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It's the day of the show ya'll

This is my story of our production of Wallflower.

Jay Briggs, Sydney Andrews, and me (Amanda Sox) wanted to do a play together. Jay knew that Wallflower had two strong female roles, and both Jay and I love the playwright - Deborah Stein. As we dug into the play we realized how timely it is and decided that Wallflower needed to happen now. Sydney would play Juliana and I would play Milena. We posted auditions for the male role (Damon) on Theatre Puget Sound's website and audited their Unified General Auditions. I met Mike Jones at a callback for StageRight's production of Book of Liz. We held auditions and Mike nailed it.

Around the same time, I had been diagnosed and struggling with ulcerative colitis. Yes, this is important to the story. Don't know what UC is? You should. Google it. You probably have a friend or relative with it. And after you Google it, you'll know why your friend probably isn't talking about it. 

Mike and Sydney are perfect for these roles. I never felt right in the role of Milena. While trying to treat my disease naturally (The Specific Carbohydrate Diet - google it), I realized how all consuming the healing process is. I couldn't do my nine-to-five job, produce the show, design costumes for the show, and act in the show - because it was physically impossible for me. And, since there are so many female actors with so few female roles: I knew we could audition from the TPS Unified Generals stack to find the perfect Milena - Anna Giles. 

Now that we have the show cast, let's speed forward to last week. Last Thursday we found out that our stage manager had to go back to the east coast to attend to a very important and unfortunate family matter. Being the small production that we are, we have no assistant stage manager, rehearsal assistant, or even running crew. I should also mention that Jay will be out of the country the last week of the run. So with two days until tech (can't do tech... or anything... without a stage manager), I was the only person who knew the show, had no conflicts, and ummmm had at least been near a stage manager before... So I scrambled to get costumes done for the next rehearsal on Saturday, make any adjustments, then put on my stage manager hat when we came back on Monday for tech.

Then I got sick. Surprised? Didn't think so.

So we rearranged the schedule to load in and dry tech on Monday and Tuesday (while I drank fluids and watched netflix in bed), calling in the actors Tuesday night for a cue to cue. The rest until this point is a blur of sound editing, video cues, prop making and larabars. I begin my day at 6am, work my day job in Sand Point from 7am to 4pm, hop on the bus to Belltown, add in new cues and set up for the run from 5pm to 7:30pm, run the show from 7:30pm to 8:50pm, work notes until 10pm, wash the prop dishes, reset the stage, move costumes, and various other end of day tasks until 11 or 11:30pm when Jay and I go home and fall straight to sleep at midnight or 1am. Then it repeats the next day.

I might mess up a cue tonight. I might cook the prop food too long. I might sneeze during a quiet moment. And I will definitely have to use the bathroom. Who cares? Live theatre is full of these subtle flaws - it's humans breathing in the present moment together. You, as an audience member, will contribute to this play with your energy and presence, which will be absorbed and transformed by the actor onstage. The set, props, lights, video, and costumes have been touched and formed by a group of collaborators to help craft and enhance the experiences of the actors and the audience. We all (artists and audiences) will play together tonight - because that's a beautiful part of being human. 

And that's why it's all worth it.

MAKE A VIDEO = BE IN A PLAY

Please follow Shawn's lead so that we can complete our massive video project before opening night! Submit a one minute video of yourself smoking money.

The inciting incident of WALLFLOWER is when the main character, Milena, posts a video of herself smoking a dollar bill. The video goes viral and starts a revolution. These videos are the copy cat videos that the audience will see in a brady bunch styled collage.

This is your leader:

Here are your instructions:

Milena Price, Girl Guerrilla

Hiya!

My name is Anna Giles, and I play Milena Price in Wallflower.

To be honest with you, I kind of want to be Milena. I mean, barring the all of the trouble she gets into, she's what Tyra Banks would call fierce. She doesn't back down, or take no for an answer, and for someone so young, she's willing to change her perspective (well...eventually, she's willing to change her perspective). For all her faults, I admire and love her - which, for an actor, is pret-ty important. In fact, I think she's one of the best characters I've ever played. Don't tell the other ones.

Do you want to make a cameo in our play? We need beautiful faces like yours asap! It will only take a minute of your time. Follow the instructions below...

Rehearsal Update

I had the lovely opportunity to sit in on rehearsal last night... and it was AWESOME. I was supposed to be writing down blocking for Jay but I didn't do so well because I was watching the scene... and eating goldfish. But it was mostly because the scene was so dern good. Only like 10% because of the goldfish.

Here's Syd smoking a fork. Why you ask? See the play!

We're past the halfway point in rehearsals for Wallflower, and the entire team is stoked (fire reference) for the designer run on Wednesday!

This artwork really amped up our enthusiasm, courtesy of graphic design artist (and ninja) Jen Dorman. Please click on her name to check out her website - because she deserves to get paid more. Seriously. Have you ever seen such a perfect show poster? She hits the style, content and imagery in one (sophisticated) fell swoop. And it's cool. I mean, really cool.

And guess what people - your support can help to feed artists like Jen all over the country! We've got a NYC based playwright, a Chicago based graphic designer, a video consultant out of San Francisco and a rockin' team of 10 Seattle theatre makers - all doing this play because they love it and it NEEDS to be done.
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If you're a dude, we want to be friends with you!

Okay, not all dudes... If you're an actor that can play a 20-25 year old pseudo-intellectual/leftist-radical, then we want you to read for WALLFLOWER by Deborah Stein (our first production). OH, and that's Seattle peeps. Sorry everyone else, but we can't afford to fly you in and house you during the most magical time of year in Seattle - August.

If you're interested, check out this posting and email us your headshot and resume for a time slot on March 24th. http://tpsonline.org/auditions/auddb.php?Aud_ID=21851

If you're not interested then like us on facebook anyway.

44 Plays for 44 Presidents!

"They did what I’ve been waiting for a brand new and audacious company to do. They claimed the opening act in a grand, national video experiment. On election day, 2012, we’ll all tune in to see who did what with each play and the first dudes we’ll see will be The Awesome Possum Theatre Symposium."

We are thrilled to join this fantastic festival! It may have been our best idea yet. Except for the possums. We do not regret the possums.