To All,
Just to let everyone know No Shame Charleston is coming back for Spring '01.
Our first night will be January 26, 2001 at 11pm at the Courtyard in front of
the Simons
Center for the Arts.
Wish us luck.
On January 26, 01 five people showed up to No Shame. No new scripts were brought forth so we had one man do his audition piece (Top Dollar's Devil's Night speach from The Crow) and had a sing along. It was not what No Shame is traditionally but we had a good time.
On Febuary 2, 01 we had three people and two scripts (we almost had three scripts but the third one was thirty minutes-we'll cut it up for the next few weeks). The first script was "J'ein" by Jonathan Wilcox. It was a Brechtian Love story. The second was "If a Tree Fell in the Woods" by A.M.Earley. It was inspired by "Scarecrow" - Melissa Etheridge's tribute to Matthew Shepard.
We had a core group of seven people who showed up to almost every instalment of No Shame. We also had nights where we garnered an audience of almost twenty. We canceled No Shame once during the entire semester, so that several people could see an 11pm showing of a play occuring inside the Simons Center. Somehow all the participants ended up at the same event that canceled our event.
Throughout the semester the people who consistantly submitted works (including plays, poems, songs, and impromptu performance pieces) included: John Wilcox, Meghan Sullivan, Suzanne Fortney, A.M.Earley.
No Shame Charleston's Spring semester closed the Friday before the last day of classes. It will
resume in the Fall on the Friday of the second full week of classes.
Let's see how well it goes then. It felt like a good start these last few months.
