FronteraFest: Wind Up for Week Four

February 4th, 2009 at 8:00pm

• "After School Special: The Musical," by Rain Nox (Austin New Music Workshop). All the drama, angst, and heavy-handedness of the after school specials you know and love distilled into one head-spinning musical extravaganza.


• "Pyretown," by John Belluso (Andrew Varenhorst). Excerpts from John Belluso's play "Pyretown." "The veins that branch through every frame of life, making man what he is, creature divine."


• "The Bitter Poet," by Kevin Draine. The Bitter Poet performs his guitar-driven poems for the masses! High energy and hilarious, The Bitter Poet rants his poems of Looking for Love In All the Wrong Coffee Shops, Strip Clubs and Black Box Performance Spaces! Video and audio at: http://www.myspace.com/thebitterpoet


• "One AM" (ColdTowne Theatre). Improv featuring Chris Trew and Tami Nelson of ColdTowne.


• "Almost Entirely Unlike Comedy," by Hank Schwemmer (ASW Commission). Is it stand-up or a deconstruction of stand-up? And why is there a 12 drink minimum?

February 5th, 2009 at 8:00pm

• "The Walls Are Alive (with the sound of)," by Jennifer Margulies. An interior decorator in her mid-thirties goes home in the midst of a family crisis to take care of her mother and redecorate the house where she grew up. The house has two spirits living in its walls: an unborn baby and an unwritten play. This is a tragicomic take on the mortality of mothers and other creative forces; art in the context of commercial and other realities; and the uncanny nature of human potential. There will be singing.


• "Damned Avalanche," by Patrick Knisely and Jenny Carlson. A two-person improvised comedy show featuring a montage of related scenes and characters.


• "Oh, Daddy!" by Rhonda Kulhanek. A new, original one-woman show from the creator of "The Mommy Confessions."


• "Lulu's Charms in the Dark," by Candyce Rusk. Set in Chicago's Riverview Ballroom in the mid 1940's, the piece focuses on three women whose fortunes lie with dancing the night away in good shoes...hard to come by and harder to keep.


• "Wool & Water," by Katherine Catmull. Map, sheep, pajamas.

February 6th, 2009 at 8:00pm

• "by a quiet sea," by Wura-Natasha Ogunji. Spoken in six languages, "by a quiet sea" tells the story of 8 women whose paths cross on their way to market. They must navigate both Death and The Road on their journey through the place where Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nigeria and Brazil meet.


• "57 Boyfriends," by Stephanie Denson, Kirk German & Heather Huggins (DA! Theatre Collective). An original semi-autobiographical one-woman show.


• "You're Killing Me Here," by Sheila Rinear. A one-woman show written by Sheila Rinear, acted by Magda Porter, and directed by David Rinear. Trudy has somehow sneaked into auditions for a Shakespearean company. Since she's been out of circulation taking care of her dying mother, Trudy gives outrageous examples of the kind of acting she's trained in/capable of and tries to explain how important it is to her to get back to life in the theatre.


• "Travel Mugs are following Me," by Natalie George. Dance performance piece with 8-12 performers.


• "Mr. Schave and His Vaudeville Vignettes" (Ben Schave). A series of physical comedy pieces performed by a physical comedian.