HELLO FRIENDS!!

Thank you so much for visiting our page.

We are a troupe of die hard L.A. creatives raising money for a film version of our mad, tragic, redemptive two-act drama, "The Arsonist of Venice."


All funds will go to the cost of production.

We're under no illusions about the challenge of mustering enough support to do our creation justice. It might be a steep climb. Also in the works is an industry-standard proposal for potential film investors. Your support is key to our plan, however, and the sooner we receive your contributions the better. ;)


What does this project mean to us?

"Labor of love" doesn't begin to capture it. Long travail of desperate, bloody passion, perhaps?!

We've workshopped, revised, and honed "The Arsonist of Venice" for literally thousands of hours over the past three years. Now we need to birth it like a mother in the grips of a long labor. And we're true believers: The world will be better for our dark, hopeful story.

So, your interest is beyond precious to us. It's our Holy Grail, our price above rubies. You get to be part of the unlikely genesis of a new work of American theater, in the tradition (we dare hope) of our heroes-- Eugene O'Neil, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, David Rabe. 

How to articulate how thankful we will be to those who help usher this strange baby into the cosmos? Some new word, perhaps, like Shakespeare might have coined. Wildly... gratitudinous?

In advance: Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Also...

You have a right to know:

Any magnanimity on your part might provoke the ragged theater gods to take notice of you. If that happens, it's possible they'll appear to you some quiet evening, most likely as you're drifting off to sleep. Don't worry, they're friendly. They might grin down at you and through broken, wine-stained teeth, and croak, "Child, you were right to be magnanimous. For art and beauty matter if anything matters."

(Just so you know, that might happen.)   ;)



Now let's talk about...

PERKS!!

Ohhhhh, the perks...

First of all, make sure to send us an email address along with your contribution!! Otherwise all of what follows will be moot.

If you contribute at the $100 level
We will feature your name in our film credits, and beam love at you for the rest of your natural life, unless you ask us to stop (we'll try).

If you contribute at the $200 level
Your name will still be in the credits, but we will also send you a hauntingly cool movie poster signed by the entire cast, and beam so much love at you that it'll probably get a little weird and you'll probably (almost definitely) need us to stop but at that point we probably won't be able to.

If you contribute at the $300 level
We'll think of you as some sorta over-the-top angel devotee, some magical patron from God. Thus, in addition to the aforementioned perks, we'll put you on a special email list and keep you in the loop as production cranks into gear. You'll get immediate access to the full seven-minute proof-of-concept scene we've already filmed, and any future behind-the-scenes video.

If you contribute at the $500 level
You are now a member of our innermost circle whether you like it or not. Not only will we offer you all goodies discussed heretofore, but you will also be invited to any and all soirees related to "The Arsonist of Venice." Our gatherings are known to be epic, replete with stupendously interesting guests, world-class live music, exquisite craft cocktails, and random outbursts of spoken-word poetry.

Furthermore, if we were the types of individuals, the kinds of checkered, mercurial Hollywood characters, who were disposed to trifle with certain curious, ambrosial gumdrops, we would discreetly tap you to join us.

But of course we are not those sorts of characters at all.

Or are we?


AND FINALLY, DEAR FRIENDS...

Tradition in the Abramovitz family insisted that no missive was complete without at least one brilliantly germane quotation from a beloved writer. For all your kind indulgence, you are now included in that tradition:

“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.”   ―Tom Robbins

“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.”   ―Tom Robbins

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."  ―Oscar Wilde


THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

Love,

Blake Shields Abramovitz & Bernard C. Bayer