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PERFORMANCE TO BENEFIT ASW
Austin Playhouse is hosting a benefit performance of Cyndi William's Dug Up next Thursday night, October 16th at 8:00. Cyndi is one of the co-founding Core members of ASW and an award-winning playwright and actress. This premiere production of Dug Up received funding from ASW's Finer Point Fund and the benefit will help to replenish the fund.
AUSTIN PLAYHOUSE presents
DUG UP by Cyndi Williams
October 10 - November 2, 2008
Thursday- Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 5pm
Austin Playhouse, Larry L. King Theatre
3601 S. Congress, Bldg. C
All tickets are $20; student tickets are $10
Box office: 512-476-0084
www.austinplayhouse.com
Inspired by love, loss, and Tennessee Williams, the play creates an off-kilter world deep in Louisiana's bayou country. In the middle of this nowhere land a once great old house has been converted into "a unique and romantic escape for couples seeking solitude in nature." The inn is run by Dewitt and his aunt, the last living members of the Rutherford clan. As the play opens, Dewitt has taken to living like an animal in the courtyard, a sexy and mysterious guest who may have just killed her husband has checked in, and the bones Dewitt has carefully buried may be washing away. Also, his dead twin sister is coming home.
Dug Up is directed by King Theatre Artistic Director, Lara Toner (Women Who Steal, Moonlight and Magnolias) and features Jude Hickey, Jessie Tilton, and Liz Fisher.
Dug Up contains adult language, mature content, copious consumption of hurricanes, and real animal bones.
Bowling with the Bards
One word: bowling. What, you say. Bowling, I say.
Join us for the 2nd Annual Bowling with the Bards, a benefit featuring bowling and bowling-related plays to support Pulse Works, the heart of new drama in Central Texas. Expect: retro bowling shirts, shoes that slide, and 1-3 minute plays about America’s favorite indoor sport.
Six to seven teams will bowl, each captained by a Pulse Works playwright, Artistic Director C. Denby Swanson, or a special guest bowler.
Bowl with the Bards raises money for Pulse Works, the heart of new drama in Central Texas, at the end of October. It also helps connect ASW members to theater professionals -– one of our guest bowlers this year is Tina Parker, a director and associate at Kitchen Dog Theatre, a company in Dallas with a strong connection to Script Works and a determination to produce new and challenging plays. Stayed tuned for word on another guest bowler!
Bowl! Write a new play about bowling! Raise money for your fellow playwrights while you bowl! Make friends with a cool theater professional from a great company and impress her with your bowling!
Raise $100 in pledges to join a team or pay $50 to bowl and rub elbows with a fancy-pants guest artist. Bring 1-3 minute plays that could be set in a bowling alley – over the course of the afternoon, we’ll hear them out loud in casual, site-specific locations.
Prizes will be given out for highest score, most money raised, best team effort, and other fun bowling-related contests.
WHERE: Highland Lanes, 8909 Burnet Rd. (map)
WHEN: October 2, 3-5pm
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