"In no time we should have the most exciting theatre in the world.” - Robert Edmond Jones

Day 44

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/28/theater/20090728_NIGHT_SLIDESHOW_index.html?scp=97&sq=theater&st=m

Another geeky, NY Times article moment. I found this slideshow randomly while I was just surfing the site. It's about this show that was basically staged in the middle of a street. The audience members were in their cars and were given headphones or a radio station to be able to listen to what the actors were saying. How amazingly awesome is that???

I've been milling around the idea of doing something like that for a while now. Last summer, when I thought that I was going to be in Midland for the break, I thought about doing an outdoor show. My idea was to do "A Zoo Story" in an actual park. I love the idea of placing shows in the place that they are really set. I would kill to do "Midsummer Night's Dream" in a park with a bunch of trees and bushes and stuff. Or the Norman Conquests with "Round and Round the Garden" in a garden. I just would love to do a different type of theatrical experience for the theatre going audience. Maybe that's why I'm so into doing the whole Catalogue thing. I want to do something un-ordinary.

Maybe my senior year I can take on a project like that. I think I'm a fairly good director, but of course still learning. Doing something like this would be very interesting and different. I may put this in the back of my mind for a while until I have some time to do it.