FIRST DRAMA MEETING O' THE YEAR!

So pass the word on to all interested parties...

We'll be having our first meeting of the year on Wednesday and Thursday, August 13th and 14th on the Nokomis stage - (presumably, if it isn't being waxed or on fire or something...) - to talk about what we want to accomplish in the coming season and read some plays for possible production.

Plays we'll be reading:
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH.

See you there.

Another Possible Script (Spring Play?) found by Sarah M. Please comment...

If there is interest in this, I will order a reading copy. So please comment:

By Tim Kelly Cast: Flexible cast of 30 (roughly 15M, 15F), doubling possible Set: Three simple sets Time: About 2 hours

Synopsis: The cheapest airline in world history is Go Bananas Airline, so wretched that even the Bermuda Triangle rejects its planes. The first act introduces us to a bevy of lovely stewardesses whose boss, Smiling Jack Pott, is using the flight as their "final exam." A movie producer will do almost anything to stop his leading lady from boarding the flight, and the incredible Dragbottom family is concerned that someone has been making bombs in their cellar. Toss into this unlikely group of people a guy who thinks he's Superman, an eccentric billionaire, a rock star, hijackers, incense-selling mystics and a dancer with three feet. Then it's "all aboard" for these and a large assortment of additional oddball characters for an insane flight through a terrible storm. No radar, no navigator and the pilot sold his compass at a garage sale thinking it was an egg timer. The control tower is bedlam, but eventually the flying tin can is brought safely to solid ground, except for the movie star who lands via parachute in a chicken farm. About the author: Tim Kelly's first stage play, Widow's Walk, was published in the 1960's, at the same time his A Darker Flower opened at New York's Pocket Theatre, The Trunk and All That Jazz at Boston's Image Theatre, and Die Blum in Germany. Since then, he has kept up a steady flow of amazingly diverse work ... having well over 300 plays currently in print—and in continuous production.

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH

The Skin of Our Teeth is a play by Thornton Wilder which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Act one is an amalgam of early 20th century New Jersey and the dawn of the Ice Age. The father is inventing things such as the lever, the wheel, the alphabet, and multiplication tables. The family (the Antrobuses) and the entire north-eastern U.S. face extinction by a wall of ice moving southward from Canada. The story is introduced by a narrator and further expanded by the family maid, Sabina. There are unsettling parallels between the members of the Antrobus family and various characters from the Bible. In addition, time is compressed and scrambled to such an extent that the refugees who arrive at the Antrobus house seeking food and fire include the Old Testament judge Moses, the ancient Greek poet Homer, and women who are identified as Muses.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skin_of_Our_Teeth

SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR

I've started my read of this play and I'm pretty excited about its potential for our Fall play. I read about a theater program that adapted the language and references to work with their program and to be/sound more modern. It would be a lot of fun to work on this one and there's room for improv., etc.

Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) is the most famous and celebrated play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Characters_in_Search_of_an_Author

The play begins with an acting company reluctantly preparing to rehearse a play, incidentally one of Pirandello's own, Mixing It Up (Il Gioco delle Parti). As the rehearsal is about to begin the play is unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of six strange people. The Manager of the play, furious at the interruption, demands an explanation. The Father reveals themselves as unfinished characters in search of an author to finish their story. The Manager initially believes them to be mad, but as they begin to argue amongst themselves and reveal details of their story he begins to listen. While he isn't an author, the Manager agrees to stage their story despite the disbelief amongst the jeering actors.

RHINOCEROS by Eugene Ionesco

I've been considering a play called Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco since our first year together, and I was excited to see a high school in Florida had done quite well with it. The play IS two and a half hours long, 3 acts, although it is something that could be cut for time. There are a lot of parts and its funny, weird, original, and about conformity.

Read about the past production of The Paladin Players

http://www.fott.org/Rhino/Rhinoceros.html

Read about the play on wikipedia at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_(play)