IN THE HOUSE OF THE MOLES

a world premiere presented February 24 – March 18, 2000 at The Off Center (Austin, TX)

THE TEAM

by Terry Galloway
  |  directed by Shawn Sides

featuring: Madge Darlington, Catherine Glynn, Lana Lesley, Sarah Richardson and Jon Watson with cameo by Phyllis Slattery

design: Marit Aagaard (costume), Stephen Pruitt (lighting), Greg Janecek (sound), Graham Reynolds (original music), Cliff Simon (scenic)

ABOUT THE PLAY

Rude Mechanicals is proud to present the world premiere of nationally-acclaimed performance artist Terry Galloway’s first feature length play, IN THE HOUSE OF THE MOLES. MOLES is the bawdy and profane tale of four less-than-stable-daughters who cope with (and celebrate) the death of their dauntingly talented and despotic mother by re-enacting her astonishing life – Vaudeville style. The play they are impelled to present, gathered from legal pads and scraps of paper strewn around Peg’s dead body, just might contain a lesson – but they are going to have to get through a whole helluva lotta Vaudeville routines, German drinking songs, and Hamlet rip-offs to figure it out. Especially when the play raises as many questions as it answers - Can two girls find true love together? How do you get a ghost out of your life? And just why is it that the ugly one always seems to get it in the end? A toe-sucking good time for all...

ABOUT TERRY GALLOWAY

Terry Galloway (playwright) is a deaf, queer, playwright, poet, essayist, and performer. Her formative years were split between Germany and Texas. She holds a degree in American Studies from the University of Texas, Austin and had a two year long combative relationship with Columbia University in NYC. In the early eighties, she began presenting her one-woman shows at W.O.W., Limbo Lounge, P.S. 122, The Women’s Project and American Place Theatre. Her shows have since been produced all over the United States, England, Canada, and Mexico. She has helped to create grass roots original theatre in communities in Austin, TX and in Tallahassee, FL, co-founding Esther’s Follies and the Mickee Faust Club. She’s published a play, a book of poetry, a performance text, comic and dramatic monologues and a handful of articles. She writes, teaches, lectures about the feminization of the critical process, the create of grass roots theatre, sex as art, humor as a subversive tool, the necessity of falling in love with one’s parents, snottiness towards the disaffected and the gentle tactics of revenge. Her more personal life could be the subject of gossipy speculation. She lives in the part of Florida that is not Miami Beach.

ARTS WRITING / REVIEWS / CITATIONS

2000  |  Jessica Hester, Theatre Journal

"Two Generations, One Art" – The Austin Chronicle

“As in any show where the author is out on a limb, a lot of people will leave without connecting to Galloway's message and bared heart. Some, however, undoubtedly will by the end of her work love her tender. And those who don't connect with Galloway will still be able to bask in the clever, maniacal glory that is the Rude Mechs' forte.” – The Austin Chronicle