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Month: March 2007

Memento

Memento

I gave her freshly cut roses on the opening night of the play. Three weeks later the bouquet stood dried out in a vase on a small table in front of the mirror. “I almost like them better like this,” she said. “They’re more poignant. ”

Travelling Light

Travelling Light

“And this was really the way that my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.” –Jack Kerouac, On the Road Twenty-five years ago, ABC NO RIO in an art exchange with Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago, brought Thieves Theatre to the Lower East Side . At the time we were doing my script Travelling Light about a long haul trucker whose CB radio handle is Bird of Prayer and the…

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The Actor Prepares: some SAGacious advice

The Actor Prepares: some SAGacious advice

A dramaturg in Nashville informs me that that there are seven strong university theater programs in his city: Belmont, Fisk, Vanderbilt, Trevecca, Tennessee State University, Lipscomb and MTSU. Together these programs are training around 250-300 young actors. He wants to cure Nashvillians of the brainwashing which has resulted from focusing inordinate attention on atheletes at the university level. As theater editor of the Tennessee Style Magazine, he believes that if he can garner public recognition and support for student actors,…

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