Seeking performers for a development workshop of INAPPROPRIATE, a new play about time travel and queer friendship.
Co-written by kt shorb (https://ktshorb.net/) & Katherine Wilkinson (www.katherinewilkinson.com)
Directed by Katherine Wilkinson
Produced by Christine Gwillim
Inappropriate has been developed at Fusebox Festival, The Tofte Lake Center, Columbia University, and GenEnCo.
ABOUT
Inappropriate follows a queer platonic romance spanning eight years where the two friends try to create a play together. During these eight years, their friendship sees them through divorce, infidelity, domestic abuse, MFAs, PHDs, several cross-country moves, and an ongoing struggle to love each other and themselves while living the fractured experience of queer time.
What is queer time? Cultural critic José Esteban Muñoz said, "queerness is not yet here." Queer time and queer life happens “out of order” amidst a sense of chaos. “Straight time” follows a predictable pattern–birth, puberty, marriage, procreation, and death. Queer time, by contrast, imagines worlds where these milestones are decentralized, and life can be lived nonchronologically. Queer time is both utopic and critical, expansive and specific. Inappropriate stages queer time through the use of nonlinear narrative, simultaneously overlapping time periods, and alternate realities that are integral parts of the story arc.
Some moments of queer time include enacting the same scene in “reverse” and “fast forward,” a suffragist book club reading in 1928, a witch's sabbath during colonial times, a conversation in 10,000 BCE, a 3045 AD space odyssey, a slightly drunk sexual encounter between kt & kw in 2011, an 1845 gathering of queer women in a babbling brook, a savage verbal conflict ending in a choke-hold in 2015, and kt conducting Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique” in 1855.
DATES:
**Rehearsal Times Subject to Change**
Rehearsal week 1
May 3, 12pm-5pm
May 4, 12pm-5pm
May 5, 10am-3pm
May 6, 12pm-5pm
Rehearsal week 2
May 8 12pm-5pm
May 9, 12pm-5pm
May 10, 10am-3pm
May 11 - 12pm-5pm
Tech/Performance Week 3
May 13, 12pm-4pm & 5pm-9pm
May 14, 12pm-4pm & 5pm-9pm
May 15, 12pm-4pm & 5pm-9pm (Dress)
May 16, 12pm-4pm & 5pm-9pm (Preview)
May 17, 12pm-4pm & 7pm (Showing 1)
May 18, 2pm (Showing 2) & 7pm (Showing 3)
LOCATION: Gremlin Theatre
Annex Building, 550 Vandalia St #177, St Paul, MN 55114
STIPEND: $1000
ROLES:
ENSEMBLE - A chorus of 3 queer women or nonbinary folks of any race, age, and ability.
The ensemble is described as hosts of the event, witches of the sabbath, those who question time, and the queers who notice you even when you try to hide.
Seeking performers with experience with new work. This is a development workshop, so we will collaborate, generate, and edit together in the room. The ensemble has both spoken text onstage, as well as movement.
SUBMISSION:
Please submit a self-tape as a youtube link to [email protected] by April 27 @ 10pm CST. The video should include the following:
- A one minute monologue (contemporary or classical)
- A one minute special skill (Anything that shares a bit about you as an artist. Examples: dancing, singing, writing, poetry, bird calls, gymnastics, speaking a 2nd language, etc.)