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ABOUT AUDACITY PRODUCTIONS

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Once, the theatre could begin as magic: magic at the sacred festival, or magic as the footlights came up. Today, it is the other way around. The theatre is hardly wanted and its workers are hardly trusted. So we cannot assume that the audience will assemble devoutly and attentively. It is up to us to capture its attention and compel its belief. To do so we must prove that there will be no trickery, nothing hidden. We must open our hands and show that really there is nothing up our sleeves. Only then can we begin.

- Sir Peter Brook (1968)

MISSION:

North Texas based Audacity Productions is dedicated to presenting and creating dynamic, challenging, and original works for the stage. We are interested in kick-ass performance technique-- virtuosic use of language, powerful visual images, and a sense of true spontaneity. We're drawn to work that requires visceral as well as intellectual involvement.

HISTORY AND AESTHETIC:

After living, training, and working in a variety of locations from New Mexico to New York to London, Brad McEntire returned in the summer of 1999 to his home state of Texas to form a new kind of theatre company.

With the help of Tiffany Kellerman (and later Jeff Hernandez ), McEntire put together Audacity Productions with the understanding that theatre is more than entertainment, more than production. Theatre must be an EVENT. The intention was to create and present more than just traditional productions, but "projects" for the stage. These projects would share two overriding objectives: 1) to embrace a common aesthetic of inventive, non-glitzy, theatrical sophistication and, 2) simply put, either in content or through presentation, the projects would be an alternative to other live theatre in the North Texas area. It would live up to the promise of the moniker AUDACITY.

Audacity is one of a new breed of young, small theatre companies applying fresh professional thinking to traditional non-profit theatre. More lean and flexible in management structures, as well as more entrepreneurial in spirit, Audacity presents roughly two or three full productions (often by cutting-edge up-and-coming new playwrights) throughout the year, as well as multiple smaller-in-scope endeavors and collaborations.

Audacity has no "home venue", but operates to a large extent as urban gypsies alternating between sites and cities ranging from various theatres on New York's Lower East Side to various venues all over Texas, including: the Bath House Cultural Center, the Carrollton Amphitheatre and Austin's Hideout.

Presenting multiple staged readings, an ongoing companion sketch/performance troupe, and innovative performances at low costs (most events were, and continue to be, free to the public... with donations appreciated, of course), as of November 2000, Audacity Productions became an official Texas nonprofit corporation. The company dissolved in July 2006. After more than six years of operation presenting feisty, original, dynamic theatre, Audacity continued to keep close to its original notions: low budgets, high concepts, no limits.

For more information visit the Frequently Asked Questions page.

CONTACT US:

Audacity is always on the look-out for fellow artists, interested patrons, and any kind of support (financial or otherwise). Feel free to e-mail us at the address below.

audacityproductions@hotmail.com

LINKS & KINDRED SPIRITS:

Austin Circle of Theatres (Get connected to all that's happening in Central Texas theatre arts)

ASW (Austin Script Works... Nexus of playwriting in Texas)

AVPhibes.com (the remarkable world of the Phibes herself.)

Aquila Theatre Company (reknowned classical touring company)

Bath House Cultural Center (where we sometimes lay our head)

Dallas Theatre League (Rosetta Stone-type of organization of theatres in Dallas. We're sometimes a member)

Dribble Funk (the freelance adventures of Audacity Artistic Director Brad McEntire)

Fringe NYC (info on the biggest party, not to mention theatre event, in New York every August.)

In Blood of Innocence (small, independent film/video group dedicated to anti-irony)

Kitchen Dog Theater (Dallas-based theatre)

Makinrent.com (great advice and anecdotes for young artists)

Optimum Return (the guys that host this site. Mucho Gracias to Tony M. You're the best, dude)

Punch Drunk Comedy (Best Comedy Troupe in Dallas 2002 according to The Dallas Observer)

Rash Behaviour (Bad-ass comedy troupe in NYC)

Rover Dramawerks (hard-working north Texas theatre group)

Salvage Vanguard Theatre (Alternative and Independent company in Austin)

Undermain (20+ years of experimental theatre in Dallas)

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