Create a performance that's different every time... on purpose. Over six weeks you'll build chance into your process and create something that offers differing results every time you perform it.
Each week brings fresh prompts, ensemble work, and creative challenges. You'll weave together personal stories, task-based techniques, improvisation skills, and current events to build a short piece that includes an element of the unreproducible. Will you let fate be decided by the roll of a six-sided die? Will the audience choose their own adventure? Will you allow yourself to fail gloriously?
After six weeks of exploration, you will perform your piece (solo or ensemble) for a live audience.
This is a sandbox to safely take creative risks. Good for clowns, directors, writers, devisers, improvisers, performance artists, and anyone who doesn't feel like they fit into a clear category.
Throughout the workshop, you'll:
Learn practical tactics for blending spontaneity with structured performance
Build a repeatable system of controlled chaos you can apply to future work, not just this piece
Create work that can evolve and change from performance to performance
If you agree with any of the following, than this is for you:
My creative roadmap is more of a straight line
I feel like all of my creative mining has put me into a pit of despair
I'm too comfortable on-stage and I want a greater risk of failure
I want audiences to compare notes about what they saw or didn't get to see at my shows
I use the word "ephemeral" a lot; I read Choose Your Own Adventure books; I have a Mad Libs book somewhere on my bookshelf; I saw and loved Julia Masli's "ha ha ha ha ha ha ha"; I've played the Stanley Parable; I watched Bandersnatch three or more times; I like flowcharts and decision trees; sometimes I drive without maps and I'm currently in Arizona by accident, please start without me, I'll be there soon.
Experience Level
You should have some experience performing your own original work
Workshop Schedule
All workshops will take place at time + space (953 Chung Kind Rd)
Workshop Dates/Times
October 4, 11, 18, 25
Nov 1, 8
@ 2:30pm - 5:30pm
Showing Date/Time
Nov 8 @ 7pm
$275 - REGISTER HERE
About Adam
Adam Smith is a Los Angeles-based writer, director, and performer who makes work that's never the same twice. His recent pieces include Caller ID, an immersive telephone play for a single audience member; RERUN, a competition show that turns classic TV episodes and specials into an absurd contest between three competitors; and PARTYBOY, an audience-interactive attempt to get better at parties. Together with Arletta Anderson he devises work as andersmith: sometimes theatre, sometimes dance, usually in-between. His work has been charted as "Low Brow/Brilliant" by New York Magazine's Approval Matrix.
He has taught writing, devised theatre techniques, and creative process for over ten years in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and beyond.
Adam is a former member of the New York Neo-Futurist collective and was the founding artistic director of the San Francisco Neo-Futurists, best known for their long-running show The Infinite Wrench (formerly Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind), an ongoing, ever-changing attempt to perform thirty original plays in an hour.
Follow him on IG @thisadamsmith and visit thisadamsmith.com for more.