Recalibrating

I met with Donna Hayes this morning to explore options for starting over with our planned reading of her (brilliant, in my opinion) play. We have some ideas, but nothing firm yet. One option has us waiting till the end of May, which feels like forever. Another has us borrowing money so we can rent a space. Should we go for crowd funding? Can we generate the buzz we had hoped for, despite this delay?  We're working on it. It's a puzzle, as we have to have all the dates for rehearsals set before we audition, so we can get time commitments from the actors. We need enough rehearsal time for them to feel ready, but not so much that they're complacent. We need times for the public reading when we think theatre people can attend (so maybe we can seduce a production company into staging it), but also we want to reach the play's primary audience--people whose lives have  been affected by police violence. We want to do a first-rate job with the reading, because for all we know that could be the only chance the work has to be seen. Lots to think about.

Then in the afternoon I met with a couple of artists planning art for February 8, the day the KKK is rallying in Portland and there is a callout for a mass protest of their white supremacist platform. We brainstormed some very exciting ideas, and they left the meeting heading for the art supply store.