The COLLISIONWORKING Series, Revisited (parts 1-4)

Now that the three shows are over, for those who didn't bother to click over and read the seven pieces I wrote about them, Berit, and myself at The Brick's blog, B(rick)log, to promote the shows through that outlet, I might as well reprint the whole series here for your dining and dancing pleasure..

Some of them are pretty long, so I'll put them each behind their own cut, and you can look at them as you please and at your leisure.

Here's the first four - an intro to the company, and pieces about Everything Must Go and Spell:

( Part 1: INTRODUCTION )

( Part 2: On EVERYTHING MUST GO )

( Part 3: On EVERYTHING MUST GO and SPELL )

( Part 4: On SPELL )

The COLLISIONWORKING Series, Revisited (parts 5-7)

And here are the last three parts of the series I wrote for The Brick's blog.

A big thanks to Jeff Lewonczyk for editing these things for over at that blog, and all at The Brick for their assistance in making these shows happen.

( Part 5: On HARRY IN LOVE )

( Part 6: On HARRY, Some More )

( Part 7: Postscript )

GCW Update, post August Shows

An email went out this morning to the GCW Mailing list - as much because it helped me move the mailing list over from my old personal AOL account to the brand spanking new company Gmail account as it was for promotion, etc.

Here's the email, as a couple of the points will be of interest to blog readers who may not be on the list . . .

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Four items of note from GEMINI COLLISIONWORKS:

1.

We are revising and revamping and transferring our email list to a new account - geminicollisionworks@gmail.com - rather then the old gemmemory@aol.com account - which will still be best for personal messages to Ian.

In the process, we may accidentally get you on our email lists TWICE. Please let us know if you are getting double emails from us, and we will correct the problem.

NOTE TO BLOG-READERS

: Not on our mailing list? Want to be? Send an email to the gmail address above.

2.

Our just-closed trio of shows - Harry in Love, Spell, and Everything Must Go - are still eligible for voting at The New York Innovative Theatre Awards.

25% of the final vote depends on our audience. If you saw any of the shows and haven't voted (especially if you LIKED them), please go to the link above and do so.

3.

Thanks to all of our donors who made this year of shows - the three mentioned above, plus The Magnificent Ambersons by Orson Welles: A Reconstruction for the Stage - our biggest year, in terms of scale and budget, in the 11 year-history of GCW.

However . . . big budget and scale, presented in a small space at a reasonable ticket price, means big debt, and we would like to try and get out of it before next season. So, remember, you can now . . .

DONATE TO GEMINI COLLISIONWORKS! IT'S TAX-DEDUCTIBLE!

a. If you wish to donate by check, they MUST be made out to "Fractured Atlas," with "Gemini CollisionWorks" in the memo line (and nowhere else), and should be given to us personally or sent to us for processing at:

Gemini CollisionWorks
c/o Hill-Johnson
367 Avenue S #1B
Brooklyn, NY 11223

b. You can also donate directly online securely by credit card at

https://www.fracturedatlas.org/donate/1394

(please double-check to be sure you're at the "Gemini CollisionWorks" donation page)

All donors will be listed in all our programs for the 2009 season under the following categories:

$0-25 - BONDO
$26-50 - RAT RODS
$51-75 - CHROME
$76-100 - LOW RIDERS
$101-250 - CANDY FLAKE
$251-500 - FLAME JOBS
$501-1000 - T-BUCKETS
$1001-2500 - SUPERCHARGERS
$2501-5000 - KUSTOMIZERS
over $5000 - BIG DADDIES

4.

Future plans for Gemini CollisionWorks? As in probably next year?

We will be bringing back Daniel McKleinfeld's intense and wonderful documentary play, A Little Piece of the Sun, which premiered under Daniel's direction and our design in the 2001 NY Fringe Festival.

We are looking to do a new production of Richard Foreman's play George Bataille's Bathrobe.

We are creating an original piece about space opera of the mid-20th Century.

And we are planning - would you believe? - a family-friendly puppet show, conceived and supervised by Berit - illustrating songs by some of our favorite popular music artists from Herbie Hancock to Devo to The Sonics to several others.

We'll see what happens . . .

hope to see you at our shows next year, and thanks for your continued support,

Ian W. Hill, arts
Berit Johnson, crafts
Gemini CollisionWorks

Gemini CollisionWorks is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Gemini CollisionWorks may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

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