Nudist chicken theatre Company
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THEATRE WITHOUT MONEY, TIME, REHEARSAL, AND PERFORMANCE RENTALS, AND ALL THE REST OF THE TRADITIONAL ELEMENTS
I'm tired of people with theater degrees unable to do theater because of the high demands of life. Nudist Chicken is non-traditional anti-realism, anti-theater, with no costs, while producing high quality guerrilla -esque, unrehearsed live theatre. And, of course, we have a manifesto.
Nudist Chicken Theatre
is free theatre.
No money. No rental of space, no printing of posters and programs and scripts, no ticket sales, no pay, no need to sacrifice work time for lengthy rehearsals, no authors rights. Nudist Chicken Theatre is free theatre. Too many theaters sacrifice experimentation, ignore storytelling innovation, and kneel to the god of realism all for the sake of pleasing and keeping and enticing season ticket holders. They have truly abandoned theatre in order to preserve their theater. Don't get me wrong: there is amazing theater out there. Nudist Chicken simply has no interest in being it.Everything is an experiment. How do we know if what we want to do is good? We do it and then see what happens. If it didn't work, we do something else. If it did work, we build on it.No costumes, no props, no sets. It doesn't take much for an audience to provide these things with their imaginations. An audience is more willing to believe (rather than suspending their disbelief) than you'd imagine.No memorization. I know: it's not done. I know: it appears to be sloppy, careless theatre by amateurs. I know: if an actor has a script in hand, it'll break with realism and the audience will distance themselves and no longer be willing to believe in the characters etc etc. Memorizing lines is one theory as to how to do theater. All scripts will be read from cell phones and tablets.No rehearsals. No, let me rephrase: no traditional six week rehearsal process with a week of tech rehearsals. This kind of demanding schedule is necessary in traditional theater because of the theory employed. They want psychological realism or high spectacle or museum pieces or lots of music and dancing. And all of that can be grand and wonderful and amazing, but it isn't practical. Not for NCTC. Not for people who want to do theater and work full time. Not for people who don't make money doing theater because only a small percentage of theater graduatedsare lucky enough to do so. There can be great joy in raw, spontaneous, bizarre performances. Most likely all scripts will have one or two evenings of table work at a coffee house. Either Illumilatte, a convenient Starbucks, or The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at Town Square.No set schedule. No formal announcements of performances. We will pick a time convenient for actors. We go to our performance space (see number 7). We perform. We leave.Our performance space: wherever. No more rent or struggling to squeeze an hour in for rehearsal.
Who would fit Nudist Chicken?
- Someone who is interested in creatively contributing to the company.
- Someone who loves experimental guerrilla theater.
- Someone who has a deep desire to perform or write, but hasn't found a theater yet. Or who has but wants to do something more off the rails. Or someone who just wants to go off the rails.
- Someone who doesn't think theater theory is a bad thing. Someone who is open to other theories and ideas about theater.
Nudist Chicken is not about fame, fortune, even recognition. It's about the two or three people who happen to walk by and see what we're doing and feel perplexed or intrigued or angry or weirded out and stand and watch because they can't look away. And they can't look away because they don't understand, but they DO understand that something real is happening and they're part of it. And even if they don't like it or "get it", they watch and, unbeknownst to them, take a piece of it away with them. It will change them and us (we don't get away with being passive performers---WE have an experience with the performance that is AS IMPORTANT as what the audience experiences). We may not be brilliant or perfect or even good---but if even one person engages with us, we are a success.
Today's SPECIALS
chicken burger
$16.00
ingredients:
Grilled chicken breast, avocado, lettuce, cucumber, spanish onion, homemade chilli aioli, tomato relish, + blue, brie, swiss or cheddar cheese
Alien monster burger
$36.00
ingredients:
2 x 200g grilled beef patties, 2 x eggs, 2 x crispy bacon, lettuce, tomato, spanish onion, homemade aioli, tomato relish, + blue, brie, swiss or cheddar cheese
Cresent Moon Croissant
$45.00
Ingredients:
Croissant, 2 x sausage patties, 3 x eggs
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