Category: drama
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A Party to Rally the (Drama) Troops
We had a lot of fun last night – we being the RLT Players – as I cooked up a feast and we ate, played, and laughed all evening at our October Christmas costume party. Here I am giving my best dictator impression. (That’s usually my nickname.) As our show is 7 weeks out, I…
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Tales of Wonder: Tickets on Sale Now!
My drama group’s new show – RLT Players Christmas: Tales of Wonder – is quickly approaching. Only 54 days out! This is brand new, all original show, and for the first time ever completely themed around Christmas. I’m so excited about it. Here’s the Facebook event page: Facebook I wrote this show during the summer –…
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Consider funding a short film by my talented, former student?
I absolutely love to see my former students pushing their creative talents in new ways. The extremely talented and expressive Juliette DeVette is crowd-funding her latest short film entitled “Riptide.” Please check out the Kickstarter page A couple words about Julie. She’s just good at whatever she puts her mind too. Excellent student. Good athlete.…
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An 18,000 Word Play Finished
I’ve been working hard over the past week trying to put the finishing touches on my latest full-length play – a morality tale called “The Secrets of the Magic Pool.” It’s kind of an allegorical fairy-tale setting, but it’s not a fairy tale. Nor is it a fable. It is an allegory. Perhaps it’s best…
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A Night of Charity & Drama
I had an enjoyable night at a charity dinner for the Family Hope Welfare Association this past weekend at the Bayview Hotel. It’s an honor to support the great work that this organization does, and it was especially an honor to support their first major fundraiser ever – raising about RM 20,000, which will go…
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Remembering a Musical: A Woman at War
I was recently reminded that my short WWII musical -“A Woman at War” – had its debut one year ago this week at Short & Sweet Musical Kuala Lumpur 2014. It’s a moving piece of musical theatre about a woman on the home front trying to live life while her new husband is overseas. For…
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Mega Season is Upon Us
Each year for my drama group the RLT Players (Road Less Traveled Players), I institute mega-practices. A mega-practice is simply an extra-long, nitty-gritty practice focused on one particular short sketch for a show. Our new show coming up in December has 10 original sketches we are working on. Therefore, we will have 10 different mega…
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Draft Done: Now Can I Hold It Together?
I’ve just finished the first draft of the first, full-length play I’ve written without collaboration in about 4-5 years. The title of the play is “The Secrets of the Magic Pool.” It’s an allegorical tale of good and evil – somewhat inspired by Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” Well, for the sake of clarity, I was…
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The Difference between a Skit and a Play
One might think that the main difference between a skit and a play is its length – skits being short and plays being long. But I contend that is not the distinction at all. I write short plays all the time, and they can be quite short, even just a few minutes in length. I…
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A Mini-Tour for our Award-Winning Play
On the heels of sweeping five awards in the Short and Sweet Theatre festival recently for my short play “Words to Say at the End of the World,” we’re beginning to see that this play isn’t yet ready for retirement. I’ve been asked to have my two amazing actors perform it in three different venues…
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