The Buzz Intro Interview | Twinhead Theatre

Responder: James Yates, Ensemble member
Name of Company: Twinhead Theatre
Name of Show: Rottenwood

“If you want to relax in an air-conditioned theater for an hour and see the bastard love-child of Tennessee Williams and Aaron Spelling–Rottenwood is the show for you.”

Why should people see your show?

There are so many amazing choices at the Atlanta Fringe Festival, but if you want to relax in an air-conditioned theater for an hour and see the bastard love-child of Tennessee Williams and Aaron Spelling–Rottenwood is the show for you.

What about festivals intrigues you? And why the Atlanta Fringe?

The variety at a Fringe Festival–and the energy is amazing. You can feel the excitement from being around artists who are getting a chance to 100% be themselves and present their art exactly as they want and for audiences that are hungry for it.

What inspired you to create this?

Rottenwood has been a part of Twinhead Theatre’s sketch comedy show, Loaded Guns, for years. But we’ve only really scratched the surface with how far we could take the concept and the Fringe is the perfect place to take things further.

[Above: Twinhead having a vicious pillow fight and doing their weird, campy, hilarious thing in the 2018 Atlanta Fringe]

Life has been weird the last few years, to say the least. How has the “real world” affected the art you’re creating?

Oh MY. Haha. Luckily our show is based on a supposed script written in 1980 so there will be no “real world” implications or parallels in our show. No sirree.

What have you learned from working on your show so far?

That’s it’s always a good time when Twinhead gets together.

There’s a mysterious stranger in the back row of your show, wearing a big ol’ N95 mask and a baseball cap and there’s something weirdly familiar about them, and then they come up afterwards to tell you they loved your show. In your WILDEST DREAMS, who is this mysterious stranger? (Bonus points if your mysterious stranger is an Atlanta celeb.)

YOU! The person reading this. You would be our most welcome guest and it would exceed our wildest dreams for you to come and spend an hour at Rottenwood.

Fringes are the place to really push the boundaries so we gotta ask: are you inviting your family to this show are “Hey, maybe sit this one out you guys…”

They know to always sit our shows out. My parents have seen one out of 50 Twinhead shows.