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Re: RAT LIPSTICK TRACES in Austin
Definitely check this one out, you guys. Sarah's being modest. It's pretty
fucking great.
Dan
Sarah Richardson wrote:
> Hey Rat friends,
>
> If you find yourselves in Austin, come see our show. we're kinda
> proud of it....
>
> sarah
> rude mechs
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> RUDE MECHANICALS PRESENTS....
>
> * * * * * * * * * * *
> LIPSTICK TRACES
> a secret history of the 20th century
> August 31 - September 16, 2000
> * * * * * * * * * * *
>
> 1534: John of Leyden proclaims himself the Favorite of Heaven, runs
> naked through the streets of Munster, Germany, and forms a society
> free of laws or private property. 1976: John Lydon proclaims himself
> an "antichrist," helps launch a movement to 'destroy passersby,' and
> permanently changes popular culture. Coincidence?
>
> Rude Mechanicals kicks off its 00/01 season with a command
> performance of the smash hit show that was picked as the #1
> Theatrical Experience of 1999 by The Austin Chronicle and grabbed top
> honors at the Austin Critics' Table Awards. Rude Mechs brings its
> unique blend of physicality, intelligence, and caustic wit to this
> manic adaptation of the cult classic by Greil Marcus. The intrepid
> Dr. Narrator joins Sex Pistols' manager and self-proclaimed
> mastermind, Malcolm McLaren to recount an alternative history of the
> 20th century via the Sex Pistols, the Cabaret Voltaire, the May '68
> riots, and a handful of medieval heretics. LIPSTICK TRACES is a
> physically ecstatic and intellectually nervy theatrical vision of
> "movements in culture that raised no monuments, . . . movements that
> barely left a trace."
>
> Work is a sin. Work is for suckers. No boring leisure! Celebrate the
> millennium by getting the hell out of the 20th century. NEVER WORK!!
> This is not nihilism. It's a call to...something else.
>
> WHERE:
>
> The Off Center (now with climate control!)
> 2211-A Hidalgo St.
> [Take 7th Street heading east from IH-35. Take a right on Robert
> Martinez at the Popeye's Chicken and then an immediate left on
> Hidalgo St.]
>
> WHEN:
>
> August 31 - September 16, 2000
> Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 9 pm
> and Sunday September 10th at 9 pm
>
> TICKETS:
>
> $15 General Admission
> $12 Students/Seniors/ACOT members
> Thursdays and Sunday are pay-what-you-wish
>
> Call 512-476-RUDE (7833) for info or reservations
> or make reservations online at http://www.rudemechs.com
> We expect sellout crowds. Make your reservations early!
>
> * * * * * * * * * *
>
> HERE'S WHAT THE CRITICS THINK:
>
> "[Lipstick Traces] was the show that I told people who never go to
> theatre to see....It was the artistic chutzpah and pop culture savvy
> of the Rude Mechanicals operating on all eight cylinders."
>
> -- Sarah Hepola, The Austin Chronicle
>
> "LIPSTICK TRACES gets us to hear the ragged, raging voice of punk in
> the nonsense phrases of turn-of-the-century Swiss artists and the
> "work-is-sin" rantings of a German monk of the 1500's. And it does it
> through a production that, remarkably enough, sings in that same
> voice. The scenes in this play are short, intense, irreverent, highly
> charged - qualities belonging to any good punk song. Director Shawn
> Sides kicks the show off with a fierce sonic explosion and never lets
> up. Zach Murphy's crisp, searing lights and Gordon Gunn's booming
> sound seize our senses while every cast member...grips us with a
> tightly focused, forceful performance."
>
> -- Robert Faires, The Austin Chronicle
>
> "Sure, art feeds the critics. The Rude Mechanicals, Austin's wittiest
> theater company, has reversed the flow of artistic nutrition by
> transforming a work of cultural criticism into a lively comedy."
