival, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, and the University of Texas at Austin’s LGBTQ Studies and Performance as Public Practice Programs.
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The Method Gun @B. Iden Payne Theatre, UT
October 4th and 5th, 2019
When: October 4 & 5, 2019Where: B. Iden Payne Theatre, University of Texas at Austin
Tickets: Tickets go on sale Sept 3rdThe Method Gun explores the life and techniques of Stella Burden, actor-training guru of the 1960s and 70s, whose sudden emigration to South America still haunts her most fervent followers. Burden’s training technique, The Approach (often referred to as “the most dangerous acting technique in the world”), fused Western acting methods with risk-based rituals in order to infuse even the smallest role with sex, death and violence.
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The Method Gun @B. Iden Payne Theatre, UT
October 4th and 5th, 2019
When: October 4 & 5, 2019Where: B. Iden Payne Theatre, University of Texas at Austin
Tickets: Tickets go on sale Sept 3rdThe Method Gun explores the life and techniques of Stella Burden, actor-training guru of the 1960s and 70s, whose sudden emigration to South America still haunts her most fervent followers. Burden’s training technique, The Approach (often referred to as “the most dangerous acting technique in the world”), fused Western acting methods with risk-based rituals in order to infuse even the smallest role with sex, death and violence.
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The Cold Record @Brisbane AUS
Brisbane Festival
When: September 6-12, 2019Where: King Street (secret location)
Tickets: $36 AUSA secret performance. A one-man show. The story of a 12-year old boy who tries to set the record for leaving school the most days with a fever and in the process falls in love with the school nurse and breaks his heart on the punk rock. You must promise never to speak about what you witnessed or else you’ll get kicked out.
Kirk Lynn is a novelist and playwright living in Austin, TX. Kirk is one of five artistic directors of the Rude Mechs theatre collective. With the Rudes, Kirk has written and adapted many plays, including Lipstick Traces (published by 53rd State Press/TCG), Method Gun (published by Play: A Journal of Plays), and Not Every Mountain (self-published by Eva Claycomb), which premiered in 2018 at the Guthrie in Minneapolis.
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High Crimes: The Impeachment of the Worst President in US History @CRASHBOX
September 11, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
Join us for an open rehearsal of our newest project, High Crimes: The Impeachment of the Worst President in U.S. History.
We are exploring the Congressional record and will share everything we’ve learned over a series of workshops throughout this year. Get in on the development, watch it grow, give us feedback, join us!
Drop in anytime between 7pm and 9pm. These rehearsals are free. We want your brains, your feedback, your everything – join us!
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High Crimes: The Impeachment of the Worst President in US History @CRASHBOX
September 10, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
Join us for an open rehearsal of our newest project, High Crimes: The Impeachment of the Worst President in U.S. History.
We are exploring the Congressional record and will share everything we’ve learned over a series of workshops throughout this year. Get in on the development, watch it grow, give us feedback, join us!
Drop in anytime between 7pm and 9pm. These rehearsals are free. We want your brains, your feedback, your everything – join us!
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The Cold Record @Sydney AUS
Horizon Festival
When: August 28 – September 1, 2019Where: Horizon Festival, Black Box Theatre
Tickets: $36 AUSA secret performance. A one-man show. The story of a 12-year old boy who tries to set the record for leaving school the most days with a fever and in the process falls in love with the school nurse and breaks his heart on the punk rock. You must promise never to speak about what you witnessed or else you’ll get kicked out.
Kirk Lynn is a novelist and playwright living in Austin, TX. Kirk is one of five artistic directors of the Rude Mechs theatre collective. With the Rudes, Kirk has written and adapted many plays, including Lipstick Traces (published by 53rd State Press/TCG), Method Gun (published by Play: A Journal of Plays), and Not Every Mountain (self-published by Eva Claycomb), which premiered in 2018 at the Guthrie in Minneapolis.
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PAHOKEE Screening @CRASHBOX
August 30, 2019 at 8:00 p.m.
Join us for a private screening of PAHOKEE a new documentary film by internationally acclaimed local filmmakers Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan
SCREENING: 8:00pm (run time 1 hr 52 min)
CASUAL Q&A with Artists: immediately after the screening.
TICKETS: Pay-What-You-Can
Pay-What-You-Can means this:
If you want a ticket and you don’t have any money, then please pay $0 for that ticket.
If you want a ticket and you are flush this month, pay what you can afford to pay!In a small agricultural town in the Florida Everglades, hopes for the future are concentrated on the youth. Four teens face heartbreak and celebrate in the rituals of an extraordinary senior year.
Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan create a detailed and incredibly nuanced portrait of PAHOKEE, a small rural town located in the Florida Everglades. A community tightly knit together that struggles with financial insecurities and a bleak future. Through an extremely precise observational approach, the film manages to capture the daily life of the town with a great wealth of nuanced details. From sports events to school beauty contests, the filmmakers observe how, through social and collective rituals, the ideas of gender and identity are publicly displayed while creating new narratives. Moving past the crucial Wiseman lesson, which Lucas and Bresnan have fully absorbed, the film possesses the distinct feel of a Gil Scott Heron song, with its deep streak of rural blues tinged with urban echoes. A complex and multi-layered work that recalls also both the gritty social realism of the new American cinema as well as the neorealist touch. PAHOKEE is a powerful portrait of a forgotten America absent from the current political discourse.
– Giona A. Nazzaro
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