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[xx-knife-xx]

What makes Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland?

I'm working with a team to make an Alice in Wonderland adaptation (Stage Production), and we're working out the most important parts of the story. I was hoping people could tell me what makes Alice in Wonderland Alice in Wonderland to them.

#alice in wonderland #wonderland #alice's adventures in wonderland #lewis carroll #alice #classic literature #classic lit #adaptation #theater #acting #playwrighting #stage production

[shakespearenews]

Rauch had been told that the three pinnacles of theatre as a popular art in the Western world were Greek tragedy, English Renaissance drama, and American musicals. As a senior, he founded his own theatre company, and mapped out a mashup of “Medea,” “Macbeth,” and “Cinderella”—one exemplar of each style—so that they could be performed simultaneously. It was a way of seeing what they had in common, and how theatre could return to its populist roots.

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After that production was over, Rauch, Carey and their friends, calling themselves the Cornerstone Theater Company, drove to North Dakota, where they recruited locals to put on “Hamlet” in an old vaudeville theatre. At one point, Carey took over pouring drinks in a bar so that the owners could perform. The locals they recruited worried that Shakespeare’s language was too arcane, so the company modernized it, converting “arrant knave” to “downright prick,” for instance. (They ultimately changed that one: “downright prick,” they were told, was something “smart-ass college kids” would say. A rancher suggested “horse’s rear,” and that went into the script instead.)

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Rauch stayed in L.A. for fifteen years. He left in 2007 to become the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the country’s oldest and largest repertory-theatre companies, in Ashland, a small town just north of the California border. Rauch promised to expand its repertoire to include non-Western classics and to diversify both the company and the staff. He also announced a project called American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle—thirty-seven new plays to be written by a diverse group of playwrights and loosely modelled on the scope of Shakespeare’s collected works. Within a decade, actors of color made up around seventy per cent of the company, and they were putting on adaptations of Indian, Chinese, and Latin American classics alongside their Shakespeare productions. Meanwhile, American Revolutions, overseen by Alison Carey, achieved wide renown.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #macbeth #cinderella #media #new yorker #bill rauch #cornerstone theater #theater #theatre #Alison Carey #american revolutions #osf #oregon shakespeare festival #playwrights #playwrighting

[gothicctherapy]

just started my first big stage management gig and i'm like bubbling with joy!! this is what i want to do!! i'm doing the thing!! fuck yes!!

#stage management #stage manager #sm #theatre #new theatre #play #plays #new plays #theatre school #theatre kid #playwrighting #school #university #equinox #i'm so happy #gothicctherapy #family undone

[rakonteur]

SATAN: You know what, Cunningham? All those excuses you got wedged between that dubious cleavage of yours: your mother, the bulimia, the herpes, the booze, the abortions, the rape, the bipolar pharmaceutical adventures, the twin suicide attempts, and the abject failures at every relationship you ever attempted - all those things do nothing to Band-Aid the simple fact that There Comes a Time When the World Stops Rewarding Potential - and what that time came for you, you threw yourself the world's biggest pity party and dedicated the rest of your short, pathetic, inconsequential life to finding fault everywhere fuckin' else but in the return gaze of your own cosmetically altered reflection. Okay?

#stephen adly guirgis #the last days of judas iscariot #satan #jesus #playwrighting #playwright #guirgis

[spikeironfoundersson]

Guys. GUYS.

2023’s Black List (the most popular un-produced screenplays in Hollywood) has dropped, and it has a screenplay based on the making of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

Yes, THAT Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Broadway’s most expensive flop of all time. With Greek mythology and Julie Taymor and fucking U2.

The screenplay is called Boy Falls From Sky and it’s written by Hunter Toro and it’s very funny and well-researched. Please enjoy, and tag your fan-casts for these roles because I’m so hyped by this potentially being made someday.

Read it HERE

#spiderman #broadway #Spider-Man tofd #turn off the dark #the black list #screenwriting #playwrighting #movies #musicals #Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

[shaisight]

King Lear literally said it would be better that Cordelia was never born than to displease him

Smh, she was the only daughter who actually loved him but his ego needed more and more until it was bled out and belly up.

I will say this play hits all notes and although it has lots of terror at every turn, it works well.

#king lear #shakespeare #theatre #drama #black writers #playwrighting

[clown-hearts]

What if I told you I was writing a play about a trans aroace kid running away from home and finding a new world underground how would you react? Asking for a friend

#writing #playwrighting #trans

[freckled-bunny]

I hate how people who talk about theatre to non theatre people think that its all musicals and bullshit like heathers and cats and les mis. theatre has changed !!! the consumerism of broadway has taken over the world's understanding of theatre. look up Willem Dafoe's Wooster Group !! they did a theatre show in the 70s where they took a bunch of acid in rehearsals for a play and filmed it. then they created a script from that footage and performed it live for audiences. look up Elevator Repair Service !! they did a show in New York library where an AI robot created a script on the spot and the actors had to learn and read the script as they progress throughout the library IN REAL TIME. if you want something contemporary, read Jasmine Lee-Jones' "7 Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner", where she writes about cultural appropriation and racism and misogyny on twitter with tweets and memes printed on the script as dialogue !! please please please for the love of god stop only rewatching the same musicals over and over again. there are so many incredible theatre works out there that don't involve bullshit musicals !!

