Maine Playwrights Festival – And the winner is… One of the truly good aspects of the judging process for the 2014 Maine Playwrights Festival is the inclusion of comments from the readers of the play. This is the first time it has happened, and it is most welcome. Acorn Productions, the sponsor of the Festival […]
No Problem. Right? I’ve been trying to find the time to give over to my own writing projects, and short plays keep cropping up!ย Short plays—10 Minute Jobs seem so appealing. Why is this? Well, maybe it’s not obvious, but it’s true that short plays seem as if they would be relatively easy to put […]
In the previous post I provided a link to the book: Off Off Broadway Festival Plays 34th series. One of the short plays in the book is called “Realer Than That” by Kitt Lavoie.ย Kitt is the Artistic Director of The Cry Havoc Company, which focuses on developing new plays. www.cryhavoccompany.org If you follow the […]
In the first post I declared that there certainly is a novel to be found within your full length play.ย But it won’t be an easy job pulling it out. The effectiveness of the story told in a play depends so much on the director, the cast, the set, lighting, and sound — all of […]