Please come to see nerve the first week if you can june 8-11. Did I mention a free beer with every ticket?
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1100 Playwright Interviews A Sean Abley Rob Ackerman E.E. Adams Johnna Adams Liz Duffy Adams Tony Adams David Adjmi Keith Josef Adkins Nicc...
Please come to see nerve the first week if you can june 8-11. Did I mention a free beer with every ticket?
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I got this email today from a company selling viagra etc. I find it completely insane. Look at the subject of the email. Sounds like a death threat, doesn't it? there's a play in here somewhere, I swear.
Fwd: If you were in the street on fire, I'd put you out with gasoline
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---- only just married, could not decline the gift. His mother, whohad her own separate property, had allowed Alexey every yeartwenty thousand in addition to the twenty-five thousand he hadreserved, and Alexey had spent it all. Of late his mother,incensed with him on account of his love affair and his leavingMoscow, had given up sending him the money. And in consequenceof this, Vronsky, who had been in the habit of living on thescale of forty-five thousand a year, having only received twentythousand that year, found himself now in difficulties. To getout of these difficulties, he could not apply to his mother formoney. Her last letter, which he had received the day before,had particularly exasperated him by the hints in it that she wasquite ready to help him to succeed in the world and in the army,but not to lead a life which was a scandal to all good society.His mother's attempt to buy him stung him to the quick and madehim feel colder than ever to her. But he could not draw backfrom the generous word when it was once uttered, even though hefelt now, vaguely foreseeing certain eventualities in hisintrigue with Madame Karenina, that this generous word had beenspoken thoughtlessly, and that even though he were not married hemight need all the hundred thousand of income. But it wasimpossible to draw back. He had only to recall his brother'swife, to remember how that sweet, delightful Varya sought, atevery convenient opportunity, to remind him that she rememberedhis generosity and appreciated it, to grasp the impossibility oftaking back his gift. It was as impossible as beating a woman,stealing, or lying. One thing only could and ought to be done,and Vronsky determined upon it without an instant's hesitation:
http://www.clubbedthumb.org/upcoming/take5.php
Take 5 Wednesday, May 31
We ring in the festival on Wednesday, May 31st at 8pm with TAKE 5, featuring 16 five-minute playlets based on the last half-decade. These past five years have included more change than most, but in the shadow of all the Time Magazine-sized events are equally interesting stories, from the papers as well as from our own lives. People lose all their hair, paper fortunes are lost, waves of diet programs sweep the nation, seemingly ubiquitous celebrities disappear from view, extreme weather cycles shift. Come to the Ohio by 8pm on the 31st for this special (and we mean that in a slightly mysterious way) presentation, and help us usher in our 11th festival of new work.
Featuring the works of David Adjmi, Scott Adkins, Deron Bos, Andy Bragen, Kirsten Greenidge, Jason Grote, Kristin Kosmas, Julie Marie Myatt, Kristen Palmer, Molly Rice, Sonya Sobieski, Adam Szymkowicz, Alison Tatlock, Chris Wells, Gary Winter, and Anna Ziegler.
Direction by Scott Adkins, Sarah Benson, Sam Buggeln, Mallory Catlett, Shana Gold, Maria Goyanes, Josh Hecht, Kristin Kosmas, Brooke O'Harra, Katie Pearl, Mike Shapiro, Sarah Sunde, Chris Wells, and Paul Willis.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/99843.html
Susan O'Connor Stars in Nerve World Premiere in NYC, June 8 By Ernio Hernandez 22 May 2006
Downtown favorite Susan Louise O'Connor stars in the world premiere of Adam Szymkowicz's Nerve to be presented June 8-July 1 at New York City's 14th Street Y.
Packawallop Productions teams with Hypothetical Theatre Company to present the new play which begins previews June 8 and opens June 12 at the 14th Street Y. Scott Ebersold directs the work which will run through July 1.
Susan Louise O'Connor appears with Travis York in the work billed as "dark romantic comedy about falling into a relationship on the first date," according to a release. "Elliot has never had an online date before... at least one that showed up. Susan has had plenty but would prefer not to discuss them. When they meet in a bar one night, all their neuroses come out. So do a puppet, some modern dance and surprising twist or two."
O'Connor has trod the boards of downtown Manhattan for a number of years, appearing in Daniel MacIvor's Never Swim Alone, See Bob Run and Marion Bridge, Julia Jordan's St. Scarlet, Brad Fraser's Snake in Fridge and Alejandro Morales' The Silent Concerto (which is slated to return in July with O'Connor and director Ebersold).
The design team for Nerve includes Nicholas Vaughn (set), Jessica Watters (costumes), Josh Bradford (lighting) and Brian Hallas (sound). Choreography is by Wendy Seyb and Caitlin Baird is stage manager.
For tickets to Nerve at the 14th Street Y, 344 East 14 St. (between First and Second Ave.), call (212) 868-4444. For more information, visit www.packawallop.org.
