Bill Writes A Play OVERNIGHT
for ONE DAY ONLY 7!
ZOMBIES TAKE OVER
PLANO, TEXAS!
Bill Fountain's 24 hour theater play has a great night at the One Day
Only Festival!
"Decomposing Theater," a short play written
by Bill Fountain, premiered at the Plano Courtyard Theater Saturday
Night, April 22, 2006. The play, written, directed, rehearsed and
produced in less than 24 hours was directed by Bob White and starred
Eric Hopkins, Tristin Raquel Bunting, B.L. Wilson, Courtney Murphy,
Allison Pistorius, Angela Owen and Martha Scad. It also featured an
amazing horde of at least 20 Zombies that invaded the Courtyard Theater
audience for a final act that no one in attendance will soon forget!
Look for a film version coming this summer featuring the original cast
and crew!
Check out some gruesome photos and info from this once in a
lifetime event!
Check out
some Designs for the UPCOMING FULL THEATRICAL PRODUCTION and
FILM!
Back in September of last year I was honored to direct a 24 play
for Rover Dramawerks' 24 hour play festival. This time around I
have been selected to write one of the plays that will be
produced in less than......uh....24 hours..
Because of my current rehearsal schedule for Arsenic & Old Lace,
I couldn't work in the time needed to direct the production -
but since the writers write the plays OVERNIGHT and I never
sleep anyway, it seemed like a perfect match! Info below. Hope
you can make it out and see some really fun and on the fly
theater!
Info:
Rover
Dramawerks’ highly anticipated 24-hour play festival, One Day
Only is back! The seventh installment of “seven short plays
from concept to curtain in just one day” returns on April 22 at
the Courtyard Theatre of Plano!
One Day
Only
was first produced in the metroplex in May of 2000 by Audacity
Productions. Rover Dramawerks teamed up with Audacity for the
next three festivals, and Rover went solo to present One Day
Only 5 and 6. All of these are productions unlike anything ever
done before, even by us! For this is an event in which an
entire one-act play festival of seven plays is written,
produced, directed, rehearsed, teched, and performed in a single
day. Just 24 hours.
At about 9:00 p.m. on Friday, April 21, a group of writers,
directors, actors, and technicians will get together for the
first time. A brief get-to-know you session will include
providing ideas for the writers (to be drawn out of a hat) and
taking pictures of the actors (no headshots and resumes are
allowed). Then the writers will convene at a single location
and work through the night. Each writer will compose a ten to
fifteen minute play based on the subject he/she drew that night.
At 6:30 a.m. (yes, THAT early!), the directors return. They
will quickly read the plays, decide who directs which play, and
cast the plays from the pictures taken the night before. The
actors show up around 8:00 a.m. and meet with their
writer/director team. The writers go home to get some sleep
while the plays are blocked, memorized, and rehearsed by the
director and actors.
Tech rehearsal begins around 4:00 p.m. Then curtain is at 8:00
p.m., when all of the plays are presented for the first time at
the Courtyard Theatre of Plano. That’s right – seven world
premieres!
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