Just got back from Alabama State Thespian festival. An incredibly hospitable group and I had a great time teaching workshops. Met such a sweet group of kids who were doing scenes from my plays in an IE (individual events) competition. They seemed surprised that I would want to talk to them. I got that last [...]
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It’s getting a little bit crazy out there. This week we had a customer who wanted to know more about a play because they were worried it showed too much of a disrespect for authority. What the hell? Swearing I can understand. Sex I can understand. Violence, to a degree, I can understand. But disrespect [...]
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I got a request this week from some students. They loved one of my plays and they wanted to do it but they didn’t think the ending was clear enough. Could they write a better ending to it?
Thankfully, the teacher understood, and perhaps knew as she was asking, that the answer was a ringing, resounding [...]
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The Sears Drama Festival is an Ontario One Act play festival. Schools perform in their region, winners move on to their district (or it could be district and then region, I can never remember) and then winners of that move on to the All Ontario Festival. I’ve been very lucky to have a growing number [...]
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Subtitle: “They would HAVE to hold this conference on the coldest weekend of the year!!!”
The above was overheard at this past weekend’s Georgia Thespian Festival. As a Canadian, and as someone currently wearing three layers inside my house because it’s so cold outside, I’m not sure we’re speaking of the same kind of cold. The [...]
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