Village Productions
Starting this September, I'll be teaching drama classes and private lessons at Village Productions in Pottstown (I know, I've already talked to them about possibly working on the website). The company have found themselves a permanent facility for the first time -- an old furniture warehouse is being transformed into the Tri-County Performing Arts Center, or TriPAC. I visited the site for the first time today, and I'm tremendously excited about it because (a) I'm renovation-nuts and (b) watching a theatre take shape like this is kind of cool.
Here's the main stage, which will be a black box. That's an orchestra loft above the stage, although the set-up will be very flexible so that the stage and audience risers can be configured any which way within the space.
On the second level are offices and three large classrooms, which can be combined by folding away acoustic wall panels to form a second performance area, shown here. (N.B. exposed brick wall at the right is being preserved as-is, aha!) I'll be teaching four classes a week in this space.
This is the fourth wall from the last shot, because metal studs and foil-backed insulation bales look sweet.
In the basement is a fairly extensive backstage area (green room, dressing rooms with sinks, two showers!) and costume/scenic workshops, as well as a couple of private studios where I'll be giving one-on-one coaching. This is a shot from the scenic workshop through exposed studs into the green room. You can see plumbing hookups for the green room kitchenette on the lower left, and on the right is the entrance to one of the dressing rooms.
So, yay. Everyone enroll your kids and your neighbors' kids in classes here, please.
Here's the main stage, which will be a black box. That's an orchestra loft above the stage, although the set-up will be very flexible so that the stage and audience risers can be configured any which way within the space.
On the second level are offices and three large classrooms, which can be combined by folding away acoustic wall panels to form a second performance area, shown here. (N.B. exposed brick wall at the right is being preserved as-is, aha!) I'll be teaching four classes a week in this space.
This is the fourth wall from the last shot, because metal studs and foil-backed insulation bales look sweet.
In the basement is a fairly extensive backstage area (green room, dressing rooms with sinks, two showers!) and costume/scenic workshops, as well as a couple of private studios where I'll be giving one-on-one coaching. This is a shot from the scenic workshop through exposed studs into the green room. You can see plumbing hookups for the green room kitchenette on the lower left, and on the right is the entrance to one of the dressing rooms.
So, yay. Everyone enroll your kids and your neighbors' kids in classes here, please.
- The downside to having to visit the TriPAC today is that I missed seeing John Waters' live show in DE :(
posted by Melissa Dunphyat
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you are reading the wrong book about god
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Was that in response to my Twitter update? In any case, I thought seriously about getting a FSM plaque for my car a while back, but I thought it might fight with my Darwin fish.
Wow, that looks like a cool set-up, Mel. Plenty of space! Very exciting.
You know, I always wanted to put a Jesus fish and a Darwin fish on the back of my car just to let folks know that those are not necessarily mutually exclusive ideas. But then I realized what I would really be doing was just asking to have my tires flattened on a regular basis.
Haha! I'm not sure if I mentioned it on this blog, but maybe a year ago, someone scraped a key across my Darwin fish and scratched the paint on my (old) car. At first I was filled with a vengeful rage, but then I realized that revenge isn't a very Christian concept.
I have to think that the vandal of your car was motivated by pure vandalism and not by some dogmatic principles. Regardless, that's totally gay to scrape up someone's car. Someone ripped off Alexis' bumper sticker that said "Loving kindness is my religion." WTF?! I agree with the sticker's sentiment, only I reserve my loving kindness for people who DON'T vandalize cars.
In other news, I sent a proposal to Brenda Eppley to teach a Theatre for Young People class on Shakespeare, and Anne Alsedek wants me to teach an improv class for adults this fall. We should both buy those jackets with the patches on the elbows, and like, monocles and stuff.
Perhaps we could borrow a couple of those jackets from Robert; doesn't he wear those exclusively now?
The pattern of the scratch made it clear it started right in the middle of the plaque and then trailed off into the paint, so I'm pretty sure it was aimed squarely at the plaque, which makes me suspect some anti-Darwinist (the sort who would display a plaque with a Jesus fish eating a Darwin fish, for example). In any case, the plaque was saved after that car was put to rest, and today I stuck it proudly on the hatch of my new vehicle, scratch and all.
Meh, Darwin fish. Get an actual transitional tetrapod fish - something basal chordate, say a Amphioxus - and nail it to your car. That'll confuse them. Or leave a bag of them out in the sun for a week and mail them into the church postbox.
We had the big US Evolution conference transplant itself to Christchurch last year and some of the war stories re attacks from creationist Cletuses were very disconcerting. Can't fathom the mentality of anyone who'll buy into the rest of science but refuses to accept evo. The sky is blue because light refracts. Fire is hot because of oxidation. Animals are different from each other because of evolution. Fact. End of.
Then again I get paid to think like this and so does Creflo A Dollar which makes neither of us a credible soundbite.
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