Shotgun Wedding
A$4,010
of $4,000 targetyrs ago
Successful on 3rd May 2012 at 1:00AM.
We're having a wedding. We need you there.
Mark Pritchard and Bridget Balodis are pulling together a huge team of theatre artists to stage the biggest work they've ever made. It's an interactive wedding event, where the audience are guests in the performance of a fake wedding. And by deconstructing weddings as a piece of theatre, we want to explore marriage - what it is, what it means, and why people do it or dont do it in this day and age
Next Wave commissioned us to create the work through their Kickstart program, and now we have to stage this beast in the 2012 Next Wave Festival - May 19th-27th. We're trying to do it four times, which is logistically and financially ridiculous. But we want to make risky theatre about urgent social and political questions, in exciting and generous ways.
So we need your help.
We're doing this on a shoestring, but weddings ain't cheap. Your donation will help keep this project and the artists involved afloat.
It will keep ticket prices down so the work is accessible.
It will help us hire production equipment, design materials, and venue hire.
It will keep the debt-collectors off our backs.
It will be the icing on the cake/project we've being pouring ourselves into for the past 16months.
Who are we?
Mark and Bridget are young queer theatre directors. We graduated from the VCA in 2010, and have started collaborating under the name NO SHOW. As a company, we want to find new ways of telling stories in live spaces. We want to strip theatre back to its roots in community, ritual, and the power of live experiences - and use this form to tackle issues that we find urgent and worth making art about. Shotgun Wedding is our first project as a company, its the start of our new way of working, and an important opportunity to launch us into the world. Check us out at www.noshow.com.au
Your name goes up on our pozible wall, and we're deeply grateful.
19 chosen / 481 available
Est. delivery is Apr 26
A slice of the actual wedding cake, in the mail, for you to enjoy. Legend has it that if you sleep with a piece of the wedding cake under your pillow, you will dream of the one you will marry.
7 chosen / 93 available
Est. delivery is Apr 26
A nice bottle of bubbly from Mark and Bridget as an expression of our love and gratitude, and a big thankyou to you on our website.
4 chosen / 20 available
Est. delivery is Apr 26
A love letter from our exquisitely talented wordsmith Dan Giovannoni. He'll make you feel like you're the only girl in the world. We recommend reading it while popping open your bottle of sparkling wine and soaking in a long hot bubble bath. Lush.
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Est. delivery is Apr 26
A romantic evening with Mark AND Bridget. Prepare to feel like a prince(ss) for an evening of romance. Dinner, champagne, laughter, conversation, and a kiss on the beach at sunset. Seriously.
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Est. delivery is Apr 26