LET’S DO IT
Aug 30 – PAHOKEE – A screening of the award-winning documentary film by Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas @ CRASHBOX
Sept 10 & 11 – High Crimes Open Rehearsals – We are exploring the Congressional record and will share everything we’ve learned over a series of workshops throughout this year. Get in on the development, watch it grow, give us feedback, join us @ CRASHBOX
Oct 4 & 5 – The Method Gun – The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance is presenting a two-night only revival of The Method Gun featuring Thomas Graves, Joey Hood, Hannah Kenah, Lana Lesley, and Shawn Sides.
Nov 10 & 11 – They, Themself and Schmerm – To relaunch our Throws Like A Girl presenting series, Rude Mechs partnered with UT’s LGBTQ Studies and PPP programs to present the amazing Becca Blackwell for two performances only.
Nov 16 & 23 – Staged Readings of Fixing the Last Henry – written Kirk Lynn and directed by Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw featuring a cast of women-identified performers @ CRASHBOX
Nov 29 – Dec 1 – Grageriart’s Design for Everyone – Grageriart is back with Design for Everyone and a the launch of the micro-video series. Come for the sneak preview of their videos, stay for the shoptainment!
December – Karaoke Christmas Carol on our new Cyrano Plays app – yes we’ve created an app to let you perform our plays YOURSELVES and we want to beta test it @ YOUR HOUSE. Stay tuned for our kickstarter to support the app, and get in touch if you want to host a night.
January 18 – Resolution Party – Gwyneth Paltrow has agreed to match your New Year’s Resolution, let’s party!
February 8 – Amber Martin in Bathhouse Bette – As part of our Throws Like A Girl presenting series, we grabbed her up while she was in town with John Cameron Mitchell so we could all consume Martin’s tour de force performance singing Bette Midler bathhouse-era numbers.
March 4 -6 – Along with Jason Phelps & Co., we are proud to co-present SUGA – a one-person show by Double Edge Theatre – as part of our Rude Fusion series @ CRASHBOX.
March – Salon on a Lawn – We are hosting our 4th salon to solve all the things and this time we are doing it at @ YOUR FRIEND’S HOUSE! Bring a coat or a swimsuit… we’ll bring the rest. @ YOUR FRIEND’S HOUSE!
April 15 – May 10 – We are thrilled to premiere the culmination of all your work on High Crimes @ CRASHBOX
May 16 – FeyeR Festival – you’ll see.
May 28 – June 7 – We are proud to co-produce Action Bike by Eva Suter and Noah Martin, et al as part of our Rude Fusion series @ Austin environs
May 28 – June 21 – World premiere of Fixing the Last Henry – we mean it!
Year Round – Why We’re Here We’re launching a brand new writing and performance program, in partnership with Casa Marianella and the refugee community they serve, to share their stories and provide a platform for artistic expression @ CRASHBOX & CASA MARIANELLA.
Austin has a big problem! If you listen to the way we talk about our city, there’s too much shit-talk going on. Maybe it started out as a tricky defense mechanism to scare off unwanted newcomers who might move here and besmirch the beauty of our violet crown. But now we’ve internalized our pottymouth and somehow it’s gotten cool to not love this place. But if that’s true, then Rude Mechs think it’s not cool to be cool anymore.
The good news is all the hip people moved away anyway. We flushed out the non-believers. They scattered to Detroit, or Bed-Stuy, or Berlin. (We aren’t speaking of those people who were displaced. Or those priced out of their neighborhood. We understand this injustice all too well.) For those that moved on to so-called greener pastures—they are gonna miss out on Austin’s golden years. Because they didn’t happen in ’68 or ’83 or ’96. We believe they’re yet to come.
Of course, shit’s far from perfect right now. The long train of abuses and usurpations is well-documented elsewhere—everywhere. But what’s clear is greed got us into this place. If greed is the condition of feeling like you lack and can’t ever get enough, then it seems like the only antidote is feelin’ flush—so the Rudes are mandating an economy of abundance.
Count your blessings! That’s what our upcoming season, flushAUSTIN is all about. Turning this train around by looking at how rich we all are. Austin’s so rich—rich with talent, rich with beauty, we’re surrounded by brilliant minds, incredible people, and we’re absolutely overrun with rich people flush with cash to bankroll all the utopias we can dream up. Austin’s even rich with space. There’s culture getting created every day all over this metropolis. And believe it or not, ‘the vibe’ is still strong. We won’t let the stingy mindset of the money-grubbing developers infect us. (Or that of the Nationalists that want to “protect our country.”) We know there is more than enough to go around!
La di da. We have a lot of really hard work to do to make Austin be the city we want it to be. And we believe it’s possible. How do we do it? That’s what we’re going to find out.
With every show or event we do, we offer ways to get involved, opportunities to create networks and make connections. We are all about drawing attention to and contributing to the Abundance.
Some of these things will be things we’ve done for years, like offering free space to other groups through our Rude Fusion program. We are going to keep producing independent culture. We got several new shows coming at ya. Look to the right. There they are representing every stage of new-work development, from first-looks to Austin premieres to world premieres.
We are gonna help you make people laugh. We are gonna help you make something personal and brave. We are gonna show you our newest and rawest selves, and give you everything you need to do a play in your house with your friends.
We’re launching a brand new writing and performance program, in partnership with Casa Marianella and the refugee community they serve, to share their powerful, troubling and hopeful stories of immigration, detainment, life-building, and loss.
And we have YOU. You are an invaluable resource for us to help us make this happen. We hope you’ll help us out. You can sponsor all of this work at various levels with a recurring monthly donation or a one-time-gift. If you commit between now and October 1st to at least one year of recurring monthly donations, we will reward you with a really very exciting slate of perks and parties.
And we want even more – we want suggestions of people you think we can coordinate with, learn from, partner with, be led by… And more than anything we need your continued feedback and input as audience members—so the most important thing you could do is show up to every single event. By doing so, you’re investing in and supporting one of Austin’s many wonderful cultural assets. The cool thing about culture (as opposed to money) is it belongs to all of us.
So where is the toilet joke? We know you’ve been waiting for us to use flush in that other way. But we actually want your help with that too. So when you send in your donation or don’t, send us a suggestion about what needs to get sucked down the sewer!
We CAN flush away all the stupid shit that makes our city suck: homelessness, displacement, traffic…
And soon enough we’ll all be living in flushAUSTIN.
