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Greetings NYCPlaywrights
*** 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
***
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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