Praxis Theatre

13 comments:

1. Freeman says:

   March 6, 2009 at 11:01 am

   How to factor pot into our economic developments plans for small theaters.

2. Michael Wheeler says:

   March 6, 2009 at 11:29 am

   Not a bad idea. Apparently one of the ways that cops discover grow ops is through extraordinarily high electricity bills to power the lights…Theatres are already using similar amounts of energy to power their instruments, so they could totally fly under the radar. The gain in income could be offset by reduced productivity however…

3. bfg says:

   March 6, 2009 at 12:40 pm

   I think this plan would ultimately result in a deficit as all profits would have to be used for Doritos.

4. Michael Wheeler says:

   March 6, 2009 at 2:03 pm

   What if we could get a Colbert-like sponsorship?

5. Anonymous says:

   March 8, 2009 at 1:31 pm

   Let’s talk about THEATRE CONTENT.

   Hello, MKP.

6. Michael Wheeler says:

   March 8, 2009 at 4:42 pm

   What’s up anon? You have been conspicuously absent as of late. Have you seen any shows you would like to address?

7. Anonymous says:

   March 9, 2009 at 6:39 pm

   I've been a busy bee. Sorry.

   Okay, let's have a show of hands. What makes you wanna clamour for a theatre seat the most: 1) here-&-now topicality? or 2) quirky flights of fancy?

8. J@simpleposie says:

   March 10, 2009 at 10:00 am

   How ’bout talking about the way the Heritage meetings are going?

9. Michael Wheeler says:

   March 10, 2009 at 11:52 am

   @ Anon: none of the above. stuff that is new, stuff that i never thought of, stuff that took enough risks that is has the potential to fail massively.

   @ Simpleposie: really well, thanks for asking.

10. Anonymous says:

    March 10, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    “Stuff that has the potential to fail massively”? That’s mighty big talk as we enter a semi-Depression.

    Have you got the economic model figured out on that one? Honest question.

11. Michael Wheeler says:

    March 10, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    @anon: here at praxis, we don’t have it figured out by any means, but we do have a theory that we operate on:

    in a nutshell we hope to slowly, methodically, develop a reputation for creating work that takes risks. sometimes this will be successful, sometimes it will fail. it is our hope that over time people will come to see how we succeeded or failed at achieving difficult tasks this time around.

    we certainly haven’t reached that level of notoriety yet, and reviews still play a big part in determining the size of our houses, but eventually, from an economic standpoint, that is how we hope to fail massively.

12. Anonymous says:

    March 10, 2009 at 5:37 pm

    Whattabout succeeding massively? Don’t rule that out.

13. Michael Wheeler says:

    March 10, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    No of course. The theory underpinning this whole debacle in risking massive failure is it is the best way to create something really fucking awesome.