Shows and swellitude!

Dear Besties,

Red Then Productions (a group formed by my mother and myself), is producing a one-man version of Shakespeare’s Henry V starring my very own pater, Robert Faires. It runs at the Off Center, home of the Rude Mechs, for 15 performances, July 2-25 and I am extending a special “friends and family” discount to you and your friends! 

Henry V is the culmination of an 18 year-old dream first conceived by Faires in 1991. Using Shakespeare’s instruction to the audience to use their imaginations to conjure the play’s royal courts, horses, armies, and battlefields, Faires reconceived the drama for a solo performer playing 13 characters. Over the course of 75 minutes, with only a few household props, he leads the audience from Henry’s throne across the English Channel into the French court, through a fearful war and into one of the most charming wooing scenes in Shakespeare. 
 
We are thrilled and honored friend and colleague Catherine Weidner has joined us here in Austin to direct Henry V. Catherine is the Associate Professor Classical Acting/Heightened Text at The Theatre School of DePaul University in Chicago and was the Program Director of The Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University in D.C. and has directed for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. 

Henry V runs Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 5pm. There is a special 4th of July performance at 5pm with complimentary champagne and sparklers too! Tickets are ON SALE NOW for $15 but as a FOB (Friend of Bill) you and your friends can gain admittance for the low price of $10. To get this discount, log on torudemechs.com and click on “get your tickets now”. Select the performance date and click on “begin order.” In the box marked DISCOUNT CODE enter the word: five and click on additional prices. The FOB price of $10 will become one of your selections! Easy peasy. 

Phone orders are available at 1800-838-3006. Ask for the “five” discount and you’ll be eligible for the $10 FOB ticket there too. 

Tickets are also on sale at austix, but the FOB discount is not available via the website. Call or email Rachel Watreas at 474-8497 or austix@austix.com for the special $10 ticket. 

Tickets are on sale now. Buy soon, buy lots!

(NOTE: As students, you automatically get the $10 discounted ticket; this is more to forward to your parents/adults/other fancy people!)

<3

Rosalind