I sometimes wonder whether readings might be more well suited for off-off Broadway theaters. ~100 seat theaters with pre-arranged light and grip rigging, along with built-in sound systems featuring what are (hopefully) reasonable acoustics.
If readings are theatrical, and individual readings are monologues, then Franklin Park group readings should represent a fully cast play, complete with stage directions and lighting design. Perhaps sound effects. Someone to operate a mixing board. Also a spotlight.
Seats would need to be ticketed. Seats should be ticketed. Ticket revenue would remove the need for a Knicks game polluting our attention, and encourage audience scrutiny.
It helps that the performances were so captivating, as they were.
Stage managers, lighting designers, sound designers — and, perhaps, costumers and choreographers should have a role…
Theater has shown us this dual-carriageway, but also each secondary road, side-street, and foot path.
Broadway is the super-highway of performance venues, and an ideal route for these shows, but the size of the conduit won't matter, after all, once publicity finds the road — that road which is, generally speaking, that network where all avenues of experience interconnect…
I sometimes wonder whether readings might be more well suited for off-off Broadway theaters. ~100 seat theaters with pre-arranged light and grip rigging, along with built-in sound systems featuring what are (hopefully) reasonable acoustics.
If readings are theatrical, and individual readings are monologues, then Franklin Park group readings should represent a fully cast play, complete with stage directions and lighting design. Perhaps sound effects. Someone to operate a mixing board. Also a spotlight.
Seats would need to be ticketed. Seats should be ticketed. Ticket revenue would remove the need for a Knicks game polluting our attention, and encourage audience scrutiny.
It helps that the performances were so captivating, as they were.
Stage managers, lighting designers, sound designers — and, perhaps, costumers and choreographers should have a role…
Theater has shown us this dual-carriageway, but also each secondary road, side-street, and foot path.
Broadway is the super-highway of performance venues, and an ideal route for these shows, but the size of the conduit won't matter, after all, once publicity finds the road — that road which is, generally speaking, that network where all avenues of experience interconnect…