48 Theatre Festival

Okay. We've got a lot to catch you up on. This being said, I'm going to try to write less. Our last post was about my birthday, and that was over two months ago. Sooo... We'll make this, as well as the next several posts, more picture heavy than text heavy. Happy viewing!

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I think it was back in June, maybe July. Well, I was in a 48 hour theatre festival at The Idiom. I've participated in similar fests back in Eau Claire, and they've always been a blast. This one was no exception. For those of you who aren't familiar with the idea of a 48 hour (or often times a 24 hour) theatre festival, this is how it works: A bunch of people sign up, some of them will write, some will direct, and others will act. On, say, a Friday night at 8pm, the writers are assigned a "theme" and a few actors. Each writer then has 12 hours to write his/her play. At 8am on Saturday morning, the writers hand their plays over to the directors. The directors and actors then have 12 hours to rehearse and put a performance together. The plays are then performed for the public at 8pm on Saturday. Basically, an idea goes from pen to stage in 24 hours. In a 48 hour fest, like this one was, the process happens twice. In this case, the fest kicked off at 8pm on a Thursday and finished off on Saturday night. I only participated in the second half of the fest, since I had to work on Friday.

After the kick-off on Thursday (assigning of the theme and teams), a handful of us went to get some eats and some "Big Mama" margaritas.

Gina and Brandice

Mike M. and Jazz

The show I was in was written by my friend Ben and was directed by Jazz (above). Ben wrote this fun film noir show, and I got to play a femme fatale character. It was pretty awesome!

I look pretty bad ass with that gun, eh? Don't mess with me.

Okay... I'm going to upload some more pics now and see if I can't catch y'all up on some more of the fun we've been having this summer.