LFC Tryouts

From the president of your Lost Flamingo Company:

January 9 & 10
3rd Floor of Baker Center
7-9 pm

Prepare a short monologue, short story, poem or joke (does not have to be memorized).

Callbacks:
Jan. 12 - 13
During the day

Winter Break

As students head home -- or into hibernation -- for Winter break, my blogging will lull as does the theater in Athens. However, don't forget to see OVST's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (more on that later).

Also:

Athens High School Drama Club

Fall Production: The Nerd, by Larry Shue
November 16-18, 2007, 7:30 PM
AHS Auditorium
Admission $5, non-reserved.

Please feel free to comment -- I'll be checking up on the blog during break, and then will be back in January!

Happy Holidays!

<-- From me!

LFC in Review (in pictures!)

The Pillowman

So The Lost Flamingo Company is producing Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman. Already, members of the Athens' theater community have been whispering about the future production of this popular -- and dark, very dark -- play. Questions as to whether LFC can pull off the production have already been debated in corners of coffee shops and through pointed glances at mention of the play.

If one is not familiar with The Pillowman, I strongly suggest you read the play. Short and easy to read on the page, this bright orange play will haunt you. (Also, if you read it, I don't have to write a synopsis!)
Read a synopsis
Suffice to say, this play is very dark. It features creepy stories that involve child mutilation, one of which involves a child being crucified on-stage.

The range of viewpoints on the production of this play varies drastically. Some people are so very excited to see and/or get involved with the show. Others have proclaimed grandly that they refuse to see the production, afraid that it will not be produced properly.

What think you? Will LFC do this play justice? Should this show be performed at all in such an environment? Why or why can't this play be a success?

LFC Winter Shows

The Lost Flamingo Company announced its Winter shows the other day, to the excitement of many a theater fan. Come Winter quarter, LFC will be producing four shows:


The Vagina Monologues
Eve Ensler's is made up of a varying number of monologues read by a varying number of women. Every monologue somehow relates to the vagina, be it through sex, love, rape, menstruation, mutilation, masturbation, birth, orgasm, the variety of names for the vagina, or simply as a physical aspect of the female body. A recurring theme throughout the piece is the vagina as a tool of female empowerment, and the ultimate embodiment of individuality.
Performed during the week of Valentine's Day, all proceeds go to local women's shelter, My Sister's Place.

A Bad Year for Tomatoes
A two-act comedy by John Patrick, the play deals with the very funny misfortunes of a famous television actress who seeks to get "away from it all" in a small New England Town. Fed up with the pressure and demands of her acting career, the famous Myra Marlowe leases a house in the tiny New England hamlet of Beaver Haven, and settles down to write her autobiography. She is successful in turning aside the offers pressed on her by her long-time agent, but dealing with her nosy, omnipresent neighbors requires a bit more creativity...

Deathtrap
Ira Levin's 1978 play holds the record as the longest running comedy-thriller on Broadway. In 1982 it was adapted into a film of the same name starring Christopher Reeve, Michael Caine and Dylan Cannon.
'Nuff said.

The Pillowman
A play by Martin McDonagh, this drama tells the tale of Katurian, a fiction writer living in a police state who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories, and their similarities to a number of bizarre incidents occurring in his town.

Auditions will be held early next quarter, within the first two weeks of the quarter (Exact dates TBA). LFC asks that you have one monologue, poem, or joke to perform; it need not be memorized.

If you have time for fun...

Rockstar 2007
Every year, the School of Theater sophomore studio gets up onstage and rocks out as the rockstar of their choice (granted, they must resemble said rockstar from stadium distance). Feel free to stop in and enjoy the intense lip-synching action!

Expect stars from the past and present! And this particular blogger, who -- in true cross-dressing fashion -- will be Bono for 3 minutes only.

Baker Theater, Kantner Hall
Thursday, Nov. 9
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
FREE

Some photos

I filched all the School of Theater pictures I could find from this past quarter. Here are a few photos from How He Lied to Her Husband and MacBett. Thanks to Kristin Shirilla and Sarah Hoppes.