To my favorite city in a week! I’ll be working as dramaturge on a project for a week, then teaching a playwriting workshop for the Playwrights’ Foundation.
It’s a chance to return to my long-held fascination with found objects. The workshop’s called Chance, Found Objects and Umbrellas and we’ll be composing new plays
based on these elements, drawing on Tadeusz Kantor’s work with “reality of the
lowest rank” and the “poor object”.
Details of workshop here:
And then summer looms with time and quiet to write a new play… if that sounds ominous, then that’s because it feels that way.
My first marathon! Thank god it didn’t involve sweaty lycra and puffing around. Nice to see my little play ALL SOULS’ DAY on stage again with an 11 year old boy performing in it. Caitlin Lowans (Stoneham Theater) directed.
In logistical terms alone, the Boston Theater Marathon is an amazing event–50 plays in 8 hours at the Boston Center for the Arts. Congrats to Kate Snodgrass for an extraordinary feat of organization and to all the artists and production team for managing this epic day.
I just dipped my toe in this year (attending the first hour when my play was featured) then heading out with family for Mothers’ Day lunch. The first hour of five plays was very enjoyable–with three apocalyptic plays (CARDS by Theresa Rebeck, set in a shelter as two women play cards post-catastrophe Outside- CLIENT #1 by R.D. Murphy, showing the consuming of Enron’s sins as a literal meal/deal with the devil; and my own post-war beach play ALL SOULS’ DAY where a child struggles with a silent adult). There was also ALL ABOUT CHRISTMAS EVE by John Kuntz (a comical meta-theatrical take on an early grade school diva competition for the role of Christmas angel) and SICK DAY by George Spelvin; a sweet and thoughtful meditation on the life un-lived (a Walterina Mitty romance in an office). (more…)