#theatre #musical theatre #rant #actual theatre #cats the musical #newsies musical #musicals #les mis #heathers #academia #plays #playwrighting #screenplay #screenwriting #film #tv #beetlejuice the musical #mean girls musical #alexander hamilton #hamilton #mine #bunny

[jeremiahjahi]

We are still here. Just in the woodshed on this storytelling stuff. "When I get mad I put it down on a pad." CHUCK D Public Enemy KEEP MOVING! #motivated #screenwriter #scriptdevelopment #screenwriters #playwrighting #culture #scribe ##storyteller #screenwritersofinstagram #goforyourdreams #worldculture #africandiaspora #valuematters #menwithstyle #menwithbeards #beardgangmatters #thestage #publicenemy #OMEGAPSIPHI1911 #healthisyourwealth #christfollower #instagram #losangeles #newyork #georgia #distinguishedgentleman #usmcveteran #atlmademe #brooklyntestedme #bestrong https://www.instagram.com/p/CgUwhygJory/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#motivated #screenwriter #scriptdevelopment #screenwriters #playwrighting #culture #scribe #storyteller #screenwritersofinstagram #goforyourdreams #worldculture #africandiaspora #valuematters #menwithstyle #menwithbeards #beardgangmatters #thestage #publicenemy #omegapsiphi1911 #healthisyourwealth #christfollower #instagram #losangeles #newyork #georgia #distinguishedgentleman #usmcveteran #atlmademe #brooklyntestedme #bestrong

[devonellington]

Fri. Feb. 23, 2024: More Art That Makes My Heart Sing

image courtesy of Bodo Bertuleit via pixabay.com Friday, February 23, 2024 Day Before Full Moon Snowing It was supposed to get up to nearly 50 degrees today, but I woke up to snow. I guess I’ll be out and about running errands later than I expected! Today’s serial episode is from ANGEL HUNT: Episode 114: Gaston’s Dangerous Former Love Gaston shares a tragic but fascinating tale from his…

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#ANGEL HUNT #art #artists #CAN&039;T HAVE TREASON WITHOUT TEA #CAST IRON MURDER #Deadly Dramatics #inspiration #Legerdemain #meditation #playwrighting #REP #script coverage #snow

[mikepowernyc]

The Play's The Thing

The thing about plays is that they are not meant to be read. They are meant to be performed. You can read a piece of music but it’s not the same as hearing it played. Reading plays, like reading music, is a skill worth learning. The first play I ever read, in a high school English class, was Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The thing I remember most about it is the line by Cassius, “The clock hath…

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#playwright #playwrighting #stage play #staged reading

[ancientsstudies]

#romeo & juliet #romeo and juliet #romeo #juliet #shakespeare #english literature #literature #playwright #playwriting #drama #alternative #aesthetic #dark academia #dark academic aesthetic #dark aesthetic #aestheitcs #dark #art #light acadamia aesthetic #light academia #theatre #threads #instagram

[shakespearenews]

My research thus reveals that Shakespeare borrowed from Elizabethan contemporaries such as Marlowe, Kyd, and Peele to a remarkable degree. However, having delved deeper into Shakespeare’s career, there is little evidence, on a verbal level at least, of Shakespeare attending closely to the plays of Jacobean contemporary playwrights. We can interpret these results in varying ways: perhaps Shakespeare did not have easy access to plays performed by rival and children’s playing companies. As an actor Shakespeare would of course be working when plays were usually performed, meaning that he was more likely to be influenced by his own company’s repertory than by others. However, it seems likely to me that Shakespeare, with his keen commercial eye, would attend the plays of other companies when he had afternoons off...

Having investigated Shakespeare’s dramatic relationship with Thomas Middleton and Fletcher in order to increase our understanding of the working methods shared between these playwrights, I plan to conclude my study by looking at the ways in which the compilers of the First Folio helped to create the image of Shakespeare as a solitary genius. It seems to me that Shakespeare’s dramatic identity was shaped in large part by the people with whom he collaborated most.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #darren freebury-jones #bsa #thomas kyd #thomas middleton #john fletcher #theater #theatre #robert greene #christopher marlowe #playwrighting

[monica-writing]

In your smack

Writer, what is the least you can write?

Writer, how far can you travel with a single sail? Consider space over words; let life blow in. Marcia Ferguson trims with a skeleton crew: On the beach. VEE and ROD sit apart, relaxed, watching the waves. Silence. Vee: I shaved my legs and now I get these ingrown hairs. Rod: When did you start? Vee: At a birthday party. I cut my skin. [Pause] When did you start shaving? Rod: Twelve. Vee:…

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#Ideas #Life #Marcia Ferguson #Marriage Act #Playwrighting #Playwrite #Space #Work #Writing

[nicholasandriani]

#maps #game studies #fandom #interactive fiction #narrative design #writing #poetry #media studies #literary criticism #playwrighting

[travsd]

In Which I Learn Of My Relation to One of the Most Influential Men in the 20th Century Theatre: George Pierce Baker

Well, I was feeling down yesterday but now I am up again in rather a major way (and not just because of a certain historical event happening today in a criminal court in Manhattan). I’d scheduled myself to do a post on a major figure in early 20th century theatre, and in so doing learned of several close connections, including the fact that I’m related to him! George Pierce Baker (1866-1935) was…

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#47 workshop #Cady #George Pierce Baker #Harvarad #playwrighting #professor #Providence #teacher #Yale