Slog - Comments on Get Your War On: The Play! http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/get_your_war_on_the Get Your War On is now a play by the Rude Mechanicals, out of Austin, and they're touring it from Philly to Houston to D.C. to Marfa, TX. Guess who's salivating over it? Your favorite book-blogger and mine, Ms. Maud Newton. The Rude Mechs [a theater group out of Austin] perform the show with four overhead projectors, cheap office furniture, telephones with dangling, disconnected cords, and a filing cabinet from which they pull the hundreds of transparencies they throw on the overheads during the show. It all begins with the classic line, "Oh yeah! Operation Enduring Freedom is in the... Copyright 2008 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:11:54 -0800 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:13:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by neo-realist Why can't they perform their play here? Wah Wah:(

]]> neo-realist http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/get_your_war_on_the#c478595 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/get_your_war_on_the#c478595 Arts Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:12:23 -0800 Comment by COMTE Oh, I'm totally salivating - although that might be the chocolate chip peanut butter brownie & glass of milk I just had - but, still I'm salivating.

So, the only question remaining is: how do we get them to Sea-town?

Hm, I wonder if the Rat List is still up-and-running?

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/get_your_war_on_the#c478684 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/get_your_war_on_the#c478684 Arts Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:37:50 -0800 Comment by L On the Rude Mechanicals website, they're soliciting to have the Get Your War On play booked at local theaters, presumably nationwide. I think The Stranger should bring 'em to Seattle... I'm sure Seattle could run at least enough sold-out shows to cover the cost of bringin' 'em here!

http://rudemechs.com/shows/history/get.htm

To book GET YOUR WAR ON at your theatre, call Lana Lesley at 512-478-RUDE (7833) or email to lana@rudemechs.com

The last scheduled show is tomorrow night in Marfa.

]]> L http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/get_your_war_on_the#c478777 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/get_your_war_on_the#c478777 Arts Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:47:47 -0800 Comment by L Or maybe not, considering the lack of interest this post has garnered...

]]> L http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/get_your_war_on_the#c478932 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/get_your_war_on_the#c478932 Arts Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:13:17 -0800