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REQUIEM FOR TESLA
a "reinvention"
January 16 - February 15, 2003
The Off Center, Austin, TX
created by Rude Mechs | written by Kirk Lynn | directed by Shawn Sides
"This is the second time the company has staged Requiem for Tesla, and it reveals how the Rude Mechs have grown in two years and how valuable it can be for them to revisit earlier material, but mostly it reveals how the Rude Mechanicals create compelling connections -- to their work, to their audience -- with their own brilliant and daring leaps." – Austin Chronicle
Rude Mechanicals is proud to bring back REQUIEM FOR TESLA - a semi-biographical, sci-fi homage to Nikola Tesla, a genius inventor who loved pigeons, hated spherical objects and was undoubtedly one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of all time. REQUIEM FOR TESLA is an ecstatic and evocative tribute to the man who gave us alternating current and dreamed of spaceships in a time when even electricity was dangerous magic. Tesla’s impassioned efforts to improve the quality of life for humankind left him straddling a line between genius and insanity. Rude Mechs’ high-voltage stage-collage honoring the genius/madman fuses electrical magic, subconscious desire, and a real message from Mars. A hallucinaotry Mark Twain, live music by The Golden Arm Trio, and a spine-tingling Tesla coil all combust in this sci-fi electromagnetic polyphase dynamo play.
PHOTO GALLERY
REVIEWS / PRESS
University of Texas Fresh Terrain Feature
"All About Tesla" - Documentary by Michael Krause featuring Lana Lesley & Shawn Sides
PRODUCTION TEAM
Playwright - Kirk Lynn
Director - Shawn Sides
Ensemble:
Robert Newell (Tesla), Robert Fisher (Twain/Edison), Lana Lesley (Katherine/Westinghouse), Jason Liebrecht (Czito),
Sarah Richardson (Alien/Morgan), Graham Reynolds (Musician), Blair Bovbjerg (Musician)
Lighting Design: Brian Scott
Scenic Design: Michael Raiford
Sound Design: Robert Fisher
Costume Design: Leslie Bonnell (original design)
Original Music: Graham Reynolds
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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