This show comes with a dry-cleaning budget
So many different types of blood necessary for this play. Blood that can spray across the face in watery streaks. Blood that can sit visible on the stage floor in thick, fat drops. Blood that can be safely ingested. Blood hidden in capsules in the mouth, sponges inside handkerchiefs, tubes inside props. Every night I [...]
Funny version of non-productive
It felt like a real struggle to get out to my writing expedition last night. Through the whole evening – that first 45 minutes at the library, the drive over to Starbucks, the 45 minutes there, my conscious brain kept saying: it’s not working tonight. You’re not inspired. Why did you even leave home? You’re [...]
Long Good Saturday
Tomorrow morning I’ll be spending all of a long day in LA, directing another 10-minute play for Sacred Fools‘ produced-whenever-we’ve-got-nothing-the-hell-else-going-on-this-weekend Fast & Loose showcases for 24-Hour Theatre. At this very moment, my script is in the early stages of writing by some caffeine junkie with whom I’ll be randomly matched in the morning. I’d really [...]
Nobody here but us ghosts
I’m in Peoria, Illinois, in the upstairs lobby of Bradley’s theatre building – the Hartmann Center for the Performing Arts. I remember quite distinctly that there were not computers just laying around for anyone to use back when I was here. I do remember there was an excellent little crash couch on this spot, and [...]
Good enough for dinner theatre? For me – that’s a compliment.
On my first day of my first acting class in my first year as a theatre major, the teacher arranged us in a circle on the floor; and, one-by-one, we had to leap to our feet, brandish an imaginary spear, and shout: “I will dare to fail gloriously!” The point is that in the theatre, [...]
Return to the Hilltop
Excellent news today. The three 10-minute plays I wrote recently were all picked by student directors for the Alumni Play Festival happening at Bradley in April. I have no idea if this means the plays were well-liked, or that the others who were asked to submit plays just didn’t come through to the same extent. [...]