Arts Eclectic

The Cruel Circus

May 17, 2013 12:05 pm by: Mike Lee

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The Cruel Circus is the newest play from Trouble Puppet Theater Company. It’s a darkly whimsical work set in the world of a collection of strange circus performers, who are embodied onstage entirely by original puppets. Trouble Puppet never has a shortage of unique and interesting puppets in their works, but this show let them create characters that are interesting and different even by their standards. The misfit circus performers that make up the cast aren't traditionally human-shaped creatures; there's a guy with a unicycle for legs, a living cannonball, and a few animals (among others). Most characters are performed by three puppeteers at once, so the performers have to work together very closely, in both the mental and physical sense. The Cruel Circus is written by Trouble Puppet artistic director Connor Hopkins and features original music by Justin Sherburn....
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Austin Sketch Fest 2013

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Austin Sketch Fest 2013

The Austin Sketch Fest (which producers describe, in a brazen lie, as "Austin's only Festival") is now in its fourth year. Every time out, the fest gets a little bigger; this year it takes place on Memorial Day weekend, which, for the purposes of the festival, begins on Wednesday. Dozens of sketch...
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Passing Strange

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Passing Strange

Half and Half Productions is a brand new theater company, but its artistic directors have been working in Austin for years. Before starting Half and Half, Julianna E. Wright and M. Scott Tatum studied together in college, taught together at the McCallum Fine Arts Academy, and worked together on a...
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Everyone Says That at the End of the World…

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Everyone Says That at the End of the W...

Author Owen Egerton's latest book, Everyone Says That at the End of the World... is (spoiler alert) about the end of the world. That's a topic that seems to be on everybody's mind these days, which, according to Owen, is much as it's always been. The idea that mankind has always been...
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Masked/Unmasked

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Masked/Unmasked

There are two exhibitions currently on display at Austin's Mexic-Arte Museum, exploring different but connected aspects of Latin American, and specifically Mexican culture. In the main gallery, Masked takes a look at the history of Mexican dance masks, which for years have been tied to...
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Texas Burlesque Festival 2013

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Texas Burlesque Festival 2013

Since 2007, the Texas Burlesque Festival has been bringing together dancers and performers from Texas, the U.S., and abroad to celebrate and perform the art of the tease. The three day event will feature many of the best performers of the current neo-burlesque scene as well some of the legends of...
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Normal Like Us! The Depression Chronicles

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Normal Like Us! The Depression Chronic...

Lucky Chaos' Normal Like Us! The Depression Chronicles is a collaborative ensemble show by and about people with first-hand experience with depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions; using humor, music, and drama, the show aims to raise awareness while entertaining an...
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The Brothers Merlin

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The Brothers Merlin

The new show from Loaded Gun Theory, The Brothers Merlin, was collaboratively written by nine members of the theater troupe. It's a comedic play set in the world of a carnival, an environment which extends off the stage to include a working midway outside the Off Center. Before the show,...
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HIT. Ten Years Later

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HIT. Ten Years Later

A decade ago, A Chick and a Dude Productions burst onto the Austin theater scene with their play HIT, directed by the chick (Melissa Livingston-Weaver) and written by the dude (Shannon Weaver) of the company's name. Now, to celebrate their ten year anniversary, they're restaging the show, with a...
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Choral Song Meets Slam Poetry

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Choral Song Meets Slam Poetry

Arts Eclectic: Conspirare’s Fusion At first glance, the choral singing of Conspirare might seem far removed from the world of slam poetry, but that didn’t keep Cons…...
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Fusebox 2013

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Fusebox 2013

Austin's Fusebox Festival is now in its ninth year, and the thing just keeps getting bigger. This time around, it'll span 12 days, take place in twenty-something locations around town, and feature dozens of artists from Austin, the U.S., and abroad. This is a hybrid art festival, so you can...
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Time

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Time

This weekend, Tapestry Dance Company will premiere their new work Time: A Journey Toward Present Grace. It's a collaborative effort; all six of the dancers in the show came up with their own ideas of what time means to them, and the show took shape around those themes. Under the leadership...
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Cult of Color: Call to Color

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Cult of Color: Call to Color

Ballet Austin's Cult of Color: Call to Color is based on the artwork and mythology of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, but it's really a collaborative effort between three artists: Hancock, choreographer Stephen Mills, and composer Graham Reynolds. Hancock's artwork (which includes...
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