Any New News?
I’ll let David fill you in, but we’re still crossing everything we have two of that this thing can go up in August. Added bonus: Michael Slaymaker will be able to help us with publicity if we go with August. Since he is basically the lord and god of all things fund-raising and PR, I believe that everyone feels that he would be a boon to our production.
Throw that bone in and we’ll see what we get.
Soup.
On other subjects – Cathy’s “superhero” nudie logo for SOTR – OMG David, I almost forgot all about it. But now that we’ve cut the nightmare scene, I’m not sure it makes as much sense. It’s cool you still have it though.
And I have the original cast list of the workshop a couple years ago somewhere – when I find it I promise to publish it here.
Another inspiration moment that is in Sons. I remember back in my junior year in college, when the Persian Gulf War was going on and CNN had 24/7 coverage. It wasn’t the war that gave me nightmares, it was that damn theme song and logo they threw up (regurgitated) onto the television screen every 5 minutes! My small Iowa college had the giant projector screen in the Student Union perma-set to CNN. I wanted to scream because every time I walked through the main room, that damn theme song was playing and that damn logo was burning itself into my retinas.
I started to remember all the stuff about “mediated reality” that I had learned in Modern Media class. I grew angrier. I read 1984, and in there, Orwell describes the same sort of mediated brainwashing. I felt like I was being manipulated. I wanted to stuff my fingers in my ears and scream with my eyes shut every time I got wind of the media covering the “conflict.” Isn’t it sad that the media can kill any concern I should have had with their “Chinese Water Torture” method of “covering the news”?
I would love to get some techie involved who can really bring this ridiculousness to light in a very funny way in our play. Someone really impressive in the technical area like Seth Kubersky (director of Theatre Downtown's recent smash production of The Rocky Horror Show). I think whoever blesses us by being a technical director would really be allowed to be creative with the music and projection (I hope) and sound effects, but I think the Newscaster scenes would especially be a blast.
Another thing to put on our wish list, I guess.
Throw that bone in and we’ll see what we get.
Soup.
On other subjects – Cathy’s “superhero” nudie logo for SOTR – OMG David, I almost forgot all about it. But now that we’ve cut the nightmare scene, I’m not sure it makes as much sense. It’s cool you still have it though.
And I have the original cast list of the workshop a couple years ago somewhere – when I find it I promise to publish it here.
Another inspiration moment that is in Sons. I remember back in my junior year in college, when the Persian Gulf War was going on and CNN had 24/7 coverage. It wasn’t the war that gave me nightmares, it was that damn theme song and logo they threw up (regurgitated) onto the television screen every 5 minutes! My small Iowa college had the giant projector screen in the Student Union perma-set to CNN. I wanted to scream because every time I walked through the main room, that damn theme song was playing and that damn logo was burning itself into my retinas.
I started to remember all the stuff about “mediated reality” that I had learned in Modern Media class. I grew angrier. I read 1984, and in there, Orwell describes the same sort of mediated brainwashing. I felt like I was being manipulated. I wanted to stuff my fingers in my ears and scream with my eyes shut every time I got wind of the media covering the “conflict.” Isn’t it sad that the media can kill any concern I should have had with their “Chinese Water Torture” method of “covering the news”?
I would love to get some techie involved who can really bring this ridiculousness to light in a very funny way in our play. Someone really impressive in the technical area like Seth Kubersky (director of Theatre Downtown's recent smash production of The Rocky Horror Show). I think whoever blesses us by being a technical director would really be allowed to be creative with the music and projection (I hope) and sound effects, but I think the Newscaster scenes would especially be a blast.
Another thing to put on our wish list, I guess.
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