After Listening to everyone's final projects and reading some of the posts, I propose would should get a "night of originals" up and going. Studio is a great option but I think there is so much red tape to jump through that it should almost be a part of the class. Granted this idea is coming at the end of the semester. Even a night of readings would be beneficial. What if it is a continuation or we can sign out the thrust and just do it ourselves. Having your peers listen in and give feed back is far more educational then strangers, although if we could pack the house with them all the better.
When i was at Northern Ill for a year we had readings for anyone who had written a play. This was done once a semester, just before/after finals. (depending on what theatre was available.) I don't see why we can't try the same thing.
I know personally for me, I want to at least hear mine read and possible staged. Mine is a bit more extravagant with props and all so a staged reading is ok with me. Gary's seems right up our alley and easily staged. Triza's is as well.
What does everyone think?
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Will I think this is a great idea! I would love to get more feedback on the play I wrote as well as see other people stage their work.
I think it would be a great idea for a studio slot. It could even turn in to some sort of annual type of thing. We could call it the Will Salmons New Playwright Festival (lol).
It would be nice if we could do it immediately but sadly I do not think it could happen this semester. Is that what you had in mind because I know some of us are going to be heading out of Louisville soon. The idea of staging my play gets me all excited!
I have been thinking a lot about what Amy will think of it. I am not so much concerned with the grade I am going to get but weather or not it has potential. This is not to say I do not care about my grade on it.
Excellent idea. I, in fact, brought this up at our faculty meeting the other day. If people are interested, I certainly am thrilled with the idea of starting an annual "new works festival" of the sort we had at the University of Texas when I was there. I think eventually it would be nice to make this coincide with the Humana Festival in the spring ... we could do a "fringe" version that might get some spill-over from the Actors Theatre festival. Maybe we could start meeting about this in the spring.
Russ had the idea, in the meantime, of having a Town Hall Meeting when we come back from holiday break, at which y'all present on your work for five minutes or so. Then we can talk about how to expand that into something bigger.
And Gary, I just finished writing lots of glowing comments on your final. I definitely think it has potential.
What about those of us who aren't as creative as we thought? Lol
We definitely need to do a night of originals and it needs to be a recurring event. I was actually thinking of opening a forum for a New Play festival. In this forum I wanted people from all over to submit their new plays and the actors could participate in staged readings.
As actors we definitely need to be in the habit of understanding how to write and produce our original works. It is important because it is empowering financially and politically. Heather Raffo has an impressive resume but I doubt we would have heard about her had it not been for Nine Parts of Desire.
Also, not to quote a pop song but sometimes you just have to "say what you need to say". In acting you express yourself through the playwrights words. What better way to really put yourself out there than performing your own words.
I am so down with a town hall or fringe festival.
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