Showing posts with label new orleans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new orleans. Show all posts

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Show 52: Iron Rail, New Orleans

NO PICTURE
SECURITY CULTURE!

Turnout: 9 Support: $17
Personal injury report: A mysterious and annoying flesh wound on the middle knuckle of my middle finger on my right hand.

Description: Another disappointing turn-out in New Orleans. Maybe we need to incorporate a marching band into the play. Or at least a banjo.

Kate channeled her frustrations (pre-show quote: "presbyterian housewives who've done NOTHING with their lives are better at community organizing than this") into her performance, resulting in a furious and intense iteration of the play. Some audience members seemed to consider this too emotional, unstable, "weepy" even. It didn't jive with their romantic notion of unflappable anarchist heroes. That's fine, cuz we're not into mythological heroics. We suspect their role is to provide symbols one can project their desires for resistance onto (thus sublimating the desires). We hope to present a flawed character enacting a flawed plan, we encourage examination, and the development of something viably actionable.

We know better than to talk any more shit over the internet than this and most of what we could say would come across as broad generalizations that don't apply to everyone in the audience, or in the city. Suffice to say: much of the conversation on the way to Memphis was about how to respectfully and constructively express these frustrations and criticisms of the anarchist mileau during the discussions.

Did you see this show? If you did, write a review, comment on it or ask us some questions. We'd love to hear it because we believe in artistic transparency.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Show 49: New Orleans at Zeitgeist


Turnout: 9 or 10
Door: 66
Personal Injury Report: My funny bone turned serious.

Show Description: Nearly the opposite of last time we were at Zeitgeist. This time there was a small audience and bands that were, again, completely on the other side of the spectrum from last time's bill with Evolve, Self Help Tapes and Illusion Fields. Epic, naive beauty and less epic more ignorant rock opened up the Sunday night show.

I felt kind of strange about the whole thing as there seemed to be only 5 people who were there out of actual interest in what we were doing. Alright show nonetheless, and the Zeitgeist is a great place to play. On a different note, Ben and I decided to change a paragraph of the script about half an hour before the start time, so that was a nice memorization challenge.

Did you see this show? If you did, write a review, comment on it or ask us some questions. We'd love to hear it because we believe in artistic transparency.