Salvage Vanguard Theater to Present FROM THE PIG PILE: THE REQUISITE GESTURE(S) OF NARROW APPROACH, 4/3-19

Salvage Vanguard Theater is proud to announce the first MADE IN SVT production of our 20th Anniversary Season FROM THE PIG PILE: THE REQUISITE GESTURE(S) OF NARROW APPROACH by Sibyl Kempson in collaboration with the Austin Pig Pile

This performance is produced by Salvage Vanguard Theater in association with the Rude Mechs. Performances run April 3rd-19th 2014

An interactive journey across a vast landscape of associate histories, FROM THE PIG PILE features original music, puppetry, dancing, marauding, a Yeahoh sighting, and enough champagne for everyone.

For three (hundred thousand) years now, we of the Pig Pile have squirmed, squealed and de-structed our way across a vast landscape of associative histories. At times, they morph together into a narrative structure, and at others, they elude us completely. There is no panacea for feral swine work. The closer we get to the complicated porcine truth of what it means to be human, the more our numbers have dwindled, and we are now on the brink of extinction. Only you can help us to piece these pieces together, before it's too late.

If you have any wooden items that you wish to be preserved for all eternity, you may please to bring them with you to the occasion.

Performances run Thursday-Sunday night at 8pm from April 3-13 and April 17-18 at 8pm and April 19 at 7pm as part of the Fusebox Festival.

Tickets are $20 April 3rd-13th. Performances are free April 17th- 19th with a Fusebox Festival Registration. April 4th is a VIP event; tickets are $35 and include a fancy meal by a local chef at the end of the performance and a party with the artists. Tickets can be purchased at www.salvagevanguard.org for April 3rd-13th and and can be reserved at www.fuseboxfestival.com for April 17th.

The Austin Pig Pile is the nickname for the three-year collaboration of Austin artists and theater companies coming together for the Full Stage USA - Austin project created and sponsored by New Dramatists in NYC with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Performance Network, City of Austin Cultural Arts Division, and the Texas Commission on the Arts. In collaboration with Austin Scriptworks, Fusebox Festival, Physical Plant, Rude Mechs, Rubber Repertory, and Salvage Vanguard Theater.

From The Pig Pile is directed by Shawn Sides and Jenny Larson. The cast features Florinda Bryant, Wesley Bryant, Robert Fisher, David Jones, Hannah Kenah, Renna Larson, Lana Lesley, Todd London, Christi Moore, Mical Trejo, and Cole Wilson.

The design team features Graham Reynolds, Robert Fisher, Connor Hopkins, Lisa Laratta, Hope Bennett, Steven Shirey, and Ben Schave.

Sibyl Kempson lives and makes theater in NYC and the Pocono Mountains. Her plays have been presented at Dixon Place, Soho Rep, Performance Spae 122, The Chocolate Factory, New York Live Arts, the Fusebox Festival, the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, the Great Plains Theater Conference in Omaha, and the Theater Bonn in Germany, and have been developed in workshops in the CATCH! Performance Series Little Theater, and at New Dramatists. She is a 2010 MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Member of New Dramatists class of '17, a 2013-2014 McKnight National Resident and Commissionee, 2013-2014 recipient of the Virginia B Toulmin commission through New York Theatre Workshop, and a four-time recipient of the Dicon Place's Mondo Cane! Commission. She is a founding member of the Joyce Cho Initiative, an affinity of playwrights dedicated to the staging of problem plays, and of Machiqq Women's Auxiliary playwriting group. She earned an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College, 2007, where she studied under the instigation of Mac Wellman. Her plays are published by the 53rdPLAY Journal of Plays, and PAJ.

MADE IN THE SVT are theater works created, produced, or presented by Salvage Vanguard Theater company members.

Salvage Vanguard Theater (SVT) is a theater company and performance hub located in East Austin. SVT creates and presents transformative high-quality artistic experiences that foster experimentation and conversation.