Can I get you anything?
Jesus Christ, Satan, Mark Twain, Jimi Hendrix. And those are just the confirmed guests. Unconfirmed guests include Jay-Z, Beyonce, Dave Groll, the Black Eyed Peas and the Goo Goo Dolls. Do not miss this show. Tickets available now. Seating is extremely limited. Shiva3 Productions presents BEAUTIFUL ZION: A BOOK OF THE DEAD.
And those are just the confirmed guest performers.
Unconfirmed guests include Jay-Z, Beyonce, Dave Groll, the Black Eyed Peas and the Goo Goo Dolls.
Do not miss this show.
Opens 9/7 in Philadelphia.
Only 8 performances.
Seating is extremely limited.
$20 tickets available now.
Shiva3 Productions presents Beautiful Zion: A Book of the Dead.
$20.00 tickets to this intimate, action-packed, supernatural event are onsale now. Only 8 performances. Only 16 seats per show. Order now. Advance online orders only — no tickets will be sold at the door.
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“I have here a 1917 original William Fuld Ouija Board and planchette. I have consulted polarity practitioners and radionics experts from around the world. They have examined the entire Community Education Center, and they have determined that there are, shall we say, certain presences in the Blue Grotto. And that these presences have a vortex, as it were. A gateway, if you will. An entrance to Hell, if I may. And that entrance is right over there. Tonight it contains a small table and two chairs. Who’s in? Shall we put all I’ve told you tonight to the test? I need 3 incredibly cool, incredibly brave, bold, fearless volunteers to help me reach across to Beautiful Zion and bring his ass back.”
$20.00 tickets to this intimate, action-packed, supernatural event are onsale now. Only 8 performances. Only 16 seats per show. Order now. Advance online orders only — no tickets will be sold at the door.
http://insidemind.repradio.org/2011/08/11/108-jeffrey-stanley/
Interviewer Kristen Scatton of Rep Radio in Philadelphia wound up deftly getting me to talk about some things that weren’t even on my agenda, like my feelings about NYU Tisch School of the Arts, being taught and strongly encouraged by David Ives, my adventures with Tesla, Ouija Boards, death and why everything is not going to be okay, reflecting on why I never moved to LA, and a call-to-arms to Philadelphia filmmakers. Oh and there’s also my upcoming Philly Fringe show Beautiful Zion: A Book of the Dead directed by Dan Student.
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Interviewer Kristen Scatton of Rep Radio in Philadelphia wound up deftly getting me to talk about some things that weren’t even on my agenda, like my feelings about NYU Tisch School of the Arts, being taught and strongly encouraged by David Ives, my adventures with Tesla, Ouija Boards, death and why everything is not going to be okay, reflecting on why I never moved to LA, and a call-to-arms to Philadelphia filmmakers. Oh and there’s also my upcoming Philly Fringe show Beautiful Zion: A Book of the Dead directed by Dan Student.
Many thanks to Kristen for joining me in the Blue Grotto for the interview during a rehearsal break. Listen now.
In order to promote Beautiful Zion: A Book of the Dead I’m changing my name to Swag for the next week and using the royal we. Below, a clip of us at our first rehearsal in the Blue Grotto. Our director Dan Student has been in China but before he left he did much work with us in the 3rd floor studio at Plays & Players, pretending it
In order to promote my show I’m changing my name to Swag for the next week and using the royal we. Below, a clip of us at our first rehearsal in the Blue Grotto. Our director Dan Student has been in China but before he left he did much work with us in the 3rd floor studio at Plays & Players, pretending it had the Blue Grotto’s layout to the extent possible. This was our first attempt to try things out for real.
This is not a rehearsal video but a quick walk-through to show Dan what I’d come up with. I slapped it up on Youtube (unlisted at first) for him to take a look at from China, forgetting that they block Youtube there. So much for cybercollaboration across political ideologies.
No worries, we’ll be working together soon enough and resume formal rehearsals in the Blue Grotto thanks to CEC artist-in-residence Randy Dalton‘s generosity and support for the show.
Enjoy guerrilla theatre as it develops:
“But I did start reaching out to the netherworld. I was at my friend’s New Year’s Eve party with a bunch of people. We were all sitting around a candle-lit kitchen table in the dark. The mood was right for the conversation to turn toward seances. Instinctively I knew what to do. Before the night was over Jimi Hendrix had possessed a kitten and the Christmas tree was on fire.”
“Flash forward 16 years. By the time I was a teenager I had begun to get suspicious. It was the 1980s. A time of suspicion.”
“I mean it. I was starting to realize that the government could be lying to me sometimes. Nicaragura. The expose of the brutally cruel CIA training manual. Then it got worse. Not only could the government lie to me. Religion could also lie to me. When I was 16 years old I was sitting in a church with my mom and the deacon came out into the congregation during an altar call and dragged us both down front to get saved. They tried to cast Satan out of me.
Don’t worry. It didn’t take.
But I did start reaching out to the netherworld. I was at my friend’s New Year’s Eve party with a bunch of people. We were all sitting around a candle-lit kitchen table in the dark. The mood was right for the conversation to turn toward seances. Instinctively I knew what to do. Before the night was over Jimi Hendrix had possessed a kitten and the Christmas tree was on fire.”
Beautiful Zion: A Book of the Dead. September, 2011. Philadelphia. Tickets are now available.