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Re: RAT LIPSTICK TRACES in Austin
yep. saw it in NYC. pretty kick-ass theatre!
gabriele
At 11:18 AM 8/25/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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>
>> --============_-1244960259==_ma============--
>
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>
>Dan Dietz, co-Artistic Director
>Salvage Vanguard Theater
>www.salvagevanguard.org
>1705 Guadalupe Street, Suite 301
>Austin, Texas 78701
>PH: 512.474-SVT-6, FAX: 512.474.SVT-0
>"I hate theater."
>
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