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Hey friends,
We have 1 ticket left for the Friday night performance.
We have 10 tickets left for the Thursday night performance.
We have 40 tickets left for the Sunday night performance.
Saturday night is sold out.
Rude Mechs offers sliding scale tickets to ensure our plays are accessible regardless of your socio-economic status. If a $15 ticket is out of reach, please email us at [email protected] and we will work it out.
Split Britches at Crashbox!!!! DO. NOT. MISS. THIS. 4 shows only - limited seating - https://mailchi.mp/rudemechs/split-britches-are-back-august-3-6-for-four-performances-only-at-crashbox
"Not just one of the 40-year-old company's best pieces, but among the most evocative art to emerge from the Covid era." - The New York Times
Tickets at: https://ticketstripe.com/lastgasp
What do you mean what do I mean?
Fusebox Festival
We've added 4 performances for Contranyms!
4/19 - 4/22
You can get your tickets on Fusebox Festival's website - thank you Fusebox!
And big love and thanks to Patrick Bresnan for this hard-won and beautiful photograph.
Look what Kirk is up to these days.
Rude Mechs has a thing…
April 12-16 at Crashbox
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written by Kirk
directed by Shawn and Madge
co-creators: Alex Thomas Anna Lana and Mari
photo by Patrick Bresnan
Take a look - we're in this line up, friends.
See.
You.
At.
Crashbox.
We're thrilled to present the Fusebox Festival 2023 Program Lineup! Get to know these remarkable artists and their projects on our website and map out your festival plans now. 🤩
This year we’re changing up the ticketing process. In order to properly support our expanded vision for the future, and in an attempt to keep up with the economic realities of creating/producing unique live performances in an increasingly expensive Austin, we are shifting to a paid ticketing model for the festival. Tickets will be offered on a sliding scale model, starting at $20 (with $15 walk-up tickets). Additionally, we will still offer free performances and events throughout the festival. For more info on this new shift, check out our website: https://buff.ly/3YxHLTW
Festival passes go on sale March 14th & Individual Tickets go on sale March 28th. We can’t wait to see you April 12-16! ✨
Design Credit:
Saintloreejoan dot com to rsvp
New Rude Fusion production from Saint Loree Joan. A workshop presentation of an original work. Thurs and Fri at 8:30pm. It’s free, just need to make a reservation at link in bio. Look forward to seeing you.
happy 4/20
Ukrainian Fundraiser Reading tickets at link in bio
some wild music tomorrow night at Crashbox
One more show tonight !
This November, University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre & Dance is welcoming patrons back into the B. Iden Payne Theatre for the second production of their 2021/2022 season, THE TASTERS. Running November 4-14, Meghan Brown’s darkly funny, sharp new play explores the nuances of political resistance, self-interest and individual action taken to create hope in the face of hopelessness.
Learn more: https://theatredance.utexas.edu/event/tasters
With government leaders getting poisoned left and right, the Tasters have an important job eating delicious, gourmet mealsand then waiting to see if they die. When one rebellious taster goes on hunger strike, the reverberation of her choice threatens to disrupt the order of their world and change th...
Artist in repose pose. Retreating is hard.
Wrapping up a week-long residency at Tofte Lake Center at Norm's Fish Camp for Art Tramp - our performance on the trails project. Thanks to -m foundation and the NEA for their support. Hopefully we will be workshopping this puppy on YOU in the Spring.
FINAL WEEK TO SUBMIT!!
DID YOU SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT IN JULY?
If you did, and you did not receive a personal reply from TBP, please RESUBMIT your project before the deadline. We had an error with our submission form. THANK YOU!
TBP 2021 FESTIVAL
ENTRIES ARE DUE SEPTEMBER 15!
Projects submitted to the archive must be new works (written in the last year), led by an artist of color, and exactly 8 minutes and 46 seconds in length. All submissions that meet the Breath Project guidelines will be featured in the archive, and a diverse panel of theatre artists will curate a virtual festival of select pieces in Fall 2021.
