Throws Like A Girl 2002
“Throws Like A Girl” is a provocative performance festival that celebrates the contributions of original female theatre artists to our cultural landscape while promoting women’s voices in the American theatre by importing the nation’s most influential female performance artists bringing works never before seen in Austin.
City Water Tunnel #3 – Marty Pottenger
To My Chagrin – Peggy Shaw
Lardo Weeping – Terry Galloway
THROWS LIKE A GIRL 2002 was co-presented by Rude Mechs and The University of Texas (The Center for Theatre and Performance Studies and The Center for Women’s Studies).
written & performed by Marty Pottenger presented by Rude Mechs February 28, March 1 – 2, 2002 at The Off Center (Austin, TX) An artist, carpenter and contractor, Pottenger tells the story of the planning, building and financing of the largest non-defense public-works project in the Western Hemisphere. Told through the voices of the people involved in building the tunnel, this poignant and funny multi-media performance explores the connection and fragility of our relationships to each other and to the planet. written & performed by Peggy Shaw presented by Rude Mechs March 7 – 9, 2002 at The Off Center (Austin, TX) Three-time Obie Award winner Shaw triumphantly returns to Austin with her newest solo piece about her relationship to her mixed-race grandson that weaves James Brown, a passion for vintage cars, and live percussion to investigate the effect of gender and race on the information we pass down through the generations. ABOUT THE ARTIST Actor, Playwright, and Producer Peggy Shaw has received three OBIE Awards for her work with the legendary lesbian theatre company, Split Britches, which she founded with Lois Weaver and Deb Margolin in 1980. She won the Obie Awards for her performances in “Dress Suits To Hire,” a collaboration with Holly Hughes, “Belle Reprieve,” a collaboration with the London-based theater troupe BlooLips, and “Menopausal Gentleman,” directed by Rebecca Taichman. Among her celebrated works are “You’re Just Like My Father,” “Lust and Comfort,” “Upwardly Mobile Home, “Lesbians Who Kill,” and the Jane Chambers Award-winning play “Split Britches.” Peggy is a 1988 and 1995, and 1999 New York Foundation For The Arts award winner for Emerging Forms. She received the 1995 Anderson Foundation Stonewall Award for excellence in “making the world a better place for gays and lesbians,” and Split Britches is a two-time nominee for the Cal Arts Herb Alpert Award. Peggy received the 2000-2001 Rockefeller MAP Grant to create her new show “To My Chagrin.” In addition to her work with Split Britches, she played Billy Tipton in American Place’s production of Carson Kreitzer’s “The Slow Drag”, she was a collaborator, writer, and performer with Spiderwoman Theater and Hot Peaches Theater and co-founder in 1980 of the Obie-Award Winning WOW Cafe in New York City. Split Britches teaches Performance in residence at various colleges including Hampshire College, University of Hawaii, University of Northern Iowa, U.C. Davis, Cal Arts, U.C. Riverside, Harvard, M.I.T., and William and Mary. Peggy has taught Solo Performance at Vassar, Smith,Wells, U.Mass, Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, and Hampshire College. Routledge Press has released a book simultaneously in London and New York on the Company entitled “Split Britches: Lesbian Practice, Feminist Performance,” edited by Sue Ellen Case, which includes seven Split Britches’ plays “An amazing sexy presence.” –The Village Voice “An East Village icon of lesbian butchness.” –The New York Times “…flamboyant, ironic and shamelessly over the top.” –The Stage (London) “A riveting performer with extraordinary comic timing.” –San Francisco Bay Guardian “A moving, intimate piece which…strikes a universal resonance of the themes of ageing, loneliness and emotional exposure.” –The Guardian (London) written & performed by Terry Gallway presented by Rude Mechs March 21 – 23, 2002 at The Off Center (Austin, TX) Deaf performance artist and beloved hometown girl Galloway dons both the outrageous persona of maniacal outcast Dinah Lafarge and one amazing costume in this hilarious and painful one-woman revenge drama that strips away the myths of the American dream to reveal the mental anguish of being fat, feminist and frumpy in America today.
