Las Vegas Weekly

No Shame Theatre

Insurgo’s Rambis is currently running Feburary 11 to March 6.

Photo: R. Brusky

No shame, no gain. first come, first served. Just bring original performance pieces and/or acting chops to Insurgo's No Shame Theatre. "It's a workshop. It's experimental," says Insurgo artistic director John Beane. "It's something where you can go and get the damn thing read."

Beane explains No Shame is a longtime national movement that has finally arrived in Vegas, thanks to producer Troy Heard. "We started talking and it just seemed like the exact right fit," Beane says. The first 15 written works arriving each week will be cast, rehearsed and performed—on the same night. "There's anything that you can bring to it," Beane says — from avant garde to music- or movement-based pieces to improvisational works, monologues and scenes.

Non-writers interested in acting can also show up and let Insurgo know they're ready to perform whatever's thrown at them. The only rules, for actors and playwrights? You can't hurt yourself, the audience or the space. And no breaking the law. "The beauty of it is also the terror of it, which is that anything goes. There is not a filter," Beane says. "This is a place to come and rip it out and try to throw it up in the air and see what happens."