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BIZZZZZZY

Adrienne Dawes - Wed, 07/14/2010 - 4:12pm

Random: I was searching through my old computer files and had burned to disc a snippet of text: love poem by richard brautigan It’s so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don’t love them any more. How did I know that [...]

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A CRY FOR HELP.

Tarhearted ( Joshua Conkel) - Wed, 07/14/2010 - 12:05pm

If you or anyone you know has any information that will help me get my hands on Valerie Solanas's lost play, Up Your Ass, please, please, please contact me.

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ENVIA'S "Your Dream of Me" Monologue in Feverfest, Boston, August 11-14

Stagedoor: Kelly Dumar - Wed, 07/14/2010 - 10:50am

The role of ENVIA! in Kelly's comic monologue, Your Dream of Me, will be performed by Renee Donlon in FeverFest 2010: Left Off Dreaming, August 11th-14th, 2010 at The Factory Theatre, 791 Tremont Street, Boston, MA. Renee has previously performed... Kelly DuMar

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TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GENERATION.*

Tarhearted ( Joshua Conkel) - Wed, 07/14/2010 - 6:51am

This positive review for I'll Be Damned makes me think it would be a show I'd like. But what's with the critic's swipe at Millennials?

"Though this Jaradoa Theater production is set in the '80s, perhaps to justify barfy costumes, Louis has the bad qualities of Millennials, not Gen-Xers—he's entitled, virginal, and coddled by his helicopter mom..."

I've seen critics doing this a lot lately on the interwebs and it kind of bugs me. I mean, I guess it makes sense. Everybody hates people younger than them. I know I do! I'm the oldest possible age to be considered a Millennial. And it's not like I disagree with that assessment of my generation, either. It's just that:

1. It reeks of tacky jealousy and old fogey-ism. "Those crazy kids with their sexting and their chatroulettes!"
2. It dismisses an entire generation of people and, admit it or don't, there's much about Millennials that's admirable too.

Why, that's like dismissing baby boomers for being selfish, sell-out hypocrites (they are) while ignoring all the amazing things they accomplished (which they did.) That's like calling Gen X lazy and shiftless (they are) but ignoring... um... irony? Grunge? It's kind of unfair, is all.

*This is the title of a song from a long time ago or something.

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Announcing the Publication of The Adventures of Rocky & Skye by YouthPLAYS

Stagedoor: Kelly Dumar - Wed, 07/14/2010 - 4:41am

Kelly’s award-winning one-act comedy for youth, The Adventures of Rocky & Skye, has just been published by YouthPLAYS. YouthPLAYS is an exciting mix of award-winning professional dramatists and talented new discoveries, each with an original theatrical voice, who are dedicated... Kelly DuMar

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Just Because I Like It

Ghostlight ( E.H Spreen) - Tue, 07/13/2010 - 11:27am

Here's a lovely video of winter in Warsaw. I also like the music by cellist Zoe Keating.

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Big Think Inteview with Penn Jillette

Ghostlight ( E.H Spreen) - Tue, 07/13/2010 - 9:26am

This interview covers a wide range of topics including his working relationship with Teller, the future of magic, live performance vs. film & tv, tolerance, distrust of the government and why it's important, libertarianism, and atheism and how it affects raising his kids.

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In Progress

Dramatecture (Toni Wilson) - Tue, 07/13/2010 - 6:18am

I am beginning to think a bit differently about the editing process.

I used to just think that the editing process was exactly the same for every play I've ever edited. Sometimes I would have to bust out some extra tools--particularly The Dramatic Writer's Companion by Will Dunne http://books.google.com/books?id=tBECSuzm-VEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+dramatic+writer%27s+companion&source=bl&ots=ruBPSKWS-B&sig=PuJ2ZqeL-lnonh-ul4BHqstpXLI&hl=en&ei=Wmg8TICnDcKAlAfLl5ChAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false. This book is quickly becoming a staple I take with me when I edit, along with several pens of different colors, highlighters, sticky notes, a couple notebooks and the draft I am working on.

I already realize that the writing process is not a guarantee. Just because I wrote a play before doesn't mean I will be able to do it. It's starting over every time. You just need to trust the characters and yourself to take you where you need to go. And now I'm starting to realize that the editing process may be just as unique.

Using a beat-by-beat technique for each scene and then promptly entering the edits is very important to the process of writing 'Sand and Water'. There's a lot of ground to cover in this play--there's research on Frank Lloyd Wright, his last design that was never built, at least until this play existed where it's built in the stage world, aplastic anemia, confidence tricks, and building implosion--not to mention the personal stories of each of the four characters. There's a lot that still needs to be crammed into the play, but in such a way that it doesn't hinder the story. There's a lot of editing that still needs to happen. I am assuming that there will be at least three more drafts of this play before it's ready to be sent out. This draft will be significant though. There will probably be one more draft that really works with the structure of the play and then I will work on tightening things.

Of course, now that I committed this to writing that will soon be published on the Internets, I am sure something will happen to ruin it, but I'm not backing down.

It's been three long months of nothing. It's time for some time of something.

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