Arts & Culture Magazine - November/December 2007 - (Page 49) Arts & Culture Magazine : : PERFORMING ARTS ‘07 School For Wives and Rocky Horror Show. Images courtesy of the Venice Little Theatre. the experience and the training and the fun and social outlet, whatever it may be, the basis of community theater,” Chase says. Conversely, all of the theater’s directors, designers, musicians and choreographers are paid and professional. Every once in a while, the theater will hire a professional actor to fill a role that cannot be filled by a volunteer. But volunteers abound, with 1500 active ones in just the last year. Impressively, the Venice Little Theatre is the third largest community theater in the United States, behind only Omaha, Nebraska and Des Moines, Iowa. And it is lucky to have as its development director Duane Hunt, who used to run Omaha’s community theater. Next on Chase’s agenda is to find a managing director to free him for more time in development, public speaking and artistry. As a staff liaison on the six-member committee of volunteers who meet monthly to decide on programming, Chase has, he says, “a fairly strong hand in the process. Number one, I know the canon.” And he knows what he likes. “There’s nothing to me like a good piece of literature that just screams for the challenge of finding its hidden secrets, of finding maybe the thing that somebody else didn’t find in it,” he says. “Bertolt Brecht always said the audience shouldn’t be emotionally involved, it ought to be thinking, and that theater’s purpose is to move people to rectify social injustice. I say no, if the audience ever stops and is just thinking about what they’re seeing, you’ve lost them, the effect is gone, the suspension of disbelief is over. When we see the actor rather than the character, when we see the literature rather than the story, then we’ve lost our way.” Venice Little Theatre is located at 140 Tampa Ave. W., Venice. Call the Box Office at 941.488.1115 or visit www.venicestage. com for more information. arts and culture magazine : : 49 http://www.venicestage.com http://www.venicestage.com
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