Just went to the pulitzer prizes where of course no one won for drama. I ate the free fish, got a little tipsy and then headed back here to my desk to work.
I think it's good to remember that all our heroes and super duper prize winners are just humans who sit in a room and eat their fish and drink their wine and then the award ceremony is over and they go home.
Perhaps they have their small role in changing the world (or not) but then they go home to their husbands or their cats.
Please note in the posting below the award I won this weekend. I am also only human.
-They're trying to get kids off Myspace.
-Really?
-Yeah. There have actually been murders.
I am in rehearsal, I am rewriting, I am casting. I am pulled in too many directions right now.
I am falling down getting up and falling down again.
I am waking when I can at 5:30 to write a play that's hard to get through. keeps getting stuck.
the dishes are piling up. the cat is yowling from lack of attention.
and they want me to do more work at work. meanwhile everyone is calling about casting about rehearsal and I never get to see K.
Breathe. Breathing.
From an email from Larry Kunofsky:
Stanley Kunitz died. He was 100 years old. I heard him read once and if I live to be 100 I still won't forget that night.
If the following is not my favorite poem of all time, at the very least, I can't love another poem more than this one:
Touch Me Summer is late, my heart. Words plucked out of the air some forty years ago when I was wild with love and torn almost in two scatter like leaves this night of whistling wind and rain. It is my heart that's late, it is my song that's flown. Outdoors all afternoon under a gunmetal sky staking my garden down, I kneeled to the crickets trilling underfoot as if about to burst from their crusty shells; and like a child again marveled to hear so clear and brave a music pour from such a small machine. What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. The longing for the dance stirs in the buried life. One season only, and it's done. So let the battered old willow thrash against the windowpanes and the house timbers creak. Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.
Stanley Kunitz
The Juilliard Scene Night is tonight. I have never attended one of these and don't know what to expect or who will be there. But the theatre is big and apparently they're overbooked. They are reading the first 10 min of my Hamlet cowboy comedy.
Wish me luck.
In Boston, my 10 min play Snow.
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http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/o/out-of-the-past-script.html
- Tell me something. - You don't look as though I could.
- You've been a lot of places, haven't you? - One too many. - Which did you like best? - This one right here. - I bet you say that to all the places.
-You were never married before, were you? -Not that I can remember.
-A guy can't even get shot by a dame... ...without the whole town starting to buzz like a... -Like you? Smoke a cigarette, Joe. -You just sit and stay inside yourself. You wait for me to talk. I like that. -I never found out much listening to myself. -You know, you're a curious man. -You're gonna make every guy you meet a little bit curious.
- Don't you like it in here? - I'm just not ready to settle down. -Shall I take you somewhere else? -You're gonna find it very easy to take me anywhere.
-I could have run away last night. - I'd find you. - Yes, I believe you would.
I never saw her in the daytime. We seemed to live by night. What was left of the day went away like a pack of cigarettes you smoked. I didn't know where she lived. I never followed her. All I ever had to go on was a place and time to see her again. I don't know what we were waiting for. Maybe we thought the world would end.
- I didn't know you were so little. - I'm taller than Napoleon. -You're prettier too.
- Did you miss me? - No more than I would my eyes.
-Jeff, I'm glad you're not afraid of him. -I've been afraid of half the things I ever did. - And this time? - I'm only afraid you might not go. -Don't be. I'll be there tomorrow.
Let's go down to the bar. You can cool off while we try to impress each other.
- Look, I got along before this job. I ate good, and I grew as big as you did. If there's something you don't like, say so.
Her name is Meta Carson. You'll find her charming. She may even find you charming. I understand that women have.
-Jeff, I had to come back. What else could I do? -You can never help anything, can you? You're like a leaf that the wind blows from one gutter to another. You can't help anything you do, even murder. - You can't say it was that. - I can say one thing. I buried him.
-Buddy, you look like you're in trouble. - Why? - Because you don't act like it. -I think I'm in a frame. -Don't sound like you. -I don't know. All I can see is the frame. I'm going in there now to look at the picture.
- Apple martini? - Thanks. -Meta talked about you like you're the ninth wonder of the world. - She skipped one. - Meta must be the eighth. -All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious. -And so do martinis.
- I don't want to die. -Neither do I, baby. But if I have to, I'm gonna die last.
http://brooklynrail.org/2006-05/theater
An excellent article by Ms. Palmer about Ms. Callagahn.
Mike Daisey article--lookit the blogroll. If you don't know this guy you should
Gary Winter--I know you know Gary. Everyone knows Gary, right?
per my day job, I am invited to the Pulitzer luncheon. What's the point though, really? no one freakin won. I know there are other people who have won awards, journalists, fiction writers etc.
But I am atending for the free food in the middle of my workday.
So Let me tell you about Matthew Freeman http://matthewfreeman.blogspot.com/.
