Across freeFall's large parking lot is a third building, which the company wants to turn into a center for education and theater instruction. The second building, down sidewalk corridors and across a grassy area that Davis and Lane envision as the outdoor lobby, will house the company's 150-seat black box theatre. Until it's ready for full-scale productions, Lane says the company will use the large room for events like indie film screenings. The largest, the former main church building, will be turned into freeFall's mainstage theater. The sprawling complex, which the company purchased for $1.5 million, is made up of three buildings. Petersburg, says he often passed the church building on his way down Central Avenue to his mother's home. "Very quickly, theater companies become like a family," Lane says.ĭavis and Lane closed on the old church property around Thanksgiving 2010, after a search that took them to warehouses and parking garages and downtown buildings. FreeFall hired actors for its first show a few years ago, and soon built a company from people in the community who sought involvement in the arts. Since then, the company's productions have been housed at other local theaters like and American Stage, both in downtown St. Petersburg theater scene with its debut show "The Wild Party,'' at St. Now, a lime green sign in front of the three-acre property lets passersby know this isn't a church anymore. Just months ago, the company didn't have a place to call its own.
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They point out windows that will house art displays, and an opening in one of the outside walls perfect for a potential concessions area.
They walk through what used to be Second Church of Christ-Scientist, in and out of empty spaces that would become their dressing rooms, bathrooms and mainstage theater. Petersburg, freeFall Theatre founders Eric Davis, 36, and his partner Kevin Lane, 33, discuss creative choices and construction details. About two months before the debut of freeFall Theatre Company's "The Frogs,'' church pews and Sunday school signs fill the company's new space.Īt the three-building complex at 6099 Central Avenue in St.
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