All submissions will also be eligible for consideration for a 2022 New Play Commission award (up to $17,000 will be awarded to a single project, or smaller amounts to multiple projects).
To be considered for the Fall 2021 Festival and new play commission application process, please submit your piece by September 15, 2021. For more information on the submission process, the mission of the Breath Project and Partner Theaters, and to view archived submissions, visit www.thebreathproject2020.com.
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Gamal Abdel Chasten & Marieke Gaboury
Co-Founders, The Breath Project
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The Breath Project, in parternship with theater companies across the country, was formed archive work that is created by multidisciplinary theater artists of color that is 8 minutes and 46 seconds in length.
At Crashbox
A message to those of you considering visiting the Millbrook installation:
Because Austin is on the cusp of Stage 5, we are adjusting things a bit for the remainder of the Millbrook installation.
We are not accepting new reservations. We will not admit anyone without a reservation.
We are closing Millbrook to the public on August 7th and August 13th.
We are changing the hours Millbrook is open to 7pm - 9pm.
If you reserved, but weren't sure which night you were going to come, that's okay - we have your name.
We hope that you are all vaccinated.
Please wear your mask. Please socially distance yourselves.
Thanks.
Photographers - heads up - RFQ for architectural and event photography at this link.
https://www.austintexas.gov/financeonline/account_services/solicitation/solicitation_details.cfm?sid=135607
A Sneak Peek at Heroic Dose! - https://mailchi.mp/rudemechs/take-a-trip-with-rude-mechs-5275900
Rude Mechs is proud to parter with The Breath Project again this year as we announce a new call for entries for the Second Annual Fall Festival.
The Breath Project is an archive of 8 minute and 46 second works of live theater from multidisciplinary theater artists of color.
THIS YEAR all submissions will also be eligible for consideration for a 2022 NEW PLAY COMMISSION AWARD (up to $17,000 will be awarded to a single project, or smaller amounts to multiple projects).
The deadline for submission is 9/15/21.
For more information on the submission process, the mission of the Breath Project and Partner Theaters, and to view archived submissions, visit www.thebreathproject2020.com.
Also watch this video featuring Gamal Chasten and commemorating the one year anniversary of The Breath Project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpwH9BSEHkI
ANNOUNCING THE CALL FOR ENTRIES - 2021 FESTIVAL
The Breath Project, an archive of 8 minute and 46 second works of live theater from multidisciplinary theater artists of color, is now open for submissions for our Second Annual 2021 Fall Festival. Projects submitted to the archive must be new works (written in the last year), led by an artist of color, and exactly 8 minutes and 46 seconds in length. All submissions that meet the Breath Project guidelines will be featured in the archive, and a diverse panel of theatre artists will curate a virtual festival of select pieces in Fall 2021. All submissions will also be eligible for consideration for a 2022 New Play Commission award (up to $17,000 will be awarded to a single project, or smaller amounts to multiple projects). To be considered for the Fall 2021 Festival and new play commission application process, please submit your piece by September 15, 2021. For more information on the submission process, the mission of the Breath Project and Partner Theaters, and to view archived submissions, visit www.thebreathproject2020.com.
Thank you, Michael Barnes, for hanging out with us!
Austin theater troupe the Rude Mechs kept still, kept thinking and kept projects spinning out during the pandemic.
Livestreaming The New Solidarity: Art, Organizing & Radical Politics
A provocative new film by world-renowned director Milo Rau and two conversations about how artists and social movements are reshaping their work to meet this historical moment
Friday 9 July + Saturday 10 July • All events are free and online
Friday 9 July at 12 a.m. through 11:59 p.m. Saturday 10 July EDT
A special screening of Milo Rau’s The New Gospel
Available for viewing at any time in these 48 hours
Since 2007, Milo Rau has been weaving aesthetics with political activism in the theatre and films he’s made with his company, The International Institute of Political Murder. In 2018, Rau also became the artistic director of NTGent in Belgium, whose mission and programs have since been animated by a radical new manifesto for the theatre.
