Auditions for False Matters--Improvised Philip K. Dick

shando · Post by **shando** » February 23rd, 2011, 9:59 am

Next Sunday, March 6th, from 2:30 to 4:30, during the Merlin Works Improv Mixer (announcement forthcoming) Gnap! will be holding auditions for our next prime time show, False Matters--Stories Improvised in the Style of Philip K. Dick, directed by me, Shannon McCormick.

The show will run Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, May 20 through June 11.
Rehearsals will be Tuesday evenings starting in April and some Sundays to be announced.

Knowledge of PKD's work will be extremely helpful, but not vital. We'll be looking to go to those places Dick mined in his work--multiple identities, split layers of reality, conspiracy theories, drugs as a (chimerical?) gateway to higher consciousness--and we'll be looking to do so in a way that feels not like a narrative longform going off the rails (see the above list) but one that we're in control of, that has consequence, that is intentional, and that an audience can follow even if the ultimate truths remain elusive. Plus, there might be androids and a show or two set on an offworld colony.

Check your precognition and see if you'll be there.

hypersuit · Post by **hypersuit** » February 23rd, 2011, 10:18 am

This show is gonna rock all of my realities and identities.

EmilyBee · Post by **EmilyBee** » February 23rd, 2011, 10:21 am

Astounding!

Pdyx · Post by **Pdyx** » February 23rd, 2011, 10:34 am

I am SUPER into this, and have been waiting since this was initially announced. I love love love PKD.

Marc Majcher · Post by **Marc Majcher** » February 23rd, 2011, 10:36 am

Pdyx wrote:I am SUPER into this, and have been waiting since this was initially announced. I love love love PKD.

Same, same, same. If you think this universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

EmilyBee · Post by **EmilyBee** » February 23rd, 2011, 10:55 am

Yep. We're all basically screwed... whee!

Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell · February 23rd, 2011, 11:49 am

oh, i wants this! can i zip someone else up in my fiction suit and send them to Showdown rehearsal so i can make it to this?

shando · Post by **shando** » February 23rd, 2011, 11:52 am

Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell wrote:oh, i wants this! can i zip someone else up in my fiction suit and send them to Showdown rehearsal so i can make it to this?

Just take this tab of Chew-Z and you can be both places at once. Maybe.

Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell · February 23rd, 2011, 11:54 am

i was in both places at once. i was in both shows. i met myself at a cast party. i was dead the whole time. it was all just a dream. i am not a reliable narrator. but everything i've said is true.

menelaos · Post by **menelaos** » February 23rd, 2011, 12:34 pm

Holy crap!!!!! Amazing!!!!! I'm totally going to be there!!

M.

mpbrockman · Post by **mpbrockman** » February 23rd, 2011, 12:46 pm

I suppose showing up with my guitar in blackface as Ragland Park would be socially unacceptable.

Alex Gray · Post by **Alex Gray** » February 23rd, 2011, 1:18 pm

LOL opening day for my show or I the shadow of my awareness would slip into a fleshsuit to dance the facedance for you.

shando · Post by **shando** » February 23rd, 2011, 2:04 pm

mpbrockman wrote:I suppose showing up with my guitar in blackface as Ragland Park would be socially unacceptable.

Brockman, 2011 needs fewer news clowns.

Justin D. · Post by **Justin D.** » February 24th, 2011, 12:46 pm

See announcement for PKD show auditions.

Response coming:
Yes, agreeable.

Begin release of reserve hyper neurons and endorphins.

mcslionhair · Post by **mcslionhair** » March 3rd, 2011, 12:21 am

Oh hotdog!
I'm excited for this