It’s been over a week since the play closed, and I’ve had a lot to think about and discuss with people. As far as official critical response goes, we got a great review, a really good review, and a not-so-great review. I’ve also had another theater in upstate New York ask to see the...
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Three days till we open
Had a chance to stop by the theater tonight. This one’s coming down to the wire. Still some challenges left, and plenty of work to do in the next 48 hours, but lots of great stuff too. This is the cast going over notes with Lisa and Jen after the tech run-through, with the...
Continue readingPotatoes next??
I have this long-running joke with my kids about squid and potatoes. It’s not even a joke. It’s just that I’ve been talking about squid and potatoes forever. Why? I don’t know. They’re funny words together, I guess, and it’s always good to have a default response to a silly question. That’s part of...
Continue readingRevisiting The Yellow Wallpaper
There’s a line early on in Gibberish Mostly which references The Yellow Wallpaper. Most in the cast weren’t familiar with this story by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. I can’t believe it was written in 1892. Still feels remarkably timely and relevant, as sad as that is to say. It’s a wonderful, subversive, terrifying piece of...
Continue readingRewrites are hard
I’ve been working with Lisa (director at Ground Floor Theatre) on updates to the script for Gibberish Mostly, and it’s been a lot of work. I’ve always kind of hated rewriting things (I remember in college making a deal with a professor of Creative Writing that I’d just write MORE short stories instead of...
Continue reading4th Annual One Minute Play Festival
It’s been a wild ride for the #1MPF this year. With theater shortages and the onslaught of Hurricane Harvey, there have been challenges of space, rehearsal availability and audience outreach. Because we’re in a smaller theater this year, we followed a model that was done in New York where there are two bills of...
Continue readingGibberish Poster & the Immaturity of Parents
We just got done with a full day of auditions for GIBBERISH MOSTLY. It was really rewarding and fun, and I think we’re going to end up with a great cast, no matter who makes the final cut. I imagine the decisions will be made later this week. This is a draft of the...
Continue readingGibberish Mostly
Got some exciting news today. A play I originally wrote almost fifteen years ago is getting a new life. GIBBERISH MOSTLY, which had a reading at Hyde Park Theatre and Boston Theatre Works in 2003, is slated to be the season opener this fall at a theater I really like. I’m still getting all...
Continue readingSo I Have This Idea…
Every year ScriptWorks has a 48-hour Fling where playwrights get together and write 10-minute plays based on three ingredients. It’s a popular event and brings in a nice group of people from the theater community, either to write or be a part of the readings on Sunday (we all get together to read through...
Continue readingOut of Ink: One More Weekend
I just happened to see this review of the 19th annual Out of Ink production in the Chronicle today. Not that it’s interesting or important or anything, but I did get a nice little blurb about my piece, The Apes: …That sparked some imaginative approaches to dramatic situations, such as Max Langert’s cosmic view...
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