Archive: New Play Project category
[Cross-posted from Top of the Mountains.]
There were enough good submissions to the New Play Project Long Ago and Far Away set that they've added an extra round of finals, and my play Tree of Blood is one of the nine finalists. Phew. :) We have till Tuesday ...
I submitted three plays to this next New Play Project set, Long Ago and Far Away. (The plays are Tree of Blood, Rhymetime, and Do Not Pass Go, in case you were wondering. Which you probably weren't. :)) And I've also cast my lot in to assistant ...
This'll be quick because it's late and I'm tired. I've been helping out with ushering and the box office/concessions booth for New Play Project's production of Swallow the Sun. You know, box office is a lot of fun. And I didn't even expect to like it as ...
I haven't done a very good job of keeping up with this blog lately, have I. :) As it happens, I got a little, um, distracted, but I'm happy to report that the distraction has left as abruptly as it came, and life is now back to normal again.
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We had our closing performance of the show -- Lost and Found -- tonight. The house was more full than it had been for any of the other five performances, and the audience was great -- very receptive, they laughed a lot, and overall it was just an amazing ...
Great post on Segullah by Chris Bigelow entitled Mormon Literature: Carving Out a Middle Niche?
Piddling around with Mormon niche markets is okay, as far as it goes (which isn’t far). But for me, the real holy grail of Mormon literature would be for a Mormon author to break ...
We survived opening night! The show is the reason I've hardly blogged on here lately, and it'll probably be that way for the next few days. In the meantime, though, here are some quick thoughts I've had on my playwriting.
Thus far, my dialogue tends to be mostly "It's ...
Earlier today Katherine posted "Toward a Mormon Renaissance" over at Mormon Renaissance (how fitting :)). It's an essay by James Goldberg, one he read at the beginning of New Play Project's "Thorns and Thistles" set of plays (which happened to be when my first play was performed, incidentally) ...
Yesterday we held the first rehearsal for Prodigal Son (James Goldberg's play that I'm assistant directing), and tonight's the first Safe and Sound rehearsal. As a playwright, my role in rehearsals really is up to the director; some don't care if I'm involved (with Snowstorm, for example, I didn't ...
Over the past few days I've been revising Safe and Sound, trying to gut out the flaws and replace them with new, living flesh. With every rewrite, though, it's hard to tell if I'm actually making things any better. Sometimes I can tell that I am, but sometimes ...
