I went to a cabaret this week - it’s a once monthly gather of musical theatre types that seemed to have started out very casually and now is somewhat of a big deal - the small room was packed to the gills. I have been one time great lover of musicals - lately not so [...]
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In the middle of a very interesting book by Anne Bogart - A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre. I like her writing style - it’s very engaging. It actually makes me want to read instead of rolling my eyes in the back of my head. I do believe that university sort of [...]
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It’s been one of those dreadful work days. Nothing is getting accomplished. It should be easy: I have the place to myself. The temperature is moderate. I have a list of things to do so it’s not like I’m writing in a black hole or something. (Ahhhhhh the black hole of writing ahhhhhh) But oh, [...]
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Spent part of the weekend in London at the London Fringe Festival watching my friends the Aerial Angels perform. They do partner acrobatics, aerial hoop, aerial silk and oh yes, they eat fire. The multi-talented Allison Williams heads the company. It’s very thrilling in my mundane little world to know people who eat fire for [...]
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Just returned from the American Association of Theatre Educators conference (AATE) which was last weekend. I was thrilled to have a new play SWEEP UNDER RUG take part in the Unpublished Play Project which is put on by the Playwrights Network of the organization.
There were seven snippets from seven plays performed and it was really [...]
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I’m working this weekend on the August edition of Theatrefolk’s e-newsletter. (What? You didn’t know we had a newsletter? Well go to our home page and check out the link! Go on! Wait, do it after you read the blog!) It’s about Absurd Drama and The Theatre of the Absurd. It’s a genre that I [...]
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