Tag: experimental theatre
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Successfully Built Dictator 2.0
Last night ended another show. We had two successful showings of HOW TO BUILD A DICTATOR 2.0. It was loads of fun and had two great, responsive audiences. The premise of the show is a political rally where people show up to nominate THE ONE for world leader. I can’t get into the gist of…
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How to Build a Dictator 2.0
Two years ago I debuted an experimental theatre piece of mine entitled “How to Build a Dictator.” It was directed by my talented former student and theatre wizard Ysabel Loh and it was part of the Penang Performing Arts Centre Black Box Experiments series. It was tremendously fun to put on. We had a great…
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Photos from the Show
Thanks to Jonathan Steffen for these shots from dress rehearsal for “How to Build a Dictator.” We had 23 students for our dress rehearsal as opposed to 142 for the real show. But they were a lively bunch. I had a blast getting on stage and acting for one of my first times ever. Here’s…
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Tonight: “How to Build a Dictator” – Black Box Experiments
I’m very pleased to have my script “How to Build a Dictator” be part of penangpac’s Black Box Experiments Series for 2016. It’s a unique, audience participation piece which I can’t tell you much about because it’s meant to be experienced, not talked about. It’s not even meant to watched on video. Someone asked if…
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Black Box Experimental is Coming! And I’m Acting!
We, my crazy drama group, had our first rehearsal this morning for our experimental black-box piece which is coming to the Penang Performing Arts Centre for 1 night only on September 6. There are two earth-shattering things (for me) which make this very different. First off, even though I wrote it, I’m not directing it.…
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Black Box Experimental Theatre: Coming Soon!
An experimental, audience participation script that I wrote over Christmas has been chosen for production at the Penang Performing Arts Centre on September 6 as part of their Black Box Experimental series. I’ve hired my super-talented, former actress Yzzy Loh to direct the piece, and she came up with the first graphic poster for the…
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Our Annual Readers’ Theatre
One of the major units of my Intro to Theatre Arts class is a readers’ theatre which the entire class has to produce. The script doesn’t need to be memorized, but the story needs to “pop” on stage as if it is memorized. A staged reading might be a synonym for what we do. We…
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Theatre Review: Slow Sound of Snow
I was able to catch the Iranian drama troupe perform the experimental dramatic piece “Slow Sound of Snow” as part of the 2016 Georgetown Festival. The story (if you call it that) takes place in a small shack with a slanted floor, huddled underneath a treacherous mountain cliff which is in danger of producing an…
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Is Fictional Storytelling being Diminished in Theatre?
I enjoyed reading THIS opinion piece on fictional storytelling and verbatim theatre. Honestly, I know very little about verbatim theatre and have not had an opportunity to see any verbatim shows up to this point. What is ‘verbatim theatre’ you might ask? It’s theatre which uses the real words of people who have been interviewed. Actors…
Author Mark W Sasse 