Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Friday, June 14, 2019
Saturday, June 9, 2018
DSF 2018 Teaser videos
Cain Rodriguez stepped in this year to handle the social media side of things for the Dallas Solo Fest. He created a series of delightful video teasers with the performers, capturing footage during their tech times. These were then posted to instragram leading up to the start of the festival. Here's a few. Take a look.
Monday, January 5, 2015
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Friday, June 14, 2013
Sunday, November 18, 2012
McEntire Talks About ATL
Artistic Director Brad McEntire was recently interviewed about the ideas behind Audacity. Here's a bit of that interview.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
GREAT GOD off to a good start
Loop Review: I Have Angered a Great God
Audacity Theatre Lab gets Tiki with it at Out of the Loop.
by Kris Noteboom
published Monday, March 7, 2011
If there’s one thing theater sometimes needs, it’s a lighter side. In a landscape strewn with weighty dramas, the occasional quirky comedy is an oasis for the laughter-famished gut.
And in I Have Angered a Great God, Audacity Theatre Lab gives the audience that healthy dose of comedic nourishment they so desperately need.
The brainchild of Audacity founder Brad McEntire, I Have Angered a Great God takes the audience on the flashback-laden tale of Robert von Ritchie Ritchie (Oscar Contreras), as he tries to figure out just what he did to spark the wrath of an ancient Tiki god (Jeff Hernandez).
Much of this introspection is accomplished in the office of his therapist (Jeremy Whiteker), who coincidentally also happens to treat Robert’s now ex-girlfriend, Martha (Angela Parsons), and the Great God itself. Due to a crippling selfishness, Robert is oblivious to how his actions affect those around him, particularly the Great God. Naturally, he comes to realize his mistake and make amends, but not until after most of his friends and family have paid the price in his stead.
Opening with a rapped prologue complete with cardboard cut-out Tiki gods, McEntire quickly establishes the expectations for the performance. It’s gonna get a little weird…but, in a good way.
Jokes pepper the non-sequential, sometimes hard to follow, script, and while they don’t always fully land with the appropriate oomph, McEntire’s offbeat sense of humor still manages to shine through.
Parsons and Whiteker bring substantial comedy chops with them to the production, and it shows. With all apologies to Hernandez, whose lines under his giant, cardboard Tiki head consisted of a series of grunts and barely decipherable words, Parsons and Whiteker stood apart from the bunch when it came to communicating McEntire’s unique comic voice.
McEntire himself, who delivers the opening rap and plays several other minor characters, channels Graham Chapman with his deadpan delivery. The purest measure of a truly gifted comedic performer is their ability to make any character funny. McEntire does that with his turns as a barista and a MENSA rep.
I Have Angered a Great God is a quirky romp through the human psyche, externalized in the visage of a blue-clad Easter Island escapee. The comedy is sometimes bungled in the delivery, but enough of it connects that this remarkably peculiar, yet boldly inventive, story comes out all smiles.
◊ I Have Angered a Great God plays at the Addison Theatre Centre's Stone Cottage. View a full Out of the Loop Fringe Festival schedule here.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
McEntire talks about ATL on video and podcast at StageDirectionsBlog.com
Interview with Brad McEntire of Audacity Theatre Lab from Christopher Taylor on Vimeo.
There is also an extended audio podcast at StageDirectionsBlog.com
Thanks to Chris and Dan for the good talk and good beer at the Amsterdam Bar
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Monday, November 16, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Meet Arnie
A little intro video about everyone's favorite magician (except his wife, boss and some folks at the dog races)... Amazing Arnie!
Courtesy of ATL's own Jeff "Mr. Boss" Hernandez
Courtesy of ATL's own Jeff "Mr. Boss" Hernandez
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
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