October 2004 Archives

Pulse Works - the heart of new drama in Central Texas

Pulse Works, the dynamic play development workshop and public reading series, returns for its second year this October, featuring four brand spanking new works of for the stage by three ASW Core Members and one Core Alumnus.

Pulse Works playwrights spend 30 hours in rehearsal with a professional director, dramaturg, and cast. Their collaboration culminates in a festive weekend of public readings, each followed by a post-play conversation that is moderated by a special guest literary manager. As a laboratory for experimentation, collaboration, and creation, Pulse Works provides time, space, support, and encouragement for fabulous new plays in process.

Lost & Found by Kendall Lynch
8 PM Oct 29, 2004
The boy, Suede Found, is pretty sure his mama might come back. His Granny says it'll never happen but his daddy, Luke, says it will. Nothing grows on Granny's land, at least nothing Luke touches. So Suede buries whatever he can find - forks and pans and all manner of clinking things. He knows one day something is gonna grow here, and when it does, they'll all have to face up to what they've lost and what's left, under the ground and above it.

Fear of a Fuhrer by Abi Basch
1:30 PM Oct 30, 2004
In an abandoned warehouse the bodies hang by strings, forgotten rotten refuse strewn, seven villages once peopled now puppet, and the girl made of puppet is made to radish as the army of metal lovers destroys, the enemy loves, ants cry, stars fall from the sky, a small doll creaks through the wreckage and the coin monkey claps. A cloud passes over the sun. A collaboratively generated play exploring puppetry, movement, language and silence to approach the impossible impulses of violence and devotion.

infinity = infinity + 1 by Skipper Chong Warson
4 PM Oct 30, 2004
A husband will leave his wife tonight. In one week, the wife will meet her husband's woman-on-the-side. Fraternal twins come home to pay their soap opera actor father and housewife mother a visit. The future, the past and the present -- it all adds up a story about contemporary relationships. How close can you actually get to dreaming without ever going to sleep?

Wind-talkers and Myth Makers by Zell Miller, III
8 PM Oct 30, 2004
The story of a young man coming in to his own as an artist, aided by colorful characters like Mother Carlos, Sister Shadow, Sir, and Graffiti. Saturn, the young man, has to weed through family mythology and reality to craft his own truth. Through the beat of hip-hop music and spoken word poetry and funky bass lines the mystery unfolds.

Hyde Park Theatre (web site)
511 W. 43rd St.

For information or reservations, please call 512-454-9727 or email (info-at-scriptworks.org).

Pulse Works, the dynamic play development workshop and public reading series, returns for its second year this October, featuring four brand spanking new works of for the stage by three ASW Core Members and one Core Alumnus.

Pulse Works playwrights spend 30 hours in rehearsal with a professional director, dramaturg, and cast. Their collaboration culminates in a festive weekend of public readings, each followed by a post-play conversation that is moderated by a special guest literary manager. As a laboratory for experimentation, collaboration, and creation, Pulse Works provides time, space, support, and encouragement for fabulous new plays in process.

Lost & Found by Kendall Lynch
8 PM Oct 29, 2004
The boy, Suede Found, is pretty sure his mama might come back. His Granny says it'll never happen but his daddy, Luke, says it will. Nothing grows on Granny's land, at least nothing Luke touches. So Suede buries whatever he can find - forks and pans and all manner of clinking things. He knows one day something is gonna grow here, and when it does, they'll all have to face up to what they've lost and what's left, under the ground and above it.

Fear of a Fuhrer by Abi Basch
1:30 PM Oct 30, 2004
In an abandoned warehouse the bodies hang by strings, forgotten rotten refuse strewn, seven villages once peopled now puppet, and the girl made of puppet is made to radish as the army of metal lovers destroys, the enemy loves, ants cry, stars fall from the sky, a small doll creaks through the wreckage and the coin monkey claps. A cloud passes over the sun. A collaboratively generated play exploring puppetry, movement, language and silence to approach the impossible impulses of violence and devotion.

infinity = infinity + 1 by Skipper Chong Warson
4 PM Oct 30, 2004
A husband will leave his wife tonight. In one week, the wife will meet her husband's woman-on-the-side. Fraternal twins come home to pay their soap opera actor father and housewife mother a visit. The future, the past and the present -- it all adds up a story about contemporary relationships. How close can you actually get to dreaming without ever going to sleep?

Wind-talkers and Myth Makers by Zell Miller, III
8 PM Oct 30, 2004
The story of a young man coming in to his own as an artist, aided by colorful characters like Mother Carlos, Sister Shadow, Sir, and Graffiti. Saturn, the young man, has to weed through family mythology and reality to craft his own truth. Through the beat of hip-hop music and spoken word poetry and funky bass lines the mystery unfolds.

Hyde Park Theatre (web site)
511 W. 43rd St.

For information or reservations, please call 512-454-9727 or email (info-at-scriptworks.org).

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