Tag: contemporary theatre
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Black Box Experimental Theatre: Coming Soon!
An experimental, audience participation script that I wrote over Christmas has been chosen for production at the Penang Performing Arts Centre on September 6 as part of their Black Box Experimental series. I’ve hired my super-talented, former actress Yzzy Loh to direct the piece, and she came up with the first graphic poster for the…
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Experiencing the Finale
Experiencing the Finale Last night was the finale of the limited three-show run world premiere run of “The Secrets of the Magic Pool.” It was everything I had hoped for and more. First off, the crowd. It was a sell-out! I give it an “A”! Excellent, engaged crowd that got the raucous, rolling laughter going…
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Is Fictional Storytelling being Diminished in Theatre?
I enjoyed reading THIS opinion piece on fictional storytelling and verbatim theatre. Honestly, I know very little about verbatim theatre and have not had an opportunity to see any verbatim shows up to this point. What is ‘verbatim theatre’ you might ask? It’s theatre which uses the real words of people who have been interviewed. Actors…
