Kock Fight Club

Stairs to the pit
Hippolyta, Egeus and Theseus chillin' on the couch "backstage"

The "stage." The sign reads "Select Your Firmness"
Our Fab band rockin' out.

I forgot to write about the play! Midsummer Night's Dream turned into a crazy adaptation called Kock Fight Club. The entire play took place in the orchestra pit of the blackbox theather in the Performing Arts Center. A huge screen was built and lowered over the pit at various points in the play. At certain moments video bits were projected onto the screen. All the musicians were on the stage. The audience had to wear chicken costumes. I was involved in writing pieces of the music. Some songs were writen fom scratch with Shakespeare's dialogue as lyrics, and some, such as Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics and the David Bowie song Oh You Pretty Things we adapted for violin, trombone, viberaphone, drums and upright bass. By the end of all our hours of rehearsing, the band was soooo tight. It felt like a real band instead of a thrown together group of musicans intended only to work on the show. One weekend we rehearsed for ten hours a day, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and we reahearsed for four hours every night for two weeks leading up to the show. Everyone loved it and the entire experience was absolutely incredible. I made so many new friends from being in the play and am anxious to work with Daniel Fish (the director) again someday. He's brilliant. Sorry this is so rambly, I have to get back to studying but I wanted to share this and some pictures from the play. Love to all!