Category: drama
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Turn Off the TV and Check Out Some Live Theatre Instead
Here’s what someone said about the drama I wrote and produced last weekend: “I had never seen a drama or a play before in my life because I thought they would be boring and a waste of time. However, after watching the drama, I felt like watching dramas are much more worthwhile than watching TV…
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Wrapping Up an Amazing Week: Putting Everything in Perspective
Our four show run of our original production, “For All Generations”, finished last night to a full house. Actually, all four shows were packed, and we were greatly appreciative of the responsive and generous audiences. Here was one of my favorite compliments: “I had three generations of my family at the play yesterday, and we…
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A Packed House of Laughter and Tears
It’s one thing to write a novel and press the publication button, sending it out into the reader-sphere to be met with an audience of critics. But it is entirely another thing to sit back at opening night of the play you have written and watch talented young actors bring it to life, to see…
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Opening Night! Nothing like it!
I’ve finally reached this point. It’s been a long ride. I started writing the script which would eventually become “For All Generations” this past spring. Finished it in the late summer and went straight to rehearsing in mid-August.Three months later we are on the brink of opening night. Jitters? For sure! I’m never sure who…
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Insight into Writing my New Show (3)
Only a couple more days until opening night of the new show I’ve written. I had previously highlighted the first 6 dramatic sketches and here are the other four. “A Woman at War” is a WWII historical mini-musical which focuses on a woman, Sarah, saying goodbye to her new husband on the home front, and…
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A Walk Through Our Final Rehearsal
8:30 Arrive. Set-up and arrange microphones, drama cubes, and props into their proper place. 9:00 The director (me) throws a curve at all the actors and redoes the last piece without warning. We relearn movement, pacing, and timing to match perfectly with the choreographed dancing and music. After about the 4th run-through, they get it.…
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Oops! My fault: A Director’s Mea Culpa
My new show opens in one week. It’s a series of 10 individual dramatic sketches. As I watched all ten performed as a whole on Monday, I realized that one of them was bad. Really bad. It’s not the script. Actually, it’s an award-winning script which will soon be performed in Sydney. No, it wasn’t…
Author Mark W Sasse 