Tag: short plays
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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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A Short & Sweet Technical Meeting
I can’t delay it anymore. I’ll be directing a short play in the Short & Sweet Theatre Festival in late August here in Penang. It’s actually a piece that I have written called, “Words to Say at the End of the World.” I’ve directed before for Short & Sweet, but I specifically asked to direct…
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A New Play Chosen for Festival
I was quite pleased to get this email last night. My new, yet-to-be-performed short play will be performed as part of the SS Theatre Festival in Kuala Lumpur. The festival will be sometime in late September or early October. I was especially happy that this script was selected (I chose two, but only one per…
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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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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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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 