Tag Archive | Humanity
Vomit Writing Magic Muse
Being a playwright- finding your muse is very important- having your space, having your music, having your spells, chants, and charms around you as you write is very important. But sometimes it just doesn’t come. My first mentor/friend in playwriting was Stephen Adly Guirgis. Outside of my mother, he was the first person who told […]
Very Appropriate
Hello! The African-American (AFAM) Studies Department at Boston University is hosting an event, which guarantees to unpack cultural politics with you… {Stealing Culture: The Complicated Politics of Cultural Appropriation} Tuesday March 20th, 6-7:30pm BU Photonics Center, RM. 206 8 Saint Mary’s Street, Boston, MA 02215 Imagery courtesy of artist: Shannon Wright, “Shared or Stolen: An […]
Art in the 2 Minute Era or: How I Learned to Make Art and Hate the Bomb
Today the doomsday clock was set to 2 minutes till midnight. Was the clock not already at 11:58? Has it not been at 11:58 for as long as I have been alive? It seems to me that I have been living in the dusk of two minutes to midnight for years now. It seems to me […]
Demi Lovato and the A R T of Stars’ Documentaries
On one recent weekend or in the past few days, which are seemingly moving like unnamable wind rapids and less like structured cycles fit to keep momentum, I watched Demi Lovato’s documentary, “Simply Complicated.” I have been a fan of this talented, hardworking woman since she stepped on the Disney Channel scene and I have […]
As a writer
The setting is the first thing I think about – Where? In my plays the set becomes more than a prop, it becomes as much of an organism of force as the living characters on stage. When I begin to develop a play I think about how I can manipulate the set into consciousness. How […]
WTF is a Play Cycle – Pt. 4
The Purpose of Play Cycles/Artist Prophet The Greeks were not only telling tales to reintegrate their citizens but they were developing stories that encapsulated their history, stories that allowed the viewer to examine civilization. In Julie Spark’s Playwrights’ Progress she states that the greek plays were performed as a mode of civic self-examination. Writers get […]
It Still Keep the Cold Out
With tears in my eyes, Gem of the Ocean and American Gods in my hands, I set off to see the acclaimed ArtsEmerson production of ‘Home’ by Geoff Sorbelle, directed by Lee Sunday Evans. I was sad y’all, truly inward, truly selfish and not willing to shake it off. I hopped on the T, stared […]
On “Theatre as a Form of Resistance to Oppression & Genocide”: How Theatre Normalized Life for a Jewish Ghetto in WWII
Last night I attended a talk by Joshua Sobol, an Israeli playwright and director who has written over 75 plays and directed internationally, including in the U.S., Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and, of course, Israel. BU was fortunate enough to have him through the efforts of the BU Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies and the […]
I Communicate, Therefore I Am
Let’s play word-association?: When I “say” “communication” what’s the first thing you think of? If it were me answering a week ago I would’ve said “words.” But after reading Aditi Brennan Kapil’s play “Love Person” and talking about the world it asks us to learn about (the deaf community, Deaf community, and ASL), I think […]
In a divided country, how can art make us SEE one another? or On the Art of Connecting
Marina distills theatre. Theatre becomes performance. Performance becomes sitting across from someone — and with someone — in silence. (You can work from the other way around too. Sitting across from someone becomes performance. Performance becomes theatre. It’s a frame. You can frame it how you wish to frame it. It’s your own experience.) We […]
Drama Lit Blog 2.0: BU School of Theatre 