The New Gospel is a 21st century retelling of the Passion of Christ. Inspired by the 1964 "Jesus film" of Pier Paolo Pasolini, The New Gospel was filmed in the ancient Italian city of Matera. In Rau’s film—part movie, part documentary, part political campaign—Jesus is played by Cameroonian political activist Yvan Sagnet (recently knighted in Italy for his work with migrants). The film follows Sagnet’s Jesus as he spearheads a Revolt of Dignity, a grassroots movement of migrant workers, many of whom are African refugees, in Italy and beyond. Read more about the film and the ongoing movement at “A Director Asks, Would Jesus Stand With Today’s Migrants?” (The New York Times).
“[in The New Gospel] we don’t just get the last supper and the biblical quotes, we also see the auditions, the rehearsals and the material on either side of each take. It’s about what it means to tell the story as much as it is about the story itself.” - The Guardian
Friday 9 July: How are artists seizing power today?
1 p.m. - 3 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4)
A conversation with: Milo Rau, Toshi Regan, Marc Bamuthi Joseph/The Kennedy Center, Alec Duffy/Jack NYC and moderator David Bruin.
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd catalyzed a number of movements, many of them led by artists, aimed at reshaping every aspect of the way theater and performance are produced: We See You White American Theatre, Amplifying Activism, and Anticapitalism for Artists, to name just a few of the many initiatives that are committed to centering justice, sustainability, and solidarity on the stage, in the studio, and beyond. Inspired by these movements, and in dialogue with The New Gospel, this conversation brings together some of the most inspiring theater and performance makers working to change the industries—and the world—in which they work.
Saturday 10 July: How are artists and organizers building solidarity between art and movements?
1 p.m. - 3 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4)
A Conversation with: Milo Rau + Yvan Sagnet, Dread Scott, Carlton Turner/Sipp Culture, Kristina Wong, Luis Alfaro, and moderator Virginia Grise.
Over this past year, there’s been a significant increase in the numbers of artists and theatres participating in local and national social justice campaigns. While this is inspiring, it also offers the opportunity to look at the historical challenges of and the future aspirations for relationships between art, its institutions, and social justice movements. What do sustainable relationships look like? How does artistic expression become part of movements in new and provocative ways? How do we engage and share radical imagination? And how do we consider art and artists in the ecology of changing the world? The New Gospel holds some of these inquires, as does the visionary work of the artists and organizers assembled for this conversation.
Event Producers: Melanie Joseph and David Bruin
The New Solidarity will be livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 9 July and Saturday 10 July 2021.
The New Solidarity is being co-hosted by a number of artists, institutions, and grassroots organizations across the country, including:
New York City: Anticapitalism for Artists, Arts & Democracy, The Foundry Theatre, Mabou Mines, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Radical Evolution, The Segal Center/CUNY
Los Angeles: UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance
Detroit: A Host of People
Utica, MS: Sipp Culture
Dallas: Ignite/Arts Dallas at SMU Meadows School of the Arts
San Antonio: A Todo Dar Productions
Austin: Rude Mechs (Austin, TX)
Oakland: Roberto Bedoya/Oakland Cultural Affairs
Boston: HowlRound Theatre Commons
About HowlRound TV
HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based peer produced, open access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world's performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and to develop our knowledge commons collectively. Participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email [email protected], or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal/WhatsApp. View the video archive of past events.
Just when it's almost safe to head back indoors, Rude Mechs is starting development on a TWO BIG IDEAS to bring arts lovers to the outdoors and outdoors lovers to the arts. Let's dispel preconceived notions about what theatre is, and create new audience for the arts. Let's connect with local artists, and hopefully inspire new artmakers. Let's put artists in the wilderness and see if it orients their artmaking toward new vistas? Let's ask local artists and residents to share their complex understanding of and connection to the lands they inhabit. LET'S INCLUDE EVERYONE.
