Get a sneak peak of MilkMilkLemonade at the
Out of Bounds Comedy Festival!
Saturday, September 4th -
11pm -
Salvage Vanguard Theatre
MilkMilkLemonade
by Joshua Conkel
Xaq Webb, Chris Humphrey, Joe Hartman and Jericho Thorp in MilkMilkLemonade.
Photos by Kimberley Mead.
A boy. A chicken. A dream.
Meet Emory, an 11-year-old boy who lives on a farm with his
chain-smoking Nanna and his only friend, a giant chicken named Linda.
Nanna wishes Emory would put that barbie down, stop choreographing elaborate dance numbers and act more like a boy.
Elliot, the bully down the road, wishes the parasitic twin living inside him would stop making him beat up on Emory. Linda wishes she could pursue a career as a stand-up comedian instead of a main course meal. And Emory… he just wants to reach for the stars!
Joshua Conkel's MilkMilkLemonade premiered in New York in 2009 to across-the-board rave reviews, hailed as a "hilariously absurd and moving tale" (Broadway World) and "like something Edward Albee might have written for a pair of 10-year-old protagonists...bitterly funny and broadly satiric" (nytheatre.com). Voted "Best Off-Off Broadway Show in 2009” by the New York Press and receiving 4 stars from TimeoutNY, the play was noted as “the campy kind of ridiculousness that allows Conkel to delve into the darker side of childhood” (Backstage).
Shrewd Productions is proud to present this wickedly funny, delightfully strange and decidedly shrewd exploration of gender, adolescence and how we fight to be who we are – no matter what.
MilkMilkLemonade is directed by Jason Hays and stars Xaq Webb, Joe Hartman, Jericho Thorp, Chris Humphrey and Shannon Grounds, with set design by Nick Renaud, lights by Jon Derrington, sound by Bryan Schneider, makeup by Amelia Turner and costumes by Pam Friday.
MilkMilkLemonade
September 9-26
Thursdays – Sundays at 8pm
The VORTEX
2307 Manor Rd.
Austin, TX 78722
Tickets: $15-25
Call 478-5282 or visit www.vortexrep.org
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Shrewd Productions is proudly sponsored by the Austin Creative Alliance and Vortex Repertory.