About this project
Suspicious Package is an iPod noir (well really a Zune noir). Combining theater, video games, walking tours, and scavenger hunts, this interactive experience uses handheld video players to immerse its audience within the gritty chiaroscuro world of film noir, where not everything is black and white.
The Edinburgh Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world (over 2000 shows!!), and Suspicious Package needs to be a part of it!! But in order to get this little show to Edinburgh, it's going to cost a lot of dough.
$2000 is the bare minimum I need to raise to take the show on the road! This will cover rent for the month in this pricey Scottish town.
$3000 will cover airfare as well.
$4000 will cover housing, airfare, and registration fees.
$5000 will cover all of the above, plus advertising/PR costs.
Anything above and beyond that will go to keeping me fed and additional advertising expenses (you can never have enough posters or flyers in Edinburgh, I'm told!!).
And thanks to The Brick, all Donations are TAX-DEDUCTIBLE!! So you get the added bonus of helping the show and a sweet tax write-off at the end of the year. ;)
More info at:
http://www.suspiciouspackageshow.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Suspicious-Package/31431841368
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 15, 2010.
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The warm fuzzy feeling you get knowing you've supported the arts!
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Get a thank you & link on the Suspicious Package website!
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The above, plus a handwritten thank you card and an autographed Edinburgh Fringe postcard.
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All of the above, plus an invitation to our thank you/bon voyage party, to be held this summer!
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All of the above, PLUS an autographed copy of Suspicious Package:Rx, published in Plays and Playwrights 2010 (http://tinyurl.com/plays-playwrights). Book is exclusive to this level.
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All of the above, plus a private showing of Suspicious Package in June/July for you and 3 to 5 friends in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Includes a pitcher of beer or daiquiris!
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All of the above, plus we will videotape you and your friends at your private showing and immortalize it in an exclusive DVD, just for you.
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All rewards through the $100 level, plus we will write the name of your choice into the show! This could be your name, or a friend/family member's name--makes a great gift!! (Please nothing too anachronistic to our 1940s/50s world.)
Pledge $1,000 or more
All rewards through the $100 level, plus a chance to appear in the show! We will write a cameo role just for you in the gritty noir world of Suspicious Package. (You must be able to appear in NYC for one day of filming in May/June.)
Project By
Connected as Gyda Arber (809 friends)
Gyda Arber is a writer-director best known for creating the multimedia iPod noir, Suspicious Package, which drew acclaim from a host of publications, including The New York Times ("A distinctly 21st-century form of participatory theater. A singular experience.") and The Village Voice ("Impressive!...Makes for thrills.") and was nominated for an IT Award for Outstanding Production of a Play. Named "Person of the Year 2008" by nytheatre.com, Gyda is also the director-creator of the interactive play Q&A: The Perception of Dawn ("quite ingenious"--nytheatre.com), the writer-director of the short film "Watching" (commissioned by the horror festival Sinister Six), and the assistant director of The Brick's hit shows Notes from Underground and The Ninja Cherry Orchard. Also an accomplished actress, she has appeared at The Public Theater, Joe's Pub, and most frequently at The Brick, in shows including Fassbinder's Blood on the Cat's Neck ("Phoebe Zeitgeist, an excellent Gyda Arber"--The New York Times), Greed: A Musical Love $tory (Anna Nicole Smith), the English-language premiere of Vaclav Havel's Mountain Hotel (Liza), Ian W. Hill's noir pastiche World Gone Wrong (Dolores), and the musical Ich Liebe Jesus! (Virgin Mary). She also serves as the Outreach Director of The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A San Francisco native, she has a degree in musical theater from NYU, and is a graduate of the Maggie Flanigan Studio.
