Monday, December 6, 2010

Thank you all so much!

We've wrapped up NU Stands Right HERE, and what a ride it's been. The APP would like to thank everyone for coming out, especially all of the campus workers and the Daily Northwestern editorial board. Check out photos HERE!

Send us your thoughts on the show - and look out for an email with petitions and Morty-letter-links if you gave us your email!

Look out for more stuff from us in the future - info meeting after break! How do forum theatre to organize with campus workers, invisible theatre all over this campus, and mural-making sound?

Pretty cool to us...

Peace & love,
The APP

Friday, December 3, 2010

The day has come!!

Hey, world - WE OPEN TOMORROW!! SO EXCITING.

We've been moving the tables in Norris, standing on chairs, and learning how to effectively use sock puppets to portray intelligent, serious (albeit hilarious) points. Here's one now!

"Hello! I love the APP! NU Stands Right HERE!!"

And check out our promised spoof on the NU Cuisine what we assume was a well-intentioned, horribly misguided "get to know the workers" campaign:




...And there's 4 more - check out our Facebook page! Hope you've seen them around campus. You should also walk past the Dittmar Galleria (behind Sbarro) to see a collage of a bunch of the stuff we've thought about and created for this show.

And at that, my friends, we will leave you - and hope to see you at NU STANDS RIGHT HERE - Friday and Saturday in the Wildcat Room B, Norris, fo free! Don't bring a lot of stuff with you... just openness and questions, which we will bring, too!

Love,
The APP

Sunday, November 21, 2010

DATES DATES DATES

Stumbled through the show today in good old Kresge - the APP is getting real. Tell and bring your friends to...

NU Stands Right HERE
by the APP team

Friday, Dec 3 @ 8 & 10PM
Saturday, Dec 4 @ 8 & 10PM

Norris. Wildcat Room B. FREE. 

Now we know everything there is to know!

This advertising infuriates us. 
We feel that it is reductive and demeaning to workers on this campus, allegedly aiding us students in "getting to know" our staff, while really presenting us with caricatures of real people. We applaud the Living Wage Campaign for taking steps to help facilitate the forming of MEANINGFUL relationships between workers and students, and are vaguely disgusted by the people behind this advertising (Sodexo? The administration? - at least for approving it). 

Keep your eyes peeled for our own versions of this advertising: we're expecting it to spark some controversy. But controversy means dialogue. And thought.

Do you have thoughts?

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Thank yous and welcomes!

Whew! We are working ridiculously hard in the APP rehearsal room on our upcoming show, NU Stands Right HERE (in our badass new trackets). We have a real live script and so much in store!

We WOULD like to take a moment to extend heartfelt a thank you to the NU campus workers who came out to eat pizza and play theatre games with us on Friday. We are so glad to have been able to meet and hang out with you, all of us getting to know each other a little bit better. It is absolutely in the plans of the APP to continue and expand this work and connection through common (new!) expression. You made our night!

The APP would also like to thank Cleve Jones for giving a rousing lecture last night on the importance of one person's participation in the fight for justice. We appreciate you telling your stories, calling out the Daily editorial board's seeming lack of humanity, and urging us to know that what we all do with our lives does, indeed, matter. You rock the APP's collective socks. Thanks also to the LWC and all of the other wonderful sponsoring groups!

Finally, WELCOME to our newest performing ensemble member, Ben Gojer! We appreciate you jumping in right after Pigeonholed, and already love your craziness and enthusiasm.

Back to work!
Love you all,

The APP Teamsauce

Thursday, November 11, 2010

MORE SNEAK PEAKS!


We are really interested in what we can say without using words. Here's is something we have been working on for a while, or at least a little part of it. Enjoy!