The Red Balloon Returns!
directed by David Yeakle
Thursday, May 20 – Sunday, May 30, 2010.
at The Rollins Theatre in
The Long Center for the Performing Arts
Austin, TX
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Tongue and Groove Theatre is a sponsored project of The Greater Austin Creative Alliance. This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
A Life In The Theatre
by David Mamet
Ahhhh! A life in the theatre! Whence is the magic of greasepaint? It is simply oily goop mixed with colors… But, jar it, put it on a dressing table, and it suddenly becomes as evocative as Proust’s madelines…blah blah blah blah.
What is it with actors and their maddening romanticizing about life in the theatre? The surest traditions are long hours, lousy pay, inept producers, sweaty dressing rooms, falling scenery, rejection, and the wrath of critics. The only thing that could make the job worse is some creepy old actor constantly telling you what you are doing wrong.
Here we have the young Zeb West (The Red Balloon) barely tolerating the idiosyncrasies of the old Michael Stuart (The Fantasticks)—onstage and off—in this hilarious and touching send-up of the traditions, superstitions, and vagaries of the theatre. Directed by Mark Stewart (Bomb Shelter: Or The Modern Pinocchio).
March 22nd, 2010 | News