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Rude Mechs: The Method Gun
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Event Type(s):
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Arts / Theatre / Music
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Organization:
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Wexner Center for the Arts
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Description:
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"If you only have time to see one show, make it The Method Gun. It is an honest, brave and often hilarious exploration of the creative process...as absurd and awe-inspiring as it can be."—Louisville Courier-Journal
Rude Mechs (aka Rude Mechanicals) are an outstanding indie theater ensemble from Austin, Texas, who have won fans across the country with their savvy, freewheeling original productions. A few years back, they brought us Lipstick Traces, a riotously entertaining history of subversive cultural movements spanning the Dadaists, the Situationists, and the Sex Pistols. Now they return with The Method Gun, one of the standout shows at the most recent Humana Festival in Louisville.
The Method Gun explores the legacy and techniques of Stella Burden, an actor-training guru of the 1960s and 70s, whose sudden emigration to South America still haunts her fervent followers. Burden’s form of theatrical training, called "The Approach" (in a nod to Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler's Method), fused Western acting methods with risk-based rituals in order to give even the smallest role a touch of sex, death, and violence.
You'll laugh out loud as The Method Gun tracks her abandoned acting troupe rehearsing their hilarious version of A Streetcar Named Desire, which seeks to reveal new values in Tennessee Williams's classic by stripping away certain distracting elements...like all the major characters, including Stanley, Stella, and Blanche. Loopy, charming, and surprisingly touching, The Method Gun is a play about the ecstasy and excesses of performing, the dangers of public intimacy, and the incompatibility of truth on stage and sanity in real life.
Recommended for mature audiences.
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Address:
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1871 North High Street
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Colulmbus, Ohio 42310
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Date:
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Thursday, 10/21/2010
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Start Time:
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8:00 PM
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