Theatregasm III

Just so everyone knows…

We are currently accepting submissions for Theatregasm III!!!

Theatregasm is T’dA’s annual experimental theatre festival. For this event we showcase new and original plays produced, written and acted by you! We even occasionally do something not original provided we can do so legally and probably free. For the past 2 years, Theatregasm has been met very favorably by all of our audience members. This year Theatregasm runs on August 14th, 15th, 16th & August 21st, 22nd, and 23rd. Show times are at 8pm as per usual.

If you are interested in submitting a play for Theatregasm, email your submission to us according to the guidelines below, prior to the deadline. If you have any questions, please direct them to info@theatredart.org and we will address them promptly. We will select after the deadline.

The deadline is: Wednesday, July 15th. This is not very long from now!

If you are so inclined, send us you submission to info@theatredart.org.

With the submission, include the following:

1. A summary of the play: what it is about, why you want to do it and why we should want to see it on stage.

2. A copy of the script for the show(assuming there is one)

3. A list of needs, such as actors, set requirements and technical needs.

4. how you intend to accomplish this play without us giving you any money…(unfortunately we cannot assist you financially with your play, you are responsible for coming up with whatever elements of the play you need. We will help you with lights, sound, and a minimal amount of stage stuff, but as for the rest, you should plan on doing a show that doesn’t require much and can be made for cheap or free)

ALSO, as stated above we are only able to help you so much with the play you do, (assuming it is selected). Generally the plays we select are around ten minutes or less and don’t require much in the way of props and so forth. We can assist in finding actors for you. Once we have selected the shows, there will be an open audition that directors are encouraged to attend to help them find actors for their play. This audition does not yet have a firm date but IT WILL BE IN JULY, stay tunned for more details. I hope that covers it all… TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

T’dA Appreciation BBQ Stuff & T-shirts!

This is a quick shout out to all of you cool people who came to the T’dA appreciation BBQ on Saturday the 20th of June.  We all had a terrific time eating hamburgers and supplying you all with entertainment in the form of fake pies being thrown into a variety of peoples faces.

Furthermore I wanted to point out that we still have a good stock pile of NEW T’dA T-shirts available.  The kind that are hand made with love and spray paint. They are for sale for $10 though we do not have a good way of selling them online for the moment but if you are interested in purchasing one, email us at info@theatredart.org and tell us you want one. We’ll get it to you, promise.

We are in the process of getting some nicer (aka professionally made) t-shirts and those should be available when our season opens August 14th.  Check the other blog for more info on our season and stuff.

Also, for those of you who came by, you may have noticed some swanky posters  hanging on our walls.  Those posters are part of our summer awareness/advertising campaign and you may see them hanging around town in the weeks to come.

Thats it for this blog… onto the next!!!

BDS Pictures Up!

We finally got around to getting photos of The Billion Dollar Snatch on our flickr photostream, destroying the potential for several in the cast to ever run for public office.  Check it out under Season 2 on our pictures page.

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“R.U.R.” Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
24 March 2009                                                                                        Contact: Brian Mann
Artistic Director
(719)216-2867 Brian@theatredart.org

Theatre ‘d Art Presents
“R.U.R.”  (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

From April 3rd through the 19th THEATRE ‘D ART presents Karel Capek’s “R.U.R.”  This classic play explores a future where robots are manufactured and sold around the world to replace the workers as cheap labor. This production will be performed at The Osborne Studio Theater on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 8:00pm. The Osborne Studio Theater is located on the second floor of UCCS’ University Hall at the corner of Union and Austin Bluffs. Tickets will be $10 for general admission, $5 for students with a valid ID and free for UCCS students.

“R.U.R.”  is the third and final play in THEATRE ‘D ART’s season of exploitation.  This play examines a more abstract dimension of exploitation: the human exploitation of machines and technology.  The robots of “R.U.R.” have no soul, are not capable of original thought and do not know how to love. They are, however, stronger and more intelligent than any human alive.  They were designed and built to be like humans without actually being human themselves. Thus they are capable of great work and are far more efficient and cheaper than a human.  The humans of this imagined future world, exploit these robots for their own use and are destined to face the consequences of that choice. As the humans continue to develop the robots to make them more perfect, the robots learn how inferior the humans are and begin to take over.

“Rossum’s Universal Robot’s” originally premiered in 1921 in Prague and is famous for introducing the word “robot” into the English language.  Karel Capek wrote the play on the heels of World War I with grim knowledge of how horrifying and effective technology can be when used for the purpose of killing.  This helped lead to his pessimistic view of how technology can destroy human life if it goes unchecked.  This topic resonates greatly today in our technology infused world.  Now more than ever we are saturated with internet, television, cell phones and a million other devices that in many ways rule over our lives already. Director Angie Kinnett goes one step further and asks: “Man needs technology to live comfortably in their everyday lives, but does technology need man? Or will it continue to serve its functions long after humans are not around to use it? Do we rule over technology or does technology rule over us?”  Watch “R.U.R.” to watch one potential outcome of a world transformed by technology that we humans originally intended to exploit for our own purposes.

THEATRE ‘D ART was voted Colorado Springs’ best new theater company in 2008 by the Gazette. We specialize in experimental, absurdist and avant-garde theatre–theatre you won’t see anywhere else in Colorado Springs. Founded by Jonathan Margheim and Brian Mann, we can be contacted through email at info@theatredart.org, through our Myspace page at www.Myspace.com/theatredart, or you can visit us at our website www.theatredart.org.

