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*** FREE THEATER ONLINE ***

THIS IS A MAN'S WORLD
Written & Performed by Sal Lopez
Directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela
In this candid and intimate performance, music and memory swirl as Lopez relives the lessons that shaped his life, from the scent of a piroul tree in Mexico to the thrill of young love to the effects of the Watts Riots and the birth of his son.
September 8 - September 17, 2020

https://www.thelatc.org/live

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THE ORLANDO PROJECT
Five theatre students in a rehearsal process were stranded, their work on the play Orlando (by Sarah Ruhl) at a standstill. Filming from across the United States, they instead created this soulful short film. Original music, freewheeling footage, and material from Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece blend in a narrative at once humorous and heartfelt, melancholic and philosophical.

The 28-minute film is available on YouTube throughout the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and beyond.

https://fringearts.com/event/the-orlando-project/


*** NYC WRITE NOW! ***

What: An informal silent writing group for playwrights in NYC's five boroughs: The Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.

When: Wednesdays from 7pm until 9pm EST, and Fridays from 9am until 11am EST. You may use this Eventbrite registration form to register independently for one or multiple sessions.

Where: Zoom. A link and passcode to join will be sent to you automatically two hours prior to the start time. If you have trouble, please use the contact form below to be in touch with the NYC Dramatists Guild Rep/Ambassador team.

Event Dates:

Sep 16 at 7:00pm
Sep 18 at 9:00am
Sep 23 at 7:00pm
Sep 25 at 9:00am
Sep 30 at 7:00pm

NYC Write Now! is a recurring silent writing meet-up group for NYC based dramatists; it meets twice weekly, on Wednesday evenings and Friday mornings. You have the option of attending once or twice a week, during the day, in the evening, or both! All you have to do is turn your camera on, and mute your sound. At the start of each meeting, we’ll begin with a quick welcome and then continue on to our two hours of uninterrupted writing time. Think of it as a group of accountability buddies.

You are free to come to either- or both- weekly time slots, but we do need you to register in advance, so that we know how many people to expect, and so that we can send you the Zoom link. We look forward to seeing you in the Zoom where it happens!

REGISTER:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-online-write-now-tickets-120405320555


*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***

Cape Cod Theatre Project 2021
Playwrights may send one play per season for consideration. The proposed play must still be in development and cannot have received a professional production, or a production that has been reviewed, prior to August 2020.

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Downtown Urban Arts Festival will accept 16 theatrical works (plays, musicals and solo works) that reflect urban life and with running times up to 70 minutes. Each work is performed only once during the festival.
There will be a $1,000 award in the categories of Best Play, Best Short and Audience. There is no submission fee and each playwright will receive a $500 monetary stipend as well as other supportive services to assist in developing the play for the stage.

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PROLOGUE THEATRE’S MISSION: “Prologue Theatre understands that it can be difficult, at times, to begin conversations about “certain topics” and focuses on presenting theatre that can serve as that starting point. Through theatrical performance, coupled with community discussion, we strive to challenge our community to examine and discuss their views of the world and those around them. Our focus is on those who are in the process of finding their own voice - whether 15 or 115 years old – and are looking for a place where they can hone those viewpoints by examining world issues within (and with) their community.”


*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***


*** FREE ONLINE THEATER COURSES ***

THE 101: Introduction to Theatre and Drama Arts

Theatre 101 aims to answer several questions, the most important of which is, "what is the nature of the theatre experience?" Why do people do theatre? What do they hope to accomplish? What is the relationship between the performers and the audience? How has the relationship between theatre and society developed throughout history from the early theatres of democratic Athens to the contemporary mega-musical?

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdLiRaajwSXTBmnGHra9kCNm3z_74Khv0

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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

This series of six lectures introduces six plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Once popular and now little-known, they can tell us a lot about what their first audiences enjoyed, aspired to and worried about - from immigrants in early modern London to the role of women in the household, from what religious changes might mean for attitudes to the dead to fantasies of easy money and social elevation.

http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/not-shakespeare-elizabethan-and-jacobean-popular-theatre

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Approaching Shakespeare

Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing overarching readings or interpretations, the series aims to show the variety of different ways we might understand Shakespeare, the kinds of evidence that might be used to strengthen our critical analysis, and, above all, the enjoyable and unavoidable fact that Shakespeare's plays tend to generate our questions rather than answer them.

http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/approaching-shakespeare


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The Philosophy of Tragedy: A Free Course on the Philosophy of Great Greek Tragedies

Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few.

http://www.openculture.com/the-philosophy-of-tragedy-a-free-course-on-the-philosophy-of-great-greek-tragedies

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Harvard University

Shakespeare's Life and Work
Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

https://www.edx.org/course/shakespeares-life-and-work

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Playwriting
by National Theatre

This course material is only available in the iTunes U app on iPhone or iPad.

For anyone with an interest in creative writing, this course will guide you through the processes required to write a play. Leading playwrights explain some of the key elements of a well-written play, and discuss how they approach them in their own work. David Hare, Katori Hall, Matt Charman, Nell Leyshon, James Graham, Nick Dear, John Hodge, Alia Bano, Richard Bean, Anders Lustgarten and Roy Williams talk about writing dialogue, creating characters and structuring a narrative. These videos in combination with a series of writing exercises and introductions to writing techniques provide a solid foundation upon which to write your first play. This course is provided by National Theatre Learning 2012 and is updated regularly with new content on playwriting.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/playwriting/id555641659

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Playwriting I

This class introduces the craft of writing for the theater. Through weekly assignments, in class writing exercises, and work on a sustained piece, students explore scene structure, action, events, voice, and dialogue. We examine produced playscripts and discuss student work. This class's emphasis is on process, risk-taking, and finding one's own voice and vision.

MIT Open Courseware
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/music-and-theater-arts/21m-604-playwriting-i-spring-2005/index.htm#


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