TST is our gift to the burning man community. We believe that you get what you give. We've all received a lot from the burning man community and this is one opportunity for us to give back in a fun participatory way.
What's in a name?
Twilight Spaghetti Theatre, the name TST is a throw back to the film tradition spaghetti western. My second year at burning man I ate at a camp named Spaghetti Western, the camp served spaghetti as sunset and on video monitors in the camp played clips from varrious films from the genra. The spaghetti western film genra was kind of a hodge podge of scenes loosely tied together involving cowboys and lawlessnes. Similarly we hope to have a wide varriety of acts on our stage with little congruity between them. For many members of the camp one of our favorit activites has been stopping people on the street and asking them to preform for food. TST is a more structured setting for the same activitiy.
What is involved.
This year we will only be running TST for 2-3 nights out of the week of the burning man festival. Durring those nights we will need members of our camp and possibly members of LPP to run varrious posistions of TST. One of the beautiful things about the free form nature of this event is that we are in charge of when we start and when we end. We can decide how much spaghetti to serve and what kid of spaghetti sauce to serve. We do not need ot exhaust ourselves putting this event on. The whole things can be rather leasurely incomparison to camps like pancake playhouse.
Preparation work.
Durring the months leading up to the event we will conduct reserach into what will be the easiest to prepare and clean up foods. Presesntly we are commited to pasta of some sort but not tied to spaghetti and tomato sauce. In august we will be building a large sign which will attach to the dome and flushing out the stage experiance. There may be some other activities which I'm not able to think of at the moment.
Do we really need to have a gray water pond?
Yes! Camp members need to take showers. The amount of water used in showers will dwarf the spaghetti gray water. I think? Anyways we have a rather large camp now and we need to be better responcible about managing our waist. I think the graywater pond will be nice to have and not moch trouble in comparison to the pleasure being able to be clean.
Just a heads up on our latest thinking about what TST. Some of this will change as we conduct more research about TST.
