Obscene/Courageous Theatre is a non-profit, professional theatre company that's been operating in the Denver/Boulder area since 2011 with thirteen full productions of plays like The Lovecraft Holiday Special (2012), Marlowe's Edward II (2012), The Who's Tommy (2014), and Sarah Kane's Blasted (2015). Our goal is to select or develop excellent material and produce it in exciting, unexpected ways that will leave our audiences thoroughly entertained and at least a little bit disturbed.
This year, Ob/Co is developing our first original work! Kink Meme is about five friends who run a BDSM club where one of the many services offered is live performances of their clientele's fantasies onstage. When a crisis happens in their community, they suddenly must confront huge questions about violence and sex, consent and desire, and real-life versus fantasy. In true Ob/Co fashion, there's plenty of playfulness, sex-positivity, queer representation, and ladies with lots to say.
This production is a workshop, which means that we are using our rehearsals to continue revising the script, tickets will be pay-what-you-can, and our audiences will be invited to share their thoughts and feelings to help us continue to make our new play as Obscene and Courageous as can be.
Ob/Co runs entirely on the generosity of our audiences and on individual contributors like you! We keep our production costs low by focusing on excellent scripts, directing, and performances rather than expensive sets, props, and costumes, and by supporting small and unusual venues. We also believe that actors are the heart and soul of theatre, so we have a commitment to always pay our professional, super-talented actors for their work. Your contribution to this campaign will help us to keep producing weird, exciting, titillating plays in an environment where artists and audiences feel valued and gratified.
For this workshop production, we're asking for $1,000 in individual contributions. Here's a specific breakdown of how those funds will be used:
- $600 - actor compensation ($100 per actor for 6 actors)
- $400 - venue rental (one tech rehearsal, two dress rehearsals, and four performances)
Our costumes, props, and set pieces will largely be donated or borrowed from our generous community of friends and fellow theatre artists, so we are not asking for funds for those expenses. However, any funds raised over our goal will first go to any production expenses, and then to our actors.
Tickets for this workshop production will be on a pay-what-you-can basis, and ALL funds from tickets sales and contributions made at the performances will go DIRECTLY to our actors!
Obscene/Courageous has been operating for five years as a "grassroots" theatre company, surviving and thriving on small fundraising campaigns like this one. Our budget comes entirely from individual contributors and ticket sales -- if YOU care about the work we're doing, THAT'S what makes it happen.
If you've supported us before, THANK YOU!!! Please help us continue to bring you strange and thrilling theatre!
If you haven't supported us before, now's your chance!!! Come see a kick-ass new play that YOU helped make happen!
If you want to help but can't make a contribution, talk us up!!! Tell people about us, this crazy new play, and this fundraising campaign by sharing them on social media using the indiegogo share tools, and in person using your face!
We are SO stoked to share this play with all of you. Thank you for five fabulous years, and here's to many more!
- Ob/Co