Happy Birthday to Juilet Capulet! On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen; that shall she, marry; I remember it well.
31.07.2025 14:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Birthday to the Rudes! We are 26 years old, and we'll be celebrating (?) our venerable age with a production of King Lear - watch this space for more info!
29.07.2025 13:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Three white middle-aged people stand in front of a table; behind it a wall posting various legal notices. In the center a t-shirt clad man holds a pair of pieces of paper - an agreement and a signature page (actual signatures erased before posting). Flanking him women - one in a grey cardigan over a black tee that reads "I'm the mystery", the other in a flannel button-down over a pink blouse. All three look pleased.
It's official! Rudes' Greenbelt Arts Center residency renewed, now keeping the relationship ongoing as long as both groups wish to. Congrats to Alan Duda who led the endeavor; thanks to all our volunteers - casts, crews, special project participants - who make us a great group to collaborate with!
04.06.2025 19:13 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Auditions for King Lear
The Rude Mechanicals invite you to audition for its upcoming production of Shakespeare’s King Lear. This production will run weekends from Aug 22 – Sept 6 at the Greenbelt Arts Center in Gree…
Auditions May 27-28 8pm @ GAC: King Lear directed by Claudia Bach: a 10-actor production set loosely in the late 20th century. This American gothic horror tale will take these characters from privilege to tragedy through their failure to see each other clearly. rudemechanicals.com/2025/05/06/a...
16.05.2025 14:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Four persons in the foreground (a black man in a suit, an older white man in a dress shirt and trousers, a woman in a pant suit with a floral blouse and another old white man in a shirt-and-tie) doing their best to look very very nonchalant while in the background a concerned figure lurks behind something.
One more weekend! Two more shows!
15.05.2025 14:58 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Three women in floral robes. The front-most one is enjoying a swig from a flask. Another, seated, is about to take a sip from a tall metal coffee tumbler. The third is standing, similar tumbler in hand, is rubbing her forehead as if nursing a hangover. Photo by Rachel Zirkin Duda
Weekends fly by so fast - hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! Our Masked Matinee is today, and then only one more weekend!
11.05.2025 14:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A very excited man and young woman dressed in businesswear gleefully spin a bar cart, its lower shelf containing another young woman in businesswear, who's perhaps somewhat less excited.
Join us for the exciting ride - Much Ado opens tonight!
09.05.2025 22:11 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Greenbelt Arts Center Presents: Much Ado About Nothing - Events
Tickets are available now! Dates: May 07 - May 17 2025
Much Ado About This Weekend! The show opens Friday - but first, catch our Pay What You Will Final Dress on Wednesday! onthestage.tickets/show/greenbe...
04.05.2025 14:06 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
There was a star danced, and under that was Shakespeare born... thanks for all the plays, Will, but especially Much Ado, which we can't wait to open!
(This is his birth-day; as this very day was Shakespeare born. Probably. Also, died.)
23.04.2025 16:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Redirecting...
If you are on Facebook, Much Ado now has an event! www.facebook.com/share/16Ank8...
03.04.2025 21:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A poem consisting of two columns with italic headers "lady macbeth" / "macbeth", with each line divided between the two, such that it can be read together or each separately.
i love / you
you / have transformed me
with strange tenderness / and i am the monster
that startles me / in the mirror.
and / i have come full circle.
i cannot allow / this. this is me,
myself / as I was destined
to be / from my birth.
so soft / it hurts.
bolded credit: two.bees.poetry
An interestinger and subtler look at the possible inner lives of the Scottish Couple than one often sees - we vote Two Bee.
29.03.2025 19:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy World Theatre Day to all!
27.03.2025 14:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Roman-style sculpture facing left with caption "People are losing the spirit of the Ides of March. It's not about just stabbing. It's about coming together to stab in groups.
Hope your Ides of March included great groups with whom to stab dictators with pretensions of godhood - we know ours did.
17.03.2025 19:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Better out of its original context, isn't it.
04.03.2025 17:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
But wherefore art not in thy shop today?
Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?
28.02.2025 14:14 — 👍 483 🔁 100 💬 7 📌 7
Excited to announce our 2025-2026 season to follow this season's Much Ado About Nothing in May: Shakespeare's King Lear in the fall, Lope de Vega's Romeo and Juliet: A Comedy next winter, and Oscar Wilde's Salome in spring!
24.02.2025 15:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited about starting rehearsals for our next project! Much Ado About Nothing cast features a stellar mix of recent regulars, new faces and returning blasts from the past!
