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Stand-Up Workshop – District 1 @Sahara Lounge
September 24 at 3:30 p.m.
Tickets FREEwhere: Sahara Lounge, 1413 Webberville Rd., Austin, TX 78721
registration: FREE!
time: 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., as soon as we find the funny, drinks are on Lana!
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
This is the workshop Hannah led for Rude Mechs when she introduced her stand-up to us. We loved it and immediately incorporated the work into the play we were creating at the time, Field Guide. It’s a low-pressure, high-fun way to write about yourself and what you are taking in as you move through the world. We have the whole joint to ourselves. We’ll write, we’ll share, there’ll be a mic and a stool. And when we’re done, we’ll toast ourselves!Rude Mechs is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department, and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.
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Grageriart
District 4 @Carousel LoungeAugust 27 at 9:30 p.m.
Tickets FREEwhere: Carousel Lounge, 1110 E. 52nd St., Austin, TX 78752
tickets: FREE!
time: 9:30pm, right after Rebecca Havemeyer’s High Class! A Salon of Educational & Recreational Distractions. Rebecca’s show starts at 7:30pm, doors at 7:00pm – $5 Entry
ABOUT THE PLAY
Grageriart is a sonic exploration of your favorite home shopping catalogue performed by Lana Lesley (vocals, synth) and Peter Stopschinski (vocals, synth).Paul Soileau is going to join Peter and Lana very soon to start making a stage show version. So stay tuned for that jazz. It should be around May 2018.
Rude Mechs is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department, and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.
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Replacement Tapes – District 10 @Private Home in District 10
July 29 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets available via our Kickstarter campaignwhere: A private home in District 10
Tickets are available as a reward for a $100 gift to our Kickstarter campaign.parking: Street parking. Respect the neighbors, please.
ABOUT THE PLAY
The Replacement Tapes Come explore a wild new idea in which we make the play and you perform it. Put on a pair of headphones and be a part of the wild world of the WACs (Women’s Auxiliary Corps). Help out as their founder attempts to petition D.C. for full pay for all women who served. An historically inaccurate romp through service, cabaret, and personal joy, stolen from a plot by O. Henry, and updated to include more sex, dancing, and strange dangers. Come help us test out this interactive adventure. -
Replacement Tapes @The Lab Theatre @ UT (300 E 23rd St.)
July 21 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets $10where: The Lab Theatre on the UT Austin Campus
The Lab Theatre is located behind the F. Loren Winship Drama Building at 300 E 23rd St..parking: The closest pay parking is the parking garage on San Jacinto Blvd.
ABOUT THE PLAY
The Replacement Tapes Come explore a wild new idea in which we make the play and you perform it. Put on a pair of headphones and be a part of the wild world of the WACs (Women’s Auxiliary Corps). Help out as their founder attempts to petition D.C. for full pay for all women who served. An historically inaccurate romp through service, cabaret, and personal joy, stolen from a plot by O. Henry, and updated to include more sex, dancing, and strange dangers. Come help us test out this interactive adventure. -
Grageriart in NMASS @Springdale Station
July 16 at 9:00 p.m.
Tickets $15-$30GRA • JAIR • EEEE • ART
We’ll be at New Media Art and Sound Summit at 9pm. It says it’s the Shape Orchestra, but it’s really Grageriart. We slid in there. Like we do.
Grageriart is Lana Lesley and Peter Stopschinski.
Grageriart is a sound and music excavation of a home shopping catalogue.
Grageriart will benefit from Paul Soileau’s art brain throughout this coming year.
Grageriart will happen again in August at Carousel Lounge.
Stay tuned.
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Off Center Teens @The Lab Theatre @ UT (300 E 23rd St.)
June 24 & June 25, at 2pm
Tickets Free
No reservation required.
tickets: No reservation necessary. Admission is free.
when: Saturday June 24th and Sunday June 25th.
Performances at 2:00 p.m. House will open at 1:30 p.m.
