posted by R Winsome
Dinner Theatre and Shakespheare are two pretty unlikely areas for Insurgent Theatre to get into, but we'll always rise to whatever challenge presented to us. When Renee, the organizer of this event asked us to come up with a street theatre performance about tomatoes, we quickly brainstormed the following: a cafe where the theatre is on the menu and the food is thrown at the actors. We put the deadliest theatre we could think of (Shakespheare) on the menu and got messy.
It went amazingly well, some lucky breaks, tons of press, and only a few assholes who thought the point of the thing was to throw the tomatoes as hard as possible at our faces and hurt us.
Good times! Keep an eye out for pics, video of the channel 4 coverage (if we can find it) and other links.
doesn't typically truck in such things, but, thisweekend, we're combining all three.Come to the east side for a tomato themed street festival and have anopportunity to experience Insurgent's detourned approach toShakespearean dinner theatre, where the theatre is on the menu and thefood is thrown at the stage.This Saturday, Sept 22nd, The Tomato Romp! On North Ave betweenOakland and Prospect. Fest starts at ten and ends at 4, we'reperforming between noon and 3.