>
> -- Michael Barnes, The Austin American Statesman
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
> ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
>
> SHAWN SIDES (director) has been a performer, director, and producer
> in Austin and New York for the past 13 years. Shawn holds an M.A. in
> Theatre from New York University where she studied directing,
> acting, and writing techniques with artists including Anne Bogart,
> Richard Schechner, Augusto Boal, and Holly Hughes. At N.Y.U, Shawn
> assisted Richard Schechner in directing Chekhov's Three Sisters at La
> Mama. In Austin, Shawn conceived and directed the first Rude
> Mechanicals performance composition, curst & Shrewd: The Taming of
> the Shrew Unhinged. She directed In The House of the Moles and
> Crucks, Part II of Kirk Lynn's acclaimed Faminly Trilogy, for which
> she received a Austin Critics' Table Award for Outstanding Movement
> and Critics' Table and Austin Circle of Theaters B. Iden Payne
> nominations for Outstanding Director.
>
> Kirk Lynn (playwright) is the award-winning playwright-in-residence
> for Rude Mechanicals who has received critical acclaim and for Pale
> Idiot, The Faminly Trilogy (Lust Supper, Crucks, Salivation) and
> Lipstick Traces which he co-created with Shawn Sides. Each of Kirk's
> original scripts for Rude Mechs has been nominated for Outstanding
> Original Script from either the Austin Critics' Table Awards or The
> B. Iden Payne Awards. His Faminly Trilogy was also nominated for the
> prestigious Osborn award from the American Theatre Critics
> Association. He is also fast at work on a second novel, Brave Land
> of the Home Free, while he awaits word on the publication of his
> first novel, The Smallest Myth Possible.
>
> Greil Marcus (author of the book Lipstick Traces) was born in San
> Francisco in 1945 and studied political thought at Berkeley where he
> taught American Studies from 1971-72. A former editor at Rolling
> Stone and Creem, he is also the author of several other books
> including Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll, Dead
> Elvis: A Chronicle of Cultural Obsession, In the Fascist Bathroom:
> Punk in Pop Music 1977-1992, The Dustbin of History, and most
> recently, Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes.
>
> NOTE: Mr. Marcus may be available for interviews through special
> arrangement. Please contact Rude Mechs if you would like to schedule
> a telephone, electronic, or live interview.
>
> LIPSTICK TRACES features the ensemble acting talents of the original
> cast - Ehren Conner Christian, Lana Lesley, Jason Liebrecht, Michael
> T. Mergen, Gavin Mundy, and Robert Pierson.
>
> * * * * * * * * * *
>
> CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR LIPSTICK TRACES:
>
> Austin Critics' Table Awards
> Won "Outstanding Comedy"
> Won "Outstanding Adaptation" - for Kirk Lynn
> Won "Outstanding Director of a Comedy" - for Shawn Sides
> Won "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy" - for Lana Lesley
> Nominated "Outstanding Lighting Design" - for Zach Murphy
> Nominated "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy" - for Jason Liebrecht
>
> B. Iden Pay Awards (winners will be announced Sep. 18, 2000)
> Nominated "Outstanding Comedy"
> Nominated "Outstanding Director of a Comedy" - for Shawn Sides
>
> from The Austin Chronicle's "Top of the Year" * January 7, 2000 -->
>
> Top 10 Theatrical Productions of 1999 by Sarah Hepola
> #1. Lipstick Traces (Rude Mechanicals)
>
> 10 Shows From 1999 Theatre Transported Me by Robert Faires
> #1. Lipstick Traces (Rude Mechanicals)
>
> from The Austin American-Statesman's Arts Favorites/Best of 1999 -->
> #6. Lipstick Traces (Rude Mechanicals)
>
> Nominated for The Osborn Award, an award given by the American
> Theatre Critics Association for up-and-coming American playwrights.
> (winner has not yet been announced)
>
> Featured in the November 1999 issue of American Theatre Magazine
>
> * * * * * * * * * *
>
> Photos and video available upon request.
>
> For more information, please visit our website at http://www.rudemechs.com
>
> * * * * * * * * * *
>
> CONTACT:
> Sarah Richardson
> 512-208-6712
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> <div>Hey Rat friends,</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>If you find yourselves in Austin, come see our show. we're
> kinda proud of it....</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>sarah</div>
> <div>rude mechs</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<span
> ></span>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>RUDE MECHANICALS PRESENTS....</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>* * * * * * * * * * *</div>
> <div><b>LIPSTICK TRACES</b></div>
> <div>a secret history of the 20th century</div>
> <div>August 31 - September 16, 2000</div>
> <div>* * * * * * * * * * *</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>1534: John of Leyden proclaims himself the Favorite of Heaven,
> runs naked through the streets of Munster, Germany, and forms a
> society free of laws or private property. 1976: John Lydon proclaims
> himself an "antichrist," helps launch a movement to
> 'destroy passersby,' and permanently changes popular culture.
