Have you been dreaming of a way that you–yes, you–could get involved with the Great Heresy Theater Company? Well, now is the time to make that dream come true! We will be holding auditions for Strange Weather on June 8 and 9, from 6 to 9 pm, at Black Bear Crossings in St. Paul, MN. There are 6 roles:

Troy- middle aged, practical but somewhat otherworldly

Hector- young, athletic, traditional

Grandmother- elderly, bad-tempered, nostalgic

Cassie- young, otherworldly

Jason- young, natural, wild boy

The Stranger- likeable, mysterious, narcissistic

The show will premier in the 2009 Minnesota Fringe Festival at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage. Show dates are:

Sat. Aug 1, 7pm

Sun, Aug 2, 4pm

Mon, Aug 3, 5:30 pm

Tue, Aug 4, 10pm

Thurs, Aug 6, 8:30 pm

For more information, contact the director, Michelle Schwantes, at wildean_aesthete@msn.com.

The design team of the Great Heresy Theater Company just had its first meeting last Thursday, and our vision for how the show is going to look is coming together. The show aesthetic will be inspired in large part the Great Depression era photos of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange–a stark, worn landscape filled with desperate people. However, the show is set about 200 years in the future, and the landscape of human civilization would look quite different at that time if civilization as we know it fell apart. Materials would either be crudely constructed using available materials and minimal knowledge of craft (as a rampant religious fundamentalism would tend to clamp down on too much creativity and independent thinking), or they would be scavenged remnants of today’s civilization–largely made of plastic, which is the only thing that is expected to last forever.

Our designers, Kristin DeBoom, Josh Feist, and Sean Connaughty, will be working with Michelle to create a simple yet vivid visual depiction of the world of Strange Weather. Tune in for more design-related information as it develops!

Also, we would be amiss if we did not call out the excellent work of our webmaster, Gerald Prokop, to put together this website template using WordPress. We owe you our thanks, Jerry!