So it's been quite a while since we have updated this Blog. But here are a few updates. Big Love (later re-titled You Don't Own Me - a 60's Rock Musical) went extremely well and played to an outdoor crowd of nearly 300. Thank you to all involved for this fantastic and fun show!
Since then, we also produced our 2nd annual 24-hour Theatre Festival to rave reviews. If you are interested in the scripts, please E-mail me.
This coming spring, we will be producing one more show before moving the company out of Idaho. Stay tuned...
Friday, November 25, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Cast List
Big Love - A Small Musical Cast List
Lydia - Amber Wagner
Thyona - Kylie Montee
Olympia - Emily Volf
Bella - Lindsay Teter
Female Greek Chorus - Laura Wickman and Jacque Brown
Nikos - David Otterstrom
Constantine - Nich Witham
Oed - Michael Smith
Piero - Patrick Mulligan
Giuliano - Shane Brown
Male Greek Chorus - Kyle Rustebakke and Jordan Hensley
Thank you for auditioning!!! The first rehearsal will be Monday at 7:00 on the outdoor stage. Please try to read the script before the first rehearsal. We will have an edited new script for you with music on Monday, but we will not be doing a traditional read through at the beginning of next week, so it will help if you have read the script. See you Monday! E-mail me if you have questions.
Zacurtis@gmail.com
Lydia - Amber Wagner
Thyona - Kylie Montee
Olympia - Emily Volf
Bella - Lindsay Teter
Female Greek Chorus - Laura Wickman and Jacque Brown
Nikos - David Otterstrom
Constantine - Nich Witham
Oed - Michael Smith
Piero - Patrick Mulligan
Giuliano - Shane Brown
Male Greek Chorus - Kyle Rustebakke and Jordan Hensley
Thank you for auditioning!!! The first rehearsal will be Monday at 7:00 on the outdoor stage. Please try to read the script before the first rehearsal. We will have an edited new script for you with music on Monday, but we will not be doing a traditional read through at the beginning of next week, so it will help if you have read the script. See you Monday! E-mail me if you have questions.
Zacurtis@gmail.com
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Auditions for Big Love by Charles Mee
Auditions: June 9th from 6:30 to 9:00pm
Callbacks: June 10th 6:30-9:00pm
Performance is tentatively set for August 5, 6, 12, and 13 in the Hartung outdoor stage.
Where: Auditions will be held in the outdoor stage outside the Hartung theatre on the University of Idaho campus.
E-mail us at leftofcivilizationtheatre@gmail.com to secure an audition time. Just let us know what time you are available to audition, and we will promptly E-mail you back with available time slots.
Audition requirements: Please present:
Click here to see the script
Below, you will find the audition sides:
Callbacks: June 10th 6:30-9:00pm
Performance is tentatively set for August 5, 6, 12, and 13 in the Hartung outdoor stage.
Where: Auditions will be held in the outdoor stage outside the Hartung theatre on the University of Idaho campus.
E-mail us at leftofcivilizationtheatre@gmail.com to secure an audition time. Just let us know what time you are available to audition, and we will promptly E-mail you back with available time slots.
Audition requirements: Please present:
- One monologue from the show. Remember, this is a modernized Greek play and will be performed in an outdoor space. Play with style and size, but maintain a level of honesty. Memorized would be great, but this is certainly not a requirement. Just be familiar with the text and show us what you can do.
- 16 bars of music (acapella)- This show will be heavily movement and singing based.
- There will be a brief dance/movement portion of the callbacks
Click here to see the script
Below, you will find the audition sides:
CONSTANTINEWhat do you think?
You think you live in a world nowadays where
you can throw out a promise
just because you don't feel like keeping it?
Just because
drugs are rife
gambling is legal
medicine is euthanasia
birth is abortion
homosexuality is the norm
pornography is piped into everybody’s home on the internet
now you think you can do whatever you want
whenever you want to do it
no matter what the law might say?
You think you live in a world nowadays where
you can throw out a promise
just because you don't feel like keeping it?