> Coincidence?</div>
> <div><br>
> Rude Mechanicals kicks off its 00/01 season with a command
> performance of the smash hit show that was picked as the #1
> Theatrical Experience of 1999 by The Austin Chronicle and grabbed top
> honors at the Austin Critics=B9 Table Awards. Rude Mechs brings its
> unique blend of physicality, intelligence, and caustic wit to this
> manic adaptation of the cult classic by Greil Marcus. The intrepid
> Dr. Narrator joins Sex Pistols' manager and self-proclaimed
> mastermind, Malcolm McLaren to recount an alternative history of the
> 20th century via the Sex Pistols, the Cabaret Voltaire, the May '68
> riots, and a handful of medieval heretics. LIPSTICK TRACES is a
> physically ecstatic and intellectually nervy theatrical vision of
> "movements in culture that raised no monuments, . . .
> movements that barely left a trace."</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div><i><b>Work is a sin. Work is for suckers. No boring leisure!
> Celebrate the millennium by getting the hell out of the 20th century.
> NEVER WORK!! This is not nihilism. It's a call to...something
> else.</b></i><br>
> </div>
> <div><b>WHERE:</b></div>
> <div><br>
> The Off Center (now with climate control!)<br>
> 2211-A Hidalgo St.</div>
> <div>[Take 7th Street heading east from IH-35. Take a right on
> Robert Martinez at the Popeye=B9s Chicken and then an immediate left
> on Hidalgo St.]</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div><b>WHEN:</b></div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>August 31 - September 16, 2000</div>
> <div>Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 9 pm</div>
> <div>and Sunday September 10th at 9 pm</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div><b>TICKETS:</b></div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>$15 General Admission</div>
> <div>$12 Students/Seniors/ACOT members</div>
> <div>Thursdays and Sunday are pay-what-you-wish<br>
> <br>
> Call 512-476-RUDE (7833) for info or reservations<br>
> or make reservations online at http://www.rudemechs.com</div>
> <div>We expect sellout crowds. Make your reservations
> early!</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>* * * * * * * * * *</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div><b>HERE'S WHAT THE CRITICS THINK:</b></div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>"[Lipstick Traces] was the show that I told people who
> never go to theatre to see....It was the artistic chutzpah and pop
> culture savvy of the Rude Mechanicals operating on all eight
> cylinders.=B2</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>-- Sarah Hepola, The Austin Chronicle</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>"LIPSTICK TRACES gets us to hear the ragged, raging voice
> of punk in the nonsense phrases of turn-of-the-century Swiss artists
> and the "work-is-sin" rantings of a German monk of the
> 1500's. And it does it through a production that, remarkably enough,
> sings in that same voice. The scenes in this play are short, intense,
> irreverent, highly charged - qualities belonging to any good punk
> song. Director Shawn Sides kicks the show off with a fierce sonic
> explosion and never lets up. Zach Murphy's crisp, searing lights and
> Gordon Gunn's booming sound seize our senses while every cast
> member...grips us with a tightly focused, forceful
> performance."</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>-- Robert Faires, The Austin Chronicle</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>"Sure, art feeds the critics. The Rude Mechanicals,
> Austin's wittiest theater company, has reversed the flow of artistic
> nutrition by transforming a work of cultural criticism into a lively
> comedy."</div>
> <div><br>
> -- Michael Barnes, The Austin American Statesman</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>* * * * * * * * * * * *</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div><b>ABOUT THE ARTISTS:</b></div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>SHAWN SIDES (director) has been a performer,
> director, and producer in Austin and New York for the past 13
> years. Shawn holds an M.A. in Theatre from New York
> University where she studied directing, acting, and writing
> techniques with artists including Anne Bogart, Richard Schechner,
> Augusto Boal, and Holly Hughes. At N.Y.U, Shawn assisted
> Richard Schechner in directing Chekhov's Three Sisters at La Mama. In
> Austin, Shawn conceived and directed the first Rude Mechanicals
