CAMP GIRLS reading a success

The reading of CAMP GIRLS AND GHOST MONK on Monday, April 8 went over really well. We got it on tape and will send the recording on to the playwright Matt Lyle. There was a small (maybe a dozen or so) audience. Not bad for a reading on a Monday night.

Special thanks to John Michael and Matt Tomvonovich of Nouveau 47 Theatre, Matt Lyle, all the actors (Jeff Swearingen, Natalie Young, Elizabeth Evans, Rhianna Mack, Becca Shivers and Ruth Engel-McEntire) and director Brad McEntire for setting the whole thing up.

Staged Readings at the Magnolia Lounge

Projects-in-Progress by Brad McEntire
On December 13 at 7:30 PM, Audacity Theatre Lab will present Staged Readings of two works-in-progress by Brad McEntire.

I HAVE ANGERED A GREAT GOD

Robert von Ritchie Ritchie has somehow upset a Great Tiki God with anger-control issues. Robert retraces his steps over the past few days to discover where he ran afoul. It might be easier if he weren't constantly on his cell phone talking with his now ex-girlfriend Martha, who barely made it into Mensa. A brief satire of modern public etiquette. Newly expanded to feature a kick-ass hip hop opening number.

THE DOLPHINS OF MARS

Roy has been dumped by his girlfriend. She snuck back to Earth on one of the last shuttles and Roy finds himself stuck on Mars. Now, the colonists are rioting and he has just enough time to send one last broadcast home before the bio-dome cracks wide open.

WHEN: Monday, December 13, 2010 at 7:30 PM

WHERE: At Nouveau 47 Theatre in the historic Magnolia Lounge (Margo Jones Building), Fair Park, 1121 First Ave., Dallas, TX 75210.

COST: $5 suggested donation (includes FTP Comedy Troupe performance after the reading), BYOB.



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CHOP in NYC

Last week ATL Artistic Director Brad McEntire returned from New York, where he was developing his new one-man theatre piece CHOP (tentatively to be produced by Audacity in 2010).

Last summer McEntire approached old friend and hard-scrabble actor Will Harper (currently acting off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club in Lynn Nottage's RUINED). Over beers at the McManus Pub in NYC, McEntire presented the proposal of collaborating on a solo piece that he had been developing since 2007, when he was living in Hong Kong. The piece was a one-man show called CHOP.

Harper, who is a company member with the New York-based development company Cry Havoc, offered up one of their Monday Night Labs as an opportunity to work on the piece.

Throughout the fall of 2008, McEntire continued to work on the piece, sending it off to various theatres around the country. The Outsider's Inn Collective in Seattle staged a reading as part of the 2008 Live Theatre Week in that city. There was positive feedback.

A date was set for the Cry Havoc reading and the ever-funky Andy Merkel was brought in to direct the workshop reading of the piece. He arranged for rehearsal space at the Stella Adler Studios in NYC for the few days prior to the March 16th reading.

The round-table style reading went over really well. Merkel, Harper and McEntire explored and expanded the piece over two days of work. Cry Havoc was hospitable and gave some constructive feedback. The play itself seems about 95% ready to be fully mounted.

Special thanks to actor Jake Blagburn at the Stella Adler Studios for agreeing to read the play aloud, so we could hear one more perspective of the piece while developing it.