#to-love-and-to-cherish posts — Ben Crowder https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/to-love-and-to-cherish/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #to-love-and-to-cherish. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:59:37 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ The end of the run https://bencrowder.net/blog/2008/the-end-of-the-run/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2008/the-end-of-the-run/ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:00:00 GMT Just got back from closing night of my show. While it wasn’t perfect (more on that in a second), I’m happy with how it turned out. Of all my plays, this one (To Love and to Cherish) had some of my favorite lines. That’s probably because it’s more personal than my previous plays have been, more from the gut and less from the head.

That said, I wrote the script in an hour with hardly any planning beforehand (I got the idea in the shower, got out, dried off, and promptly sat down and wrote it all out right then) and never actually revised it (contrast that with my last play, Tree of Blood, which I rewrote 15 or 16 times). And I only went to one rehearsal. (Rehearsals are usually where I see what needs to be rewritten, thus their importance.) As a result, there were some things I didn’t get to change about the play that I now wish I could have (tightening it up a bit, giving the characters a named homeland and culture instead of the ambiguous one they had, reword a few lines here and there), but that’s just life.

Oh, and I’m happy to announce that this is the first time I didn’t place in the top three! (My last three plays all got third place.) This sounds kind of weird, I realize, and you might think I’m asking for sympathy or pity or something, but I’m not. I’ve been hoping that my winning streak would end because I was starting to take it for granted, and that assumption is a quick recipe for laziness in writing and complacency. I needed to know that a third-place finish was not guaranteed, so that I keep striving for excellence in my craft and all that.

Speaking of which, I’ll keep writing plays, but I plan to switch gears here and focus much more heavily on fiction (short stories and novels).

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]]> To love and to cherish https://bencrowder.net/blog/2008/to-love-and-to-cherish/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2008/to-love-and-to-cherish/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:00:00 GMT FYI, my new play, To Love and to Cherish, opens tomorrow night. It’s a short 10–15 minute piece about arranged marriages (sadly, there isn’t much autobiographical about this one :P) (though in retrospect, my last play was about a cursed tree that made people lose their wits (and their lives), so maybe I don’t do the autobiographical thing very well). It’s part of a set of seven short plays called “Games We Play” (about love and relationships) and is produced by New Play Project at the old Provo Theatre Company building at 105 E. 100 N. in Provo. Here are the performance dates:

  • Friday, Dec 5 @ 7:30pm
  • Saturday, Dec 6 @ 2:30pm
  • Saturday, Dec 6 @ 7:30pm
  • Monday, Dec 8 @ 7:30pm
  • Friday, Dec 12 @ 7:30pm
  • Saturday, Dec 13 @ 2:30pm
  • Saturday, Dec 13 @ 7:30pm
  • Monday, Dec 15 @ 7:30pm

The show runs a little over two hours long, with a ten-minute intermission dissecting the first three plays from the last four. (Mine’s second to last, though it could possibly change, seeing as we’ve still got tech/dress rehearsal for it tonight.)

Anyway, tickets are $6 ($5 for students/seniors/educators, and $4 on Mondays with groups of 5 or more). If you’re in the area, you should come see it.

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]]> Games We Play: auditions https://bencrowder.net/blog/2008/games-we-play-auditions/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2008/games-we-play-auditions/ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT If you’re in the area and interested in acting, come to auditions next week! As I mentioned a couple posts ago, New Play Project (the theatre company I work with) is hosting a set of plays on relationships called Games We Play, and my new play “To Love and to Cherish” (about arranged marriages) is one of the six or seven plays in the show. And the show will run the first weekend in December — the 5th, 6th, and 8th (a Monday). Anyway, if you’re interested, here’s when auditions are:

  • Tuesday, October 28, 7:00–9:00pm @ F430 HFAC (BYU campus)
  • Wednesday, October 29, 7:00–9:00pm @ F430 HFAC (BYU campus)
  • Thursday, October 30, 7:00–9:00pm @ UVU campus (room TBA)

If you’d like to get involved in the production in another capacity, by the way, feel free to email me. There’s plenty of room for volunteering.

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]]> New NPP redesign https://bencrowder.net/blog/2008/new-npp-redesign/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2008/new-npp-redesign/ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT For the past while I’ve been working on the New Play Project site redesign, and today it finally went live:

In other news, my play “To Love and to Cherish” (about arranged marriages) got accepted for the next NPP set of plays, Games We Play. More details forthcoming.

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