RE: RAT yer thoughts?

[leewochner@movingarts.org (Lee Wochner)]

Set up carpooling for those who can't rent (or drive) a car.


At 5:10 PM 6/24/99, Sylvain, John wrote:
>Ya know... if you don't have a car in L.A. yer kinda screwed. What r we
>gonna do about that?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Matt Bretz [SMTP:mabretz@cbomedia.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 5:22 PM
>> To:   R.A.T. z
>> Subject:      RAT yer thoughts?
>>
>> 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

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