Reviews for Weird Sisters Women's Theater Collective Performances
Review: Brides of the Moon by Weird Sisters Women's Theater Collective
by Brian Paul Scipione
Published on June 22, 2013
Then there was the moment when the astronauts' SDIS (sex drive implants) went awry and they all had sex under, next to and on top of the spaceship's dashboard: legs and cleavage were everywhere.
Farce in Space Describing the new work by Austin’s all-female theatre group the Weird Sisters Collective is like recounting a good Saturday night party at work on Monday morning. While at the party the most inane things take on catastrophic significance, in a dull office space they come off as decidedly dotty. Your cell mates behind their respective desks might smile, nod and chuckle, but try as you might, the terms hamburgoo, sergonic drift and consensual monkey sex will be pretty …
Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Weird Sisters Women's Theater Collective
by Michael Meigs
Published on August 25, 2011
The real stand-out, however, is the doyenne of this collective, Susan Gayle Todd. Aptly, she is Peter Quince the carpenter, the captain of this imaginary company of rude mechanicals.
Once a year, a theatre production of the Weird Sisters Collective briefly appears like a friendly comet in the Austin evenings. Like comets, they're "wanderers," at least in recent years -- you need to be alert for news of them each July or August, because the venues for their productions have changed from year to year. They had planned to do the Jacobean drama The Roaring Girl by Dekker and Middleton, under the guidance of their …
Review: Sycorax by Weird Sisters Women's Theater Collective
by Michael Meigs
Published on June 22, 2010
Playwright Todd and director Christa French move these characters between the realm of the physical and that of the spiritual. We do not know whether Ariel is a mere fevered imagining for Sycorax or a familiar spirit with powers.
. . . . Hast thou forgotThe foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envyWas grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her? The Tempest opens with a brief scene of desperation, with sailors and passengers struggling against an overwhelming storm. Following that vivid moment, in Act I, Scene 2 Shakespeare gives us a full measure of background and exposition. He paints a huge and vivid canvas. Prospero reviews for his daughter Miranda …
Review: Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet by The Weird Sisters Women's Theater Collective
by Michael Meigs
Published on August 05, 2009
Leslie Guerrero as the prologue invited us to exercise our imaginations and to go with the ride, and quite a ride it was.
The Weird Sisters Theatre Collective's Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet was a very Austin event. The Sisters performed Anne-Marie MacDonald's broad feminist satire of Shakespeare and stuffy scholars in the backyard at the one and only Cathedral of Junk in South Austin, just a few blocks south of 290W/Ben White Boulevard. Closing night last Saturday was full, as a wide mix of folks filled up the very miscellaneous and inventive collection of chairs. Proprietor Vince Hannemann was rustling up seats …
Review: The Merry Wives of Windsor by The Weird Sisters Women's Theater Collective
by Michael Meigs
Published on August 08, 2008
You could imagine "Turnabout is fair play" would be a pretty good heraldic device for the Weird Sisters Women’s Theatre Collective.
Turnabout is fair playmight be the theme for The Merry Wives of Windsor. Penurious, lascivious Sir John Falstaff is out for “cony catching” throughout the play but he just can’t learn his lesson. Falstaff (Courtney Brown) aims to trick and seduce the merry wives of the title: Mistress Margaret Page (Leslie Guerrero, left) and Mistress Alice Ford (Christa French, right).Highly amused by his presumptions, the good ladies entice the lecher to assignations three times, and each …