Tuesday, September 01, 2009
A.R.T. Props Looking for Clutter
Stage Directions: "In preparation for their production with British theatre company Punchdrunk (making its U.S. premiere), the American Repertory Theatre is putting out a Greater Boston-wide appeal for thousands of items to be part of their upcoming production of Sleep No More."
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It's amazing how much you can get through a public appeal like that. We used to use craigslist and freecycle to gather props for a haunted house, the biggest difficulty was sorting through the replies to make sure you're not getting half a dozen of an item you need one of.
Agreed with Tom on this one. It also seems like a really interesting way of making your community feel like an integral part of your company's productions. Although audience members will probably be entranced by the immersive-experience "Macbeth" that's actually supposed to be holding their attention (an extremely intriguing concept, by the way), contributors of items to the A.R.T. will have an added experience of scavenger-hunting their way through the environment to try and find their "stuff". I'd be very interested to go see this show, or at least to find out more about how it went afterward.
Agreed. It would be SO cool for a regular theatre goer to see their old Persian rug in a professional performance at their area theatre.
Agreed. That is wicked. I know some people will shoot me down for saying this, but I love modernized Shakespeare. When done effectively, it allows Shakespeare's works to live up to an essential characteristic of good literature: timelessness. So mixing Macbeth with Hitchcock sounds ridiculously enticing. Fans of thriller (the genre, not the song) should be turned on to the idea of transforming the school into one giant set piece as well, because the props and atmosphere will add to the effect of being drawn into the story, and actually living it rather than watching it, (which I find usually makes a good thriller, even when it's on TV). It will be much scarier.
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