Season 7: Re-Birth

NOVEMBER 4-13 2022 AT NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM

"My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead."

A fatal, mysterious tragedy claims the lives of most of the Blackwood family, leaving tightly-bonded sisters Constance and Merricat and their eccentric uncle Julian the sole survivors. Six years later, they have lead a solitary yet whimsical life shut away in their family estate: alienated from the hateful, suspicious occupants of their sleepy village. But the sudden arrival of their cousin Charles begins to open old wounds anew and threatens to send the family spiraling towards total destruction...what did really happen that fateful day six years ago?

Adapted from the novel by Shirley Jackson

Directed by Marian Kansas

Produced by Amber Wilson

Stage Managed by Trace Turner & Amelie Seigman

Starring:

Frances Garnett as Merricat Blackwood

Madison Marie Laird as Constance Blackwood

Todd Clark as Julian Blackwood

Brennan Patrick as Charles Blackwood

Maureen Slabaugh as Helen Clarke

Featured ensemble members: Anikka Lekven, Cody Arn, Ariane Stier

APRIL 2023 AT ALL THE SUDDEN

Following a two year hiatus, Bottle Alley came back with the third incarnation of our Self Portraits series! Thirty new pieces were performed each night at random, chosen by the audience– some of the pieces are funny, some are sad, but they're all tied together through one central theme: honesty. Each of the pieces represents something that the person or people performing it actually feel, or something that has actually happened to them. There are no characters, no costumes, and no fourth wall. Just bare-bones, DIY performance art in its purest form. The result was something that can best be described as barely controlled chaos.

Written and performed by:

Audria Choudhury, Cassandra DeFrietas, Julius Alums, Madison Laird, Molly Lyons, Rai Gonzalez, ​Sharlaina Lowry, Sonika Butani

Reviews: Broadway World Austin

JUNE-JULY 2023 AT PINK FLAMINGO BOTTLING PLANT

To celebrate ten years of Bottle Alley, we revived our production of Wraith Radio, originally staged in 2016.

Two wounded soldiers barricade themselves from an unknown enemy, broadcasting their final thoughts out into the world. Welcome to Wraith Radio.

Starring:

Cassandra DeFrietas, Rosemary McGraw, Devin Finn, Todd Clark

Written by Chris Fontanes

Adapted & Directed by Trace Turner

Reviews: CTXLIVE Theatre - Broadway World Austin

OCTOBER 2023 AT THE PAPER PLATE GALLERY

Dust by Nicole Oglesby is a full-length play about three sisters fighting to stay alive in the Texas panhandle during the dust bowl in the shadow of a dying farm and a miraculous apricot tree. With little money or hope, they choose to love dangerously and question the dark parts of their heritage and faith. What unfolds is a meditation on motherhood, heartache, and what it means to be a young woman in Texas. We told the haunting beauty of this original play through the lens of Bottle Alley Theatre Company...

Directed by Sarah Hogestyn

Stage Managed by Jessika Land

Starring:

Kim Stacy, Rosemary McGraw, Lilly Percifield, Cassandra DeFreitas, ​Jeremy Luis Canales