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It is my plan to offer a unique theatre stage that moves in, around and between an audience. A stage that uses no scenery or flats—only actors, lights, costumes and props in an intimate setting. This focus allows the actors no place to hide (so to speak) and offers the audience the opportunity to employ their imaginations and become an active participant in the production. This discipline, first and foremost, serves the depth of the writers intentions, minimizing the traditional sets, scenery, and scene changes. The stage also serves the essentials of performance—the heart, mind and spirit of the piece. The outcome is an honest organic production—comparable to listening to a radio program or reading a novel—as the actors take you on a journey, at once personal, revealing and entertaining. It is my goal to create this stage in a sustainable way and therefore become the first truly “Green” theatrical performance space in New York City. We can achieve this mostly with the ability to stage all our productions on this environmentally-friendly construct. By not having set load-ins and load-outs, we can function in a controlled environment. We can dictate what comes into our space, which will be green-optimized from the ground floor up, starting at the initial construction phase. One of the important elements of this theatre is to introduce “essential theatre” both to the general public at an affordable price and to have a specific department which conducts educational outreach for public and high school students. I am prepared to carry on the tradition of this sustainable poetic construct I call “The Spiral,” which was originally conceived and built by Iza Itkin, my teacher and mentor of many years. The stage is a synthesis of the free organic and the structured geometric. Working on this stage helped me create an organic teaching process that insures the actor/student the most nuanced, and unselfconscious performance as possible. I call this the PPA Process (Primary Principles of Acting). |
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