1. Go to The Eye Ball!
2. Join The Oyster Club!
3. Don’t miss I’ve Never Been So Happy!
1. The Sci-fEye Ball
August 22, 2009 at 7pm
The Off Center
Sci-fEye Ball Tickets
Sci-fEye Ball Website
Come on out to the Sci-fEye Ball and party like its 19,999!
Rude Mechs returns to earth from a stellar year to launch its 14th season of making out-of-this-world theatre. This year a Sci-Fi theme allows us to transmogrify a decadent party into a benefit for the hardest working dramatists on the planet. And the whole evening is hosted by Rebecca Havemeyer whose remarkable presence will remind you exactly why the earth decided to start revolving around a star in the first place. All proceeds benefit Rude Mechs and everything that goes on at The Off Center! Don’t miss out on: Free beer from Real Ale Brewing Co.; Custom-cooked concoctions (free!) by Leilah Stewart Catering; A giant silent auction featuring sci-fi collectibles; A live auction featuring a week’s stay on a fabulous Pacific Northwest island; Cash bar from “the side bar” featuring the “Martian Martinis”; and Out-of-this-world sounds from deejay Graham Reynolds.
Big thanks to our Event Sponsors: Edible Austin • Zhi Tea • Austin Film Festival • Jandri Fernandez, LCSW, Psychotherapist
2. The Oyster Club
Join the club for invitations to monthly events September – April.
Membership Tickets
Membership website
Eight shots of off-beat culture hosted by Rude Mechs! Meeting once in every month whose name contains an “r” (September-April), the Oyster Club is a new way to find pearls of art, architecture, music, film, food, and performance in the oceans of culture in Austin and Central Texas. The Rude Mechs will lead this renegade culture club to backstage access, private tours, secret after-parties, and once-in-a-lifetime spectacles. The Oyster Club will keep you active without making you busy. The first event is September 10th – a special night with our new show “I’ve Never Been So Happy.”
3. I’ve Never Been So Happy
a new western operetta performance experiment
September 10 – 20, 2009
Show Tickets
Show website
Come see musical theatre for a new breed of Texan! And stay to for a western adventure where you will be plied with soothing adult elixirs, taught how to use a lasso to capture your love, and boot scoot on our authentic Texas dance floor to the greatest music in the West.
I’ve Never Been So Happy, with music and lyrics by Austin Experimental Punk Grand Wizard Peter Stopschinski, and book and lyrics by Austin Experimental Theatre Mascot Kirk Lynn, fluctuates freely between high art and Hee-Haw, treating both with respect. The music pits a “Grand Ole Opry” style West against an “El Topo” style West. The writing butts lyric poetry up against bar jokes with finesse. The evening challenges what it means to “go to the theater” in 2009. In the olden days of face-to-face interaction, folks sauntered down Main Street kickin’ up a trail o’ dust and hollerin’ at the barber, “How’s Jolene?” Now it’s all checking out a video of a dude from Buenos Aires, remixing it, then posting it for others to chop and screw. This post-operetta (g)host town is the best of both worlds. The immediate participatory horizontal cultural production, but without all the emoticons because you are standing in the yard of The Off Center with all your Facebook friends gettin’ drunk, makin’ rope, bustin’ imaginary mutton and drawin’ maps of Texas land use in real time.