Category: proposal

Don’t dream it, be-e it…some short performances around the question of how to stage the Rocky Horror (Picture) Show

Posted on by Marc Honea

You can do the script (which I’ve never read) and let it inspire your decisions. But how can you be free from the film version? How could you be free from the film if you decided to do The Sound of Music?

RHPS is an interesting case since the fans tend to know every frame of the movie. And part of being a fan is being able to stage perfect lip-syncable facsimiles which run in tandem with the screen action. Any fan, therefore, could direct a great production if reproducing the film is the goal. And as a goal, why not?

Can you do an updated version? Continue reading “Don’t dream it, be-e it…some short performances around the question of how to stage the Rocky Horror (Picture) Show”

Some organizational suggestions

Posted on by Marc Honea

Dear Fellow Company Members,

There. That was easy. Say it and it’s so. Now we’re a company. I propose we meet and talk about how best to bestow our gifts on the Newnan-Coweta theatre scene.

The only really insanely ambitious part of this would be the first meeting since it would be best for all interested parties to attend and there is no such thing as a perfect time.

Here’s my suggestion about how this first meeting might work. The how is easier to think about than the when: Continue reading “Some organizational suggestions”

What I think this group should be and do

Posted on by Dale

I think this group should be a collaborative study group:

  • We should meet on a regular basis, with an agenda for each meeting that we’ve agreed on beforehand.
  • This agenda might have a focus on a particular acting exercise, or scene work, or discussion, or improv, or acting style, or vocal work, or any combination of the above.
  • Every member of the group can propose an agenda. All proposals are equal: like Marc says, we can vote on what we want to do next, and we can take our time about getting around to everything on our list.
  • Membership of the group should be porous, especially if we use space at the Newnan Theatre Company. Members of the group should feel free to audition and perform with NTC’s regular season, and regular NTC members should feel free to join us. No pressure, and no rivalry.
  • We should try to perform something once a quarter. Once a year, it should probably be something as big as Mame and performed in Wadsworth Auditorium.

Discuss.