Austin Guerrilla Theatre
Guerrilla Theatre, in both its musical and non-musical forms, gives its audiences a magical shake from daily routines and allows enormous creativity and sociological experimentation for actors.
Austin Guerrilla Theatre has found a home within The Exchange Artists because the organization's mission to cross borders with art applies to guerrilla theatre in the different kinds of performers it draws, and, most importantly, in the integration it provides between audience and artist.
Episode 1: A Happy Protest
On May 22, 2010 Austin Guerilla Theatre staged their first guerrilla episode, A Happy Protest. While protesting nothing and shouting happy thoughts and encouraging words, the group marched up the south 1st Street Bridge to the steps of an abandoned Austin City Hall to perform “I’ve got the Sun in the Morning” from Annie Get Your Gun. The audience for the protest were motorists, cyclists, runners and coffee shop and resturant diners as well as an entire segway tour who joined in the song’s finale.
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Episode 2: ‘Smile’ at Nordstroms
On August 28, 2010 at 2pm Austin Guerilla Theatre staged their second guerrilla episode, A musical outburst of “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile” on the first floor of Nordstroms, Barton Creek Mall. Twenty singers and dancers came from the jewelry counter, the shoe displays and down the escalators to gather around the piano and convince two women fighting over a pair of shoes that a smile is the only necessary addition to the perfect wardrobe. The audience for the musical number were surprised shoppers and Nordstom’s employees as well customers in line for coffee just outside the store in the main mall.
Next Guerrilla Theatre Episode: TBA
