Here is all you need to know about the directors for this years 24/7 – our 10th anniversary 24/7 – they are all nuts.
In a good way.
Over the past 10 years, each has been on stage – and few have even been writers — for a previous 24/7. And yet, most have never directed a 24/7 play before.
With that experience – and nuttiness – this year is gonna rock.
Directors:
Wow is the word. And with the list below, “wow” maybe even be the theme. Well, we don’t know yet if “wow” will have anything to do with this year’s 24/7 theme, but we do know it will describe the plays from these amazing writers taking the 24/7 overnight play writing challenge. Wow:
Wow.
Written overnight. Rehearsed all Day. Performed once for you.Twenty-Four Seven is a theatre festival created in 24 hours.
New every time, it is the cornerstone of Whole Theatre.
When you create an overnight theater festival in 24 hours, the day after the inauguration, you may end up with an 8th, special bonus, presentation. With apologies and respect to Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jonathan Groff, 24/7, last night, presented the one and only performance of TRUMPILTON!
To the cast and crew of 24/7 2017 —
Those of you who know, you know; those of you out of the know, will have to trust; those of you out of trust, will have to come to see for yourself.
The actors we have for his year are aces! (except for the jokers, and the queens, and kings, and, you know what, they’re all just cards.)
This year we are delighted to have the following actors jump into the unknown to bring you back gold.
The directors of 24/7 are often the unsung heroes — unsung, even in a musical. (that’s right, you never know what you’re gonna get in 24/7 – someone might write a musical overnight).
Directors get a random script and random cast and have to make it work. And they do. Oh to the yeah. Year after year.
24/7 is Jan 21, 2017. Nothing will be written until 24 hours before that. Then the directors read their script for the first time Saturday morning. Then the fun, action packed day begins – cast, designers, staging, timing, costumes, set, tech, all in one day.
This year we are honored to have the following great line up of 24/7 directors:
Nothing’s written in stone. Well, not anymore (I mean, at one time it was, in a literal sense.) But, what I meant was, “nothing is written in stone, yet.” No, that’s not quite it, either.
I meant, Nothing Is Written… Yet!
24/7 is Jan 21, 2017. Nothing will be written until 24 hours before that. The writing starts Friday night for our Saturday night shows. But when it is written, it will be written by this amazing line up of overnight sensations:
Twenty-Four Seven is a theatre festival created in 24 hours.
New every time, it is the cornerstone of Whole Theatre.
Here’s how we do it:
The theatrical artists’ gather on Friday evening. A theme for the next night’s show is randomly selected from all the given suggestions – it’s literally pulled form a hat. Then each of the 7 playwrights pull their cast requirements (i.e. 2 woman, 1 man) from the hat, and they pull their special inspirational word from the hat (i.e. Vancouver). The playwrights write overnight.
Early Saturday morning, the new 10 minute scripts are finished. The 7 directors each pull a script (yes, from the hat); and have a hour to confer with the playwright. All the actors arrive. Casting is done by each director blindly selecting names (you guessed it, literally, pulled from a hat). Then, rehearsals begin. And, the hat is retired.
Saturday day is a full rehearsal process with no time to second guess. There is a first read through, blocking, memorizing lines, etc. Simultaneously, lights are focused, sound is mixed, costumes are pinned together, tech, dress, let the audience in.
Saturday night we present a full show of new works – all fully performed and all freshly premiered. 7 new plays all created in the past 24 hours.
Or just come to a 24/7 and enjoy all the fun:
Will Kerner took these from his seat. They are more or less in order, show by show, from our 7pm show. Our second, sold out show at 9:30 runs backwards, as you know, or should.