Just because
drugs are rife
gambling is legal
medicine is euthanasia
birth is abortion
homosexuality is the norm
pornography is piped into everybody’s home on the internet
now you think you can do whatever you want
whenever you want to do it
no matter what the law might say?
I don’t accept that.
Sometimes I like to lie down at night
with my arms around someone
and KNOW she is there for me
know this gives her pleasure--
my arms around her
her back to me
my stomach pressed against her back
my face buried in her hair
one hand on her stomach
feeling at peace.
with my arms around someone
and KNOW she is there for me
know this gives her pleasure--
my arms around her
her back to me
my stomach pressed against her back
my face buried in her hair
one hand on her stomach
feeling at peace.
That’s my plan
to have that.
I’ll have my bride.
If I have to have her arms tied behind her back
and dragged to me
I’ll have her back.
to have that.
I’ll have my bride.
If I have to have her arms tied behind her back
and dragged to me
I’ll have her back.
What is it you women want
you want to be strung up with hoods and gags and blindfolds
stretched out on a board with weights on your chest
you want me to sew your legs to the bed
and pour gasoline on you
and light you on fire
is that what I have to do to keep you?
you want to be strung up with hoods and gags and blindfolds
stretched out on a board with weights on your chest
you want me to sew your legs to the bed
and pour gasoline on you
and light you on fire
is that what I have to do to keep you?
NIKOS
I talk too much.
I’m sorry.
I do that sometimes.
I wish I didn’t.
But I get started on a sentence,
and that leads to another sentence,
and then, the first thing I know,
I’m just trying to work it through,
the logic of it,
follow it through to the end
because I think,
if I stop,
or if I don’t get through to the end
before someone interrupts me
they won’t understand what I’m saying
and what I’m saying isn’t necessarily wrong—
it might be, but not necessarily,
and if it is, I’ll be glad to be corrected,
or change my mind—
but if I get stopped along the way
I get confused
I don’t remember where I was
or how to get back to the end of what I was saying.
And I think sometimes I scare people
because of it
they think I’m so, like determined
just barging ahead—
not really a sensitive person,
whereas, in truth,
I am.
I talk too much.
I’m sorry.
I do that sometimes.
I wish I didn’t.
But I get started on a sentence,
and that leads to another sentence,
and then, the first thing I know,
I’m just trying to work it through,
the logic of it,
follow it through to the end
because I think,
if I stop,
or if I don’t get through to the end
before someone interrupts me
they won’t understand what I’m saying
and what I’m saying isn’t necessarily wrong—
it might be, but not necessarily,
and if it is, I’ll be glad to be corrected,
or change my mind—
but if I get stopped along the way
I get confused
I don’t remember where I was
or how to get back to the end of what I was saying.
And I think sometimes I scare people
because of it
they think I’m so, like determined
just barging ahead—
not really a sensitive person,
whereas, in truth,
I am.
LYDIA
You know, everything you say may be right, Thyona
but I have to ask myself,
if it is
then why don’t I feel good about it?
I have to somehow go on my gut instincts
because sometimes
you can convince yourself in your mind
about the rightness of a thing
and you try to find fault with your reasoning
but you can’t
because
no matter how you turn it over in your mind
it comes out right
and so you think:
I know it’s right but I don’t think it is
or I think it’s right but I know it isn’t
and you could end up thinking
you’re just a moron
or some sort of deficient sort of thing
but really there are some things
when you want to know the truth of them
you have to use not just your mind or even your mind and your feelings
but your neurons or your cells or whatever
to make some decisions
because they are too complicated
they need to be considered in some larger way
and in the largest way of all
I know I have to go with my whole being
when it says I love him and he loves me
and nothing else matters
even if other things do matter even quite a lot
even if I’m doing this in the midst of everyone getting killed
I can’t help myself
and I don’t think I should.
Probably this is how people end up marrying Nazis
but I can’t help it.
You know, everything you say may be right, Thyona
but I have to ask myself,
if it is
then why don’t I feel good about it?
