Breaking Ground
2007 is set to be an exciting year for this year's Theatre on the Edge festival.
"We're so lucky that for TotE, the only criterion is that the productions be interesting!" says SJTC: Second Stage planning committee member, Lisa Flower. The only real guideline the festival follows is that each project be edgy, quirky, or unusual in some way.
With this as their stepping stone, planners have come up with a great line up for this summer.
The festival will be kicking off with "The Armando and The MP3 Project." Working in conjunction with Improvisation Corporation, Saint John's popular improv troupe, the evening will kick off with a new type of improv called "Armando." The second part of the evening is the experiment itself.
"The goal of The Mp3 Experiment is to give our audience something to smile about. Audience members will be asked to download an Mp3 file in advance, transfer it to their portable Mp3 players, and bring it with them to the performance space," says coordinator Scott Thomas. "At one point, everyone will put on their MP3 players and press play at the same time - then the experiment begins."
TotE is also collaborating with Port City Rainbow Pride on a unique and moving theatrical piece called "Out on the Edge." coordinator/director Jay Rawding has been working with the Pride folks to collect true stories about the gay/lesbian/transgender community here is Saint John. Woven together with the help of the authors as well as the actors and actresses performing in the production, these stories will be told to our audiences.
This an exciting project in its own right. A Tuesday and Friday night performance of "Out of the Edge" will be included in the $30 festival pass. A special Sunday performance will act both as a closing for TotE as well as the kick off for Saint John's Pride Week.
Free dramatic readings are also part of this year's schedule. First on the schedule will be Edward Albee's "The Goat: Or who is Sylvia", followed by Neil LeBute's "Fat Pig" the next night. "These are excellent scripts," says Flower, who will be facilitating one of the readings. "The Goat" is one of my favorite scripts, and I can't wait to share it!
Of course, TotE would not be the same without its trademark Evening of One Act Plays. This year, the festival is offering "Driver's Side Airbag," by Steven Schutzman, "The Polite Bandit," by Willie Marcus and "Impromptu," by Tad Mosel. "There is definitely something for everyone in these three," says Flower with a smile.
Theatre on the Edge will be bringing back the popular "Winging It! An Evening of Mayhem" as its grand finale. At the Friday night performance of the one act plays, participants will be put into teams, given an object and a line of dialogue from the audience. The teams then have 24 hours to write, rehearse, gather props and costumes, and they put it on for a paying audience at 8 pm the following night. "I'm absolutely doing it again this year," says Anthony Stuart, a member of last year's winning team "Bull Script. "It was a blast!"
Wingin' It! Team "The Wingnuts"
Registration forms for "Winging It!" will be available online or at the SJTC office, 3rd level Brunswick Square shortly. Tickets and festival passes are soon to be available as well.
"You don't want to miss it!" says Flower.
"We're so lucky that for TotE, the only criterion is that the productions be interesting!" says SJTC: Second Stage planning committee member, Lisa Flower. The only real guideline the festival follows is that each project be edgy, quirky, or unusual in some way.
With this as their stepping stone, planners have come up with a great line up for this summer.
The festival will be kicking off with "The Armando and The MP3 Project." Working in conjunction with Improvisation Corporation, Saint John's popular improv troupe, the evening will kick off with a new type of improv called "Armando." The second part of the evening is the experiment itself.
"The goal of The Mp3 Experiment is to give our audience something to smile about. Audience members will be asked to download an Mp3 file in advance, transfer it to their portable Mp3 players, and bring it with them to the performance space," says coordinator Scott Thomas. "At one point, everyone will put on their MP3 players and press play at the same time - then the experiment begins."
TotE is also collaborating with Port City Rainbow Pride on a unique and moving theatrical piece called "Out on the Edge." coordinator/director Jay Rawding has been working with the Pride folks to collect true stories about the gay/lesbian/transgender community here is Saint John. Woven together with the help of the authors as well as the actors and actresses performing in the production, these stories will be told to our audiences.
This an exciting project in its own right. A Tuesday and Friday night performance of "Out of the Edge" will be included in the $30 festival pass. A special Sunday performance will act both as a closing for TotE as well as the kick off for Saint John's Pride Week.
Free dramatic readings are also part of this year's schedule. First on the schedule will be Edward Albee's "The Goat: Or who is Sylvia", followed by Neil LeBute's "Fat Pig" the next night. "These are excellent scripts," says Flower, who will be facilitating one of the readings. "The Goat" is one of my favorite scripts, and I can't wait to share it!
Of course, TotE would not be the same without its trademark Evening of One Act Plays. This year, the festival is offering "Driver's Side Airbag," by Steven Schutzman, "The Polite Bandit," by Willie Marcus and "Impromptu," by Tad Mosel. "There is definitely something for everyone in these three," says Flower with a smile.
Theatre on the Edge will be bringing back the popular "Winging It! An Evening of Mayhem" as its grand finale. At the Friday night performance of the one act plays, participants will be put into teams, given an object and a line of dialogue from the audience. The teams then have 24 hours to write, rehearse, gather props and costumes, and they put it on for a paying audience at 8 pm the following night. "I'm absolutely doing it again this year," says Anthony Stuart, a member of last year's winning team "Bull Script. "It was a blast!"
Wingin' It! Team "The Wingnuts"
Registration forms for "Winging It!" will be available online or at the SJTC office, 3rd level Brunswick Square shortly. Tickets and festival passes are soon to be available as well.
"You don't want to miss it!" says Flower.
Labels: Improv, Info, MP3 Experiment, One Act Plays, Play Readings, Special Events, Winging It
posted by Lisa at 10:27 AM
2 Comments:
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for writing about Theatre On The Edge but the title of my play isn't "passenger side air bag" but "driver's side air bag", a life and death distinction in the action of the play. My best, Steven Schutzman, playwright
My apologies Steven! I don't know how I missed that!
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