Give yourself plenty of time to find parking and walk to the Winship bldg.where: The Lab Theatre on the UT Austin Campus Parking and Directions
The Lab Theatre is located behind the F. Loren Winship Drama Building at 300 E 23rd St.. Due to ongoing construction around The Lab Theatre, we will greet you in front of the Winship Drama building to lead you to The Lab Theatre. Please arrive no later than 1:45pm to help ensure we start the performance on time.parking: The closest paid parking is the parking garage on San Jacinto Blvd.
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Off Center Teens @The Lab Theatre @ UT (300 E 23rd St.)
June 24 & June 25, at 2pm
Tickets Free
No reservation required.tickets: No reservation necessary. Admission is free.
when: Saturday June 24th and Sunday June 25th.
Performances at 2:00 p.m. House will open at 1:30 p.m.
Give yourself plenty of time to find parking and walk to the Winship bldg.where: The Lab Theatre on the UT Austin Campus Parking & Directions
The Lab Theatre is located behind the F. Loren Winship Drama Building at 300 E 23rd St.. Due to ongoing construction around The Lab Theatre, we will greet you in front of the Winship Drama building to lead you to The Lab Theatre. Please arrive no later than 1:45pm to help ensure we start the performance on time.parking: The closest paid parking is the parking garage on San Jacinto Blvd.
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Not Every Mountain
March 30 – April 9 @The Off CenterMarch 30 - April 9, Thursday through Sunday at 8pm
Tickets $10 - $25
Perverse Results, Episode 1: Not Every Mountain is a work-in-progress performance designed by Thomas Graves, with text written by Kirk Lynn, and original compositions by Peter Stopschinski.
As the text is spoken, eight performers use pulleys, cranks, magnets and technology inspired by pop-up books to gradually build a mountain range with cardboard, string, cloth, wax and other simple, cheap packaging materials. As we watch, parts of the earth’s crust shift, collide, and mountains form. As the mountain range grows and grows, the seasons change, the sun rises and sets. It is a performance of the life cycle of mountains and the processes by which they are born and eventually laid to rest. It is an invocation of geological time. It’s a meditation on change and permanence. And a prayer for our home The Off Center.
Perverse Results, Episode 1: Not Every Mountain
created by Rude Mechs
written by Kirk Lynn
designed by Thomas Graves
original music composed by Peter Stopschinski
featuring Eva Claycomb, Pete Dahlberg, Thomas Graves, Kevin Jacaman, Sadé Jones, Jennifer Kidwell, Derek Kolluri, Kirk Lynn, and Kelsey Oliver
costume design by Aaron Flynn, lighting design by Brian H Scott, scenic design by Pete DahlbergABOUT PERVERSE RESULTS
The Content
Perverse Results is a new performance for the stage investigating unintended consequences – those outcomes that are not foreseen or expected when we undertake an action. We’re excited to focus specifically on the perverse results (outcomes which are diametrically opposed to our intentions) that we have on the various environments we inhabit or migrate through. We’ll be interrogating themes of displacement, containment, home, neighborhood, and agency in the inherited built environment.The Process
Rather than congregating to make one cohesive piece over time, we are splitting up into smaller creation teams and building Perverse Results in episodes that will eventually be used to create one evening of theater, or we might destroy collaboration. We don’t know.The next episode of Perverse Results, Episode 2, is Gregariart – a noise and music excavation of the Ikea catalogue by Peter Stopschinski and Lana Lesley. The first draft will be shared in August 2017.
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Not Every Mountain
March 30 – April 9 @The Off CenterMarch 30 - April 9, Thursday through Sunday at 8pm
Tickets $10 - $25Perverse Results, Episode 1: Not Every Mountain is a work-in-progress performance designed by Thomas Graves, with text written by Kirk Lynn, and original compositions by Peter Stopschinski.
