Category: Current Events
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A Writing Review of 2012
I’d just like to run-down the list of writing and drama projects I was able to accomplish during 2012. As I look back, it’s been a productive year. Here’s hoping for another productive one in 2013. January 2012 – Finished editing and published the new play “Life with Stewart.” May 2012 – “Life with Stewart”…
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My Script Chosen by Short & Sweet Malaysia!
My newly penned script entitled “Drive All Night” has been selected to be featured as part of Penang’s first ever Short & Sweet Malaysia (theatre category). http://shortandsweetmalaysia.blogspot.com/ My script will be directed by Amanda Khoo and performed at the Short & Sweet Festival at Penang Performing Arts Centre on Sept 10-Sept 15. I’ll be heading over…
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Ten Months Gone in Four Days
That’s what will happen to me this week. I started with 4 young aspiring drama writers back in August 2011. We worked through some possible plot scenarios and came up with a general direction we wanted to go. We fleshed out some details and started writing. We meet weekly to compare notes, thoughts and ideas.…
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A (Motion) Picture of Courage
I’ve long been an admirer of Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader in Burma (Myanmar) who was held for nearly 18 years under house arrest by the military junta who took over the country in a successful coup attempt in 1962. Last evening I had a chance to see “The Lady”, director Luc Besson’s…
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When a Giant Falls (A Kodak Moment in Complacency)
Kodak Corporation – now in bankruptcy. Do you ever wonder why some innovators become so complacent that they make themselves irrelevant in the field where they previously dominated? It’s a truly fascinating, yet sobering, dynamic of life. If you stop creating, stop challenging the status quo, stop striving to improve, you become vulnerable. I moved…
Author Mark W Sasse 