KINDERMAN'S WAKE by George Obermiller Sunday, September 25 at 6:30pm State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. (map) KINDERMAN'S WAKE The truth comes from an unlikely source, when a crotchety south Texas rancher is awakened from the dead by an illegal alien and spends one more night on earth, or hell--he can't tell which, in order to reconcile with his dysfunctional family and solve a sixty year old mystery.
FRONTERAFEST 101 A primer in self-producing for the fringe, a workshop taught by Christina J. Moore Wednesday, September 14, 7:00 pm
On Sunday, August 28th from 5:30-7:30pm, ScriptWorks members and their families, as well as area playwrights, actors, directors, designers, technicians, and those interested in finding out more about ScriptWorks are invited to the 14th Annual Meet & Greet: the Vortex 2307 Manor Rd. (map) Austin, TX 78722 Free, open to all This is ScriptWorks’ annual party to kick-off the new year, welcome new members, swap summer triumphs and tribulations, and get informed on how ScriptWorks can help you in the coming year. ScriptWorks will provide libations and attendees are invited to bring their favorite finger food to the potluck. This party has no narrative through-line and no inciting incident, so drop by anytime and rub elbows and egos with the local bards. We're looking for a Dallas theatre to host our Dallas Meet N Greet — all suggestions welcome! Contact christi-at-scriptworks.org.
MAKING IT [FUN] AND GOING TO MARKET (Write. Laugh. Rewrite. Move it.)
With Paul Bonin-Rodriguez
Tuesdays, May 24 & 31, June 7 & 14, 7-9:30 pm
$100 ScriptWorks/ $125 General
Drop-in $30 ScriptWorks/ $35 General
Email info@scriptworks.org for reservation and location
Making it [fun] and going to market (Write. Laugh. Rewrite. Move it.)
This workshop begins with the proposal that new plays need time, space, and the support (and challenge) of comrades to get better. The playwright needs to witness the work. Over a period of four weeks, we will work as a community to create bad works that get better. And then we'll plan on where they might go to build an audience to get even better. Artists may come for the whole, or for parts, although the writing used in class as examples will come from the first two weeks of work.
SOMEONE ELSE'S GOD by Allene Nichols Monday, May 23rd at 7:00pm Nouveau 47 at the Magnolia Lounge, Fair Park (map) In Someone Else's God, Lilith unlooses the moorings of time in an effort to change history, which she feels she's made a mess of. This brings together Eve, Judith Iscariot and Emily, the HIV positive wife of a fundamentalist minister, each struggling to make sense out of her own life and her shattered faith in people and the divine.