Tag: drama
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The Show Ends
Last night, we capped off an amazing weekend of drama at the Penang Performing Arts Centre. Good responsive crowds watched as my amazing young actors perform everything from comedy, to dramatic storytelling, to hard hitting drama. It’s such an emotional thing for a writer and director to see the work they’ve toiled on for months…
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The World Crashing Down: AKA – “My Show is This Week”
I’m a writer. I love writing. I’m a director. I really enjoying directing. I’m a producer. I like producing. Yes, there’s a distinct step-down there. Writing and directing unleashes the creative demon inside me in very different ways. Producing, well, that’s where the stress comes from. And this week, four and a half months of…
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It’s not the words. It’s the emotion behind the words.
I was working with one of my actors on a pivotal scene in our upcoming play. She gives a short speech which spurs on some tremendous societal changes. Yes, it’s a few lines of dialogue which changes the story dramatically. It’s the crucial point in the play. The actor had not been getting it. The…
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Good Friday: Dead is Dead
Good Friday is the penultimate day for Christians around the world. It’s a reminder that the first day of the week is coming, the day that brings hope, the day that brings faith. But I’m sure the first Good Friday didn’t feel like it was a penultimate day, waiting for another reveal. Not, it would…
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Coming Soon
Coming soon: Here’s a little graphic I put together about my upcoming show. It’s a collection of comedic and dramatic sketches I’ve written over the past seven years. My good friend Doug is directing Act I while I have the helm for Act II. It’s going to be a bittersweet look back of what we…
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A Short Narration #1
RLT Musical Revue is a special show of musical theatre (May 20th) which highlights the songs and short musicals which I’ve written or co-written over the past eight years. It includes 21 pieces of varying lengths, including 3 short musicals of 10 minutes or less. To tie the show together, I’ve written a few narrative…
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Readers’ Theatre: Anne of Green Gables
The main, yearly project for my Intro to Theatre Arts class is our Readers’ Theatre. It’s a performance where the actors keep the scripts in their hands, and they act it out as best as possible with as many props and set pieces as possible. For this project, I make it completely student driven. Inha…
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Twenty Shows: A Ten Year Lookback
Go back eleven years and drama wasn’t even in my radar. It may not have been in my galaxy, and if it was, it certainly wasn’t connected with original drama. Now, in 2017, looking backward I see that I have written (or co-written) and produced 19 original, full-length dramatic productions in the past ten years.…
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My Final Two Penang Shows in the Works
I’ll be leaving my beloved Penang after 11 wonderful years. I decided to go out with a bang and produce two shows within one week during our school’s Fine Arts Festival in June. So this week, I fired up photoshop and did some mockups for both of the shows. I’ll have lots more to say…
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Theatre: The Open Art Form
I enjoyed giving a mini-lecture to my Intro to Theatre Arts class today about the topic, “What is theatre?” Theatre is many things, but most importantly, it’s an open art form. The live audience makes it unique and ever-changing. The interaction with the audience makes every performance different. It can inspire the actor to achieve…
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