EVERYMAN & JUDGMENT DAY set

During our wanderings through Paris's Monmartre district last September, Marynell wanted to wet her whistle on a Coca-Cola. She popped into a drug store and I wandered into a strange looking cathedral that stood nearby--the Eglise-Saint-Jean-de-Monmartre, to be exact.

The church was designed by architect Anatole de Baudot in an Art Nouveau style (built 1894 - 1904). And it was pure dumb luck to look up and discover this stained glass window:



The stained glass is "Le cheval blanc de l'Apocalyse" (The White Horse of the Apocalypse) designed by Pascal Blanchard and executed by Jac Galland.

Marynell and I loved the imagery, colors, and power so much that we decided to make it the center piece of our spring production, EVERYMAN & JUDGMENT DAY. Both plays emerged from liturgical drama (religious stained glass connection), they address the incredibly human concern of death (figure of death), and JUDGMENT DAY specifically deals with the apocalypse (Death as one of the Four Horsemen).

I'll be constructing a facsimile of this wonderful window and will hang it over center stage. It will be back lit, of course, to really get those colors to pop.

Script-in-Hand Series, Installment 2

Meat & Potato is a proud partner with Plan B Theatre in the management of the Playwrights' Laboratory and the Directors' Laboratory. One of the goals of the Labs is to translate the classroom work and exercises into practical experiences by trying to find directors opportunities to direct and playwrights the chance to hear their plays read publicly. Jerry Rapier produces the Script-in-Hand series as a way to ensure both of those goals are met: lab directors direct new one-acts plays written by the lab playwrights.

The first, very successful, Script-in-Hand went up in March 2010, and we are to see the second installment this Wednesday. Debora Threedy and Elaine Jarvik had their plays directed by Mark Fossen and Andra Harbolt, respectively. And now:

SEVEN DAYS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE by Megan Crivello (dir. Bud Perry)
BETWEEN THE HOUR Deborah DeVos (dir. Mark Fossen)
MALICE AFORETHOUGHT Jenifer Nii (dir. Jason Bowcutt)

The actors for this round are: Colleen Baum, Daniel Beecher, Tracie Merrill, JJ Peeler, Jason Tatom.

Review for second Script-in-Hand series from Selective Echo is here.

Admiration for DJ Earworm

Marynell met this incredible talent last February as the keynote speaker at a tech convention in downtown Salt Lake City. She brought home his promotional cd and we've worn it out listening to it. Mr. Earworm is a classically trained musician whose highest aspiration was to conduct symphony orchestras. Fate presented him another road to take. He has become so respected as a master of a new art form, the mashup, that Annie Lennox personally sought him out and requested that he create a mashup for her new Greatest Hits album. Now...what would a mashup of Shakespeare's plays look like? Titus vs. Midsummer?...Hmmm...