For now though - major props & shout out to the one and only Elyse Dawson. Elyse joined the Babes as an Artistic Associate shortly after our 2014 production of L'Imbecile and has been eager to help with marketing efforts. For Witch Slap!, fellow ensemble member Barb Lhota had created Tarot Cards for a meet the cast campaign on facebook (they were awesome and included a 'Which Tarot Card Are You?" type survey that had been going around facebook. After some brainstorming with the ensemble about the Titus Andronicus story and it's themes, we came up with the idea of Toe Tags for the cast announcement. Elyse put together a short questionnaire about the cast & their respective characters, including how they (might) die & their epitaph. The result was awesome: an image that is compelling along with information that whets the appetite for more - it's pretty well-known that Titus is Shakespeare's bloodiest play so reaffirming that our version would not be shying away from that reputation but that we'd also be finding that dark humor (what's your favorite pie?) that is also in the play.
The Babes With Blades Theatre Company marketing team is in a 'rebuilding' phase and this is the first show where we've had some fresh blood (heh heh!) and strong follow-through on ideas. It's not perfect, but there are new levels of accountability and sharing of responsibility. I'm now the Marketing Director and am hoping to put some plans in place that will be easy to replicate going forward but that's a long process and we won't know how well it goes until after it's done (or will we?). For now though - major props & shout out to the one and only Elyse Dawson. Elyse joined the Babes as an Artistic Associate shortly after our 2014 production of L'Imbecile and has been eager to help with marketing efforts. For Witch Slap!, fellow ensemble member Barb Lhota had created Tarot Cards for a meet the cast campaign on facebook (they were awesome and included a 'Which Tarot Card Are You?" type survey that had been going around facebook. After some brainstorming with the ensemble about the Titus Andronicus story and it's themes, we came up with the idea of Toe Tags for the cast announcement. Elyse put together a short questionnaire about the cast & their respective characters, including how they (might) die & their epitaph. The result was awesome: an image that is compelling along with information that whets the appetite for more - it's pretty well-known that Titus is Shakespeare's bloodiest play so reaffirming that our version would not be shying away from that reputation but that we'd also be finding that dark humor (what's your favorite pie?) that is also in the play. Then she threw out the idea for a trailer that involved a meat grinder! Why not play up the Grindhouse aspect of this play? We gathered some pie, some fake body parts, Jen Mickelson's teeth (yes, those are her real wisdom teeth saved from their extraction years prior!), a pork loin and a video camera. Then, she recruited her buddies at Ready Freddy Films to help with editing. Enjoy! (Oh, and book tix, while you can!) Comments are closed.
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