Well, that wraps up our second production in three months–four months since we officially started work on Arlo. Christmas Carol was an unqualified success, and we are already at work on the script for our next show: MacBeth: the Video Game Remix.
So as I sit at The Local, some thoughts on Arlo at the closing of the year.
- The “remix” concept (all credit to M. Foster for that one) was tremendously freeing in term of what we were allowed to do. The initial idea was to do the plays straight, but the white water rapids of both time and budgeting caused us to have to reconfigure that plan. It’s freed us to do commentary on the plays themselves.
- The $50 budget has been a huge stumbling block which we’ve overcome largely by ignoring it. We’ve borrowed a lot of props and costumes, but when your show has a cake and runs for six weeks, you’re going to have to buy more than one cake. So we may have to revise our budget upwards if we want to be honest.
- The audience response and general reaction to the concept have been sincerely inspiring.
And so we shall return in March with our next show, as well as an appearance at the Fringe Festival (ping pong balls willing). Again, thanks to everyone who’s made Arlo possible: the audiences, the staff at the Bryant Lake Bowl, and especially Matthew, who didn’t realize I was kidding.
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