The Tempest - A Gentrification Story
by Performance as Public Practice Graduate Student Association

Oct. 04 - Oct. 07, 2018
Thursday-Sunday

The Tempest by William Shakespeare -- a gentrification story

The year is 2003 in Austin, Texas and Prospero has a mission: to take revenge on those who kicked him out of his upscale Italian restaurant and banished him to god-forsaken East Austin. He’s set up shop at “La Isla Bonita,” his newly renovated, fair trade, Mexican-inspired coffee shop, and the women who ran it before him–Ariel and Calibán. Together, they will raise the waters from Lady Bird Lake and bring to shore the boat carrying Prospero’s traitors back from a West Lake Hills wedding. That is, if the enemies he’s made don’t get to him first.


Directed by Laura Baglereau and Khristián Méndez Aguirre

DESIGN
Delena Bradley (Costume Design), Tucker Goodman (Scenic Design), James Parker (Sound Design), Austin Shirley (Lighting Design)

CAST
Vivian Gonzales
Tanner Hudson
Madeleine Hayes
Audrey Loomis
Mireya Luna
Diamante Martinez
Molly Martinez-Collins
Meagan-McCray
Andy Moe
Ariane Stier
Megan Todd
Ellie Webster

About the Directors

Laura Baglereau is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Performance as Public Practice program, originally from Columbus, Ohio. She is an artist scholar who investigates gender and issues of in/equality through performance. As a director her work includes Julius Caesar, a devised piece inspired by Shakespeare’s female characters titled The Shakespeare Ladies’ Monologues and an all-female version of Titus Andronicus. She also works as a dramaturg, stage manager, and performer. Baglereau has a M.F.A. in theatre practice: staging Shakespeare from the University of Exeter and a M.A. in performance research from the University of Bristol.

Khristián Méndez Aguirre is a third-year M.F.A. candidate in the Performance as Public Practice program from Guatemala City, Guatemala. In the wake of the #MeToo movement and Time’s Up, Méndez Aguirre’s research historicizes and theorizes healthy rehearsal room practices in traditional director-actor rehearsal rooms. Previous productions in Austin involve the Austin premieres of "telephone" by Ariana Reines and "Mammoth: A De-extinction Love Story" by Adam R. Burnett. Méndez Aguirre has trained and collaborated with award-winning ensembles Double Edge Theater and the Rude Mechanicals and comes to The University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic. This Fall, he will direct a Zero Waste production of "Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play" by Anne Washburn. Khristianmendez.com

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The Tempest - A Gentrification Story
by adapted from William Shakespeare
Performance as Public Practice Graduate Student Association

The Performance as Public Practice Graduate Student Association is proud to present a locally-inspired production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, drawing parallels between colonization and gentrification.

October 4th, 2018 at 7:00 p.m
October 5th at 7:00 p.m
October 6th at 2:00 p.m and 7:00 p.m
October 7th at 1:00 p.m and 5:00 p.m

Blackbox Theatre at the Student Activity Center
The University of Texas at Austin
2201 Speedway
Austin, TX 78712

Book your seat with EventBrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-tempest-a-gentrification-story-tickets-47862378663

And make a suggested donation: ($5-10) – 
via cash or Venmo (@pppgsa).

This project is supported by The University Co-op.