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34th Season

"Edward Abbey - Wild and Iron Sky" Final Weekend only 4 shows left: tickets@hippocket.org

Edward Abbey - Wild and Iron Sky

Adapted and Directed by
John Carlisle Moore
July 22 - August 1
(Thursday - Sunday) 9 PM

This production is an intense examination of the journals and thinking of the brilliantly irascible, incorrigible, environmentalist, Edward Abbey. The work responds to those writings through the use of paintings, movement, and readings, and scenes inspired from those writings. The broad scope of his beautiful and often scathing view of this world is material that is hard to resist. No one escapes - from Shakespeare, to Dwight Eisenhower and even Kirk Douglas. He was a rare and prescient individual whose work will endure. Musical narrative provided by Fort Worth's guitarist, Darrin Kobetich and choreography by Lori Sorderbergh.

This production contains strong language and is not recommended for children.

Listen for John Moore's interview on Art Matters July 18th and 22nd.

Art Matters plays on WRR-FM (101.1), the classical music station for the Dallas/Fort Worth market. It is broadcast on Sunday afternoons @ 5:30 pm and is rebroadcast Thursday evenings @ 6:30 pm. Approx. 2 weeks after its broadcast, the podcast goes up on the station’s website (wrr101.com). Listen to the interview (play).

What others are saying!

"But this is unusual stage work dedicated to an unusual man. In many ways it is as raw and forbidding as the desert landscapes Abbey loved. But, like those deserts, it also frequently assaults you with its fierce beauty." - Punch Shaw, Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Saturday, May 24, 2009, 14B)

"Abbey's speeches are supported by a single musician, Darrin Kobetich, who plays the score he composed on various stringed instruments throughout both acts (this is a rare two-act show for Hip Pocket). His musical accents fall so precisely and blend with the text so thoroughly that his support becomes invisible, in the most positive of ways." - Punch Shaw, Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Saturday, May 24, 2010, 14B)

"Its difficult to translate the life of Edward Abbey into a theater performance, but I think the writer/director did a great job. To say Abbey had an interesting life or that he was a great write and thinker or that he shaped the environmental movement would be an understatement. If you have read his books and want to know more about him (he had five children with five different wives), then you may want to catch one of the last four performances this Thursday - Sunday." - T. Nichols

"Nancy and I and a new Ft Worth trip leader who’s name escapes me, went to the Hip Pocket Theatre presentation of “Edward Abbey – Wild and Iron Sky”. It was a wonderful, memorable evening! Going to Hip Pocket with Nancy is a little like going to a Rangers game with Nolan Ryan." - T. Nichols

"This was my first time to Hip Pocket and I’ll go again. The little outdoor theater, which seats about 200, has a relaxed, organic, home grown vibe. Before each performance there’s live music, which with a cold beer on a hot evening, is like fresh chips and tasty salsa before some great Tex-Mex." - T. Nichols

Call for reservations: 817-246-9775
or e-mail your reservation to
tickets@hippocket.org

Backyard Music

Thursday, July 22nd: Michael Kelley
Friday, July 23rd: Strung, Drawn, & Quartered
Saturday, July 24th: Lake Rats
Sunday, July 25th: Christa Russell

Thursday, July 29th: Chris Curtis
Friday, July 30th: EclectHics w/ Melinda Wood Allen
Saturday, July 31st: Texas Weather
Sunday, August 1st: Kavin.