MOBILE ART PROJECT NEEDS ACTORS
With the exception of art cars, nearly all other art at Burning Man is statically located in one place. Hence, I am looking for actors to join in this great MOBILE ART PROJECT.
The DREAM VENDORS (working title) will be a guerrilla theater group with the mission of COMMITTING RANDOM ACTS OF THEATER AGAINST UNSUSPECTING DENIZENS OF BLACK ROCK CITY. There will be no stage, and there will be no mercy. We will have political, comical, whimsical, dramatical, sophical sketch comedy and/or improv that will occur whenever and wherever we damn feel like it.
This is, of course, a logistical nightmare of the first order. Therefore! Any actor committed to this project (or committed to another asylum) must also agree to camp together with the other Dream Vendors (camp location unknown at this time). The purpose for this is two-fold: First, cat-herding on playa time is a fucking come down and I am not willing to subject myself or any other sentient being to this task. (On the other hand, if you would like to do this and you are NOT a sentient being...) Second, it will give us an opportunity to rehearse, to improv, to break bread together, to drink and to generally stew into a cohesive troupe.
Who's in? What day do you plan to arrive on the Playa?
Please contact me ASAP. I will only do this if we reach critical mass, which I figure is about 2 dozen actors. Less than that and we're not
likely to make this happen. If we don't reach critical mass, let's say 24 actors by May 24th, then I'll scratch the project.
So email me right now!! Really, right now!! Really, what are you waiting for?
DreamVendors @ noisesoff .com
Send my your name, playa name, alien name, email addy, underwear size, phone number, what day you plan to arrive and the registration number of your secret decoder ring.
Your faithful bard,
Ivan, the Bad Elf
With the exception of art cars, nearly all other art at Burning Man is statically located in one place. Hence, I am looking for actors to join in this great MOBILE ART PROJECT.
The DREAM VENDORS (working title) will be a guerrilla theater group with the mission of COMMITTING RANDOM ACTS OF THEATER AGAINST UNSUSPECTING DENIZENS OF BLACK ROCK CITY. There will be no stage, and there will be no mercy. We will have political, comical, whimsical, dramatical, sophical sketch comedy and/or improv that will occur whenever and wherever we damn feel like it.
This is, of course, a logistical nightmare of the first order. Therefore! Any actor committed to this project (or committed to another asylum) must also agree to camp together with the other Dream Vendors (camp location unknown at this time). The purpose for this is two-fold: First, cat-herding on playa time is a fucking come down and I am not willing to subject myself or any other sentient being to this task. (On the other hand, if you would like to do this and you are NOT a sentient being...) Second, it will give us an opportunity to rehearse, to improv, to break bread together, to drink and to generally stew into a cohesive troupe.
Who's in? What day do you plan to arrive on the Playa?
Please contact me ASAP. I will only do this if we reach critical mass, which I figure is about 2 dozen actors. Less than that and we're not
likely to make this happen. If we don't reach critical mass, let's say 24 actors by May 24th, then I'll scratch the project.
So email me right now!! Really, right now!! Really, what are you waiting for?
DreamVendors @ noisesoff .com
Send my your name, playa name, alien name, email addy, underwear size, phone number, what day you plan to arrive and the registration number of your secret decoder ring.
Your faithful bard,
Ivan, the Bad Elf
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Re: Call for ACTORS
Fri, May 9, 2008 - 6:16 AMI'll entertain the thought for the time being. My current plan is to set up a townie bar — a table and my music and probably some booze somewhere in the suburbs of the D-street area. That's because it seems easy and doable. But I have had the desire to stretch my fledgling improvisational wings at Burning Man (I took a comedy improv class and felt I grokked it and was pretty good at it; acting, on the other hand, requires memorizing stuff and I'm not so good at that).
I have, in the past, camped twice with groups of around 20 people. My first year was with an excellent, well-organized camp — everyone (pretty much) took care of their own shit. The second time was with a camp that made it convenient for them at the expense of me and a few late-stayers. I don't want to have the latter experience again. The way I think it works for me is this: I camp alone with other people who camp alone. Communal settings do not work for me because I embrace the Communist ethos and find I have more "ability" to work than I have "needs" and end up being among the group of people who get dumped upon.
So if you're proposing a camp that is a corral for independent Burners, then my interest will continue, but if you're proposing a communal environment then I'm definitely out.
Fuck you, I love you,
---Jason Olshefsky
