Archive: Plays category
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 ...
Great post by Robert Starling (via Gideon Burton) on Mormon Renaissance yesterday, called High Expectations for Mormon Filmmakers. This part was particularly inspiring:
In a “behind the scenes†portion Dr. Woodbury was recorded saying something that has guided my creative life. He had gathered his cast and crew ...
Script Frenzy has begun. One hundred pages in thirty days. Here we go. :)
You know, I actually completely forgot about it until this morning, when I realized it was April 1 and thus the beginning of the frenzied scriptwriting. I almost decided not to do it, ...
In commenting on David Hulet's post on the recent BYU writing salon, I realized the topic was something I wanted to write about some more.
How do I write? Spurts (squeezed out by deadlines) have been most common for me, but I agree with David that a regular, set ...
This morning I came up with an idea for an exercise I'm going to do soon: write seven plays in seven days. Short plays, of course. :) The primary constraint will be that on the first day, that play will have only one character, the second play will ...
Here I am writing plays, but do I actually read any? I realized today that if I don't see what else is out there -- and see it in script form, not just on stage -- then I'm going to get into a rut where I'm effectively writing the ...
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 ...
I've been reading Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life, and it's chock-full of nuggets that inspire me to take up my pen and write, write, write. (The other part I love is that she's unabashed about her Christianity and its influence on her writing.)
Here's one bit I ...
