Sodom in Austin
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Best in show at the Festival so far: the Rude Mechs—another Austin company—with The Method Gun, an awesomely tragic and occasionally goofy show about a 1970s acting guru named Stella Burden. She disappeared, but her company soldiered on, rehearsing their experimental production of A Streetcar Named Desire for nine years: a production of Streetcar
without the characters Stanley, Blanche, Stella, or Mitch. Just everyone else.
Theater about theater, like writing about writing, is usually a solipsistic disaster. I assumed The Method Gun would be a chore.
I’ve never been more wrong. (Again.)
Plus, it stars this tiger.
Somebody had better bring this show to Seattle.