I have to somehow go on my gut instincts
because sometimes
you can convince yourself in your mind
about the rightness of a thing
and you try to find fault with your reasoning
but you can’t
because
no matter how you turn it over in your mind
it comes out right
and so you think:
I know it’s right but I don’t think it is
or I think it’s right but I know it isn’t
and you could end up thinking
you’re just a moron
or some sort of deficient sort of thing
but really there are some things
when you want to know the truth of them
you have to use not just your mind or even your mind and your feelings
but your neurons or your cells or whatever
to make some decisions
because they are too complicated
they need to be considered in some larger way
and in the largest way of all
I know I have to go with my whole being
when it says I love him and he loves me
and nothing else matters
even if other things do matter even quite a lot
even if I’m doing this in the midst of everyone getting killed
I can’t help myself
and I don’t think I should.
Probably this is how people end up marrying Nazis
but I can’t help it.
BELLA
That’s enough now.
That’s enough.
I’m ready with my verdict.
This is what I have to say.
[silence]
You did a dreadful thing, you women, when you killed these men.
What could be worse than to take another’s life?
And yet,
you came to us,
to my family and to me,
to help you, and we failed you.
We share the blame with you.
What else could you have done?
You women made your own laws because you had no others to protect you.
This was your social contract.
And Lydia, in her betrayal of your pact,
imperilled all of you.
I understand what you say.
And yet,
you can’t condemn your sister.
No matter what.
She chose love.
She reached out
she found another person --
and she embraced him.
She couldn’t know
when she did
whether all the hopes of her childhood for true love and tenderness
for a soulmate for all her life
were destined for disillusion.
Still, she reached out.
And, if we cannot embrace another
what hope do we have of life?
What hope is there to survive at all?
This is why: love trumps all.
Love is the highest law.
It can be bound by no other.
Love of another human being --
man or woman --
it cannot be wrong.
Does this mean every woman must get married?
Not at all.
A woman might want another woman;
sometimes a man prefers a man.
But to love:
this cannot be wrong.
So Lydia: she cannot be condemned.
And that’s the end of it.
And as for you,
there will be no punishment for you either,
even though you may have done wrong,
there will be no justice.
For the sake of healing
for life to go on
there will be no justice.
Now, Piero, it will be your job
to keep all this out of the hands of courts and judges.
That much you can do.
And now,
you girls,
alone in the world,
what will you do?
I have to tell you, I wish you would stay on here with me.
I would take you in and care for you
as my own daughters.
That would make me happy.
That’s enough now.
That’s enough.
I’m ready with my verdict.
This is what I have to say.
[silence]
You did a dreadful thing, you women, when you killed these men.
What could be worse than to take another’s life?
And yet,
you came to us,
to my family and to me,
to help you, and we failed you.
We share the blame with you.
What else could you have done?
You women made your own laws because you had no others to protect you.
This was your social contract.
And Lydia, in her betrayal of your pact,
imperilled all of you.
I understand what you say.
And yet,
you can’t condemn your sister.
No matter what.
She chose love.
She reached out
she found another person --
and she embraced him.
She couldn’t know
when she did
whether all the hopes of her childhood for true love and tenderness
for a soulmate for all her life
were destined for disillusion.
Still, she reached out.
And, if we cannot embrace another
what hope do we have of life?
What hope is there to survive at all?
This is why: love trumps all.
Love is the highest law.
It can be bound by no other.
Love of another human being --
man or woman --
it cannot be wrong.
Does this mean every woman must get married?
Not at all.
A woman might want another woman;
sometimes a man prefers a man.
But to love:
this cannot be wrong.
So Lydia: she cannot be condemned.
And that’s the end of it.
And as for you,
there will be no punishment for you either,
even though you may have done wrong,
there will be no justice.
For the sake of healing
for life to go on
there will be no justice.
Now, Piero, it will be your job
to keep all this out of the hands of courts and judges.
That much you can do.
And now,
you girls,
alone in the world,
what will you do?
I have to tell you, I wish you would stay on here with me.
I would take you in and care for you
as my own daughters.
That would make me happy.
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