Category: drama
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Audition Day
The day I hate to love. The day I love to hate. Both of these are true. I love audition day because it’s incredibly fun to see students come out and give you their best shot in attaining a role. But I hate that I love it because it’s a painful day. It’s painful because…
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Now Available: “The Secrets of the Magic Pool” – My first full-length play in four years.
I’m happy to announce the publication of my play: “The Secrets of the Magic Pool: A Play of Good, Evil, and the Water of Life.” Available on Amazon HERE! If you know any directors, drama teachers, or theatre lovers, please share this with them! Here’s what it is about: A witch who covets the pool.…
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The (post-show) Letdown
It happens every time. A show is finished. The tremendous weight is off my shoulder. One would think it would reduce my stress level, but it actually just depresses me. I miss it already. The adrenaline, the audience, the performers giving their all on stage. It’s precious. We wrapped up our Christmas production “Tales of…
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Letting Failure Fuel Success
I work in a school. Unfortunately, failure doesn’t always precede success in school settings. I’ve been one of the culprits at times, not allowing kids to try again, making scores final before they should be. One of the things that has steadily changed my mind about overall grading practices is drama. As I started teaching…
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My First Sell-out!
We had a great opening night of the world premier of “Tales of Wonder.” Great crowd – even for a weeknight, but as we head to the weekend, we’re in new territory! Friday night’s show is SOLD OUT and Sat night’s show is SOLD OUT! Wooohooo! Even our Saturday matinee show is approaching a sell-out…
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Playbill for Opening Night
Just returned from the amazing opening night of my new play, “Tales of Wonder.” Here’s middle two pages from the playbill which lists the show order. Tales of Wonder: A Drama Medley “Arise & Touch the Dawn” by Mark W. Sasse Recorded & Arranged by Elisabeth Brokaw ¨ Snow Fort Boys & girls fighting in the…
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A Sketch Back to Our Roots
When I wrote this one: I was really going back to the roots of RLT. We started by using a lot of object theatre ideas. In our first year, we had a sketch about fruit and even had one person play a rain pipe that was dripping. I got back at it with “Tree Talk,”…
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