HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ASSASSINATED?
by Rebecca Beegle
directed by Carlos Treviño
Rude Mechanicals, 2006
An old-fashioned/new-fangled song-and-dance on the death of vaudeville, featuring the Multi-ethnic Machine and Abe Lincoln Cohan. Have you ever been assassinated? You’ve worked all your life to perfect your twelve minutes of material. Maybe tonight’s the night you finally bring down the house.
"“absurdist fun…[an] acid-trip vision of American history”"
"intellectually-rigorous…boisterous-while-intricate, convention-bending staging by director Carlos Treviño coupled with the sharp dialogue and big-ideas-in-small-packages text by playwright Rebecca Beegle…exceptionally witty and delightfully clever”"
—Austinist.com
Joey Hood as Abe Jr, Michael Mergen as Cohan, Katie Bender as Mary Jr
Heather Hanna as Mary Rowlandson
The Abe Lincoln Cohan Family Singers
Joey Hood as Abe Jr, Michael Mergen as Cohan, Katie Bender as Mary Jr
photos by Bret Brookshire