TO GET THERE…YOU MUST UNDERGO… A RADICAL TRANSFORMATION
a Rude Fusion project in development created and produced by Andie Flores
About the Show
A solo show written, directed, performed by Andie Flores, also starring Arinna Dior Heys
Part joy-infested pop culture fever dream, part mental illness nap, TO GET THERE…YOU MUST UNDERGO… A RADICAL TRANSFORMATION… is a show about a clown idiot who, at the head of a year-long depression, falls asleep watching The Wizard of Oz during that scene where Dorothy falls asleep in the poppy fields. Stuck inside a twisted version of Oz, the clown must confront all the things she thinks might get her to the other side of her misery. Can she get back to herself or is it finally time to conjure a totally new clown for some great reemergence? How can you ever know? A show about being both the disoriented loser and the wizard.
TO GET THERE…YOU MUST UNDERGO… A RADICAL TRANSFORMATION… debuted at OUTsider in Austin, Texas in February 2023.
Dates
November 10-12 and 17-19, 2023 / Tickets $25
Friday November 10 at 8 pm
Saturday November 11 at 8 pm
Sunday November 12 at 2 pm 😷*MASK MANDATORY SHOW*
Friday November 17 at 8 pm
Saturday November 18 at 8 pm
Sunday November 19 at 2 pm
Creative Production Team
Written, directed and produced by Andie Flores
also starring Arinna Dior Heys @arinnaxooo,
and other special guests
Tech by @bimbointech
Asst. Producer @zactraeger
Sponsored by our amazing GFM donors
and ASHwell Sexual Health and Wellness Clinic @ashwellatx
About Andie Flores
Andie Flores (she/her) is a performance artist in Austin, Texas, who uses embarrassment as a medium for investigating hyper, almost obsessive, visibility in a racialized body across barriers of border, history, and capital. Her practice works to unsettle categorical, site-specific expectations of genres of performance (femininity, Latinidad, drag, citizenry) and aims to recontextualize the mechanisms required to do the work of the absurd. Flores creates experimental live performances that pair identity and comedic culture moments with over-exaggerated, often grotesque shapes and sounds. She is fascinated by the urgent task of world-building at the edge of the limits of art-making.
Her work has been shown at Presa House Gallery, The Museum of Human Achievement, Ivester Contemporary, MASS Gallery, Future Front Film Fest, Contrast Film Festival, Fusebox Festival, and The Dallas Latino Cultural Center; and her writing has appeared in fields, Precog, Jezebel, and Remezcla. She was named one of Remezcla’s ‘40 Emerging, Texas-based Artists to Know’ in 2020, and made Glasstire’s ‘Best of 2021’ list. She debuted her first solo stage show, To Get There… You Must Undergo… A Radical Transformation at OUTsider Festival in February 2023.
About Rude Fusion
Rude Fusion is a program designed to develop deeper relationships with some of Austin’s finest theatre artists by offering material, financial and creative support for their new works, and by helping bring nationally acclaimed artists to town. Rude Fusion aims to help artists to take artistic risks, explore new ideas and keep their focus on artist pay and production values.