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.

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...

The Move is Complete

Meat & Potato Theatre was a DC-based theatre company until 2008 when we began the transition to Salt Lake City. I got involved with other theatres as quickly as possible--forming a Playwrights' Laboratory with Plan B Theatre and directing Dark Play for Salt Lake Acting Company. With the arrival of Marynell Hinton (General Manager) and the production of our first production (Infantry Monologues), we have finally arrived.

We changed locations, but never our mission, which remains:

Meat & Potato is a 501c3 theatre company dedicated to telling compelling stories in the most powerful ways possible. Therefore:

⋅ All plays must have a clear storyline with a beginning, middle & end: adventures

⋅ Every production must employ at least one overtly theatrical element or style: puppets, masks, multiple &/or cross casting, one-person plays, musicals, dumbshows, farce, biomechanics, audience participation, Kabuki, Theatre of Cruelty, the Alienation Effect, etc

⋅ There is a firm cap on production costs

⋅ The talents of local, emerging artists will be used whenever & wherever possible

⋅ Ticket prices will be kept affordable to the general public & especially as an enticement to younger audiences