FESTIVAL
ANNOUNCING:
NO NUDE MEN’S MOST AMBITIOUS THEATER FESTIVAL TO DATE!
Fellow writers, we are holding a new play reading festival in 2010 of Olympic proportions and we’d love for you to be a part of it.
The theme is The Twelve Olympians- those principal deities of ancient Greece that linger still in the back of our minds, taunting us with their seductive archetypes and passionate stories of power, obsession, love and transformation. The object: to create twelve full-length plays, one per god, to be presented as a reading, three a week for four weeks at the Exit Stage Left, starting July 8th 2010 and running till July 31st.
What do you get?
1)To Keep Your Play. After that first reading it belongs to you, entirely.
2)Tentative Publication. If everyone agrees, we could look into creating a chapbook of the twelve and releasing them as a collection with royalties for everybody!
3)1 third of your box office of the night of your reading. The 2nd third goes to your cast. The 3rd third goes to No Nude Men to pay for the space.
4)A chance to be part of a unique new play festival we will promote the crap out of and everything cool that comes with that (like parties, connections, cute classics nerds asking for your phone number, etc.)
What are the rules?
Your play may take place in any time period or setting, but must adhere to the following:
1)It must be titled the name of your god.
2)Your god must appear as a character, though they do not have to be the main character.
3)The focus of the play must be the god or the god’s impact/purpose, even if you choose to have the main character (s) be someone else.
4)The use of pre-existing material is probably necessary in a project like this, but no transcriptions, please (i.e. don’t just take THE BACHAE and re-write it word for word). By the same token, don’t feel behold to rehash the old myths- you can write a new myth, or a combination of known myths, or your take on one myth in particular, or something else entirely- just don’t plagiarize the master poets (and yes, we’ll know if you do- that’s how much of a geek I am).
5)The goddess Hestia must appear as a character in your play, though the nature and size of her role is up to you. Why? Because we have decided to go with the post-Dionysian Olympian line up, but traditionally Hestia and NOT Dionysus was one of the twelve Olympians: she gave up her throne to the younger god because her site of worship, the hearthstone (she was the goddess of fire) was in every home in the world- making her arguably the most powerful goddess in Greece. Ironically she has no real importance to the mythic cycle- which makes me think it’s time to give her a little love.
6)The play must be a minimum of 80 minutes. It does not have to be two acts (though that is preferable) but it must be full-length.
7)You must be able to submit 20 minutes worth by 12/12/2009.
8)You must be willing to cast and put together your own rehearsal schedule for the show. Again, these are straight up readings (not staged readings) so rehearsal should be minimal anyway (though you want these to sound rehearsed- think of it as good radio theater- live!). If you want to hire/designate a director to do this that is also fine. The point is- you’re responsible for making your particular night as awesome as possible (though we will provide tech and take care of all space management issues, box office, programs, etc.)
9)Single writers or teams are fine; however, teams of two or more must be willing to share their dividend of the box office (i.e. they split the writer’s third, they don’t cut into the rest of the box office_
I’m convinced, I can do this, now how do I get involved?
Basically, send us an e-mail at endymion82@aol.com. In the e-mail you need to
1)Select one of the Twelve Olympians as your very own.
2)Tell me why that god, why you, and what you propose to do in 500 words or less. Nothing you say here will be set in stone, it’s really just to get the ideas flowing.
Viola!
The Twelve Olympians are:
Zeus, god of the sky, weather, king of gods and men.
Hera, goddess of marriage and power, queen of the gods.
Athena, goddess of wisdom, craftsmanship, justice and honor.
Hephaestus, god of blacksmithing, weaponry, armor, volcanoes.
Ares, god of war, violence, destruction and chaos.
Apollo, god of music, poetry, healing, prophecy and twin of Artemis.
Artemis, goddess of hunting, animals, maidenhood and twin of Apollo.
Dionysus, god of wine, theater, madness.
Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquakes, horses and water.
Demeter, goddess of grain, farming, fruit and motherhood.
Hermes, god of mathmatics, travelers, writing, secrets and commerce.
Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, sensuality, seduction.
DEADLINES FOR ENTRY ARE SEPTEMBER 13 2009.
