Tag: drama
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New Show: 8 Days Away – “Tales of Wonder”
Tales of Wonder 2 is just 8 days away from its world premiere at the Penang Performing Arts Centre. I’m so excited for this show, and I’m so proud of these amazing young actors. Here’s a snippet of three of the original sketches I’ve written for the show. Manger Talk is an adorable and poignant…
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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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The Purpose of Dress Rehearsals (REDUX)
Yesterday, I wrote this about our final rehearsal BEFORE dress rehearsal for my new show that opens at Penangpac on May13. Here were my last minute thoughts: You come to the point when constraints within and constraints without shape the product of your show whether or not you are satisfied with it. Am I? Satisfied?…
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The Actors Speak #2
Here are the rest of my talented actors and what they have to say about themselves and our new play. World Premiere: May 13-14 @ the Penang Performing Arts Centre.
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Monologue #2: A Battle Cry
Here’s the second monologue added to the PAGES on the right of my site. In my play “Life with Stewart”, Nicholas Stewart, an aged Hollywood movie star, is asked to deliver again his famous speech as the unforgettable protagonist Wellesly Green from the movie “Surrender has no Tomorrow”. (Of course, all of this is fictional.)…
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Monologue 1: Excerpt from new novel “Which Half David”
I’m finally getting around to posting some monologues that people (especially drama folk) can use for a variety of purposes. You’ll find these on the right of the website under “Monologues.” This first one is actually from my new novel, not even fully edited yet, but set to release later this summer. It’s entitled “Which…
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4 Weeks Off! Do you remember your lines?
Typically, when I’m directing a play, we will meet to do (hopefully) the whole play once a week. Then in the last month before the show, we ramp up the number of hours significantly and we’ll be ready. This time was strange. In the past four weeks, there are certain scenes we haven’t practiced at…
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Photos from our Readers’ Theatre
Tuesday evening, we had our annual Readers’ Theatre – this year a re-incarnation of the Pink Panther. We had the audience rolling in laughter. A Readers’ Theatre is just like any other show except the actors read the lines instead of memorizing them. It leads to very amusing situations when Jacques Clouseau says things like,…
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Our Annual Readers’ Theatre
One of the major units of my Intro to Theatre Arts class is a readers’ theatre which the entire class has to produce. The script doesn’t need to be memorized, but the story needs to “pop” on stage as if it is memorized. A staged reading might be a synonym for what we do. We…
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