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Re: RAT A (somewhat) modest Proposal
Brad-
How about some more specific info, for those of us not in on the original
show? ( stuff like cast and props needed, running time etc etc would be
helpful in local efforts...)
Skip
----- Original Message -----
From: brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com>
To: RAT List <rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:19 PM
Subject: RAT A (somewhat) modest Proposal
> All,
>
> As part of my UNDERGROUND VOICES reading series,
> I am doing a reading of STATIONS OF DESIRE, conceived and edited
> by Caridad Svich, on Monday 5 June. at 8 pm. This was originally
> read at Bottom's Dream Theatre as part of the 1999 LA Rat Conference.
>
> STATIONS is a unique piece. An email text collaboration, the work
> was written by 12 outstanding American playwrights, with the title
> as a common theme.
> The Playwrights involved are Neena Beber, Cusi Cram, Jose Ignacio
> Cortinas, Heather Dundas,Julie Hebert, Julie Jensen, Ruth Margraff,
> Rachelle Minkoff, Anne Garcia Romero, Caridad Svich, Candfido Tirado
> and Elizabeth Wong
>
> Because the work was written in a manner reminiscent of a quilting
> bee, where everyone sends in a square to a central location, and
> also because the title suggests movement- I had the idea of
> replicating this on a macro level (traveling the whole quilt) by
> having multiple readings of the script on the same night ( Monday 5
> June @ 8PM ( in your Time Zone)) in cities across the country.
> There are two caveats to this idea:
> 1) that all theaters involved be resident, not University theatres
> ( this time around), and
> 2) that there only be one theater in each city involved with this project.
>
>
> So far, theatres that have signed onto this project (not including
> Theatre Double in Philadelphia, my home base) are:
> Bottom's Dream in Los Angeles
> Salvage Vanguard in Austin
> New Georges in NYC
>
> I know I would like at least 10 theatres involved in this.
> Cities that I am targeting include Boston, D.C/Baltimore, Atlanta,
> Denver, possibly Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, San
> Diego. I am more than willing to have that list added to, however.
> Please surprise me.
>
> Protocol: All participating theatres would be responsible for
> sending a priority Mail SASE to pay for script costs, casting and
> publicizing the reading.
> You would also be responsible for downloading ICQ- an Instant
> Messaging service which can be found at http://www.ICQ.com, so
> that all theatres can keep in cyber-contact as the reading moves
> across North America.
>
> Reasons for signing on:
> 1 Artistic reason:
> 1) it's fun, and a fairly low resource project.
>
> 1 pragmatic reason
> 1) being able to say you participated along with 15 other theaters
> across North America on a multiple-space, time- specific reading of a
> text that was itself created through email text collaboration looks
> great on a grant proposal.
>
> Feel free to answer me either on or of -list , and also feel free
> to Forward this proposal to other theatres that you feel might be
> interested.
>
> Brad Rothbart
> Theatre Double
>