Jenn Hartmann as Dirty Vickie. And me with SAD, but without my fancy up-do.
We will leave our competition broken as the barnacles at the bottom of the bay!!! We going in for more battle on Tuesday and Friday night at 8 pm. There are still tickets left as of today for Tuesday night. See the Austinist’s schedule writeup here.
Before my madam hair is achieved, I go through what I like to call the Robert Smith transition.
Yes I know Lost premieres tonight, but seriously, how can it compete with LIVE SWORDS!!! LIVE COMEDY!!! LIVE AWESOMENESS!!!!
From what I have been told, at 8, the nationally ranked fencing team will do a 15 minute fencing demonstration, then, following that, there will be a full-on “Pirates of the Caribbean-esque” saber battle, and then, at the 30 minute mark, our little pirate/whore play. DOES THAT NOT SOUND INCREDIBLE? We are super excited. Here’s the release:
The University of Texas Fencing Club teams up with the cast and company of St. Matilde’s Malady to present to you an evening of sword fighting and sailor comedy. Come enjoy dueling demonstrations and a stage combat sabre battle followed by the performance of the lauded 2010 FronteraFest “Best of Week” Short Fringe selection, St. Matilde’s Malady.
February 2nd @ 8pm
Belmont Hall, third floor
Admission: $7
All proceeds will help send the UT Fencing Club to the 2010 Collegiate National Championships.
Click on the link to find out where Belmont Hall is located. All I know is that its in the Stadium on the third floor, on the San Jacinto side.
Hello sailors.
If you missed St.Matilde’s Malady in either of our Frontera Fest performances, you can see it on Saturday, FOR FREE. Get your Saturday night started with some pirates and whores. You know, like usual. We’re still waiting to hear who’ll make it to the Best of Fest, but in the meanwhile, you’ve got another chance to enjoy 30 minutes of non-stop sailors, prostitutes, juggling, and textiles…
ST. MATILDE’S MALADY
A swashbuckling new play about rage, love, and other sexually transmitted diseases.
January 30th @ 7pm
Running time: appx 30 min.
Winship Theatre Building @ UT (directions below)
Admission: FREE.
Where to go:
Winship Drama Building, Room 2.180
Click the link above for driving directions. You should be able to get parking along San Jacinto. We’ll have signs posted in the building to lead you to the show.
xoxox – Connie, Madam of Connie’s Brothel and Rug Shop
This is Connie, of Connie's Brothel and Rug Shop .
Our epic language and cleavage return to Hyde Park Theater tonight for Best of Week battle!!
We avoided the fateful blackout, and came in under 25 minutes, to thunderous applause.
So we won’t know whether or not we go on to compete for Best of Week until 11:30 on Friday night, but what I do know is that we were awesome. Even with a slew of new cues (the rhyming is almost pathological at this point), we ran an almost flawless show and came in under the wire. The crowd loved it from the second Tillery opened her downtrodden whore mouth. Panicked as we were that we would run over, we had to push through, even over deafening laughter and impromptu applause. I got kicked at the end, when Brian was cartwheeling, but since I was wearing about 18 bras, it didn’t hurt one bit. Does all this sound so cryptic and intriguing? Does it make you want to see this show? Well, have no fear, even if we somehow aren’t picked for Best of, we will be staging this somewhere. Stay tuned.
Last night we had a preview of Saint Matilde’s Malady in our rehearsal room at UT. We did a run through right before people showed up. 27 minutes. 27! This filled us with fear and panic. One of the crucial elements of our crushing our competition and winning Best of Fest is not getting disqualified for being over the allotted 25 minutes. We were fearful. Our director was not. Liz Lay, who could have been the Queen of Pirates herself in another lifetime, said, “We’re tired. We’ve been rehearsing relentlessly since last Monday. I fully predicted this runthrough to be our longest. But we are in a good place. Our play is not a hot mess. We know it is golden. We have a challenge people, and our challenge is this. Just keep the train moving at all times. No nested responses between dialogue, no dead air, no holding for laughter. Just go, go, go.” Our friends came in to watch and even with their not-infrequent laughter, we clocked in at 24 minutes. Better, but still scary. So, we had to shave off some of the stage business. Some of the physical comedy, that added to the show, but also could tip us into the red zone on time. That would just be devastating. Because this play is good, and all the talent attached to it is as well. Cross your fingers for us tonight and say a little prayer that we make it all the way through with a minute or so to spare.
2010.
I now also have a tumblr account, which I spill more of my darker affections into. Its a document of my love affair with the sad and tragic, with occasional bursts of something sweet and optimistic. Maybe this 2010 will see me reverse the proportions of those quantities. But I don’t you yet 2010, I don’t know if you will be good to me.
Hello lovers. Hoping this long overdue post finds you happy and productive and warm. In my own pursuit of these things, I’ve begun my new year with daily chores and salty whores. But I now find myself two weeks into 2010, with no words at all for those that follow this little adventure I document here. I have been busy. I am always busy. A Christmas Carol closed, the holidays came and went, and I began rehearsals for my first foray into Frontera Fest. The play is an original work by Kyle John Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth C. Lay. “A swashbuckling new play about rage, love, and other sexually transmitted diseases.” Its sort of a Tom Waits song come to life. Whores! Sea Captains! Pirates! Mermaids! I play the brothel mistress, Connie, and I am having some fun with her. Our team is comprised of UT graduate students and former Winedalers, and myself. The only night of the Fest that has so far sold out. If I were our competition, I would be scared.
ST MATHILDE’S MALADY!
January 13th only! A new short play with juggling and textiles!Written by …Kyle John Schmidt
Directed by… Elizabeth C. Lay
Featuring the formidable talents of:
Talleri McRae …as Tammy the Juggling Prostitute
Chaille Stidham …as Molly Forge the Well-Regarded Prostitute
Jennymarie Jemison …as Connie the Madam
Bryan Gonzales …as Sampson the Young Sailor
Joel Osborne …as Captain Twister
Jenn Hartmann …as Dirty Vicki the PirateGet your tickets now for January 13:
http://hpt.buyplaytix.com/hpt/index_right?url=sf
TICKETS ARE SELLING OUT INSANELY FAST.(FronteraFest Short Fringe is a month long festival of short plays (max 25 minutes). Every week, one play from each night advances to the Best of Week showcase, and thence to Best of Fest, and thence to apotheosis. And a tickertape parade. So I’ve heard.)
On the 13th, there’s a great line up of other shorts, including: Packing Memories, by Allison Orr Block, directed by Wendy Bable; Whistle, by Meg Haley (ASW Commission); Things in Life, by Ben Prager, directed by Wynne West; We Are All Volunteers, by John M. Meyer. This is going to be a rock solid night of shows you won’t want to miss.
