A Place

We're pretty flexible about performance space, since our specialty has always been to bring the show to your location, wherever that may be. Of course, there are places we can't perform (no wing-walking) but even we've been surprised by some of the locations that have worked well for our show style.

The main requirement of a location is that there must be a spot which everyone in the audience can look upon and hear from for about 20 minutes. Before and after that, we only need to have individual actors meet with and be heard by small groups sequentially.

Typical

We're usually in a dining room somewhere with 8- or 10-top tables. Then we like to clear a space in the middle where we can do our scenes. We won't need risers or microphones until the audience size gets to be over 200. (A 10' x 10' x 18" riser is a good size.)

Moving

Sometimes we perform in a moving vehicle, like a railroad dining car. In that case our space would be long and narrow. Again, the primary limitation is that everyone in the audience must be able to see and hear.

Strange

Sometimes the locations are unusual. One of the weirdest happened in summer 2004 when we did a show for about 12 people on a greyhound-type bus. If you look at the diagram above and narrow the performance space to the width of one person you'll get an idea what it was like. Surprisingly, we all had a good time (we even worked out having somebody shot in the back of the bus) and the audience loved the show.

Our classic strange space, however, happened when we performed for a pharmaceutical company rafting on the Colorado River. We had an actor in each raft (meeting a small group sequentially), but we arranged with the guides that every fifteen minutes or so we'd pull all the rafts up to a spot on the bank. There the actors would jump out of the rafts and do a scene within sight and hearing of the whole group. Then the actors would change rafts and we'd head out again.

Creative

When we did the Horseshoe 2 Restaurant in Breckenridge, we found that audience would be seated on both the ground floor and second-floor balcony. The only place they could both see and hear us would be a landing on the stairway. So that's where we performed.