As you may or may not know, most designers - when they’re not just making stuff up - tend to have some very obscure inspiration behind the choices they make.  Maybe it’s an advertisement from a 1953 edition of LIFE magazine.  Maybe it’s some obscure Biblical passage.  Whatever it is, the designer is always kinda mad at those ruffians in the audience that they don’t just intrinsically make that connection.

Okay… I’m not being quite fair to designers in my exaggeration… but there is some truth to it.  So here is a little inside info from our designer:

With all of the references to family, deals and Dons, we have decided to set this production in a family mob setting - so clearly Sicily plays a big part.  So where does our color palette come from?  What else?  The creepy Sicilian flag:

And the less creepy old flag of the Kingdom of Sicily:

So there.  Now you know.

Flags courtesy of Wikipedia.

Well, we had a second performance of Camp Aye-Wonna-Dolla improv on Friday - We once again enjoyed the company of Bryan and Brandie from Laughing Stock.  Jayce braved the mousetraps one more time, this time joined by Jared. 

Traysie delivered the all time best tag ever. 

We continued rehearsing for Much Ado About Nothing - we even moved out of the rehearsal room and into the theatre.  It’s starting to feel like an actual play!

Several of us in the cast also meandered down to Falls Park on Saturday night to see the Upstate Shakespeare Festival’s production of King Lear.  If you haven’t seen it yet, make sure to check in with them Thursday-Sunday for the next two weekends.

Last night at Camp Aye-Wonna-Dolla, we were joined by two fantastic members of Greenville’s Laughing Stock improv troupe (Brandie and Bryan)… and our show was hi-jacked midway by members of The Governor School’s Please Unwrap All Hard Candy Now.  It was all kinds of fun.  And, of course, since we were trying to make money… we performed a mousetrap scene.  That’s right.  Jayce - the Artistic Director of The Distracted Globe, and Taylor - one of his stalwart students, took off their shoes, put on their blindfolds, assumed their over-zealous camp counselor names and just went nuts!  Thanks so much to Taylor for jumping in where he didn’t have to!  And thanks to Jayce for being a crazy person!  And thanks thanks thanks thanks to the audience for being sadistic enough to purchase that many mouse traps!  I hope we’ll have plenty more of you tonight at 10:30.  See you then!

It’s Camp Aye-Wonna-Dolla!

Remember the good old days of hiking and campfires and weird counsellors and the threat of lyme disease?  So do we.  So we’re gonna relive and rewrite (and perhaps regurgitate) a little of that summer camp love. 

TONIGHT, May 24 @ 8:00 and TOMORROW, May 25 @ 10:30.  And it’s only $5!!!

See you there! 

We rehearse for improv. Not that we rehearse what’s going to be said in the show.  It’s more like football practice - you run drills and plays and hone your skills… but what happens on game day… that’s always a surprise.

Anyway, at the shows coming up this week, we have two guest players from the local improv group - The Laughing Stock.

So we got together and jammed a little last night (that’s right, I said jammed). 

See you May 24 @ 8:00 and May 25 @ 10:30 for more!! 

According to Jayce, we blocked the 5th most known scene in Shakespeare this weekend.  I’m not sure where he’s getting his stats, but it sure sounds good… so there ya go.

Another clip from Wednesday’s rehearsal with an impromptu performance from our resident songstress.

Just a little something from the power couple!

Moving on through, last night we managed to block the rest of Act III.  Enjoy!

Tired of seeing our rehearsals in the amazing technicolor rehearsal room?  I know you’ve all been longing for a set to put in your mental images of Much Ado About Nothing.  Well wait no longer.  Here’s a photo of the model of the set.

And here’s a photo of what happens when break runs a little too long and there’s extra model furniture around… and actors left to their own devices.