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 read more…
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 read more…
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 read more…
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 read more…
“(The Ship of Fools) had a genuine existence, for they really did exist, these boats that drifted from one town to another with their senseless cargo. An itinerant existence was often the lot of the mad…They were often entrusted to the care of river boatmen” -from Michel Foucault’s History of Madness “Renaissance men developed a read more…
“The vain spectacle, the frivolous sounds and the maelstrom of noise and colour that make up the world is only ever the world of madness, and that must be accepted. This artificiality of the world must be welcomed, and the knowledge that shallowness belongs not only to the spectacle but to the spectator as well, read more…
On Sunday, June 13th, Chthonic Theater welcomed friends in the warehouse to prepare for a wild parade through Jingletown during the last day of Open Studios. Jingletown Solstice Parade 2010 from Paul Wong on Vimeo. Video by Paul Wong shot on Super 8mm film and sound recorded on Marantz 661. Song written by Chloe Tietjen. read more…
With nothing better to do on New Years day 2010 than to have an extravagant group craft, many willing participants set out to create a giant paper mache ball.
Winter 2009, Chthonic Theater had their first parade around Jingletown. We constructed some paper mache masks for the event as well as a paper mache “creature” to ride. The parade went singing through the neighborhood during the winter open studios tour and caught some gallery goers by surprise. We got a few pictures as we read more…
