The playwright mayor

Could Dario Fo be the next mayor of Milan?


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Hi. I'm a newbie to this site, enjoying your posts very much. I was wondering if anyone out there knows of a site where one can have someone critique a rough draft of a short one-act. I fairly new to the genre, and could use some insight from a seasoned veteran...any ideas? Ta!

The year of Ibsen

The long, slow year of Ibsen. I guess I just don't get these big budget musicals with their flashing lights, soundtracks and laser beams.


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Canada's first playwright-in-residence

Takes up a bed of straw in his cage at U of A. Come watch the keepers feed him Stoned Wheat Thins and brie at 12, 2, and 5. But, please, children, no hands near the bars. We wouldn't want another Pinter-like incident.


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Pentameter and theatre

Glyn Maxwell, who's poetry I generally adore, riffs on how he writes for theatre.

Verse drama. There's an effective way to shed a thousand readers at a stroke. It's the one phrase I beg producers of my plays to omit from the publicity material. I write plays in verse because I trained as a poet, and I've been writing in loose pentameters for a quarter of a century. As Hamlet said of his imminent duel with Laertes, "I have been in continual practice", and I can write more powerfully and clearly in lines than I can in sentences. And since I, like most writers, believe I exist primarily to tell stories, I'll tell them in the best form I know. They are plays.


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A pillar of the community

Henrik Ibsen: a primer.


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You killed my father... prepare to die!

A Princess Bride musical?! Colour me sold! I am so audienced. So theatred. So toe-tapped. So must-seed.


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Edited by author 05-09-2005 06:31 AM
If you can make it out, you can make it

Actor-turned-playwright, Susan Coyne, profiled.


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re /m44 There was plenty more singing in the extended DVD versions, which should be considered the definitive versions. They're so much better it's startling.

Some of said singing was the kind of thing only hardcore fans could really handle. Like Aragorn breaking out in a dirge at his coronation. I loved it.

G

"When I meet with the cast for our first rehearsal, I'll describe the phenomenon of how everybody in the Canadian middle class gets in a car and drives two and a half hours north ... and spends anywhere from a week to two solid months in something dilapidated or slightly better than dilapidated"

Canadian playwrights get some bumph in London.



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Edited by author 03-16-2005 03:18 PM
Y'know, I kinda felt ripped off when there weren't any songs in the movies. I mean the hobbits are constantly breaking into song. I know it properly belongs in The Hobbit, but I longed for them to 'smash the plates.'

I'm hoping for Wagner meets Ashley MacIsaac...a Celtic-Teutonic fusion sorta thing.

K

What a good idea. Who could be bothered reading some 1200-page thing, anyway?