RAT yer thoughts?

[Matt Bretz <mabretz@cbomedia.com>]

some info and ideas:

suzanne maynard would like to teach a workshop in what she calls "shape
scenes."  she appliees geometric shapes to scenes.  the writer is forced
to write a "square scene" or a "tringular scene" and the differing power
dynamics which occur organically shape character and dialogue.  she used
the technique extensively in Beatrice, which we are world premiereing in
LA the weekend after the conference..  


gary smoot can't be here but thinks the design challenge is a great
idea.  perhaps we pick a moment in a play which calls for high cheese.
we offer the challenge to everyone in attendance.  post it even through
the weekend.  you may only use found objects in creating the effect
(i.e. you have no budget)  sunday night at the chilicook off we showcase
the results.

michael kaliski, tabboo theatre will host the chili cookoff from his
beautiful hillside home.  shall we say 5 PM on sunday and catch the
sunset?

do we wanna do some sorta scavenger hunt that takes folks through a
variety of RATty LA theatres?  

shall we have an evening of bizarre bar jokes/circus tricks/auditory
impressions -- everyone must come up with one theatrical thing that they
"do" and we string them together into a show.

i am more and more interested in the matthew bourne, robert wilson, ruth
margraff mixed genre performance.  i wanna make a contemporary operetta
about white supremacist encampments and the wackie hippies who keep em
honest (with all non singers of course)  how could we shape a workshop
around the art/dance/opera/theatre fusion thang?  

chris jeffries, would you be into that?

matthew