Welcome to Beth Marshall Presents!
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The Way of the Cards
At the Lowndes Shakespeare Center in the Mandell Theater.
March 9th through the 18th, 2012.
Tickets are $15.
Industry Night $10 Guaranteed seating (pre-order online), and a walk up pay whatever you can with cash.
“The Way Of The Cards” is a new play written by Aradhana Tiwari and the ORLANDO PREMIER. The story is structured around a single hand of Texas Hold ‘em. Meet Tip, who needs to teach cards in order to relay the most cataclysmic hand of his life. His mother, “Sass” Arlington (played by Beth Marshall), may have been the “First Lady Of The Vegas Strip” at one point in her poker career, but now she is simply a tired hack who plays on a riverboat.
- from Orlando Theater Blog
OUR MISSION
Beth Marshall Presents is an independent production company based out of Orlando Florida, producing theatre, dance, music, multi-media performance art and all things creative in arts & entertainment with a special focus on original works and touring festival circuits. Established 2008.
UNDERSTANDING THE WORK WE DO!
The productions we produce fall into 5 categories:
1) Original works we create from the ground up through a collaborative process.
An example of this is our “OFF THE WALLS” projects. These are projects where a museum, school, gallery, history center, science center or business contracts or commissions us to create a unique theatre experience to accompany an exhibit, event, project, class study, bussiness party/theme. We fully create a show to be presented at a non-traditional theatrical venue. This can be a big or small as one’s budget allows. ”OFF THE WALLS” can be local or touring shows. Past examples of our work that fall into this category are: THE POLLOCK PROJECT and THE 1934 PROJECT both created to accompany art exhibits at The Mennello Museum of American Art marrying the visual art, history, theatre and in the case of THE POLLOCK PROJECT, dance as well.
HOW TO BOOK US: We are ongoingly open to producing “OFF THE WALLS” projects anywhere at anytime. If you are interested in booking us, please contact Beth Marshall at Producer@BethMarshallPresents.Com or by phone at 407-925-6052.
2) Original plays for traditional theatre settings.
(Examples of these shows: L’Ange Avec Les Fleurs, PROP 8 ON TRIAL and The Way of The Cards)
These are unpublished plays Beth Marshall Presents selects to produce at our own expense. These plays are works that are most often chosen after seeing them produced or performed elsewhere or are written and submitted to us by the writer. We focus on representing original works from local, national and international writers as well as World, Florida and Orlando Premeires. These plays can be produced locally, nationally or globally. If the show has a cast larger than 3, the production will most often only be produced in Orlando. If it is a cast under 3, it is considered for local and touring productions.
These plays are chosen as part of our season.
HOW TO GET YOUR PLAY CONSIDERED: If you are interested in having one of your works considered for production for our season, please send us a letter of interest along with a play synopsis and resume’ of the writer.
What we are looking for in a play:
- Anything exploring the human condition
- Social-Political/cause oriented works
- Plays with small casts, small sets and low production costs
- No musicals
- Modern works set in current times
- Play exploring boundaries and thought proking issues/intense heavy dramas
- Over the top campy gay comedies
- Plays with spoken word or poetry
- Plays that incorporate a variety of art forms (Visual Art, multi-media, dance, performance art, music (but not a musical)
- Solo works
Please do NOT send the play itself, unless asked to do so. Send letters of inquires to Producer@BethMarshallPresents.com at anytime. We will contact you directly if we are interested.
3) Original Touring Shows we produce.
An original touring show that we produce is selected by first seeing the artist perform his/her original work and we approach the aritist to produce them most likely on a Fringe Festival touring circuit, but we are open to other Festivals or theatre venues as well. The focus here is to get Orlando based artists on the road and to get national or international artists to Orlando. In this case, we serve as a producing company and the level of producing we are involved in with each show varies depending on that artist’s needs and are negotiated accordingly. We can provide full fundraising, production costs, show direction, technical direction, promotion/marketing, booking, travel etc. Our company name is listed on these shows. (Examples of these shows: ( Select productions of :THE SCREW YOU REVUE, Paul Strickland’s works, Rob Gee’s works, Chase Padgett’s works)
4) Artists Select Us To Produce.
This is when an artist selects Beth Marshall Presents to aid in producing his/her own show on a touring circuit or local production and pays us a flat rate to give our producing expertise to the show. This show will not have our company name associated with the show but will often have a company member’s name listed as an Associate Producer or sometimes we are not credited. The rate is negotiated based on the individual artist’s needs.
A sub category of this is if a company/artist wants to hire us to come in and consulant on their production, give advice on touring, producing, fundraising, offer connections, problem solve etc.. Our rate for this service is $50 per meeting. (meetings range from 1-3hrs.)
HOW TO BOOK US: Contact Beth anytime at Producer@BethMarshallPresents.com or by phone at 407-925-6052.
5) Traditional published plays produced in untraditional ways.
As of now, Beth Marshall Presents only produces widely known published plays for The Garden Theatre.
How this works is that The Garden Theatre is a presenting company that contracts us to produce plays at that both serve their mission of family/general audience theatre married with our style of undtraditional casting and fresh takes on more classic tales.Together we determine which plays are presented and then negotiate a budget accordingly. (Examples of these shows include: Driving Miss Daisy, Crimes of The Heart, Our Town, A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas and The Diviners.)
While the main focus of Beth Marshall Presents productions is original work, we are always open to to the opportunity of production quality traditional theatre with our unique style for other companies.
If you are interested in having us produce something within your mission guidelines we are happy to consider.