As he blogs, we recently met for the first time. It is true he is tall and young looking. (between 15 and 20 I would say) It is also true I enjoyed talking to him a great deal. His girlfriend (who will remain anonymous to protect her from ravaging online hobos and the such) I found sweet and smart and funny. And she has great taste in literature. As for her choice in men, well let me speak more on this.
What Matthew may or may not have told you is that his father was an Episcopal minister. This for me explains a lot. He has the angelic face one would expect of a minister and to go with that or against that, he has the desire to cause small rifts of strife, or clouds of chaos . . . or something of something.
Those of you who read his blog and comments already know this. I find this kind of charming actually. I hope our paths cross again soon.
SCENE 30
(On one side of the stage the WAITRESS sits at a table, a couple of empty glasses in front of her. BARTENDER approaches.)
BARTENDER You want another drink, Lily?
WAITRESS I dont know. BARTENDER Who does this guy think he is? I mean where did he come from?
WAITRESS I dont know.
BARTENDER He just shows up and, what, youre having a drink with him? I mean if he does show up. But where the hell is he?
WAITRESS I dont know.
BARTENDER Are you going to sleep with him?
WAITRESS Ill have that drink now.
BARTENDER (Moving to make the drink.) Whatever happened to us?
WAITRESS There never was an us.
BARTENDER You know what I mean. I woulda treated you like a princess.
WAITRESS Im not a princess, Floyd.
BARTENDER You wouldve drank for free.
WAITRESS Hes not coming.
BARTENDER I never wouldve done that. Standing someone up. Specially not you.
WAITRESS I know.
BARTENDER So . . .
WAITRESS No.
BARTENDER No? Not even on a trial basis?
WAITRESS No.
BARTENDER Oh. You want like a hot dog or something? On the house.
WAITRESS Can I use your phone?
(BARTENDER hands her the phone.)
WAITRESS (on phone) Hello, Tom. I think I have an idea where you can find those girls.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/washington/03laser.html?_r=1&ex=1146974400&en=05ce20f115c14bac&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin
The Bush administration is seeking to develop a powerful ground-based laser weapon that would use beams of concentrated light to destroy enemy satellites in orbit.
I got a rash on my hands from living here I'm tired cause my cat wakes me up When I turn my neck it cracks three times When I breathe I wheeze and cough and hack My wrist hurts from this repetitive keyboard my bed looks comfortable but it's hurting my back I am deep in debt I am unkempt I am quiet and little and small
But at night I get to come home to you
at night then you are there
the night is so long so long in coming
and you never read my blog
Here's an article that discusses student loans and job and life choices for our generation. They don't mention the arts but I know my loans are much higher than the kids mentioned (MUCH HIGHER) and NYC is much more expensive than most of the country. I'm in a lot of debt people and I will be paying it off for the next 30 years unless something extraodinary happens. Isn't it amazing what we will do for our art?
Student loans - a life sentence Forget about getting married and buying a home. This generation is thinking about next month's payment.
"Call it a reverse dowry: college debt diverts careers and delays or impedes graduates' plans to get married, buy a home or even to start a family. The effects can last years."
The cumulative effect of such student debt on graduates is unclear, although few would argue that its impact will be positive for the graduates, the economy or society.
"We've never done this to a generation of young people before," said Dr. Heather Boushey, Senior Economist at the progressive Center for Economic and Policy Research. "We've never put a generation in their 20s in debt they can't get out of before they started their work life."
"The normal approach in any healthy society is to help young married couples get started in life through marital gifts, dowries, and the like," Allan Carlson of the socially-conservative Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society said.
"We now burden many young adults with student debt, sometimes massive in nature; the price being paid includes marriages delayed or foregone and fewer children. This is foolish public policy."
NERVE June 8 - July 1 at 14th Street Y
Packawallop Productions has teamed up with Hypothetical Theatre Company to present the World Premiere of NERVE, a new play by Adam Szymkowicz. This production, which begins previews June 8 at the 14th Street Y will replace the previously announced production. Directed by Scott Ebersold, the production stars Susan Louise O'Connor and Travis York with sets by Nicholas Vaughn (winner, Best Set Design FringeNYC 2005), costumes by Jessica Watters, sound by Brian Hallas and choreography by Wendy Seyb.
Opening night is now slated for Monday, June 12th.
NERVE is a dark romantic comedy about falling into a relationship on the first date. Elliot has never had an online date before... at least one that showed up. Susan has had plenty but would prefer not to discuss them. When they meet in a bar one night, all their neuroses come out. So do a puppet, some modern dance and surprising twist or two.
NERVE runs June 8 - July 1, Thursday - Saturday at 8pm and Monday at 7pm with an added show Sunday, June 11 at 7pm. The 14th Street Y is located at is located at 344 East 14th Street (between 1st & 2nd Aves., accessible from the L train at 1st Avenue). Tickets are $15, available at 212-868-4444 or www.smarttix.com.