No Shame.

[prufrock451]

The 20th anniversary of No Shame Theatre.

I used to have fantasies about this, back when No Shame was a big chunk of my life. "I will be invited to perform at the 20th anniversary show," I thought to myself. "I will be on that stage with John Smick and Carolyn Space Jacobson and Todd Ristau. Because my writing and performance will be remembered."

Comments

[hansenmj]

REASONS I WOULD NOT GO BACK

[prufrock451]

1a. I guess there will be five shows, so one could go back just for one or two.

2a. I Love the 80s is exactly right.

3a. I got an email announcement (NOT invitation), but I think that's just because Jeff Goode had my email.

1b. True. And true.

2b. I completely forgot about Fringe Festival in the white-hot frenzy of deadline fever. Faugh. As to NSDM, I guess we could rent that abandoned theater on Ingersoll.

3b. It would be good to see all those folks, but I have a feeling our era will be underrepresented.

[fakemustache]

its in october (durring school) but if i can think of some really great reason to not be in school for a week i really want to go.

i dont know if i would want to perform anything.

no shame is/was amazing but it kind of died for me. i was there for the last shows of my favorites, and after that it wasnt the same.

[prufrock451]

The same for me. There is a nostalgia, but is it enough motivation for even a weekend trip? Hmm.

[fakemustache]

i guess if i could be promised a gay einstein and a shitweeds daughter and probably your mexico sketch. maybe even a funny tabor song about hotdogs... i wouldnt even question the fact that i would 100% be there. and if you threw in a that spaghetti shakespear sketch i would probably bring friends.

right now i go through every few months trying to look up sketches that i remember seeing on the nst-archive. part of me wants to see them again, probably a bigger part of me just wants to read them and have sad sap nostalgic warm fuzzies about them.

[fakemustache]

earth five and/or grocery bag would be good too.

[bassdrumdream]

It would be great to visit Iowa City in general, so maybe I'll go? I don't know. The names I miss most from NS are probably on the whole too busy, broke, or buh-drastically relocated to attend. It's a great venue, though. It'd be nice to be able to go back and support it. I guess it's going to come down to my time and money situations.

[prufrock451]

It would be nice. hm.

[chrisstangl]

KHANS
-No Shame is not a part of my life at all anymore for various reasons. In L.A., it doesn't have the aura of cool - quite the opposite - and there are better places to perform.
-I'm disappointed in NST-IC's inability to self-sustain with a level of quality and audience, and want to punish it.
-The institutionalization of NST strips it of a lot of potential relevance and edginess.
-In the end, NST is an open mic in a nice theater.

PROSE
-a visit to Iowa City is long overdue for me.
-I am proud of my NST work. It has been of limited use in any other venue, and I'm a better writer now, but I am proud of it. It stands on its own merits, and also made me that better writer.
-I've outgrown NST, and NST is not what it was. That's why I don't attend normal shows. But an anniversary celebration is different. Think of it as an award ceremony, a Civil War reenactment, or a Full House cast reunion

[fakemustache]

i just want to point out that i did not get laid in this not nostalgia.
probably the only one though, so that point should still stand

[prufrock451]

Chris, you're thinking two moves ahead of me.

[herkind31]

stop living in the past, and go! have some goddamn fun! are you still that person you were in the past? no! so have a few laughs, and a lotta drinks, and perform. put a new spin on some old stuff tho, like do a-this-is-how-the-new-james-sees-the-old-james in an interpretive dance.

[walrusjester]

I second this motion.