2005 Mi Casa Es Su Teatro

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Morning After
Conceived by Genevieve and Greg
Inspired by Brian Feldman and the Feldman Dynamic

Step into the apartment where two strangers wake up after a one-night stand. They awake when you arrive and try to sort it all out by the time you leave. In the meantime, enjoy a continental breakfast of coffee, sticky buns and reality too big to fit inside a television set.

11:00 am- 12 noon
Area: Central/Campus
305 W 35th St Apt 214
35th Street, just East of Guadalupe
Cost: $3

 

No Child Left Behind
Written and Performed by Theresa Burke-Garcia

Developed in conjunction with the Austin Project 2004, a teacher reflects on her work in the time of President Bush's "No Child Left Behind" policy. Enter into a world only a teacher could reveal. You won't look at schools and education the same way again.

12:30 pm- 1:00 pm
Area: University of Texas-Austin
Corner of 23rd and San Jacinto
Room 1.134: F. Loren Winship Building
UT Campus, just North West of the football stadium, just South of Dean Keeton
Cost: $ 3

 

Two Events in One!!!

1) Furniture Play
By Michael Agresta

A two-character play about furniture and art, but not about artsy furniture.

2) Halfway to Custer
By Martha Lynn Coon
Directed by Heather Barfield

Armando, a wayward Italian tourist, is stranded in Northwest Texas on his annual pilgrimage to re-enact Custer's Last Stand. Somewhere between cactus and Electric City, he stumbles across Shiner and his wife, Toonsy. Shiner repairs 18-wheelers, but Armando discovers more than broken down trucks after he arrives in Shiner's big backyard.

1:15 pm- 2:00 pm
Area: Central/Campus
1202A E 29th St
Just North of Dean Keeton, just East of IH-35
Cost: $3

 

Kirk Smith Plays His Backyard
Lunch is served late. This green grass is soft. Blankets for everyone, somewhere in my yard. The tree was out here flying, so I left it in the sky. Wouldn't mind some children here, I filled the kite and downed my power lines.

2:30 pm -3:30 pm
Area: South Austin
805 Cardinal Lane
2 blocks North of Ben White, 1 block West of South 1st St
Cost: $ 3

 

The Kitchen Presents
An eclectic puppet variety show written and performed by some of Austin's premier foodservice workers (Dot Smith, Francesca Marquis, Daniel Smith, WRyan Willingham and others). Stories include "Breakfast in Bed" where a cup of orange juice seduces a piece of toast.

3:50-4:45
Area: South Austin
913 West Mary
Corner of West Mary and South 5th St
Cost: $3

 

ROADHOUSE
a traveling roadshow of camp fire comedy, a living memorial to St. Kathy, and a rock n roll journey home

Route 1 CAMP FATBUCKLE
Route 2 Blues For Traveling Spirit a journey (for St. Kathy), by Zell Miller III.
Route 3 Jelly in the Belly of the Bitch, a quest for self that ultimately points homeward, by Chris Krejci.

5:00- 6:50 Area: South Austin
1713 South 5th St
just a few blocks away from the puppet show
Cost: $ 6

 

La Mi Casa Es Su Teatro Fiesta!
Come and party with "Mi Casa" artists and artisans. Talk about what you saw. Quaff carouses. Coiff hair. Buckle your Fat. Bring your child. M(eat) Custer(d). Seduce toast. Walk into rm 120.

7:00- hasta las vacas regresan
1713 South 5th St
Cost: Your sense of fun