Falling Down the Mountain of Great Storms
by Broad Theatre

Aug. 13 - Aug. 29
Thursdays-Saturdays

The building you are sitting in right now is situated on top of a fault line. Did you know that? Audra, a young Cajun, fights through the catastrophes, breaking all the cycles, breaking everything. Lanette tells the story of Skywoman by candlelight. A Great Blue Heron pulls fish from the Atchafalaya while Hedgehog rips a branch from a dogwood tree. Barry works on his dancing thirty seconds at a time, trying to win. And Fox brings us all outside to plant actual seeds in the actual ground, where everything is moving.

 Falling Down the Mountain of Great Storms is written by Greg Romero, with original composition by Mike Vernusky, directed by Molly Fonseca, with dramaturgy work by Anikka Lekven. 

Falling Down the Mountain of Great Storms centers on Audra, a young Cajun woman fighting through catastrophes: breaking things on her way toward healing from an attack; colliding withher estranged, skyfalling mother, Lanette; trying to devastate all the cycles, trying to outrun hurricanes, trying to run an election campaign with her friend, Barry, who works on his dancing thirty seconds at a time at the Chicken Church. The play flows between Audra’s present moment, suffocating time-breaks, and a surreal more-than-human world: a great blue heron hunts along the Atchafalaya River; a hedgehog follows Audra, dragging a branch broken from a dogwood tree; and a fox invites us to plant seeds for the future. The production features a collaboration of script, live and recorded sound, and movement, creating a unique storytelling experience. Elevated by sound worlds composed from the wetlands of southern Louisiana, the story becomes a theatrical meditation on resilience, ground, and the possibility of renewal.

This production lives in the continuum of the 20-plus year collaboration between playwright Romero and composer Vernusky. Development on this work included experiments at the University of Houston, where Broad Theatre co-founder Anikka Lekven graduated with an MA in Theater, studying with Romero. This work also continues the creative relationship between Broad Theatre and Vernusky, whose sound design haunted the production of Lekven’s play A Doctor’s Visit.

The production features almost 20 local Austin artists and designers and will be presented as part of Broad Theatre’s ongoing commitment to developing and producing work for and by people of marginalized genders.

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ABOUT BROAD THEATRE

Broad Theatre, led by Molly Fonseca and Anikka Lekven, has produced imaginative and innovative theatrical works since 2019 that have pushed the boundaries of Austin theatre and earned multiple accolades. The company’s mission is to produce new plays written by and fo rpeople of marginalized genders. By developing and producing new work in Austin, Broad Theatre is emerging as a national voice in new play development, expanding the city’s artistic landscape while championing historically underrepresented artists.

 

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Falling Down the Mountain of Great Storms
by Greg Romero
Broad Theatre

August 13 - 29, 2026 at 8 p.m.

Thursdays - Saturdays

The Rosette, Baker Center, Guadalupe and W. 40th St., Austin