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Winner of the “Total Theatre Award” for “Best Original Work from an Ensemble” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
“Our own Helen Shaw raves about the Rude Mechs’ “intensely funny, abruptly touching” play in her review in this week’s issue, and having seen the show last night, I couldn’t agree more. This is a special piece of work that will leave you thinking about theater, people, theater people, teachers, students, nostalgia, kisses, perfection, balloons and tigers.“– Upstaged Blog Post – Time Out New York 2011
Reviews of Rude Mechs Production
“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” – 2007 New York Times Review
“One of the smartest and funniest plays I’ve seen in a long time. Go out and buy a ticket right now.” – 2007 CurtainUp Review
“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” – 2006 Washington Post Review
“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.” – 2007 Villlage Voice Review
“a gleeful retrospective of Rees’s work…with a wry humor that manages to feel both fresh and pointed.” – 2007 The New Yorker Review
“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.” – 2006 Philadelphia Weekly Review
“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.” – 2006 Philadelphia City Paper Review
“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.) – 2007 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.” – 2007 The New York Sun
“fiercely literate…satirical, ironic, and generally pissed-off” – 2006 Washington City Paper Review
“Inspired…quick-witted…no-holds-barred, genuinely pissed-off theater” – 2006 DCist.com
” a 70-minute brilliant and sardonic blitz” – 2006 Austin American-Statesman Review
“a liberation of one’s political soul in a cleansing explosion of laughter” – 2006 Austin Chronicle Review
“A performance not to be missed!” – 2006 Daily Texan Review
“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!” – 2005 Austin Chronicle Review
“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) sounds off!
Reviews of David Rees’ strip
“GYWO is the most original cartoon to emerge since…well, ever. Raw, enraged, sardonic, hilarious, despairing and impossible to pigeonhole.” – ROLLING STONE
“GYWO conveys a hilariously deadpan fatalism while managing to provide a surprisingly articulate expression of our anxieties.” – NEWSWEEK
“While other humorists were pussyfooting around the subject of 9/11 and its aftermath, Rees went right for the throat.” – THE BOSTON PHOENIX
”From the morass of Hollywood sentimentality, flag-emblazoned newscasts, and the music industry’s recycled clichés…one voice rang clear after 9/11: David Rees’s…GYWO became ground zero for the most incisive commentary on the events of the day.” – THE VILLAGE VOICE
“Brilliant.” – USA TODAY
Oh – we’re playing catch up – so it’s not gonna be very in-depth, but for the record, here we go: November / December – CL1000P We spent the month of November working on our newest production. It doesn’t have a title yet, but was called CL1000P – we can’t say why. For the month […]
Friends and Lovers!!Rude Mechs is thrilled to announce an award from the Board of Directors of the Greater Austin Creative Alliance: RUDE MECHS WILL RECEIVE SPECIAL RECOGNITION FOR OUR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO AUSTIN THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS. DONATE TO RUDE MECHS TODAY! We think this is the right time to ask because someone besides us […]
Again with the brief as possible recap. First – we had an excellent time. Second – the audiences had an excellent time. Third – the Boston critics think we are kinda silly and aren’t really risking enough what with the industrial lights swinging at our heads. But that’s cool – Time Out Chicago dug it, […]
JOIN THE OYSTER CLUB! WE WANT TO PARTY WITH YOU! Registration is open for the 2010/2011 Oyster Club Season!! With two years of smashing success under its belt, last season’s Oyster Club saw the best off-beat art in Central Texas. From the outrageous opening party with fresh oysters from the Gulf Coast (worth five times […]
RUDE MECHS ANNOUNCES ITS FIFTEENTH SEASON OF NEW WORKS FOR THE STAGE Rude Mechs is proud to announce the following plans for their fifteenth season of creating, premiering and touring new works for the stage. This upcoming year includes tours of The Method Gun to five national venues; the creation of a new piece CL1000P […]
Check out the latest Rude News e-blast here: Grrl Action Summer Performances and the Aye Eye Ball!
Dear SCAVENGERS! QUEST FOR THE WEST is an attempt to take the research for our show I’ve Never Been So Happy into your life! We are launching it at The Off Center at 10 am on Saturday the 24th (see KEEP READING! below) Throughout the festival a series of quests will be presented on the […]
QUICK RECAP Ooohh – it was a good and busy few weeks for Rude Mechs and now we are up and running at Humana! We have been blown away by the unbelievably generous volunteers got us set up in our apartments, our most excellent production team that has generously fulfilled every production desire we’ve had. […]
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Well –We are currently in the “center center” freezing our asses off rehearsing The Method Gun for Humana Festival. We leave for Louisville on the 19th of Feb and don’t get back until March 29th, so things will be quiet for a while on the Rude front – we will try to post our way […]
