THEATRE
“Get
Your Game On! Get Your Fear On! Get Your Guns On! Get Your Rage On!”
Rude
Mechanicals, the brave ensemble theatre company hailing from Austin,
perform the hilariously irreverent Get
Your War On at the Goode Crowley Theatre for two nights, October 20
and 21. Adapted by Kirk Lynn from David Rees’s comic strip of the same
name, Get Your War On is an uproarious satire of the political situation
post 9/11, taking swipes left right and center at the politicians, catch phrases,
and pop-culture images littering the mainstream media.
“Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War
On Drugs, and now you can’t buy drugs anymore? It’ll be just like
that!”
Friday 20 & Saturday 21 October, 2006
Goode Crowley Theatre
8pm, doors 7.30pm
Tickets $10
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ART
Photograph by Jan Bauer
On September 28 Jonathan Meese and
Peter Doig collaborated in a 55 minute performance in BALLROOM Marfa’s
courtyard inaugurating the exhibition PETER DOIG: STUDIOFILMCLUB 2003-2006.
Set against a spectacular wall painting by Meese and Doig, the artists
reacquainted themselves by campfire to a set of Nico, Supertramp,
Loretta Lynn and Justin Timberlake, invoking American civil war guerilla,
Bloody Bill Anderson against Meese’s recurring cast of Stalin,
Hitler, Ezra Pound, Dorian Grey and Humpty Dumpty.
View exhibition and documentation of the performance...
(Photographs by Jan Bauer)
Over 100 of Peter Doig’s painted film posters are currently
showcased in PETER DOIG: STUDIOFILMCLUB 2003 – 2006 representing
the film program Doig coordinates with artist-peer Che Lovelace in
their Trinidadian hometown. The paintings are as thoroughly diverse
as the STUDIOFILMCLUB screenings with titles like Spetters, General
Idi Amin (A Self-Portrait), and Red Shoes. This is
the largest exhibition to date of Doig’s posters with over
thirty new works being shown for the first time.
In the spirit of Doig & Lovelace’s STUDIOFILMCLUB, Peter
Doig held open screenings across the opening weekend at Marfa’s
Goode Crowley Theatre, showing ELVIS: That’s the Way It
Is,
the acclaimed 2001 documentary of the King’s rehearsal’s
for the “Elvis Presley Summer Festival” in Vegas in 1970; The
Tarnished Angels, Douglas Sirk’s 1958 bleak but exquisitely
filmed portrait of a daredevil barnstorming pilot, his love-struck
seductress wife and a pontificating newspaper journalist of the Depression-era;
and DiG!, the 2004 documentary of the rivalry between the
little known but hugely respected Brian Jonestown Massacre and the
band who drew on their influence to become a huge pop-success, The
Dandy Warhols.
MUSIC
On October 18, Western-gothic sextet Oakley Hall stop off in Marfa
on their way home to Brooklyn for a jam at BALLROOM Marfa. Time
Out New York writes of Oakley
Hall “a large
band that weaves a magical sound out of many components, is the untamed
sound of country rock, a sextet that plays so damn hard that most
other twanged outfits simply sound like failure in comparison."
Wednesday October 18, 2006
Live at the old theatre space directly behind BALLROOM Marfa
9pm, doors at 8:30pm
$5 at the door
Then on October 26, Jenny Lewis, front-woman of Los Angeles band
Rilo Kiley and all ‘round indie-darling goes solo for BALLROOM
Marfa performing material from her debut album, Rabbit Fur Coat.
Gracing the Goode Crowley stage supported by Louisville sirens The
Watson Twins, expect an evening of white soul and vintage folk with
lyric-writing Elvis Costello declares the best he’s heard in
many a day.
Opening the show are Okkervil River lead singer Will Sheff as well
as San Francisco based duo, The Blow.
Thursday October 26, 2006
Performing live at the Goode Crowley Theatre
8pm, doors at 7.30pm
Tickets $15
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contemporary art and culture. It is a place in which varied cultural
perspectives are explored through the visual arts, music and film.
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creative awareness. BALLROOM Marfa is located at 108 East San Antonio
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