Sunday, March 29, 2009 @ 6:30 PM State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. "Homegrown Tomatoes" by Micah McCoy Fundamentalist seminary student Evan Beech can find no other shelter in all of Austin, TX but a shared living cooperative run by a "nest of backyard-pooping hippies." When Evan's famous televangelist father is caught up in a sex scandal, Evan and his new roommates are forced to face head-on the complexities and absurdities at both extremes of America's 'culture war.'
Connections A workshop with Arlene Hutton, writer of The Nibroc Trilogy Monday, February 23, 2009 7:00-9:30PM Daugherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd. ASW $20 / General $35 INFO/RESERVATIONS: 512-454-9727, christi-at-scriptworks.org Playwright Arlene Hutton, award-winning author of The Nibroc Trilogy, will take participants through a series of in-class writing exercises, provide new inroads to the wonders and revelations of the unconscious mind, and celebrate the thrill of creative writing.
Sunday, February, 22, 2009 @6:30pm State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. The February 22nd Salon will feature "Low Hanging Stars" by Sarah Saltwick and "Blook of Clouds" by Elizabeth Cobbe. Low Hanging Stars is a love story between ghost, preteen starlet and her mother set on an impossibly pretty hill in New England. It's hard to move forward, it's hard to look back but it's harder to stay still. A work in progress inspired by tragic events and Dakota Fanning. Book of Clouds is set in Austin in 1958. A remarkable library of every book imaginable has burned to the ground. The former librarian and a young girl who hates to read sort through the ashes together.
The Death of Beth by Erin Phillips, presented in conjunction with UT Playwright Family Dinner Series Sunday, January 25 @7 pm Salvage Vanguard's Second Space, 2803 Manor Rd Admission is free with a canned good for the Austin food bank The Death of Beth is a dark comedy full of hijinks, mistaken identity, and terminal diseases. When Beth finds out she's dying, secrets from her past start to surface which might put Beth in more danger than her very rare and very fatal disease. Beth is going to die before this play is over. The question is...how?
Sunday, December 14th @6:30pm State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. The December 14th Salon will feature three short works by members Candyce Rusk, Priscilla Sample, and Teresa Stankiewicz. Lulu's Charms in the Dark by Candyce Rusk is set in Chicago's Riverview Ballroom in the mid 1940's, and focuses on three women whose fortunes lie with dancing the night away in good shoes...hard to come by and harder to keep. In Priscilla Sample's Lascivious, when her husband dies under unusual circumstances, popular cook and author Lynn Matthews is surprised to find herself a suspect in the police investigation. Duty to Warn by Teresa Stankiewicz Loretta is a young mother with bipolar disorder struggling to balance her emotions. Her dysfunctional family dismisses her troubles as she spirals out of control. The police, the hospital and the therapist all make the required calls espousing their "duty to warn" when Loretta threatens to kill her mother and her children. Ride the roller coaster of emotions that Loretta suffers and experience the consequences of our "duty to warn."