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CONGRATULATIONS KATHERINE GLEASON ***
Congratulations
to Katherine Gleason who has just won the Christopher Hewitt Award for Drama
for her short play THE TOE INCIDENT.
Her piece is in
the August issue of A&U Magazine here:
https://aumag.org/2020/08/03/the-toe-incident-drama-by-katherine-gleason/
She wrote us to
say: "I have found lots of great opportunities on NYCPlaywrights! One of
my short plays just won an award. Wow. I never would have known about it if it
wasn’t for NYCPlaywrights! I love your work!”
Thanks to
Katherine for her kind words of encouragement - NYCPlaywrights is happy to be
helpful. You can learn more about Katherine Gleason’s work at her web site at
www.katherinegleason.com and you can follow her on Twitter at @KGleasonWriter
If you have
found good opportunities through NYCPlaywrights, let us know at
info@nycplaywrights.org - we will share your story and links to your site(s)
& work (with your permission of course.)
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
The Robert J.
Pickering / J.R. Colbeck Award for Playwriting Excellence
This annual
award was established to honor past member and playwright, Bob Pickering, and
to provide a vehicle for playwrights to see their works produced. Over 30 plays
have been produced over since 1984. In 2020, the award was renamed to also
honor longtime BCCT member and Pickering director, J.R. Colbeck. $200 is
awarded for first place, $50 for second place and $25 for third place.
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We are
currently accepting submissions for the 2021-22 Reva Shiner Comedy Award. The
winner will be announced by June 2021. "Full-length” plays should have a
complete running time of between 1 hour 15 minutes (75 minutes) to 2 hours 15
minutes (135 minutes)
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The Trans
[Plays] of Remembrance Festival at Ohio University is now accepting submissions
of 10 minute plays to be performed digitally as part of our Trans Awareness
week. The Festival will take place over three nights during Ohio University's
Trans Week of Awareness with performances November 16th, 17th and 20th.
Playwrights/poets/performers will be notified which day(s) their play(s) will
be performed.
*** FOR MORE
INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org
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THE POST OFFICE
In the spring
of 1913, Yeats directed the Irish Players to perform Tagore’s play The Post
Office, then unpublished, at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, and then again in London
in July 1913. On November 14, 1913, Tagore was informed that he had won the
Prize via telegram at home in Bengal, then on December 10, 1913, was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first non-European to do so.
More...
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2020/02/16/yeats-w-b-india-and-rabindranath-tagore/
Script:
https://archive.org/details/postoffice00yeatgoog/page/n6/mode/2up
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THE POSTMAN AND
THE POET
Isla Negra, a
fishing village on the Chilean coast, 1970-73. Mario, inarticulate and wildly
romantic, gets a job as postman to the poet Pablo Neruda. Learning from Neruda,
Mario woos the beautiful Beatriz in a way that is unusual to her: in words. The
pair fall in love, and after being caught in a delicate situation are forced by
Beatriz's mother, Rosa, to marry. She puts the couple to work in her taverna.
More...
http://www.thepostmanandthepoet.com/the%20story.htm
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LOVE LETTERS
New York City
is falling head over heels for A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters, the story of a
50-year correspondence between Melissa Gardner and her
childhood-friend-turned-love-interest, Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. Thanks to its
simple staging, Gurney’s play, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, has been performed in
theater spaces all over the world, from the New York Public Library to Broadway
to Carnegie Hall and back again. Put away your iPhone (at least for a minute!)
to find out how a touching romance through old-fashioned pen and paper will
officially blossom on Broadway beginning September 17, 2014.
More...
https://www.broadway.com/buzz/177509/signed-sealed-delivered-the-story-of-ar-gurneys-love-letters-from-the-library-to-the-great-white-way/
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OLD LOVE
LETTERS: A COMEDY IN ONE ACT
Old Love
Letters is short one act comedy by Bronson Howard from 1878. In this cute relic, the charm of youthful
courtship amidst the strain of Victorian societal mores is considered with the
passage of time.
Mrs. Florence
Brownlee is rereading old love letters “like faded rose leaves in a book”
before casually tossing them into a fire.
She has been recently widowed at age 32.
A former suitor, Edward Warburton’s wife died four years ago and he is
now forty years old. “Even the warm
skies of southern Italy failed to restore her.”
He is reading old love letters from Florence which were never destroyed
despite his marriage to another. “It
isn’t wicked for me to keep them now.”
More...
https://www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com/seclusion-smorgasbord-viii/
Script:
https://archive.org/details/oldlovelettersa00howagoog/page/n10/mode/2up
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A LETTER TO
HARVEY MILK
It's 1986 and
Harry has decided to take Barbara's class after seeing a sign about it at the
JCC. He insists that he doesn't have much to write about, but a moving letter
he composes to Milk, a former customer and friend, proves otherwise.
More...
https://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/reviews/a-letter-to-harvey-milk-is-a-musical-with-a-secret_84323.html
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DEAR ELIZABETH
“I seem to
spend my life missing you,” Robert Lowell wrote to Elizabeth Bishop, many years
after the long and intimate friendship between these two great American poets
began. In another letter he sadly observed, “We seem attached to each other by
some stiff piece of wire, so that each time one moves, the other moves in
another direction.”
The
geographical distance between them, breached only rarely during their sometimes
tumultuous lives, was a deeply felt burden to both — if perhaps occasionally a
blessing, too. But it left behind a great literary treasure: more than 400
letters that they exchanged as their careers and lives blossomed, faltered,
foundered, almost fell apart, then blossomed anew. The playwright Sarah Ruhl
has distilled from their voluminous correspondence a concise selection to
create “Dear Elizabeth,” an epistolary play that is having its premiere at the
Yale Repertory Theater here.
More...
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/theater/reviews/dear-elizabeth-a-sarah-ruhl-play.html
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DEAR LIAR
Just how much
will be lost when the art of writing letters is completely vanquished by more
transitory forms of communication — like, say, the exchange of idiotic e-mail
jokes — is tenderly conveyed in “Dear Liar,” Jerome Kilty’s 1958 play adapted
from the correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell.
In a diverting and often poignant new revival at the Irish Repertory Theater,
Marian Seldes and Donal Donnelly ably spar and flirt in the guise of these
towering theatrical figures, bringing to life an immortally lively relationship
and in the process giving a commanding view onto a vanished era.
More...
https://variety.com/1999/legit/reviews/dear-liar-1200458320/
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