If you would like to know more or have a way to contribute or get involved, please let us know!
ART TRAMP (spring 2022) will bring performance to the trails and campgrounds of every park in our National Parks system. Each piece would be tailored to the park's unique geo-features, and address the educational and cultural goals of that park, while shining a light on how troubled the American version of "the outdoors" is. It's easily as troubled as our version of "the arts."
Both should be available to everyone, but aren’t. Both should include everyone, but don’t. For both, the word appropriation doesn’t begin to cover the violence done in the guise of preservation or in service of wealth, control and power.
With a particular focus on bringing visibility to women in the outdoors, we are committed to making visible the people, the history, the culture and the land that has been trampled along the way.
GREAT LOOP (spring 2023) will be a floating rehearsal room and artists residency. Rude Mechs will live aboard a boat circumnavigating the Eastern United States by water: The Atlantic coast, the Hudson, Eerie Canal, The Great Lakes, The Mississippi, The Gulf. Moving at a slower pace. Visiting New York, Detroit, Chicago, St Louis, New Orleans, but also everywhere in between.
The voyage is a performance in and of itself, but also serves as the inspiration and time and space to make a new work based on this voyage. The reality is the Rude Mechs cannot all quit their lives for a year. So, when the Rudes aren’t aboard the boat we will offer it up as a floating Artist Residency.
https://mailchi.mp/rudemechs/rude-mechs-is-heading-outside
IF YOU HAVEN'T SPOKEN UP ON BEHALF OF AUSTIN'S PERFORMANCE SCENE, PLEASE DO IT TODAY.
From Austin Creative Alliance:
"This Thursday, May 20, City Council will vote on Item #60, a resolution to allocate American Rescue Plan funds to arts and music.
The resolution currently does three things:
1. Allocates $15m to the Cultural Arts ($7.5m per year for two years).
2. Allocates $10m to support the live music industry, including backfilling the recently created Live Music Fund and adding to relief grants for music industry workers.
3. Directs City staff to avoid using emergency funds to immediately pay back the Cultural Arts Fund $4m deficit, and instead spread the deficit reduction over several years.
We continue to work on getting the following included in the resolution:
1. Increasing the Cultural Arts amount to a total of $20m.
2. Inserting a provision that would make non-profits eligible for future Legacy Business Relief grants.
3. Making previous recipients of Creative Sector Worker grant funds eligible for another round.
What you can do:
1. Go big today, tomorrow and Wednesday with emails to council from your board, staff and audience.
2. While thanking council for their work, urge them to increase the amount for Cultural Arts to $10m per year, reminding them that non-profits were excluded from the Legacy Business Relief Grants, even though the Council Resolution creating the program explicitly mentioned museums, theaters and galleries.
3. Remind council that not only did the Arts community lose its City funding due to Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue losses, we lost our earned income from admissions and other in-person sources.
4. Include a relevant, direct message about the circumstances your organization will confront without robust rescue funding: e.g. closure, job cuts, reductions in programming.
Please share this widely to help generate emails from the community to Council. Let me know if you have any questions.
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Please Contact Your Councilperson Today - https://mailchi.mp/rudemechs/please-contact-your-councilperson-today
Heroic Dose Update! - https://mailchi.mp/rudemechs/heroic-dose-update
Heroic Dose Update! It's time to partake with us. Sign up today so we can celebrate Bicycle Day together.
As Resident Theatre Company, we are soooo looking forward to seeing this new work and to serving as Respondants. We love to talk about art! Especially your art!
The Cohen New Works Festival, 2021 is right around the corner! The largest collegiate festival of its kind kicks off next week, showcasing 33 all-new works, including dance and movement performances, works of theatre, installations and site-specific programming.
