That's right- this Tuesday, March 18th, we're at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Performing at 6:30pm in the 30 foot high, wide open, echoey space that is Puck's Cafe!!
This month's scenes are going to embrace this wide open challenge and take place in some sort of cavernous space- there hence our theme:
Cavernous Instant Theatre!!!!!!!!
A warehouse?
The great outdoors?
A cavern?
Airplane hanger?
Hmmm... perhaps... you'll have to come and see for yourself.
And there's an added challenge to all our playwrights...
In the spirit of being at the MCA, all scenes must include a prop that has been built from scratch.
NICE, right?!?
Come check us out- remember dates and times have changed a bit...
MCA
Tuesday, March 18th
Participating writers @ 5:30pm
Audience @ 6:30pm.
Everybody applauds @ 7:30pm.
Maximum Impact, Minimum Prep
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Your Comments on The Morning After
Your head is pounding. You're not quite sure where you are. You scrape the crust out of your eyes and look around. You can't believe what you're seeing:
No. It all comes back to you. Thank God. You just spent the night at Instant Theatre.
The floor is open. Post your comments, thoughts, and observations on tonights Instant Theatre.
- A conniving divorce lawyer
- Meta-theatrical meditations on minutiae
- The demise of Facebook
- The end of paper
- Murderous twins
- Showers of paper clips in a retirement home
- An upright lizard
- Dead rock-n-roll stars
- A blackmail scheme
No. It all comes back to you. Thank God. You just spent the night at Instant Theatre.
The floor is open. Post your comments, thoughts, and observations on tonights Instant Theatre.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
February, The Morning After & Paperclips
What do February, "The Morning After" & Paperclips all have in common?
Well, that's easy- Instant Theatre of course!!
Show up on Wednesday the 20th to get an answer to this and other life altering questions!!
Seriously.
We'll answer them.
No joke.
This month's writers are:
Paul Molton
Tyla Abercrombie
Conrad Lawrence
Michael Kelly
Wendy Schmidt
Trina Kakacek
Howard Timms
Nancy Schaefer
Keely Flynn
Bob Fisher
Instant Theatre
Chicago Dramatists
1105 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
Wednesday, February 20th
Participating writers @ 7pm
Audience @ 8pm.
Everybody applauds @ 9pm.
Maximum Impact, Minimum Prep
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Your thoughts on TRANSFORMATION!!
Post away folks!!
Is there an image from tonight's plays on your mind?
For me, it was the park bench, and the kitty folded from a newspaper...
What was the most metaphorical transformation?
Loved the stiletto heel...
Were there any particular words that stuck with you?
"fluffy lightening" (used to describe a dog)
Was there something that left you thinking, "WHAAAAAAAA?!" Tell us about it.
Do you want to know who wrote what play? Ask us.
Playwrights: did your scene get an unexpected reaction? Why?
Did you learn anything valuable as a writer tonight?
Let's hear what you've got to say about tonight's Instant Theatre...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Next Instant: January 30th at 8pm
Instant Theater
January 30th
Actors and Writers @ 7pm
Audience @ 8pm
Applause @ 9pm
Chicago Dramatists
1105 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
This month's theme is... TRANSFORMATION
The writer's task: Your scene must include an everyday object that during the course of the scene is transformed into another object.
For example: Your scene opens with a person on a cell phone. During the course of the scene the cell phone turns into an avenging alien being taking revenge for an ancient wrong. Or maybe it turns into a mop.
Want some inspiration? - How's this for some theatrical transformation?
January 30th
Actors and Writers @ 7pm
Audience @ 8pm
Applause @ 9pm
Chicago Dramatists
1105 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
This month's theme is... TRANSFORMATION
The writer's task: Your scene must include an everyday object that during the course of the scene is transformed into another object.
For example: Your scene opens with a person on a cell phone. During the course of the scene the cell phone turns into an avenging alien being taking revenge for an ancient wrong. Or maybe it turns into a mop.
