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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...
Aug 12, 2006
got to sneak some writing in
Aug 4, 2006
My friend Enrique got into Brown with a play called The Danger of Bleeding Brown. I feel this is no coincidence and so I am writing a new play called
Princess Grace Strolling Down Cherry Lane with Jerome and MacArthur and Eugene O'Neill and Other New Dramatists On The Way to the Summer Play Festival.
I'm off. See you in a week.
Aug 3, 2006
self restraint muscle and you. or why I never do the dishes. Sorry, K.
Aug 2, 2006
thanks to Ripley (RIPPED) for this
http://www.kabc.com/mcintyre/listingsEntry.asp?ID=432586&PT=McIntyre
AN APOLOGY FROM A BUSH VOTER By Doug McIntyre Host, McIntyre in the Morning Talk Radio 790 KABC
"So, Im saying today, I was wrong to have voted for George W. Bush. In historic terms, I believe George W. Bush is the worst two-term President in the history of the country. Worse than Grant. I also believe a case can be made that hes the worst President, period. "
"I believe, as I have said countless times, the two party system is on the brink of a second collapse. Its currently running on spin, anger, revenge, and pots and pots and pots of money."
"With a belated tip of the cap to Ralph Nader, the system is broken, so broken, its almost inevitable it pukes up the Al Gores and George W. Bushes. Where are the Trumans and the Eisenhowers? Where are the men and women of vision and accomplishment? Why do we have to settle for recycled hacks and malleable ciphers? Greatness is always rare, but is basic competence and simple honesty too much to ask? "
Jesus was not pro war?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/us/30pastor.html?ex=1154664000&en=304c373abd2cc406&ei=5087%0A
After refusing each time, Mr. Boyd finally became fed up, he said. Before the last presidential election, he preached six sermons called The Cross and the Sword in which he said the church should steer clear of politics, give up moralizing on sexual issues, stop claiming the United States as a Christian nation and stop glorifying American military campaigns.
Sermons like Mr. Boyds are hardly typical in todays evangelical churches. But the upheaval at Woodland Hills is an example of the internal debates now going on in some evangelical colleges, magazines and churches. A common concern is that the Christian message is being compromised by the tendency to tie evangelical Christianity to the Republican Party and American nationalism, especially through the war in Iraq.
Aug 1, 2006
Jul 31, 2006
Coming Soon
A workshop production of Pretty Theft at Juilliard (no sets, lights or costumes but probably some Juilliard dancers and definitely 7 excellently talented Juilliard students)
Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Saturday Sept. 9,1PM and 6PM Sunday Sept. 10, 2PM Monday Sept. 11, 7PM
Mark your calendars and tell all your friends.
Jul 30, 2006
Word of The Day
Misodramist (mi SOD ra mist) noun One who hates playwrights
"You can't take that critic seriously. He is a misodramist"
Finally we have a specialized word we can use to shut people up and accuse them of something at the same time. in the past we've had to resort to calling people racist or unamerican or woman-hating or uncouth or pedophiliac.
In this PC world we live in (switch to Mac, people), I believe this term will catch on like wildfire.
Jul 27, 2006
another scene--first draft as always
future of cars
Jul 25, 2006
Jul 24, 2006
An eye for
Bush does what he wants
First draft of something new
I'm not sure what this is yet but it might be the start of a new play.
(Three women in hard hats, A, C and S sit on a steel girder eating lunch from their lunch boxes. Faint sound of jackhammer.)
C What you got?
A Ham.
C You?
S Tuna.
A What about you?
C Yogurt.
S Yogurt again.
C I like yogurt. I used to like yogurt.
S (shouting down below) Hey! You! Let me see you shake that ass!
C And carrots.
S Youre making me all wet! I can barely control myself! Flex it! Flex it! Hey meatboy, where you going?
A He cant hear you.
S Fuck.
C I hate my lunch.
(Pause)
A I have something to tell you.
S Not again.
C Seriously?
A Yeah, Im afraid so.
S Fuck.
A Will you help me?
S What the fuck?
A I know.
C Seriously.
A I know. I know. Im sorry.
C Are you?
A Yes. Will you help me?
S What, tonight?
A Could you?
S I guess.
A What about you?
C OK. But Im not doing any of the heavy lifting or the digging.
S What are you going to do then?
C I could sing.
A I dont think we should sing. Then people will know were out there digging and that wouldnt be good.
C I could hum.
S Shell dig. We both will.
Jul 22, 2006
In DC
Jul 13, 2006
Jul 12, 2006
thanks to Jason Grote for this
http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/julyaugust06/humana.cfm
"It is strikingly evident in Six Yearsand in the entire crop of this year's Humana playsthat American writers aren't just dusting off old ideas and giving them fresh varnish. Instead, they are taking real risks and reinvigorating our repertory of contemporary drama with muscular ideas and imaginative fervor. The bitter irony is that these bringers of new works are treated as if they were glassy-eyed dreamers and beggars in a house of plenty."
Jul 11, 2006
yet another good review from the Times
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/theater/reviews/11fish.html