Tickets are not yet on sale (unless of course you select the $50 donation level on our kickstarter campaign, that includes two VIP tickets AND strawberries and chocolate!), but there is now a facebook event! Show off to your friends that you’re coming to see this hilarious show and RSVP today!
And if you’re talking on twitter about how hilarious our kickstarter video is, be sure and use the hashtag: #thefantasyclub.
Thank you!
Yesterday we raised $575! Thank you to everyone who donated, and shared our project! Specially, I would like to shout out to: Katy Kessinger, Peter Townley, Stuart Bousel, Patrick Brennan, Lauren Alise Cooney, Jordan Stanway, Colin Potter, Laylah Muran de Assereto, and Colleen Egan! THANK YOU! There were also a few folks who generously donated that didn’t wish to be publicly thanked, we know who you are and we thank you in our hearts!
We are 14% of the way there with only 15 days to go! Please, please, please, help us reach our goal! Every $1 helps, and anything that makes you laugh as hard as Barb the Phone Sex Operator deserves at least $1, right?
Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Oh, ha! Here’s the link again, for you to donate:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/allterraintheater/the-fantasy-club-by-rachel-bublitz
The moments has finally arrived! The Fantasy Club Kickstarter is live and we’re ready to take your money! Any amount will help, but if you ask me the best deal is donating at $50; you get two tickets and chocolates and strawberries to enjoy during the show!
I’m not saying the whole run is going to sell out through kickstarter…. But it might. Stranger things have happened.
Don’t delay, give today! Oh, and share, share TONS!
Thank you!!!!!!!
Here’s the link again:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/allterraintheater/the-fantasy-club-by-rachel-bublitz
Tonight and tomorrow are your absolute last chances to catch All Terrain Theater’s WOMEN IN SOLODARITY; Cat Ladies. And guess what, tomorrow night is sold out!… Not going to say I told you so… Grab the last tickets for tonight’s show by emailing and begging for mercy from Tracy (tracy@allterraintheater.org).
Hope you make it out!
Yay! Episode two is here! This week’s play is Brew Drink Repeat by Bridgette Dutta Portman, and for the rest of the details please see the 31 Plays in 31 Days Blog!
And as usual, if you’re looking at this on facebook, click through to see all the goodies.
Happy weekend everyone!
Many moons ago, when I was working on the first draft of The Fantasy Club, I sent it off to my best friends to read. He’s an actor, she’s a painter… They’re married and it’s adorable, but more importantly, I value their opinions a great deal. So after I had a draft of my very first play, they were the first people I sent it to. I’m not sure if there’s a feeling that makes you want to puke more… Hearing feedback on something you love so much for the first time… Anyway, I plunged ahead and asked them what they thought of it… And, surprisingly they loved it. “It’s hilarious!” they both told me. “Couldn’t stop laughing.”
“No, it’s not a comedy. It’s a drama,” is what I said back. Because in my mind it was a very serious play. Now, there are those of you who’ve seen it at staged readings, and a bunch more of you who get to watch it this coming August, so you’ll all see how ridiculous this notion of mine was. But in my heart of hearts, I thought it was a drama. That’s when I found out that the opposite of what people say is true… Comedy isn’t what’s hard, drama is.
After some long nights, I decided to go the direction the play was obviously taking me (thank goodness) and dive into making it a full on comedy…
Flash forward to now… I was up in Sonoma over the weekend hearing a staged reading of my ten-minute play Horny Like The Wolf (yes, another comedy!) and it struck me how much people responded to the dramas of the evening. They struck a cord in them, one was about breast cancer, another about being reunited with an estranged child… In my mind I thought that the dramas had an edge on the comedies, and maybe they always do. But it was after this show when I was going over the show with my husband that it struck me… None of my plays are dramas. Not one.
Maybe my play about Achilles is my closest, I mean overall it’s a tragedy, so that’s serious, but there is a lot of comedy along the way. And all of my other work is completely in the comedy lane. Like, 100%, not even trying to be dramatic.
I think dramas are hard for me because I don’t want to write a play about cancer, or a child dying, or some huge crushing issue that people are forced to deal with… Maybe because I deflect all the serious things in my life with humor… I will say that it is now on my to-do list to write a completely dramatic something… Maybe I’ll start with a ten-minute and work my way up.
So at the end of the day, drama is what is hard for me, not comedy. What about you?
Not many, mind you… But yes, at this moment you could still buy a ticket for Women In Solodarity: Cat Ladies! There are only two encore performances, and then this wonderful show will be just a happy memory in your mind… That is if you made it out to see it!
If you want more info on the show, check out the facebook event page!
Alright… Go!
Postcards came yesterday for The Fantasy Club! They are beautiful, and until I can put them in your hand, I’ll settle for showing you over the interwebs….
*Postcards from A7d Creative Group.
Aren’t they wonderful?
There are 58 days until opening night guys, get ready!
OH! And you should also get ready for our super sexy Kickstarter campaign coming this month! It includes a hilarious video that is so good you might need to take some days off work… It’ll be hard to get anything done when you’re watching it over and over again.
Our Kickstarter will kick off soon, so keep those eyes peeled!
Terrible People my one-act comedy about ladies who kill is getting a staged reading with Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, a part of their spring reading series. And now I’m going to make you want to come and watch even more by telling you the cast!
Doris will be played by Martha Luehrmann
Lisa will be played by Hilda Roe
Nicole will be played by Abby Edber
Pepper will be played by Erica Andracchio
Terrible People will be directed by Lisa Drostova and you will not want to miss it. Want to see the awesome postcard I made for it? Of course you do!
Boom.
Okay, here are some more details:
Shelton Theater (downstairs).
533 Sutter St.
San Francisco, CA, 94103
Monday, July 1st at 7:30pm
$10 donation at door, PCSF members free.
You can RSVP here through facebook!
See you then!
No matter what the waiting is, it has to be the hardest part of most things. Whether you’re waiting to see if you’ve been accepted into a festival or show, or waiting at your play sitting there before the lights go down wondering, “Will the audience come with me, or rise up against me?” Waiting is just rough. Right now I’m waiting to hear back from two festivals that I have high hopes for… And waiting to see the kickstarter video we made Sunday for The Fantasy Club… And waiting to find out if Horny Like The Wolf will move on to the final round and get produced this fall with Sonoma Stage Works… And so, I wait. I wonder. I hope. There are people out there who can put the waiting out of their mind and just concentrate on that which is at hand… And there are also people that I think take the waiting time and maybe even enjoy it a bit; imagining all that could be before the results are released. Neither of these are me. I imagine what could be, for sure, and I hope that what will be will be good for me, but until I know for sure the hoping doesn’t really bring me pleasure, just anxiety. I know that waiting is a big part of theatre; as an actor I remember waiting to see if I got a call back, waiting to see if I was cast… But I don’t think I as affected by this waiting. Writing means more to me, and so the stakes are higher, which makes the waiting that much more painful! Oy.
And, oddly enough, when I am turned down for things, even things I really really want, I feel like the waiting to be turned down was worse than the getting turned down. When you’re rejected it’s done. It’s over, you regroup and try again… The trouble with waiting, is that you still have all the hope and all of the dreams, and there’s nothing to do with all of that energy because you haven’t gotten the thing you wish to shove it in to yet.
And real life waiting is hard too! Waiting to have a baby was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, and I had to wait 40 weeks for that to happen, twice! Waiting before you move, before school starts, before a new job…
Sigh.
But there’s nothing really I can do or change, so I will try my best to wait, and see what will be…