Tag: theatre
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An 18,000 Word Play Finished
I’ve been working hard over the past week trying to put the finishing touches on my latest full-length play – a morality tale called “The Secrets of the Magic Pool.” It’s kind of an allegorical fairy-tale setting, but it’s not a fairy tale. Nor is it a fable. It is an allegory. Perhaps it’s best…
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A Night of Charity & Drama
I had an enjoyable night at a charity dinner for the Family Hope Welfare Association this past weekend at the Bayview Hotel. It’s an honor to support the great work that this organization does, and it was especially an honor to support their first major fundraiser ever – raising about RM 20,000, which will go…
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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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Short & Sweet Theatre Penang 2015
Backstage before dress rehearsal tonight. I got my annual orange name tag – this year as playwright and director. And I meant to get a couple photos of dress rehearsal, but it seems I was too busy watching the performance. Nine different plays are taking the stage this year. Quite an eclectic mix of material.…
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Ten Reasons My Re-staging was Better than the Original
I don’t know how many times a director or an artist gets to re-produce one of their own works. I did recently – re-staging my musical “A Tad of Trouble.” I wanted to make it better – much better than the original. And here’s 10 reasons why I think I succeeded: 1. Plot holes plugged…
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The Rebellious, the Confident, and the Honest: A Solo Act
The Rebellious, the Confident, and the Honest: A Solo Act by Mark W. Sasse In two hours, I’ll be standing in procession, walking down the middle aisle with the teary-eyed faces of friends and family cheering me on. I’ll hear my name announced loudly and clearly: Jenny Anne Folsom. I’ll take a deep breath…
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Thoughts on Opening Night
The jitters motor the action. The laughter loosens the mouth. The applause raises the chin. Opening night is always special. The theatre arts would be one of life’s more ridiculous endeavors if there never was an opening night. For months these make-believe characters have been jabbing at each other week after week, having the same…
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2:08 – A record (plus lyrics for a new song)
We had our first of three all day Saturday rehearsals before the big show. It also signified the first time we did a complete run-through, which is always a big deal, and I’m happy to report that the show will go on! Actually, for a first run-through, it was quite superb – not for how…
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Coming soon!
Book and Lyrics by Mark W. Sasse Music by Hui Min Tang, Clarissa Lister, Elisabeth Brokaw, Hannah Graves, David Beak, & Mark W. Sasse
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The Biggest Mistake of Young Actors
The biggest (or one of the biggest) mistakes of young actors is not spending nearly enough time inside the script. I’ve directed a lot of young actors over the past eight years, and it never ceases to happen that as a show nears performance, I hear one actor say, “Oh, so that’s what that means!”…
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