#playwrighting

[gothicctherapy]

just started my first big stage management gig and i'm like bubbling with joy!! this is what i want to do!! i'm doing the thing!! fuck yes!!

[hades-pa]

I wrote my worst play yet where I literallyjust inserted as many plot twists as I could fit in without running over 4 minutes and somehow a 90 foot tall swan with fathomless eyes isn’t the weird part

[spikeironfoundersson]

Guys. GUYS.

2023’s Black List (the most popular un-produced screenplays in Hollywood) has dropped, and it has a screenplay based on the making of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

Yes, THAT Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Broadway’s most expensive flop of all time. With Greek mythology and Julie Taymor and fucking U2.

The screenplay is called Boy Falls From Sky and it’s written by Hunter Toro and it’s very funny and well-researched. Please enjoy, and tag your fan-casts for these roles because I’m so hyped by this potentially being made someday.

Read it HERE

[shakespearenews]

...Prebble told me, “Macbeth,” with its gradual accumulation of immoral acts, was a more important referent for “enron” than Marlowe’s play. Prebble said of her Shakespearean borrowings, “If you take something that has lasted an incredibly long time, and that everyone says is good, and then use that as a sparse backbone, you might be protecting yourself to some extent—or helping the narrative be stronger.” 

[xx-knife-xx]

What makes Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland?

I'm working with a team to make an Alice in Wonderland adaptation (Stage Production), and we're working out the most important parts of the story. I was hoping people could tell me what makes Alice in Wonderland Alice in Wonderland to them.

[rakonteur]

SATAN: You know what, Cunningham? All those excuses you got wedged between that dubious cleavage of yours: your mother, the bulimia, the herpes, the booze, the abortions, the rape, the bipolar pharmaceutical adventures, the twin suicide attempts, and the abject failures at every relationship you ever attempted - all those things do nothing to Band-Aid the simple fact that There Comes a Time When the World Stops Rewarding Potential - and what that time came for you, you threw yourself the world's biggest pity party and dedicated the rest of your short, pathetic, inconsequential life to finding fault everywhere fuckin' else but in the return gaze of your own cosmetically altered reflection. Okay?

[mikepowernyc]

Staged Readings of a New Comedy

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle This joy you feel is life – Gertrude Stein I am excited to announce that the Round The Bend Theatre Company will perform a pair of staged readings of my new romantic comedy, Renewal. Mark your calendars now for May 7 at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts in Woodstock and May 8 at the Mountain Top Arboretum in Tannersville. Renewal is…

[borninthebronx51]

From Reading to Rewrite: A Peek at How Self-Produced Plays Change

Another chapter in our book on 13 Ways of Looking at Self-Producing based upon our experience with ten such adventures. #playwright #theatercollective

Retrospective, a new comedy, by T.J. Elliott introduced at a January 16th reading at TheaterLab “I can’t understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.“Leo Tolstoy Readings help rewritings. The generous adventurous people​​ who come to the reading of a new play​ help to shape​ its​ next iteration​ through both their reactions in the moment​ — laughs,…

[ljmoorewrites]

How can I become a writer?

Write.

But I don't know where to start.

Write.

But I'm worried.

WRITE.

What if nobody likes it?

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What if it's not very good?

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[pers-books]

The National Theatre's posted some photos of The Importance of Being Earnest starring Ncuti Gatwa and BOY they are not messing around!

It'll be available to watch in cinemas National Theatre Live from 20 February.

Photos by Marc Brenner.

[campsite-jamboree]

It's so funny. At the end of every project I internally go "I'll never write again. I am a dry dry well. And it will never rain again." And then a few months pass and I can feel a storm coming.

[devonellington]

Fri. Feb. 23, 2024: More Art That Makes My Heart Sing

image courtesy of Bodo Bertuleit via pixabay.com Friday, February 23, 2024 Day Before Full Moon Snowing It was supposed to get up to nearly 50 degrees today, but I woke up to snow. I guess I’ll be out and about running errands later than I expected! Today’s serial episode is from ANGEL HUNT: Episode 114: Gaston’s Dangerous Former Love Gaston shares a tragic but fascinating tale from his…

[mayor-mclikeme-please]

How dare they

[ancientsstudies]

[shakespearenews]

Rauch had been told that the three pinnacles of theatre as a popular art in the Western world were Greek tragedy, English Renaissance drama, and American musicals. As a senior, he founded his own theatre company, and mapped out a mashup of “Medea,” “Macbeth,” and “Cinderella”—one exemplar of each style—so that they could be performed simultaneously. It was a way of seeing what they had in common, and how theatre could return to its populist roots.

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After that production was over, Rauch, Carey and their friends, calling themselves the Cornerstone Theater Company, drove to North Dakota, where they recruited locals to put on “Hamlet” in an old vaudeville theatre. At one point, Carey took over pouring drinks in a bar so that the owners could perform. The locals they recruited worried that Shakespeare’s language was too arcane, so the company modernized it, converting “arrant knave” to “downright prick,” for instance. (They ultimately changed that one: “downright prick,” they were told, was something “smart-ass college kids” would say. A rancher suggested “horse’s rear,” and that went into the script instead.)

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Rauch stayed in L.A. for fifteen years. He left in 2007 to become the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the country’s oldest and largest repertory-theatre companies, in Ashland, a small town just north of the California border. Rauch promised to expand its repertoire to include non-Western classics and to diversify both the company and the staff. He also announced a project called American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle—thirty-seven new plays to be written by a diverse group of playwrights and loosely modelled on the scope of Shakespeare’s collected works. Within a decade, actors of color made up around seventy per cent of the company, and they were putting on adaptations of Indian, Chinese, and Latin American classics alongside their Shakespeare productions. Meanwhile, American Revolutions, overseen by Alison Carey, achieved wide renown.