Directing Proposals for 2009-2010 Season

Hey folks, just wanted to alert everyone that we are beginning to put together our season for 2009-2010.  As such we are currently accepting submissions of directing proposals from interested and qualified folks.  If you wish to submit a proposal to direct a play for our next season, please include the following:

1. A detailed description and/or synopsis of the play you want to direct

2. A description of why you want to direct this play and why it should be included in Theatre ‘d Art’s season and not some other theater company’s season

3. How you would accomplish this play with a limited budget (think around $500)

4. What challenges this play would pose and how you would meet them.

ALSO

We only accept submission from people who are qualified and have directed something for stage before so include a resume or CV

AND

We are a volunteer theater company, please understand that this is not a paying position we are seeking. If we select your submission, you unfortunately won’t be paid.

THE DEADLINE IS: Monday April 13th

Please send submissions to info@theatredart.org

Furthermore, keep in mind that Theatregasm III is coming up soon too.  If you want to see something of your go on stage but in a smaller fashion than a full blown play, consider submitting something for that too. More info about this is to come later…

That’s all!

Billion Dollar Snatch Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

01/21/2009                                                                                        Greg Reilly, Marketing Director

                                                                                                          (719) 264-9476, greg@theatredart.org

 

 

 

 

THEATRE ‘D ART PRESENTS

“The Billion Dollar Snatch”

 

From February 6th  to February 22nd, THEATRE ‘D ART brings the exploits of the incredible Rod Damon to the stage in “The Billion Dollar Snatch.” Director Brian Mann’s adaptation of Troy Conway’s 1968 novel attempts to ask: “what is the difference between sex and love?” Can you have one without the other? … The production will be performed on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays and will begin at 8:00 p.m. The Osborne Studio Theater is located at 3955 Cragwood Drive, near the corner of Union and Austin Bluffs. Tickets will be $10 for general admission, $5 for students with a valid ID, and absolutely FREE for UCCS students. Reservations can be made by calling (719) 264-9476.

 

When 28 VIPs from all around the world go missing, and a billion dollars is stolen from a Roman warehouse, it’s up to the Coxemen and their newest recruit Rod Damon(creator of the League for Sexual Dynamics and world famous sexologist [Hossein Forouzandeh]) to rescue the VIPs and recover the gold. The only lead is a man named Lucciano Facciato [Jeff Keele], who may have a connection with the stolen gold, and an insatiable nymphomaniac Mala Nerona [Trisha Gillin] who runs the Roman pensione, The Settebelle, where many of the VIPs vanished. Along the way Rod encounters a number of interesting characters, such as the “eccentric” George Plickens [Mike Lee], administrator of the US Embassy in Rome. But why were the VIPs kidnapped? How is that related to the Billion Dollar Snatch?

This play is the second in our season of “exploitation” as it offers an exploration in how sex is exploited for theatrical purposes. Can Rod Damon ever love someone or is he in it just for the “research?” Is it possible to love someone and not have sex with them, and is it possible to have sex and not love other people?

 

THEATRE ‘D ART was voted  Colorado Springs’ best new theater company in 2008 by the Gazette. We specialize in experimental, absurdist and avant-garde theatre–theatre you won’t see anywhere else in Colorado Springs. Founded by Jonathan Margheim and Brian Mann, we can be contacted through email at info@theatredart.org, through our Myspace page at www.Myspace.com/theatredart, or you can visit us at our website www.theatredart.org.

BDS Short #1

Billion Dollar Snatch is just around the corner, opening February 6th, and to introduce you to the characters, we’re releasing a few short films, written by Brian Mann, and directed by Elijah Atkins.

Enjoy “Lupo and Gatto Go To the Movies”

Grand Guignol Pictures!

Grand Guignol 

Head to our pictures page right now to see more!

TdA website redesign in progress…

So I’m guessing most of you probably haven’t been here in awhile.  Or maybe ever.  And that’s prolly cuz our website wasn’t really all that great.  I’ve spent the past several days working on simplifying the design, making information easier to get to, and adding some new features.

-We have a flickr account with photos of our shows in them, i’m looking into ways of actually streaming those photos to our website, so you don’t have to go to flickr to check out our pictures.  it’s not quite done yet, but hopefully soon.

-SMS Messaging!  Zoot!  This is a really cool feature that I’m gonna encourage everyone to sign up for, and promise to use as much as possible.  Register your cell phone number on the little sidebar thingy there and we’ll send you mass texts whenever there’s breaking TdA news.  It’ll be swell.  Do it.

-I’m still playing with the visual style of the site, there’s a few layout snafus I’m working on fixing, but seeing as how I’m pretty much teaching myself this crap as I go, I’m pretty proud.

So, now, what you can do to help me.  Look through the site, check out some of the old posts you may have missed.  Is navigation simple?  Does everything work?  Is there a feature you wish we had?  Is it ugly?  Leave a comment and tell me what you think…

Theatre ‘d Art photos now available on the web!

Boys and girls, we now have a flickr photostream.

Check it out, we have pretty much every show up through last season.

Grand Guignol pics should be up soon