The life and times of the new American play, and the life and times of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama Dramatic Writing Program.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
First of all, let me say I’m just in awe of your use of language.
Talkback: a play about talkbacks by Liz Duffy Adams, "In
Which the Great Majority of the Talkback Dialogue Has Been Collected
Verbatim Over the Years, about Various Plays by Various People."
Friday, October 29, 2010
Not exactly Marina Abramović
Extreme theatre from Playground, live from the freight elevator at the CMU School of Drama at this link.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
The best time to visit the CMU School of Drama
is during Playground, happening now. All School of Drama classes are cancelled for a week so that 50 student-initiated projects can be mounted. These shows, installations, and films are built and rehearsed between Monday and Thursday, and then performed, one after another, from Thursday evening through midnight Saturday. Shows take place in the elevators, in the stairwells, on the lawn, in the basement. It's like a fringe festival, if you can imagine a fringe festival that has access to (a) state-of-the-art lighting, sound, and video equipment, being operated by highly trained young people who actually know what they are doing, and (b) a population of actors who have already made it into one of the most competitive acting programs in the world. To say nothing of the directors, playwrights, designers, dramaturgs...
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