Help me please!

[jumperkid]

For one of my classes I'm creating a Hypothetical Theatre Company. I am AWFUL at naming things, so can y'all offer any suggestions for a good theatre name? I will be based in Athens (GA) and plan to cater to both young audiences and adults.  I hope to have an extensive outreach program to the schools. Here's my mission statement:  [Insert Name Here] strives to help the Athens community explore our humanity through a diverse body of theatre. By producing both classics and new plays from a variety of theatrical traditions we will foster an understanding and love of the arts within our community. By producing productions each season geared toward young and new audiences we will encourage our children through imagination and excitement.   One of my classmates suggested "Stages of Growth" as the theatre name, which is okay but I would vaguely like to maybe have Athens somewhere in the name? I don't know! I'M REALLY BAD AT THIS! Do y'all have any ideas?

Comments

[r-becca.livejournal.com]

Maybe something really basic, like Athens Theater Company? Or, I like your classmate's suggestion -- you could just make it Athens Stages of Growth.

[jumperkid.livejournal.com]

You know that's true. I think I've been thinking too abstractly and forgetting about just naming it what it IS.

[areyoumymemmy.livejournal.com]

The Touching Young People In a Theatrical and Sort Of Greek Way Theater of Athens.

Oh wait, did you want helpful suggestions?

[jumperkid.livejournal.com]

*snerk* I think you're on to something here. We can use the acronym! TYPTSOGW (pronounced "tipped soggy" of course) GENIUS!

Dude, who needs helpful suggestions when you can have acronyms!

[valancy-s.livejournal.com]

With the name Athens, why not pick a name to do with Greek myth or classical history and theater? Like the Lyceum Theater, the Acropolis Theater... or you could use the name of the muse of theater, whoever that was...

I dunno, maybe that's just dorky?

[jumperkid.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a good thought. I kinda like the idea of the Acropolis Theatre. I don't know that I could name it after a muse because there were actually two muses, one for tragedy and one for comedy.

[rivier.livejournal.com]

Athens, ha! Of course now all I want is for your name to have an REM connection, like Reckoning or Life's Rich Pageant or Talk About The Passion or Bingo Hand Job... OK maybe not the last one.

[jumperkid.livejournal.com]

OH! LIFE'S RICH PAGEANT! And then I could get Michael Stipe to pay for all of it!

[in-a-tizzy.livejournal.com]

Emily Grace Theater of Awesome Pants? EGTAP- Pronounced Egg Tap.

[jumperkid.livejournal.com]

While the megalomaniac in me LOVES this, I really don't want to tie myself permanently to this theatre...

[silver-reverie.livejournal.com]

Cool mission statement. Makes me want this to not be hypothetical.

Maybe you could play on the South part, not so much the Athens part. Like "Stage South" kind of a stage direction. I tend to think in images rather than names, and I keep seeing an old oak with spanish moss hanging down and in the moss you can make out the two faces of theater.
*shrugs* If you need a logo.

Or to combine, maybe "Southern Acropolis Theater"?