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Different Cities, Different Names
second stage
Different Cities, Different Names
by Kirk Lynn
directed by Gavin Mundy
featuring: Cyndi Williams, Carla Witt, Lucy Walters and Keri Safron
April 18 – May 3, 2003 at The Off Center (Austin, TX)
Rude Mechanicals is proud to present “Different Cities, Different Names” – the second production in our brand-new Second Stage series. This new play from Kirk Lynn is a bittersweet tale of two young ladies at boarding shcool. There they write in their journals, learn to smoke, and fall in love. Every day brings a new escape plane, each more fantastical than the last, but once you escape your youth you can never get back again.
ABOUT THE SECOND STAGE
The Second Stage Series is a new introduction into Rude Mechs’ traditional season and “Different Cities, Different Names” is the second installment in the newly launched series. The second stage was introduced to give Rude Mechs’ enormously talented company members more creative opportunities to workshop new work and flex their theatrical muscles in a casual late night atmosphere.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
“Different Cities, Different Names” is a new work-in-progress by Kirk Lynn, one of the five Co-Producing Artistic Directors of Rude Mechs and award-winning playwright of the company’s critically acclaimed productions “Lipstick Traces,”El Paraiso” and “Requiem for Tesla.” Gavin Mundy is a former company member and an MFA candidate in the UT’s Department of Theatre & Dance directing program who most recently directed “Much Ado About Nothing” at UT.
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