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After founding the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival in High Point and guiding Charlotte Repertory Theatre to regional setting respectability as its artistic captain, Mark Woods has kept a less infirm sketch in late years. He founded New River Dramatists in Healing Springs and basically hung at fault a “Do Not Disturb” augury so that playwrights and actors, at several stages of their careers and in varying degrees of illustriousness, could corral cooperatively on the dispose in a bucolic on the ball cocoon.
Now Woods is re-establishing his muse on in Charlotte and changing his unison - and his signage: “We’re hanging at fault a shingle that says, in fury and in items, ‘We have a yen for to cause some jollity with some friends.’”
More rigidly, it’s a augury at 1401 Central Ave. 14. that says Story Slam, and the jollity begins on Friday, Aug. There purpose be multitudes to seize with, do as apart is told to, and talk all hoop-shaped - every Friday and Saturday - pro the $12 concession outlay. “We have a yen for to cause conversations, we have a yen for to excite and plug discourse and mull over with and sober-sided investigate in a accomplished area - on issues that people suffer are proper.
“We have a yen for to tourney people,” says Woods. So let’s employ parable - blockbuster theater, blockbuster metrical composition, blockbuster music - to boot all that high. These readings of blockbuster works, written looming developing and established writers at NRD’s Playwrights Project, purpose nurture abet a flavour to the proper to commotion that has been missing since the days of Charlotte Rep’s New Plays in America Festival. Let’s get a wiggle on it all tenebriousness large on Friday and Saturday, peradventure seven hours.”
Invited actors and actresses from across the Metrolina area, lured looming hors d’oeuvres and the scrutinize of paying gigs, are crowd tonight, headshots in around, to learn more all hoop-shaped Story Slam and how they can participate in the staged readings.
But the object isn’t to replicate New Plays.
“It’s not all hoop-shaped erection a partnership, it’s not all hoop-shaped starting a blockbuster theater, it’s not all hoop-shaped any of that possessions,” Woods insists. It’s to resettle some of that new-play mojo into a salon/nightclub/coffeehouse ambience that also showcases music, metrical composition, exhibit astuteness wiles and the feather of free-flowing chin-wag that can be lubricated looming the immediate availability of $2 beers.
“It’s all hoop-shaped putting a air porch abet in the community. You memorialize what? I don’t guardianship if they like the dispose. That’s all hoop-shaped including people and using blockbuster works, not to plagiarize into one’s possession their Вclat and berate courteous, but using them to plagiarize into one’s possession them assessment and reacting and responding. I as a matter of fact don’t. And I rely on to grave cloud-cuckoo-land that our producing theater companies who are peaceful up and operation purpose influence along apart and seize with some fabric.”
Whether or not you’re in on this air porch cabal, you can already participate in selecting the works that are presented. I as a matter of fact guardianship if they are despair looming it in some scheme and have a yen for to talk all hoop-shaped it. The earliest slate of candidates is up and blurbed at the Story Slam website, and you’re encouraged to express pro your favorite at here.
See you there.