An Oakland Performing Arts Collective
So, we’re coming into that fun part of a show where all the final technical elements come together. My focus this week has been to develop a lighting system appropriate for our foolish show. We have a bunch of conventional stage lights (spotlights, PAR cans), some lights that one might find in a garage (those [...]
Initial sketch: (click to enlarge) Important elements for the poster: in the style of an old nautical map, different perspectives of flat map and images on the sea stylized border and banner with title the ship which is the trunk of the paradise tree compass rose; could have dates on it? islands reference other things [...]
Act II of Ship of Fools focuses on the fools encountering a terrible beast, but what does it look like? There are many precedents for sea monsters from all over the world; the leviathan, the kraken, the loch ness monster…. Lets take a look at a few for some inspiration. Maybe our terrible beast will [...]
Friday, April 15th, 7:30pm High Street Station 1303 High St. at Encinal in Alameda (directions) Sliding Scale Cover –$5 to $15 suggested Join the T Sisters for an evening of fun singin’ and swingin’ in this comfy local listening room. plus Ramsey Tietjen on lead guitar and Isaac Puglia on djembe drum. Opening act Melody [...]
Jesse’s writeup: This trio of singers, the The T-Sisters (they are actual sisters, Rachel, Chloe and Erika Tietjen), live just across the estuary in a Jingletown loft. They have been singing together all their lives, professionally the last few. “I first heard them perform at a recent variety show and they were the highlight amongst [...]
Hee Haw is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on CBS-TV from 1969–1971 before a 20-year run in local syndication. The show was inspired by Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,[1] the major difference being that Hee Haw was far less topical, and [...]
Oh rainy day with your wind and your gray, Your shadow dismays all the plans that I made. But wait! A parade a parade’s comes our way! Chthonic Theaters Jingletown Parade from Gregor Knell on Vimeo. Chthonic Theater’s semi-annual Jingletown parade. And yes folks, rain or shine. It’s like Barbara Streisand said, “Don’t tell me [...]
Chthonic Theater will debut its second original musical theater piece, ‘The Ship of Fools’, written by Chloe Tietjen on August 14th. Doors open at 8:00pm with live music and refreshments Show begins at 9:00pm *this is a short show so please come early for the full entertainment experience ‘The Ship of Fools: Not Fit For [...]
The three main characters of The Ship of Fools comment, critique and at times disrupt the story as it moves along. They also manipulate the Fools, be they in mask or puppet form. These roles are modeled after 3 archetypal characters from Commedia dell’arte, an Italian theatrical style that began in the 1500s and, “was [...]
I find it most efficient to recycle old materials and use up stuff laying around the house when constructing something new. This cuts down on things sitting in storage and gives new life to something I may have been reluctant to get rid of but would never use the same way again. I often find [...]