Fixing Timon of Athens
by Rude Mechs

Feb. 04 - Feb. 27, 2016
Thursdays-Sundays

Rude Mechs is thrilled to announce the Austin premiere of FIXING TIMON OF ATHENS, Fixing Timon of Athens. The first installment, Fixing King John, premiered in 2014 at our venue, The Off Center. With Madge Darlington and Kirk Lynn at the helm, the next installment promises to be as provocative and to really improve Shakespeare's original.

About The Play 

It’s pretty simple. Timon starts out super rich and super positive and super popular, but his frivolous generosity takes its toll. After getting even with the people he feels betrayed him, he wanders off into the woods, super poor and super pissed off… finds more gold, then dies alone. Also there’s a warrior that is in some kind of trouble with the Senate.

Warning: Lots of “F” bombs.

 Production Support: Fixing Timon of Athens is funded entirely by ticket sales. Our gratitude to the cast and production crew for working for peanuts to make this happen.

 Rude Mechs is supported in part by The Texas Commission on the Arts and the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department. 

About Fixing Shakespeare

Taking place in rotation with our Contemporary Classics series, our new series Fixing Shakespeare will make William Shakespeare’s least produced works useful again. Ask yourself how many Shakespeare plays you know or have seen, subtract that number from thirty-seven (depending on who you ask), and those are the plays we are working to fix using our patented performance creation methodology, contemporary English, and adding curse words. (Shakespeare cursed plenty, but most Elizabethan curse words have lost their spice. Zounds!)

 In some ways, we’re offering you a more authentic experience of what a new Shakespeare play might be like than an actual Shakespeare play. In other ways, not so much.

 

Interview of Kirk Lynn by Jeann-Claire van Ryzin, Austin Statesman, February 3, 2016,/A.

 

[poster photo:Tom Green as Timon, by Brett Brookshire]

 

Production Team

Playwright: Kirk Lynn

Director: Madge Darlington

2nd Unit Director: Alexandra Bassett

Stage Manager: Courtney Cales

Lighting Design: Stephen Pruitt

Original Music: Peter Stopschinski

Sound Design: Robert S. Fisher

 

Cast

Timon: Tom Green

Apemantia: Barbara Chisholm

Flavia: Elizabeth Doss

Vinnie: Robert Faires

Alcibadia: Ellie McBride

CC: Robert S. Fisher

Braymount: Lowell Bartholomee

Cupid / Creto / Johnsy: Jay Byrd

 

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Fixing Timon of Athens
by William Shakespeare adapted by Kirk Lynn
Rude Mechs

February 4 - 27, 2016

Thursdays - Sundays at 8:00 p.m.

The Off Center (2211A Hidalgo St.)

Tickets: $25 General Admission plus $2 fee on Fridays and Saturdays /  Sliding Scale $5-$25 plus service fee Thursdays and Sundays

Click to purchase via Rude Mechs website