12.02.2025 19:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo in cinemas | In cinemas worldwide from 5 February 2025
Get tickets for Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo in cinemas on the official site. In cinemas worldwide from February 5, 2025.
One more chance to check out Macbeth with Tennant & Jumbo at a movie theater near you on Sunday. A magnificently sound-designed and well-paced example of maximizing set minimalism, with smart, impactful choices in script and action. www.macbethdonmarcinema.com
06.02.2025 16:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Celebrating Two Decades of Creativity and Growth, and Introducing a New Chapter - Capital Fringe
It is with a heavy heart that Capital Fringe announces it will no longer produce the annual Fringe Festival. We are immensely proud of the impact twenty years
Capital Fringe is closing its doors - costs and efforts of finding venues annually have become unsustainable.
The Rudes have many a memory of past Fringe participation, and wish the best of luck to their transformation efforts to create other ways to support the arts community.
28.01.2025 16:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Rude Mechanicals
No Holds Bard
In these troubled times we cope by coming together to make art. The Seagull opens tomorrow. Much Ado auditions are Monday. An escape, a community, a family, a support network - theater is ours and we hope it may be yours too. rudemechanicals.com
23.01.2025 18:18 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A seagull standing on a post, its neck bent until its face is all the way upside down.
Here to bring our signature unique perspective on the classics. Don't miss The Seagull at Greenbelt Arts Center next two weekends!
19.01.2025 14:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A grid:
Down Checkov's (sic), Schrodinger's, Occam's, Murphy's.
Across Gun, Cat, Razor, Law
Chekhov's Gun
If a gun is introduced in the first act, it must be fired by the third.
Chekhov's Cat
If a box is introduced in the first act, a cat must sit in it by the third
Chekhov's Razor
The simplest way to fire a gun is to pull the trigger
Chekhov's Law
Every gun in a play will be fired
Schrodinger's Gun
You can't know if a gun is loaded, or not, until the trigger is pulled
Schrodinger's Cat
An unopened box may contain a dead cat, or an alive one, and you won't know until you open it
Schrodinger's Razor
An unopened box may contain the solution to your problems
Schrodinger's Law
You can't know that things will go wrong, until they do
Occam's Gun
The simplest way to kill off a character is to shoot them
Occam's Cat
If you hear a strange noise at night, it's probably a cat
Occam's Razor
The simplest explanation is probably the correct one
Occam's Law
Everything that can be explained, will be explained
Murphy's Gun
Any gun that can go off, will go off
Murphy's Cat
Any box that can contain a cat, will contain a cat
Murphy's Razor
Anything that can be simple, will be simple
Murphy's Law
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong
(credits:Revx, MrBigBux, Halesnail, Venort. ATP)
See how many of these we hit in our production of the Seagull - the trope namer for the Gun!
12.01.2025 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Average everyday sane psycho super goddess. Disabled lawyer, never MAGA, actor, short filmmaker, gamer, streamer, author, older than the trees, radical, helped build the Internet, HPS, looks terrible in orange. Not buying what you're selling. NO DM, pr0n
full adult human // higher ed by day, bookworm by night—if I’m not busy doing theatre things // probably drinking coffee or red wine
Lover of Old Things, hater of hate, Mom, relapsed student, animal lover, love to crochet, love my friends and family, Mama Llama (I'm chill til you mess with friends or family, then I'll kick you in your face).
Guitarist, rider, Rude Mechanical
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All-meme accounts that friend me will be muted. As will those who ignore history.
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A national new writing theatre company making bold, relevant work with and for young people. Touring to schools & venues.
Upcoming tour: My Brother's a Genius by Debris Stevenson
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Lambently pretentious. I like literature, cinema, theatre, and articulated collectibles. (Former?) Webmaster of Scary-Crayon, if anyone remembers that far back. 😅
Archivist and historian. Scifi fan. Not a time traveler or an immortal, I promise. Marylander. Gray-ace. He/him, 46. 🏳️🌈
Husband: @jasperhedgehog.bsky.social
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Open, but mostly for cuddles & smooches.
Commissions OPEN
Crash landed 1995
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Patron of the arts, actor, household chief cook and bottle washer, video game time waster, aspiring voice-over artist, horrible banjo player, husband, boyfriend, dad of 3 terrific young adults. Government drone during the day pays for all the other stuff.
Standard human issue. Nothing to see here.
Cosplayer, Botanist, and book loving dragon.
