Man. It’s amazing what doing a play will do to your desire to post to an internet blog. As in, kill it. I figured it’d be good to do a sort of recap of what’s been happening. So here it is:
First of all, we got uh… reviewed in the Austin Chronicle. Some highlights:
“This show is impressively bad…”
“Unfortunately, the rock was impaled on a stake of incompetence, and the only odyssey was the grotesquely long half-hour intermission.”
On the other hand, Ms. Hannah Kenah liked the music a lot:
“Several days after seeing Bitten!, an original rock musical written by the Unbearables (a band) and produced in conjunction with Loaded Gun Theory (a theatre company), I am still singing the songs.”
Since that review came out, though, for whatever reason, we’ve had more people come to the show than at any point previous. Sure, you could say that it’s a natural result of Austinites’ theatre-going practices (as in, procrastinating until closing weekend to go see something), but it’s nice to think that the bad press actually helped. The houses have also been a lot better in terms of their response to the show–a lot more raucous laughter and good times had by all.
Since closing at the DAC, I’ve been driving around in a van full of theatre junk and sound equipment, just waiting until we’re moving back into Arts on Real. We’re also in the process of tweaking the script a little bit–be prepared for a bigger and better show when we re-open.
