2007-08 HPT Season
Featuring Loretta
by George F. Walker
directed by Ken Webster
September 6 - 29, 2007
A woman plagued by too many suitors sits in a cheap motel room contemplating a career as a porn actress. Comical mayhem ensues!
Thom Pain (based on nothing)
by Will Eno
Featuring Ken Webster
November 29-December 22, 2007
An encore of the one-man piece that won raves from Austin critics and audiences earlier this year. The play the New York Times called "astonishing in its impact" returns in an award-winning performance by HPT Artistic Director Ken Webster. "Imagine what might happen if Jon Stewart and Samuel Beckett had an offspring, and you will likely have envisaged Will Eno's Thom Pain." (theaterscene.net)
FronteraFest 2008
January 15 - February 16, 2008
The fifteenth season of this renowned five-week, city-wide, unjuried fringe festival featuring over 800 local and national artists annually. The Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, Mi Casa Es Su Teatro--all as unpredictable as ever.
FronteraFest is produced in collaboration with Austin Script Works, a group dedicated to supporting emerging playwrights and developing new dramatic works.
The Lonesome West
by Martin McDonagh
directed by Ken Webster
February 28 - March 29, 2008
In the Irish backwater of Leenane, two brothers live to torment each other, quarreling over everything from potato chips to a sexy teenage bootlegger to what kind of hors d'oeurves to have at their father's funeral. Another savagely funny comedy from the playwright who gave you The Pillowman.
Three from Fronterafest
by Daniel MacIvor, Aimée Gonzales Gonzales, & Ken Webster
directed by Ken Webster & Jamison Driskill
March 3 - 26, 2008
This offnight production was an evening of FronteraFest's greatest hits, with three quirky, funny audience and critical favorites from FronteraFest 1998, 2006, and 2008.
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
by Bert V. Royal
directed by Ken Webster
May 15 - June 14, 2008
An off-Broadway hit, Dog Sees God is a highly unauthorized imagining of the high school years of a certain well-known blockhead--let's call him "C.B."--and his best friend, who has given up his security blanket for a mellow buzz; his furious ex-girlfriend; and his ever-changing little sister. For C.B., high school means drugs, rebellion, a penpal gone silent, and worse. Rats.
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