The Parking Project

A site-specific performance in a multi-level parking garage

It costs 25 cents every 15 minutes to stay at this sprawling, 3 level exploration of Heartland Garage. The friendly and strange parking attendant puts you in touch with the “long-termers” and “short-termers” who inhabit the garage:  the woman who can’t find her spot, the runaway, the skateboarders, the couple making out in their van, the frustrated musician.  Audiences carry their own ‘sit-upons’  as they travel the levels, sometimes walking and sometimes being driven by the performers themselves.   An interesting thing we discovered was that we were making a performance in a place that was specifically designed not to support human interaction.  How could we use that quality to inform our decisions?

Made with theatre-maker friends Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl back in the “anything is possible in Austin” days of the late 1990’s.

Presented by Austin Script Works at the Heartland Parking Garage, West 6th St, Austin TX  1999.