Tag: RLT Players
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Mega Season is Upon Us
Each year for my drama group the RLT Players (Road Less Traveled Players), I institute mega-practices. A mega-practice is simply an extra-long, nitty-gritty practice focused on one particular short sketch for a show. Our new show coming up in December has 10 original sketches we are working on. Therefore, we will have 10 different mega…
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Finished Drama: “Tales of Wonder”
I’ve been writing for my drama group The RLT Players since 2011, so we are approaching our fifth original show. That in itself seems amazing. It’s been an awesome ride as we’ve performed before hundreds if not thousands of individuals, bringing our unique brand of drama to the stage. We perform short dramatic sketches, centered…
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Meeting up with the Footstool Players
My drama group, The RLT Players, had an awesome afternoon yesterday meeting up with the group which provided the inspiration to start our own group. It was wonderful beyond belief to have these veteran actors and all around great people willing to spend a couple hours to talk about about acting and other aspects of…
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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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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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Gearing Up: Final Weeks before my Next Show
I’ve been on break this past week and what a gift it has been. I’ve had substantial time to write, enabling me to get a fair chunk of novel five written in my Scrivener. I also wrote a short play and dabbled in a few other projects I’m working on. But as my precious break…
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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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Writing: On the Spot Inspiration
Where does writing inspiration come from? I suppose every writer would answer this in different ways. I love what I call “on the spot” inspiration, when an idea suddenly strikes me out of the blue and it is seemingly unconnected with anything else I had been previously thinking. Then from that small kernel, a solid…
Author Mark W Sasse 