> performance composition, curst & Shrewd: The Taming of the Shrew
> Unhinged. She directed In The House of the Moles and Crucks, Part II
> of Kirk Lynn's acclaimed Faminly Trilogy, for which she received a
> Austin Critics' Table Award for Outstanding Movement and Critics'
> Table and Austin Circle of Theaters B. Iden Payne nominations for
> Outstanding Director.</div>
> <div><br>
> Kirk Lynn (playwright) is the award-winning playwright-in-residence
> for Rude Mechanicals who has received critical acclaim and for Pale
> Idiot, The Faminly Trilogy (Lust Supper, Crucks, Salivation) and
> Lipstick Traces which he co-created with Shawn Sides. Each of
> Kirk=B9s original scripts for Rude Mechs has been nominated for
> Outstanding Original Script from either the Austin Critics=B9 Table
> Awards or The B. Iden Payne Awards. His Faminly Trilogy was
> also nominated for the prestigious Osborn award from the American
> Theatre Critics Association. He is also fast at work on a
> second novel, Brave Land of the Home Free, while he awaits word on
> the publication of his first novel, The Smallest Myth Possible.</div>
> <div><br>
> Greil Marcus (author of the book Lipstick Traces) was born in San
> =46rancisco in 1945 and studied political thought at Berkeley where he
> taught American Studies from 1971-72. A former editor at
> Rolling Stone and Creem, he is also the author of several other books
> including Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll, Dead
> Elvis: A Chronicle of Cultural Obsession, In the Fascist Bathroom:
> Punk in Pop Music 1977-1992, The Dustbin of History, and most
> recently, Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes.<br>
> <br>
> NOTE: Mr. Marcus may be available for interviews through special
> arrangement. Please contact Rude Mechs if you would like to schedule
> a telephone, electronic, or live interview.<br>
> </div>
> <div>LIPSTICK TRACES features the ensemble acting talents of the
> original cast - Ehren Conner Christian, Lana Lesley, Jason
> Liebrecht, Michael T. Mergen, Gavin Mundy, and Robert Pierson.</div>
> <div><br>
> * * * * * * * * * *</div>
> <div><br>
> <b>CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR LIPSTICK TRACES:</b><br>
> <br>
> Austin Critics=B9 Table Awards<br>
> Won "Outstanding Comedy"<br>
> Won "Outstanding Adaptation" - for Kirk Lynn<br>
> Won "Outstanding Director of a Comedy" - for Shawn Sides<br>
> Won "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy" - for Lana
> Lesley<br>
> Nominated "Outstanding Lighting Design" - for Zach
> Murphy</div>
> <div>Nominated "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy" -
> for Jason Liebrecht</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>B. Iden Pay Awards (winners will be announced Sep. 18,
> 2000)</div>
> <div>Nominated "Outstanding Comedy"</div>
> <div>Nominated "Outstanding Director of a Comedy" - for
> Shawn Sides</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>from The Austin Chronicle=B9s =B3Top of the Year=B2 * January 7,
> 2000 --></div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>Top 10 Theatrical Productions of 1999 by Sarah Hepola</div>
> <div>#1. Lipstick Traces (Rude Mechanicals)</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>10 Shows From 1999 Theatre Transported Me by Robert Faires</div>
> <div>#1. Lipstick Traces (Rude Mechanicals)</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>from The Austin American-Statesman=B9s Arts Favorites/Best of
> 1999 --><br>
> #6. Lipstick Traces (Rude Mechanicals)</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>Nominated for The Osborn Award, an award given by the American
> Theatre Critics Association for up-and-coming American playwrights.
> (winner has not yet been announced)</div>
> <div><br>
> =46eatured in the November 1999 issue of American Theatre Magazine<br>
> </div>
> <div>* * * * * * * * * *<br>
> </div>
> <div>Photos and video available upon request.</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>For more information, please visit our website at
> http://www.rudemechs.com</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>* * * * * * * * * *</div>
> <div><br></div>
> <div>CONTACT:</div>
> <div>Sarah Richardson</div>
> <div>512-208-6712</div>
> </body>
> </html>
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Salvage Vanguard Theater
www.salvagevanguard.org
1705 Guadalupe Street, Suite 301
Austin, Texas 78701
PH: 512.474-SVT-6, FAX: 512.474.SVT-0
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