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SEASON 17 ARCHIVE | July 2005

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Vitriol and Violets Tales from the Algonquin Round Table
VORTEX Summer Youth Theatre

VORTEX's Summer Youth Theatre proudly presents the Texas premiere of Vitriol and Violets: Tales from the Algonquin Round Table by Oregon playwrights Shelly Lipkin, Loanne Moldovan, and Sherry Lamoreaux. Recent winner of the Oregon Book Award for Drama, this new play revolves around New York's celebrated Algonquin Round Table of the 1920's and 30's. Mature themes.

Vitriol and Violets

The characters in the play were real people who made a huge impact on the culture and language of the 20th century. They include Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman (playwright and critic), Harpo Marx, Alexander Woollcott (the most famous theatre critic of the 1920's), Edna Ferber (novelist), Franklin Pierce Adams (newspaper columnist), Tallulah Bankhead (actress), Robert Benchley (reporter), Harold Ross and Jane Grant (co-founder of the New Yorker), among others.

Directed by Kontent Love Knowels, Publicity Photos by Kenneth B. Gall.

About the Director: Content Love Knowles
VORTEX Repertory Company member Content Love Knowles directs an inter-generational cast of teen and adult artists. Ms. Knowles' local directing credits include Schopenhauer in Hell, The Pharmakon, and a great many produtions of The Rites of Eleusis. She has served as musical director and composer on numerous VORTEX shows, as well as acting in dozens of productions from Sleeping Beauty, Dark Goddess, and Coriolanus with VORTEX, SYT productions of Moby Dick and The Good Woman of Setzuan, and many shows with Austin's Willful Players.

"Best Theatre for Kids That Treats Kids Like Grownups".
The Austin Chronicle Best of Austin

VORTEX's Summer Youth Theatre has an acclaimed 14-year history of providing quality productions. The Austin Chronicle named VORTEX's SYT as "Best Theatre for Kids That Treats Kids Like Grownups". SYT has received dozens of award nominations and has won The David Mark Cohen New Play Award for Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, B. Iden Payne Awards for Machinal for Outstanding Production and Sound Design, and B. Iden Payne Awards for Outstanding Direction for The Frogs and Moby Dick. SYT has also produced The Good Woman of Setzuan, The Conference of the Birds, Cyrano de Bergerac, Animal Farm, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Insect Comedy, An Enemy of the People, Rhinoceros, The Skin of Our Teeth, and Step on a Crack. SYT participants have continued on to receive university scholarships, advanced training, and professional credits.