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FREE THEATER ONLINE ***
Skirmish
over Skegness
By
Benjamin Peel
Skirmish
over Skegness is part of a series of Yesteryear Plays written by Benjamin Peel
and produced for the 2020 SOfa Fest by Breakwater Theatre.
On
21 August 1940 an air battle was fought over the Lincolnshire coast in what
became known as the Skirmish over Skegness.
This
audio drama starts and finishes in the present day when the lock down was at
it’s strictest and a young girl Facetimes her great Granddad, Billy, asking for
his memories of a lesser known incident that took place during the Battle of
Britain over Skegness when he was a young boy. The action of the incident is
then dramatised fictionally with a few of the characters having personal
connections to each other. By topping and tailing it with the 2020 crisis some comparisons can be made
between then and now and with the character of Billy able to put the
perspective of old age on both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aZFerbjFfU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3H-Y2G-EmdYWV1MZ2dshM9isanWJTsCAVSJUiU3llo36YhwZC8JkfbMvE
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CONGRATULATIONS & THANKS FOR SHARING ***
NYCPlaywrights
received very nice letters from two playwrights who found opportunities through
NYCPlaywrights and shared their stories with us. Congratulations to Sharon
Baker and David Kurkowski and wishing you continuing success. We're glad if
NYCPlaywrights has been helpful.
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SHARON BAKER ***
Hi
NYC Playwrights Friends,
You
have literally launched my playwriting career. I read about the Dramatists
Guild on your site.
The
DGA sponsored my world premiere reading of BIRTHDAY PARTY AT THE DALAI LAMA’S
PALACE, a two act comedy about the meaning of life. The reading was on ZOOM,
July, 2020. A fab team of actors brought the play to life through ZOOM. Anyone
can read it on National Play Exchange, under Sharon Baker.
https://newplayexchange.org/users/13604/sharon-baker
That
reading invited magazine/newspaper editors to assign me essays on becoming a
playwright.
Anyone
can read my essay, STAY SANE MY FRIENDS, online: http://www.itsallpink.com.
So
thanks to NYC Playwrights for the wonderful continuing opportunities.
Especially
for those of us who live faraway, like me.
Sharon
Baker ~ Hilton Head Island, SC
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DAVID KURKOWSKI ***
I
received this notification on June 12.
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Subject:
2020 JWM Playwriting Contest - Results
Date:
June 12, 2020 at 5:09:54 PM EDT
Thank
you to all of our entries into the 2019-2020 Jackie White Memorial
International Playwriting Contest!!
At this time, Columbia Entertainment Company
is proud to announce THE WINNERS of the 2019-2020 JWM Contest:
First Place:
Curie
the Musical
By
David Kurkowski
Philadelphia,
PA
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Thank
you, NYCPlaywrights, for letting me know about this opportunity. Columbia has promised a staged reading at
some point. Madame Curie (the new title) also had a successful on-line reading
on Create Theater on June 1. Despite the pandemic, theatre plods onward.
My
website is https://www.curiethemusical.com
David
Kurkowski
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
The
Snowdance® 10 Minute Comedy Festival is a festival of original comedies that
run 10 minutes or less. Submitted scripts will be judged by the Snowdance
Selection Committee. A selection of scripts will be chosen for production
during the Snowdance Festival in the winter of 2021. Audiences attending
Snowdance performances will have the ability to vote for the production they enjoyed
the most. The votes will be tallied throughout the five-week festival run, and
the Snowdance “Best in Snow” will be awarded to the winning playwright after
the final performance on a date to be determined.
Cash
award of $500.00 to “Best in Snow,” with $200.00 awarded to second place and
$100 for third place.
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Same
Boat Theater Collective is soliciting short plays and theatrical pieces for
EarthQuake: Moving the Earth with Our Voices, a global Zoom festival of
performances to further the cause of environmental justice.
We
are looking for theater pieces that raise the awareness of how specific
environmental issues affect the lives and communities of the underrepresented
and underprivileged among us. The festival intends to produce work that gives
an opportunity for a diversity of voices to be heard, with an emphasis on
underrepresented and underprivileged artists. Same Boat will cast and direct
the zoom performances.
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Rockford
New Words Festival
10
Minutes of Words Written for Live Performance
Theme:
WE CAN’T BREATHE
Award:
$200
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FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at
https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
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VOTES FOR WOMEN ON STAGE ***
Tony
winner Renée Elise Goldsberry, Tony nominee Phillipa Soo, and Jasmine Cephas Jones—the
trio who originated the Schuyler sisters in Hamilton—will virtually reunite
with Lin-Manuel Miranda during a special celebration in honor of the 100th
anniversary of women's suffrage.
Moderated
by journalist Soledad O'Brien, the event will take place August 25 at 8:30 PM
ET on Zoom, open to donors who pledge $10 or more to the Latino Victory Fund.
Donations will support the charity's aim to grow Latinx political power in all
levels of government.
The
virtual fundraiser will feature Soo, Goldsberry, and Jones discussing the role
of women in Hamilton, the rehearsal process, and their perspectives on
performing in the show as women of color—who were not allowed to vote until
1965 with the passing of the Civil Rights Act.
