I checked in with a non-Winedale-alum who's listed as a cast member, and neither of us remembers an actual performance of Burning Pestle, although we both vaguely remember some kind of big meetup in Calhoun 200 (or was it 100? it was the big lecture hall, at any rate) with a lot of the faces listed on the cast sheet. (I have clearer memories of Doc giving the Spring 1979 class the play early on, and of us--including me and another person on this cast list--not knowing what to do with it, despite which several of us Spring Class members went on to join the 1979 summer class.)I think it was brainstormed but didn't come together. At any rate I'd have loved playing Humphrey.Mike--On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:44 PM David Sharpe <dpsharpeaustin@gmail.com> wrote:Parallel universes must be a real thing, because it's the only explanation I can think of for why my name was on the stellar cast list for "Knight of the Burning Pestle" in 1984, but I don't recall being involved in the production or - I'm embarrassed to admit - having even read the play. Ah, but I did notice the absence of the letter "e" on my last name in the cast list. Obviously, some other dude, named Dave Sharp, was playing the "tapster." Boy, the temerity and nerve of him! He should be arrested.David Sharpe--On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 7:06 PM Robert Faires <robert.faires2787@gmail.com> wrote:What a wonderful group of people engaged in what could have been a wonderful production. I knew most everyone on that list at the time and would have dearly loved to have seen them all playing together in that world.Such a long time ago that was … long enough that all those phone numbers listed by the cast members' names were for landlines.Robert_______________________________________________On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 4:43 PM Clayton Stromberger <cstromberger@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:_______________________________________________As a footnote in the book of Winedale lore related to “Knight of the Burning Pestle”: In the fall of 1984 a group of Winedalers from the early ‘80s classes – along with some of their friends from the worlds of Austin music and theater – came together to work on a production of the play, with evening sessions spent playing on the little stage in Calhoun 100. I seem to recall that there was no director; it was to be ensemble-led. The cast list, courtesy of the Steve Price archives:
I have fond memories of James’s sweet and winning Rafe… Mark and Elise were as funny as you would imagine… I remember Steve’s exuberant Merrythought… Sadly the warning at the bottom of the sheet – “Opening night is sooner than you think” – did not prove true. Opening night never came; the company dissolved a few weeks into rehearsals after a few key players left for various reasons and no one had the extra time that semester to plug the gaps and rebuild momentum. I remember a somber final meeting in Calhoun Hall, with all of us sitting around on benches and on the floor outside Doc’s basement office, as the group decided to let the idea go.
It still gives many of us a pang that we never had a chance to see this Winedale-inspired “Pestle” in its full potential glory… What a cast list!
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