This year, due to the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Festival will take place virtually. Visit the link below to learn more about this year's lineup, which tests the limits of remote art-making for a truly unique New Works Festival experience.
More: https://theatredance.utexas.edu/2021-new-works-festival
HEROIC DOSE the trip starts on BICYCLE DAY so sign up now! - https://mailchi.mp/rudemechs/heroicdose2
We are in this fu***ng book. If you can afford to buy it, tell us what it says.
From Co-Associate Director Jaqueline Lawton (along w TJ Young):
“Together we will be developing a designated track for playwrights identifying as Black, Indigenous, of Latinx or Asian heritage, and as Mixed Race. We will also curate several affinity and identity groups for the participating playwrights. I hope you'll consider this program and pass it along to folx you know looking to gather, commune, and focus on their writing. Follow this link to learn more and apply.
Kennedy Center Playwriting IntensiveJuly 11-24, 2021Led by Gary GarrisonAssociate Directors - Jacqueline E. Lawton and TJ Young
Are you ready to take your Heroic Dose? - https://mailchi.mp/rudemechs/take-a-trip-with-rude-mechs
illustration by Aaron Flynn
THE BREATH PROJECT INVITES ALL BIPOC THEATER ARTISTS TO "A CONVERSATION — PART 2"
A town hall discussion about dismantling racism and building equity in American Theater. Hosted by Gamal Abdel Chasten of The Breath Project. Moderated by Ahmed Kenyatta Dents of San Diego Rep Theatre.
You do not need to have attended Part 1 in order to attend Part 2 - All black/indigenous/people of color artists are welcome!
A FREE VIRTUAL EVENT—SATURDAY, MARCH 13
11AM PT | 12PM MT | 1PM CST | 2PM ET
A Zoom link will be emailed to all participants one hour prior to the discussion.
Note: In order to create a safe space for discussion, this conversation will be held for BIPOC (black/indigenous/people of color) theater artists only - thank you for your understanding. More talks will be coming in the future.
THE BREATH PROJECT INVITES ALL BIPOC THEATER ARTISTS TO: A CONVERSATION — PART 2
Hey friends, OUTsider Fest is February 19 - 21. IT IS VIRTUAL.
Check out the lineup and get your festival pass here: https://www.outsiderfest.org/2021-line-up/
Read all about this year's festival in the Austin Chronicle article below.
Austin’s q***r transmedia fest goes virtual on Feb. 19-21
The Breath Project is proud to announce our New Play Commission Initiative! Congratulations to playwrights Giovanny Camarena, Tyharra Cozier, El Colectivo de Dramaturgos de Puerto Rico, and Derek J. Snow, who, along with Artistic Director Gamal Abdel Chasten, will create new theatrical works as part of this exciting initiative!
Read the full press release: https://www.thebreathproject2020.com/new-play-commission-initiative
Hey theatre artists that also do stuff on film / video / web... here's a chance to share it in a festival format at New Ohio Theatre in NYC.
Deadline to submit is 1/22 - $20 submission fee.
There is a late deadline of 2/12 for $10 more.
There are several different categories. All the details are at this link.
( The original Ohio Theatre was the very first place we ever toured to - we did the first workshop showing of Lipstick Traces there a billion years ago, and then later did a 6 week run of the final version there. Blondie was there with her dog in her lap the whole show. We love Robert Lyons forever.)
The NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival presents work from New York City independent theatre artists defying labels and branching out into digital media and film...
Thanks Texas Monthly for writing about theatre in the pandemic. Read up on what Austin companies have been up to, including us!
The city’s resourceful artists are connecting with audiences everywhere but on stage.
