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Audacity Solo Salon - Autumn 2015

Maggie Gallant, Kris Noteboom and Danielle Martin

The aim of the Audacity Solo Salon is to support and nurture both established and emerging solo performers in the north Texas area. It is also a way to extend the mission of the annual Dallas Solo Fest beyond just the festival itself.
This quarterly series will be a way for solo artists to rehearse, experiement and develop their work in front of supportive audiences. Come on out and see a new one-person show in progress...

This fifth event in a quarterly series from Audacity Theatre Lab will feature excerpts from pieces in development by Maggie Gallant, Kris Noteboom and Dani Martin.

Tuesday, November 17 @ 7 pm
At the Margo Jones Theatre in Fair Park, Dallas TX
For directions and parking information visit... HERE

Admission is P-W-Y-C (donations go towards the the 2016 Dallas Solo Fest).
Also BYOB!

Nice write-up about DINOSAUR AND ROBOT STOP A TRAIN

Robert Linder as Robot and Janelle Schroeder as Dinosaur

DINOSAUR AND ROBOT STOP A TRAIN 
By Chris David Taylor | Sun. Nov. 8, 2015 | DiscoverDenton.com

Friday night I found myself out on the town looking for something to do, and the Sundown Collaborative Theatre/Audacity Theatre Lab co-production of Brad McEntire’s “Dinosaur and Robot Stop a Train” fit the bill.

First produced as part of the Dallas’s FIT Festival in 2013, McEntire and Sundown have restaged this delightfully absurd piece of theatre in little d for two weekends before continuing for two more weekends in the historic Margo Jones theatre in Fair Park.

I wandered over from the always enjoyable Eastside, past the music pouring from the LSA Burger stage and into the Point Bank Black Box Theatre on Hickory. A simple set graced the space, a folding table, a projector and two small models of what I assumed were the stars of the show. McEntire’s work, which I am fairly familiar with, usually has an air of the whimsical and the nostalgic about it, the pre- show sound design adequately prepared me for the show to come. Snippets of old time radio static interspersed with news bulletins about missing ice cream and a coming news conference let me know what the format of the show was going to be.

Formatted like a press conference explaining their actions, a Dinosaur and Robot are brought from their respective time periods in an unexplained phenomenon at just the right moment to save a human girl playing on the train tracks near her house. The train is destroyed and the girl is allegedly saved, although she never makes an appearance for reasons that become clear later on.

Robot, played by Robert Linder, is the main spokes-robot in the play and he introduces his colleague who appears to be a Tyrannosaur played by Janelle Schroeder. We get the backstories of both characters and then jump to the present/past to hear about the incident referred to in the title of the show.

“Dinosaur and Robot Stop a Train” is mostly-family friendly and full of lighthearted jokes, physical humor and even some vaudeville as it can only be performed by a Dinosaur and Robot.


Dinosaur and Robot Stop a Train 
Runtime: 1 hr. 5 mins.
Credits:
Written and Directed by Brad McEntire
Sound Design by Danica Bergeron
Lighting Design by Jack Earl Piland
Cast: Robert Linder as Robot,  Janelle Schroeder as Dinosaur

Original post... HERE

DINOSAUR AND ROBOT STOP A TRAIN: A Co-Production

Audacity Theatre Lab is co-producing with a small and scrappy Sundown Collaborative Theatre. The result will be a remount of my favorite plays DINOSAUR AND ROBOT STOP A TRAIN. 

A press conference is held. A dinosaur from the past and a robot from the future explain about their involvement with a speeding train and how they supposedly saved a stupid little girl from going splat. 

Written and Directed by Brad McEntire
Featuring Robert Linder and Janelle Schroeder

The show will play in two different cities over four weekends. Playing... 

October 30-November 1 and November 6-8 @ 8pm 
 Point Bank Black Box Theatre, 318 E Hickory St., Denton, TX 76201

November 12-15 and 19-22 @ 8pm 
 Margo Jones Theatre, 1121 1st Avenue, Dallas, TX 75210 

To reserve tickets, email: boxoffice@sundowntheatre.org 

More info at: AudacityTheatreLab.com

ROBERT'S ETERNAL GOLDFISH at 2015 Scranton Fringe Fest

ATL Artistic Director Brad McEntire's solo show ROBERT'S ETERNAL GOLDFISH will play at the first ever Scranton Fringe Festival October 3 (@ 6:30 PM) and October 4 (@ 2 PM). 

The show concerns a misanthropic man named Robert J. Roberts. He hates the world. He particularly hates people. Pretty much all people. After a series of strange events lead him to become the unlikely custodian of a magical goldfish, Robert's misanthropic views are seriously challenged. Can a person be frustrated into being a better human being? 

PLAYING AT THE FORAGE SPACE, 310 N WASHINGTON AVE, SCRANTON, PA 18503 

Tickets and info ... HERE

Audacity Solo Salon - Summer 2015

Jeff Hernandez, Erin Singleton and Jeffrey Colangelo

The aim of the Audacity Solo Salon is to support and nurture both established and emerging solo performers in the north Texas area. It is also a way to extend the mission of the annual Dallas Solo Fest beyond just the festival itself. 

This quarterly series will be a way for solo artists to rehearse, experiement and develop their work in front of supportive audiences. Come on out and see a new one-person show in progress...

This second in a quarterly series from Audacity Theatre Lab will feature excerpts from pieces in development by Erin Singleton ("Super MortaL"), Jeffrey Colangelo ("Fight Night") and Jeff Hernandez ("Jon Goes To Mars").

August 2, 2015 at 7:30 pm
At the Margo Jones Theatre, 
1121 First Avenue in Fair Park, Dallas TX 75210
Admission is P-W-Y-C (donations go towards the the 2016 Dallas Solo Fest).

Also BYOB!