I’ve always wanted to do this sort of thing..well here goes. I know nothing about theatre or production or promotion or anything. But creating a play where everybody (including the audience) gets to play has been a lifelong dream. You can see more of my project at warriorwomanway.com

Live and Onstage: Warrior Woman & The Planet of Robots Majlis Arts Garden August 14, 15, 16 8-10pm

In a future when intelligent electronic devices have taken over planet Earth, Warrior Woman is the last remaining human.

What’s the story? Warrior Woman is hell-bent on sharing her overflowing passion with hyper-rational robots. And she has a really hard time finding a mate.

What’s so radically Do-It-Yourself about Warrior Woman & the Planet of Robots? Warrior Woman invites outsiders, newbies and otherwise passive audience members into the roles of actors, stage producers, directors, promoters, sound effects engineers, musicians, and technicians.

Won’t the acting be amateurish and singing off-key? We hope so. Delightfully so.

Warrior Woman & the Planet of Robots puts play back into the play. Everybody plays: the audience, the cast, and crew.

Do It Yourself theatre? C’mon really? Isn’t theatre for theatre people? Yes, usually, and Warrior Woman offers us all a chance to fully participate in making a stage production.

How does the audience participate? Warrior Woman is a reader’s theatre, meaning that the audience has a chance to read and play along and aloud with the script live and onstage.

I dig it, but what if I just like to watch? We need watchers too, but beware: bubble battles, singalong songs following the red bouncing ball, spontaneous dance parties, and call-and-response chants might lure you in.

Sounds goofy and silly and seriously creative. Where and when is the production?
August 14, 15, 16. 8-10 pm. Majlis Arts Garden. Your $15-25 suggested donation includes a schwag bag of toys including a signed copy of The Adventures of Warrior Woman, Too Much Passion, a graphic novel by Patricia Kambitsch.

What if I want to fully participate in the DIY behind-the-scenes production? We need DIY makers of all kinds: cardboard box robot makers, paper bag costume makers, noise makers, cookie bakers and the like. We also have room for actors and improvisers playing robots, monkeys, monks, devils, angels, and cameos by both Satan and God. Contact Patricia@playthink.com. 416.799.6750.

WorkPain: A New Vision for the New Age

Originally posted on adventures in slow learning:

Remember the dawn of the new Millennium? Remember that innocent time, years and years ago at the turn of the century when a new world dawned and new possibilities for new enterprises seemed possible? Back then, Pat Kambitsch was reinventing herself all over again, and so emerged her website and a business designed to connect ordinary people with participation in the arts. (You can still see the archives from that distant time.)

Kambitsch thought too many people put in too many hours working at tedious tasks that resulted in little good. She figured we’d all be happier (and maybe even more effective) if we just played around every now and then. And so, Pat Kambitsch conceived and gave birth to a Bill of Rights for Players and Thinkers.

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Players and Thinkers

1. You have the right to play–participate, recreate, fool around, dabble, doodle, explore, perform, have…

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I can float

So much to do! So many people to please! So many demands calling for my attention! It’s a good thing I don’t have to sink or swim or struggle at all. I can let gravity do the heavy lifting, and I can rise above it all.

When I start feeling overwhelmed I remember this: I can only do what I can do and that’s all I can do. And sometimes all I can do is float.

i can be a fancy person

Look at those Fancy People with their fancy degrees wearing their fancy French cuffs and sipping their fancy crafty cocktails using fancy big words to talk about their fancy big ideas and their fancy bespoke corporate branding strategies.

I will not be intimidated.

I am fancy person too. Or I can be whenever I want.

i have an innie

Some people have a strong sense of outer direction. Finding things like work in the world is easy for an outie. Outies know where to go, and they how to get there. They don’t get lost. All they have to to is look at whatever else is going on outside, and they know what to do.

I have an innie. I know because I can feel it. It’s inside, right there in the middle of my tummy. If I slow down and listen, my innie will give me the direction I need. And I need direction often.

If I try to be like an outie, my innie gets all confused. I get confused. I try to catch up with other people outside, and I just end up more lost than when I started.

I am slowly learning to trust my inner sense of direction. My innie will let me know which turn to take, how to get unstuck, who to trust, when I’m doing good work, when to stop. And right now my innie is telling me that it’s getting stronger all the time.

beyond first glance

I’m learning that all of us are more complex and interesting than we see at first, no matter how slow we are in realizing it. It’s good to give ourselves and others as many looks as we might need so that we might see beyond the surface.