{"id":844,"date":"2010-03-22T13:24:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2022-04-13T22:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T03:05:45","slug":"you-are-not-dead-a-play-for-modest-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2010\/03\/22\/you-are-not-dead-a-play-for-modest-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"you are not dead: a play for modest giving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living<\/a> is becoming a play!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2008 Daniel Reetz<\/a> and I released this music, image and text collaboration online for free. It filtered through Vancouver peripheries into the imagination of Danielle Marleau of Black Pants<\/a> and is being adapted as a stage production for premiere mid-May in Vancouver (final dates and venue to be confirmed).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ingenious premise turns my satirical self help guide into a live-action seminar run by representatives from the Canadian Chapter of the Fakeproject Corporation of America, with Dan’s images incorporated into a devious and dysfunctional PowerPoint. The project also has on board brilliant actor Ryan Beil. This guy is amazing\u2014the Corporation couldn’t be more pleased with its international representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the help of Danielle and a dramaturg, I’ve toiled to retool the guide into a script to the best of my so-not-a-playwright abilities, updating the content to reflect the Canadian condition and sensibilities, to the best of my three-year observations (what, youall thought I was there for library school?). The guide was originally penned in 2005\u2014suffice it to say, post\u2013second-term election Bush Administration America required a much different tone than 2010 Olympic comedown high Vancouver. But so much of it still strikes raw and true, five years later and in a different though certainly not dissimilar culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has been in the works for nearly a year. There have been hints here and there in various ethertubes but no official announcement due to the uncertainty whether wow, is this really happening?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes. Yes, it is. And you can help. Black Pants is raising money to mount the show, with fundraisers held in Vancouver (check out a nice write-up about the project and a benefit event in the Granville Secret City blog<\/a>). You can give via PayPal directly to Black Pants. Every bit helps and is much appreciated! (Clicking donate below will send you to Black Pants; click their donate button to get to PayPal!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Donations are investments.
Labors of love are the hardest to birth.
And thanks. Updates on this project will be posted as they happen!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE: Unfortunately Ryan Beil will not be a representative after all. Now on board are Adam Bergquist and Jessica Harvey, and they are *muah!* fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living is becoming a play! In 2008 Daniel Reetz and I released this music, image and text collaboration online for free. It filtered through Vancouver peripheries into the imagination of Danielle Marleau of Black Pants and is being adapted as a stage production for premiere mid-May in…<\/span><\/p>\n

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