Want some inspiration? - How's this for some theatrical transformation?
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
12 Days of Christmas... Updated!!
We've heard them all before - 11 Maids a Milking. 5 Golden Rings. And that damn partridge.
This year, get ready for the 12 days of Christmas- Instant Theatre style!!
Each playwright will be assigned "a day of Christmas". Their job is to create a new spin on it.
Instead of A Partridge in a Pear Tree, think Danny Bonaduce Climbs a
Tree. And then, a scene about Danny Bonaduce in a tree. Disgustingly delicious, no?
Have a Christmas celebration like you've never experienced with Instant Theatre on Wednesday, December 19th.
This month's writers are:
1 Kerri Mangold
2 Amy Binns-Calvey
3 Nick Izzo
4 Anita Chandwaney
5 Conrad Lawrence
6 Andre Hogan II
7 Corinne Kawecki
8 Mike Avella
9 a possible appearance by Larry Carpenter
10 Aaron
11 Chris
12 (who could this be??)
Instant Theater
Chicago Dramatists
1105 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
Wednesday, December 19th
Participating writers @ 7pm
Audience @ 8pm.
Everybody applauds @ 9pm.
Maximum Impact, Minimum Prep
This year, get ready for the 12 days of Christmas- Instant Theatre style!!
Each playwright will be assigned "a day of Christmas". Their job is to create a new spin on it.
Instead of A Partridge in a Pear Tree, think Danny Bonaduce Climbs a
Tree. And then, a scene about Danny Bonaduce in a tree. Disgustingly delicious, no?
Have a Christmas celebration like you've never experienced with Instant Theatre on Wednesday, December 19th.
This month's writers are:
1 Kerri Mangold
2 Amy Binns-Calvey
3 Nick Izzo
4 Anita Chandwaney
5 Conrad Lawrence
6 Andre Hogan II
7 Corinne Kawecki
8 Mike Avella
9 a possible appearance by Larry Carpenter
10 Aaron
11 Chris
12 (who could this be??)
Instant Theater
Chicago Dramatists
1105 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
Wednesday, December 19th
Participating writers @ 7pm
Audience @ 8pm.
Everybody applauds @ 9pm.
Maximum Impact, Minimum Prep
Monday, November 26, 2007
Ripped from the HEADLINES!!
For November's Instant Theatre, our playwrights have been asked to choose a headline from the past week and write a scene inspired by it...
"Hollywood Writers on Strike: Day 22"
"Hulk Hogan Divorces Wife"
"Did Peterson Kill His Spouse?"
"Pakistan's Political Problems"
Those are just a few of this weeks headlines.
Which news stories make the cut? Find out on Wednesday night!!
Get some news- Instant Theatre style!
This month's playwrights are:
Chelsea Marcantel
Michael Rychlewski
Ray Mees
Anita Chandwaney
Jenni Lamb
Sarah Gubbins
David Benarie
*plus a guest playwright
Instant Theater
Chicago Dramatists
1105 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
Wednesday, November 28th
Participating writers @ 7pm
Audience @ 8pm.
Everybody applauds @ 9pm.
Maximum Impact, Minimum Prep
"Hollywood Writers on Strike: Day 22"
"Hulk Hogan Divorces Wife"
"Did Peterson Kill His Spouse?"
"Pakistan's Political Problems"
Those are just a few of this weeks headlines.
Which news stories make the cut? Find out on Wednesday night!!
Get some news- Instant Theatre style!
This month's playwrights are:
Chelsea Marcantel
Michael Rychlewski
Ray Mees
Anita Chandwaney
Jenni Lamb
Sarah Gubbins
David Benarie
*plus a guest playwright
Instant Theater
Chicago Dramatists
1105 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
Wednesday, November 28th
Participating writers @ 7pm
Audience @ 8pm.
Everybody applauds @ 9pm.
Maximum Impact, Minimum Prep
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