As the text is spoken, eight performers use pulleys, cranks, magnets and technology inspired by pop-up books to gradually build a mountain range with cardboard, string, cloth, wax and other simple, cheap packaging materials. As we watch, parts of the earth’s crust shift, collide, and mountains form. As the mountain range grows and grows, the seasons change, the sun rises and sets. It is a performance of the life cycle of mountains and the processes by which they are born and eventually laid to rest. It is an invocation of geological time. It’s a meditation on change and permanence. And a prayer for our home The Off Center.
Perverse Results, Episode 1: Not Every Mountain
created by Rude Mechs
written by Kirk Lynn
designed by Thomas Graves
original music composed by Peter Stopschinski
featuring Eva Claycomb, Pete Dahlberg, Thomas Graves, Kevin Jacaman, Sadé Jones, Jennifer Kidwell, Derek Kolluri, Kirk Lynn, and Kelsey Oliver
costume design by Aaron Flynn, lighting design by Brian H Scott, scenic design by Pete DahlbergABOUT PERVERSE RESULTS
The Content
Perverse Results is a new performance for the stage investigating unintended consequences – those outcomes that are not foreseen or expected when we undertake an action. We’re excited to focus specifically on the perverse results (outcomes which are diametrically opposed to our intentions) that we have on the various environments we inhabit or migrate through. We’ll be interrogating themes of displacement, containment, home, neighborhood, and agency in the inherited built environment.The Process
Rather than congregating to make one cohesive piece over time, we are splitting up into smaller creation teams and building Perverse Results in episodes that will eventually be used to create one evening of theater, or we might destroy collaboration. We don’t know.The next episode of Perverse Results, Episode 2, is Gregariart – a noise and music excavation of the Ikea catalogue by Peter Stopschinski and Lana Lesley. The first draft will be shared in August 2017.
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Not Every Mountain
March 30 – April 9 @The Off CenterMarch 30 - April 9, Thursday through Sunday at 8pm
Tickets $10 - $25Perverse Results, Episode 1: Not Every Mountain is a work-in-progress performance designed by Thomas Graves, with text written by Kirk Lynn, and original compositions by Peter Stopschinski.
As the text is spoken, eight performers use pulleys, cranks, magnets and technology inspired by pop-up books to gradually build a mountain range with cardboard, string, cloth, wax and other simple, cheap packaging materials. As we watch, parts of the earth’s crust shift, collide, and mountains form. As the mountain range grows and grows, the seasons change, the sun rises and sets. It is a performance of the life cycle of mountains and the processes by which they are born and eventually laid to rest. It is an invocation of geological time. It’s a meditation on change and permanence. And a prayer for our home The Off Center.
Perverse Results, Episode 1: Not Every Mountain
created by Rude Mechs
written by Kirk Lynn
designed by Thomas Graves
original music composed by Peter Stopschinski
featuring Eva Claycomb, Pete Dahlberg, Thomas Graves, Kevin Jacaman, Sadé Jones, Jennifer Kidwell, Derek Kolluri, Kirk Lynn, and Kelsey Oliver
costume design by Aaron Flynn, lighting design by Brian H Scott, scenic design by Pete DahlbergABOUT PERVERSE RESULTS
The Content
Perverse Results is a new performance for the stage investigating unintended consequences – those outcomes that are not foreseen or expected when we undertake an action. We’re excited to focus specifically on the perverse results (outcomes which are diametrically opposed to our intentions) that we have on the various environments we inhabit or migrate through. We’ll be interrogating themes of displacement, containment, home, neighborhood, and agency in the inherited built environment.The Process
Rather than congregating to make one cohesive piece over time, we are splitting up into smaller creation teams and building Perverse Results in episodes that will eventually be used to create one evening of theater, or we might destroy collaboration. We don’t know.The next episode of Perverse Results, Episode 2, is Gregariart – a noise and music excavation of the Ikea catalogue by Peter Stopschinski and Lana Lesley. The first draft will be shared in August 2017.
