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CHERRYWOOD
October 21 - November 20, 2004 @ The Off Center
June 2005 @ NET Festival, Blue Lake, CA
written by Kirk Lynn | directed by Shawn Sides | created by Rude Mechs
"...a 75-minute clever rocket ride...a nonstop -- and impressive -- cacophony of visual and aural effects...Between the deftly shaded ensemble acting and the essential humanity -- and humor -- of Lynn's script, "Cherrywood"is wonderfully warm and odd.”
- Jean Claire Van Ryzin, The Austin American-Statesman
CHERRYWOOD was written as a simple list of lines, a play without characters, allowing the actors to assembletheirroles from the lines they chose to speak. The result is a playso wild it’s feral. Beginning as a housewarming, the play careens into a recruitment party where werewolves cut frustrated partygoers from the herd, one-by-one, offering personal transformation in the form of a glass of milk. But someone brought a gun to the party and hiding it will only randomize the victim.
But before the gunshot there’s jello shots, karaoke, mandatory dancing, intimate trips to the bathroom. The gun goes off, and the play becomes a whodunit on speed that pits an armed victim against a houseful of suspects. Now, the solution to the mystery is not who is responsible for the trauma, but what trauma we would inflict if we were responsible for making the world in the image of our desires. Party games like ‘Who Would You Do?’are turned to politics so the question remains: which war fucked the world over the most?
PHOTO GALLERY
REVIEWS / PRESS
Austin American-Statesman Review
PRODUCTION TEAM
Ensemble
Robert S. Fisher • Heather Hanna • Thomas Graves
Joey Hood/Jason Liebrecht • Jodi Jinks • Lana Lesley
Ellie McBride • Robert Pierson • Aron Taylor • Carlos Treviño
Designers
Laura Cannon, Costume Design
Robert Fisher, Sound Design
Brian Scott, Lighting Design
Leliah Stewart, Scenic Design
Madge Darlington, Technical Director
The original world premiere of CHERRYWOOD is made possible by generous support from The Rockefeller MAP Fund
and the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.
For tickets or information please call 512-476-RUDE
or visit our tickets page. Copyright © 2005 Rude Mechanicals. All rights reserved.
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