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THANK YOU to all of the amazing people who have backed our Kickstarter campaign to date. We're posting a Holiday Thank You Video each day (or so) til we've expressed our love and gratitude to everyone! (If you've got a hankering for some holiday love, do check out our Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rudemechs/a-karaoke-christmas-carol?ref=3u7xxi if you haven't yet!) THIS THANK YOU GOES OUT TO....... Charles Ro Olufunwa Rachel Feferman Sarah Ruhl Vanessa Hsia Matthew Teodori Jo Ellen Aleshire Michelle Cheng Jeremy Lydic and Tina Goldstein WE LOVE YOU!
THANK YOU to all of the amazing people who have backed our Kickstarter campaign to date. We're posting a Holiday Thank You Video each day (or so) til we've expressed our love and gratitude to everyone! (If you've got a hankering for some holiday love, do check out our Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rudemechs/a-karaoke-christmas-carol?ref=3u7xxi if you haven't yet!) THIS THANK YOU GOES OUT TO....... Cason Murphy Jessica Massart Run Pms - Peter Stopschinski The Creative Fund by BackerKit David Huebel Mark Holzbach and Dana Friis-Hansen JoAnn McKenzie and Ron Berry WE LOVE YOU!
THANK YOU to all of the amazing people who have backed our Kickstarter campaign to date. We're posting a Holiday Thank You Video each day til we've expressed our love and gratitude to everyone! (If you've got a hankering for some holiday love, do check out our https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rudemechs/a-karaoke-christmas-carol?ref=3u7xxi if you haven't yet!) THIS THANK YOU GOES OUT TO....... Theresa Zelasko Melinda Chow Annell Neale Leila Henley Amanda Perry Charlie Llewellin Mark Wahl Minou Arjomand Sophie Kruip Danielle Iemola Devereux and Annie Mistak WE LOVE YOU!
THANK YOU to all of the amazing people who have backed our Kickstarter campaign to date. We're posting a Holiday Thank You Video each day til we've expressed our love and gratitude to everyone! (If you've got a hankering for some holiday love, do check out our Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rudemechs/a-karaoke-christmas-carol?ref=3u7xxi if you haven't yet!) THIS THANK YOU GOES OUT TO....... Robert Matney Lisa Scheps Emily Levinstone louise lynch Jane Caradale Barbara Ellis Josh Meyer Alex McAlmon Shirley Goodness and Graham Reynolds WE LOVE YOU!
THANK YOU to all of the amazing people who have backed our Kickstarter campaign to date. We're posting a Holiday Thank You Video each day til we've expressed our love and gratitude to everyone! (If you've got a hankering for some holiday love, do check out our Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rudemechs/a-karaoke-christmas-carol?ref=3u7xxi if you haven't yet!) THIS THANK YOU GOES OUT TO....... David Kenny Teresa Ann Virginia Bayer Patton Hindle Marina Weikel Ramirez Chris Nine Sunny Bates Karim Sahyoun Suzee Brooks Kari Banta Barbara Shack WE LOVE YOU!
THANK YOU to all of the amazing people who have backed our Kickstarter campaign to date. We're posting a Holiday Thank You Video each day til we've expressed our love and gratitude to everyone! (If you've got a hankering for some holiday love, do check out our Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rudemechs/a-karaoke-christmas-carol?ref=3u7xxi if you haven't yet!) THIS THANK YOU GOES OUT TO....... Richard and Linda Shaw Charles Miller Jamie Gump Michelle Dahlenburg Kelly McKay Olga Bassett Katie Danielson Peter Bassett Carra Martinez Michael Micalizzi WE LOVE YOU!
Since 1995, Rude Mechs has created a genre-averse slate of original theatrical productions peppered with big ideas, cheap laughs, and dizzying spectacle. What these works hold in common are the use of play to make performance, the use of theaters as meeting places for audiences and artists, and the use of humor as a tool for intellectual investigation. We tour these performances nationally and abroad; maintain Rude Studios, a suite of rooms that are home to artists of every discipline; house a scenic lending library; and run Off Center Teens, a year-round theatre camp for teens. The quality and innovation of the company’s theatrical productions have firmly established Rude Mechs as one of Austin’s most highly valued cultural assets
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