More...
https://www.playbill.com/article/phillipa-soo-renee-elise-goldsberry-and-jasmine-cephas-jones-to-celebrate-womens-suffrage
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The
cast of "19: The Musical" is in the middle of a weeknight rehearsal
at an Arlington community theater. It's crunch time: They're performing in the
show's premiere next week at D.C.'s National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Most
of the women wear the typical rehearsal gear of spandex and t-shirts, but their
heeled footwear hearkens back to the 1910s, when the bulk of the show's action
takes place.
Over
the course of 2 hours and 15 minutes, under-appreciated players in the
often-contentious fight for women's suffrage finally get their due. Alice Paul
goes head-to-head with President Woodrow Wilson, who withheld his support for suffrage
until the 11th hour. Carrie Chapman Catt argues for suffrage campaigns at the
state level. Ida B. Wells sings about her devotion to both civil and women's
rights.
More...
https://www.npr.org/local/305/2019/11/21/781621478/new-musical-about-suffrage-aims-to-be-hamilton-of-women-s-history
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New
York Times music critic Stephen Holden’s line about Shaina Taub—that she is a gravitational
force “around whom others cluster like filings to a magnet”—came powerfully to
mind on Monday night inside the Radcliffe Institute’s Knafel Center, where the
singer-songwriter (and actor-dancer-musician-dramatist) held the stage for
nearly three hours. As part of a celebration for the seventy-fifth anniversary
of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (which is closed
now for renovations through Tuesday, November 6), Taub and eight other singers,
all women, performed a dozen songs from her musical-in-progress about the
American Suffragist movement.
The
musical’s working title is “The Suffragists,” and throughout the performance,
Taub stood at the center of the group, calling out musical numbers and filling
in narrative blanks for the packed audience, as she and the others moved from
song to song. Afterward, a panel discussion on the play and its subject turned
into an extended Q&A with Taub, as the four academics who’d joined her on
stage—scholars of history and music and gender studies—swiveled toward her to
ask one excited question after another. Introducing the event, Radcliffe dean
Tomiko Brown-Nagin reminded the audience that the women’s suffrage movement
seems perhaps especially timely now: “We’re confronted on a daily basis by the
reality that various forms of political and social exclusion are still
commonplace for many Americans.”
More...
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2018/10/suffragists-in-song-at-radcliffe
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Written
in 1912, by pro-suffragist Marie Jenney Howe, Someone Must Wash the Dishes is
fully costumed, simply staged, and adaptable to almost any space and situation.
An optional 20-minute lecture follows the 25-minute performance, putting the
Antis and their arguments in the context of their time, and summarizing Howe’s
career as a minister and a Progressive catalyst. A gratis talk back concludes
the program.
More...
http://www.michelelarue.com/someone-must-wash-the-dishes
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The
New York Times commissioned and produced “Finish the Fight,” a digital play in
which the acclaimed playwright Ming Peiffer (“Usual Girls”), the 2020
Obie-winning director Whitney White (“Our Dear Dead Drug Lord,” “What to Send
Up When It Goes Down”) and a cast of celebrated actresses bring to theatrical
life the biographies of lesser-known activists who helped to win voting rights
for women. The play adapts the book “Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary
Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote,” written by Veronica Chambers, a Times
senior editor, and the Times journalists Jennifer Schuessler, Amisha Padnani,
Jennifer Harlan, Sandra E. Garcia and Vivian Wang.
More...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/theater/finish-the-fight-suffrage-centennial-performance.html
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Tony
and Emmy winner Phylicia Rashad stars in one of three short radio plays during
Juneteenth celebration Black Women and The Ballot, premiering June 19 at 7:30
PM ET. The event is presented by American Slave Project and a consortium of NYC
and regional Black theatres and allies.
Rashad
will star as The Ancestor in Judy Tate’s Pulling the Lever, which follows three
inter-generational women as they remember their most important experiences
voting; Tate also directs.
Dianne
Kirksey Floyd will helm Tate’s second play featured, In the Parlour. The work
returns to the eve of the historic 1913 Women’s March for votes through the
eyes of a young Howard University student. The third play is Saviana Stanescu’s
immigrant-focused Don’t/Dream, directed by Tate again.
The
radio plays will be streamed from the American Slavery Project’s website and
YouTube. The event will end with a live talkback hosted by ASP.
https://www.americanslaveryproject.org
The
evening will examine the relationship between America and Black women voting in
this 100th anniversary year of Women's Suffrage, shedding light on
African-American women’s contribution to suffrage over multiple decades and the
undocumented and disenfranchised Black immigrant women overlooked today.
More...
https://www.playbill.com/article/phylicia-rashad-to-star-in-election-themed-radio-play-pulling-the-lever
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THE
SUFFRAGIST
Alice
Paul is a young radical.
Carrie
Chapman Catt is a seasoned organizer.
This
inspirational and absorbing true story dramatizes their struggles against the
government, society, and each other. It is a hard-fought battle with both women
moving towards a shared goal: winning the vote.
Book
+ Lyrics by Cavan Hallman
Music
by Nancy Hill Cobb
Coming
in the summer of 2021
Gallagher
Bluedorn Performing Arts Center
Cedar
Falls, IA
July
16 / 17 / 18
More...
http://suffragistmusical.com
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