Curator Dawn Matheson is looking for anyone and everyone
to send her their audio files of their own freeform SINGING IN THE SHOWER for
September 11, Guelph NUIT BLANCHE
"The bathroom is an intimate venue ripe for improv
where every singer becomes a virtuoso... The widespread phenomenon of singing
in the shower rarely gets a public audience. Here, a secret community of closet
minstrels—the mighty shower singers —is given a venue at a public fountain the
prestigious Guelph Jazz Festival and its all-night art show."
Most of us
have attended Nuit Blanche (If you haven't, it's a wild night), but
participating-- moreover, performing-- really rocks. I am looking for
10 minutes in the 12-hour duration of the evening. Your time will
generate a lot of free promotion (and a potentially HUGE audience) for
yourself on the biggest art night of the year. Plus, it'll be a hoot.
(A link to a website of the project will follow, just, er, have to make
it first.) In the meantime, I am asking for your help in getting the
word out to any and all connections you may have in the ACTING WORLD.
My project for Nuit Blanche (OCTOBER 2-- all night in TORONTO) will be
installed at the GLADSTONE HOTEL on Queen St-- hip hip hooray, as it is
a great venue at the heart of the Downtown Core exhibition. There is
TONS of traffic and they do tons of promotion.
Here's a synopsis of the project:
Project AUDITION is a site-specific audio project performed outside on
the second-floor balcony of the Gladstone Hotel to an audience of
passersby on Queen Street below. (If ever there was a balcony meant
for speeches, that’s the one.) The work is composed of a succession of
MONOLOGUES performed live (or rehearsed-- actor's choice) by a mixed
bag of amateur, professional, famous and student actors working in
film, television and theatre from across Southern Ontario, as if
auditioning for the open night, the cityscape panorama, the Nuit
Blanche art fan and the Queen Street regular.
AUDITION allows the general public in on the first critical stages of
the creative process usually only privy to the director and stage
manager. Catching perhaps just a snippet of a soliloquy, accidently
eavesdropping on a small intimacy, or hearing a line out of context,
the monologue-- always just a part of larger story-- takes on new
meanings and potential varying significances in contrast to the
surrounding scene on the street below in that moment.
What monologue will stop traffic? Which performance will generate a
crowd, which a boo? Here, an actor tosses their calling card off the
balcony-- their voices will echo below, as will their passion, their
showmanship, their bravado, their fear, fumbling, and false starts.
*It's the actor's choice to remain anonymous (it is difficult to see
the speaker from the balcony) or self-promote through an introduction.
The choice of monologue(s) will be that of the actors (most actors have
a repertoire of many: classic and a contemporary monologues, both
dramatic and comedic) but will be determined in advance and scheduled.
For blank slots, I will accommodate impromptu monologues by Nuit
Blanche goers. (Yikes!) A new monologue will be performed every 10
minutes. I'm working on free drinks for participants. Whether you need
it before or after, it's your call.
Please help me spread the word. I will need approximately 70 actors. It
is a short commitment (10 minutes), a fun one and hugely rewarding.
*** If you are involved in the FRINGE FEST or SUMMERWORKS or a SOUTHERN
ONTARIO THEATRE or THEATRE SCHOOL, please let me know how I can promote
the project there.
And if forwarding email, please include my address so I can keep track.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS.
It should be a GREAT party.
Best,
Dawn Matheson
Guelph
519-780-0251
pigeon28.com (in progress)
Dawn Matheson [mathesondawn@gmail.com] Crew + Technical
Looking for Crew?
Ed Video can post crew positions on this webpage, in our weekly email update the "Timeline", and put up posters in the office.
You might also want to sign up for the message boards at ontariofilm.com to get in touch with other directors and crew.
Looking for Actors?
If you are shooting in Guelph it is possible to use the Ed Video offices for your auditions.
Feel free to contact the following friends of Ed Video to help you get to actors from the area. All of these people do need some lead time to get the message out so it is advisable to send your audition request at least two weeks before you are holding auditions
