Category: drama
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“A Woman at War” – My Musical Opens Today in Kuala Lumpur
I’m very excited about the 10 minute musical that I wrote which was chosen for production in the Short & Sweet Musical Festival KL 2014. It opens tonight at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, and will be showing through Saturday along with five other musicals. I’ll be flying down to KL on Friday and…
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Wrapping up Short & Sweet: Best Script
I had a lot of fun this week seeing my script, “A Pinch of Fate, A Shot of Destiny”, come to life on stage at Short & Sweet Theatre Festival Penang. And for the second straight year, I was honored to walk away with the award for BEST SCRIPT. Last year I won it for…
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Opening night – Short & Sweet Theatre Penang – A Synopsis of Two Plays
Wednesday, September 3 opens the third annual Short & Sweet Theatre Festival at the Penang Performing Arts Centre. This is the third year that I have been involved in this festival, and I’ve had a lot of fun along the way. This year, like last, I’m directing one piece and another one that I have…
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Getting Ready for Short & Sweet Penang
This is the third year that I’ve been involved with the Short & Sweet Theatre Penang festival which is kicking off next week. In 2011 I submitted my short play “Drive All Night” which came home with the Audience Choice Award. That was a lot of fun. Last year my script “No in Spite of…
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Short & Sweet Musical: My composition’s up first during week one!
The news out of the Short & Sweet KL Musical Festival is that they have posted the running order of the show for week one. My musical “A Woman at War” which I wrote and co-composed the music with Laura Danneker is up first during the first week of the festival. I’m super excited to…
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Our new show – “For All Generations”
Today I organized the read-through for the nine new scripts that I wrote (mainly) this summer which will be produced as a show called “For All Generations.” It will be performed by my lovely and fun drama group called The RLT Players. This is our fourth year to be producing a cohesive work of short…
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A Woman at War: The Musical
I’m very excited about my 10-minute musical called “A Woman at War” being produced for the KL Short & Sweet Musical Festival, September 24-27. I’ve been in contact with the director and I’m excited about he actors he has chosen and the direction he wants to take the musical. He’s also putting together a 3-4…
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Revisiting an Old Script and Loving It
Kerry Livgren, composer and musician for the 70s progressive rock group Kansas (and always one of my favorites – check out Proto-Kaw), once said that he loved the opportunity to re-record a track that he had written. In essence, anyway that it can be improved he loved to do it. Well, I made a determination…
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When realism made everything unrealistic.
When does trying to be real backfire and become realistic? I guess this is the journey I’ve been on in the theatre these past seven years. I started out as a director trying to make everything on stage seem as realistic as possible. I remember the first play I wrote, we figured out how to…
Author Mark W Sasse 