the vestige group presents: a theatre in the home production

The Muses II: Memories of a House

Friday and Saturday: June 13, 14, 20, 21st at 7 pm Sundays: June 15 and 22nd at 2 pm and 7 pm

Located at the home of Bobby Pearl, a local sculptor and artist, in and around her house and the "Bone Tree Sculpture Garden" surrounding it. The house is located in Travis Heights in South Central Austin.

The original production of Muses was held at the home of Helen Roberts and was called "theatrical magic" by the Austin Chronicle. The Muses: Memories of a House is a collaborative piece that centers around a home and the different people who have lived their lives inside it.

While traveling around this beautiful house and sculpture garden, audience members will happen upon moments in these individuals lives, blurring the line between real life and the theatre. From photographs taken of the house, playwrights from all over the world bring each room within the house to life in a different way.

For more information on tickets, go to: www.texasperforms.com.

Performances are $15-25 dollars. Reservations required. Space is very limited!
Sunday matinee performances are "pay-as-you wish."

Flat shoes are encouraged.

About the Homeowner: Bobby Pearl

Bobby Pearl has been sculpting for sixty years. She is presently working in clay and casting in bronze.

Her primary focus is the completion of a series of sculptures based on her Grandmother's stories of her escape from the Pogroms of Russia and of the ultimate triumph of her survival in America. These stories profoundly affected her growing up and have continued to inspire and haunt her adult life. She works from live models, photographs, memory, and from her imagination. She has tried to honor the dramatic and traumatic moments of her family history through the expression of the human body.

She has studied art at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; the Sculpture Department at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India; the Art Department at Yale University, New Haven, CT. under Andrew Forge. She has served as the Director of the Austin Sculpture Center where she also taught figurative sculpture.

She is currently doing free lance writing, concentrating on art and artists, and has been published in Ceramics Monthly, The Jewish Post and Opinion, Ceramics Art Handbook Series, 2008, and the magazine Farfelu. A movie ("Her Stories, My Hands") of her work was produced and shown at the Dallas Film and Video Festival, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Austin Jewish Film Festival (2007/8.) Her story " A Tribute to My Grandmother, Pearl Golokow" was recently selected to be published in the Wisdom of Our Mothers anthology, edited by Eric Bowen.

For further information she can be contacted at:
www.geocities.com/BobbyLouPearl