NO NUDE MEN’S MOST AMBITIOUS THEATER FESTIVAL TO DATE!
Fellow writers, we are holding a new play reading festival in 2010 of Olympic proportions and we’d love for you to be a part of it.
The theme is The Twelve Olympians- those principal deities of ancient Greece that linger still in the back of our minds, taunting us with their seductive archetypes and passionate stories of power, obsession, love and transformation. The object: to create twelve full-length plays, one per god, to be presented as a reading, three a week for four weeks at the Exit Stage Left, starting July 8th 2010 and running till July 31st.
What do you get?
1)To Keep Your Play. After that first reading it belongs to you, entirely.
2)Tentative Publication. If everyone agrees, we could look into creating a chapbook of the twelve and releasing them as a collection with royalties for everybody!
3)1 third of your box office of the night of your reading. The 2nd third goes to your cast. The 3rd third goes to No Nude Men to pay for the space.
4)A chance to be part of a unique new play festival we will promote the crap out of and everything cool that comes with that (like parties, connections, cute classics nerds asking for your phone number, etc.)
What are the rules?
Your play may take place in any time period or setting, but must adhere to the following:
1)It must be titled the name of your god.
2)Your god must appear as a character, though they do not have to be the main character.
3)The focus of the play must be the god or the god’s impact/purpose, even if you choose to have the main character (s) be someone else.
4)The use of pre-existing material is probably necessary in a project like this, but no transcriptions, please (i.e. don’t just take THE BACHAE and re-write it word for word). By the same token, don’t feel behold to rehash the old myths- you can write a new myth, or a combination of known myths, or your take on one myth in particular, or something else entirely- just don’t plagiarize the master poets (and yes, we’ll know if you do- that’s how much of a geek I am).
5)The goddess Hestia must appear as a character in your play, though the nature and size of her role is up to you. Why? Because we have decided to go with the post-Dionysian Olympian line up, but traditionally Hestia and NOT Dionysus was one of the twelve Olympians: she gave up her throne to the younger god because her site of worship, the hearthstone (she was the goddess of fire) was in every home in the world- making her arguably the most powerful goddess in Greece. Ironically she has no real importance to the mythic cycle- which makes me think it’s time to give her a little love.
6)The play must be a minimum of 80 minutes. It does not have to be two acts (though that is preferable) but it must be full-length.
7)You must be able to submit 20 minutes worth by 12/12/2009.
8)You must be willing to cast and put together your own rehearsal schedule for the show. Again, these are straight up readings (not staged readings) so rehearsal should be minimal anyway (though you want these to sound rehearsed- think of it as good radio theater- live!). If you want to hire/designate a director to do this that is also fine. The point is- you’re responsible for making your particular night as awesome as possible (though we will provide tech and take care of all space management issues, box office, programs, etc.)
9)Single writers or teams are fine; however, teams of two or more must be willing to share their dividend of the box office (i.e. they split the writer’s third, they don’t cut into the rest of the box office_
I’m convinced, I can do this, now how do I get involved?
Basically, send us an e-mail at endymion82@aol.com. In the e-mail you need to
1)Select one of the Twelve Olympians as your very own.
2)Tell me why that god, why you, and what you propose to do in 500 words or less. Nothing you say here will be set in stone, it’s really just to get the ideas flowing.
Viola!
The Twelve Olympians are:
Zeus, god of the sky, weather, king of gods and men.
Hera, goddess of marriage and power, queen of the gods.
Athena, goddess of wisdom, craftsmanship, justice and honor.
Hephaestus, god of blacksmithing, weaponry, armor, volcanoes.
Ares, god of war, violence, destruction and chaos.
Apollo, god of music, poetry, healing, prophecy and twin of Artemis.
Artemis, goddess of hunting, animals, maidenhood and twin of Apollo.
Dionysus, god of wine, theater, madness.
Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquakes, horses and water.
Demeter, goddess of grain, farming, fruit and motherhood.
Hermes, god of mathmatics, travelers, writing, secrets and commerce.
Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, sensuality, seduction.
DEADLINES FOR ENTRY ARE SEPTEMBER 13 2009.
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