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*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe is looking for:
1. Short new plays (no more than 12 pages, less is fine) that are easily staged and have casts with no more than four people. Our theater is very small and we normally use a minimal set concept in this festival. We have to be able to change sets in just a few minutes as we do six to seven plays each evening of the festival. We don't have space for large casts.
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New Works/New Voices (NWNV) is an initiative at the Syracuse University Department of Drama created to support the development of musicals by writers and composers whose perspectives have been historically underrepresented in the musical theater canon. NWNV is seeking completed musicals or musicals-in-progress from teams who are interested in developing their work with undergraduate BFA students.
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Blank Page Theatre Co. is looking for playwrights and directors for our 4th Annual Summer New Works Festival. Every year, Blank Page Theatre Co. picks a theme that reflects the social climate of the year and focuses on pieces and works that support the theme. This year's theme is: DEI
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** ROTTEN REVIEWS & REJECTIONS ***
The book is available to borrow for free online at the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/pushcartscomplet00hend
***
UNCLE VANYA
Anton Chekov
performed in New York, 1949
If you were to ask me what UNCLE VANYA is about, I would say about as much as I can take.
Robert Garland, Journal American
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A DOLL'S HOUSE
Henrik Ibsen
It was as though someone had dramatized the cooking of a Sunday dinner.
Clement Scott, Sporting and Dramatic News 1889
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GHOSTS
Henrik Ibsen
Performed 1891, London
The play performed last night is 'simple' enough in plan and purpose, but simple only in the sense of an open drain; of a loathesome sore unbandaged; of a dirty act done publicly.
Daily Telegram
***
ROMEO AND JULIET
William Shakespeare
Performed in London, 1662
March 1st - To the Opera and there saw Romeo and Juliet, the first time it was ever acted, but it is a play of itself the worst that ever I heard in my life, and the worst acted that ever I saw these people do...
Samuel Pepys, Diary
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
William Shakespeare
Performed in London, 1662
The most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life.
Samuel Pepys, Diary
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KING LEAR
William Shakespeare
1605
This drama is chargeable with considerable imperfections.
Joseph Warton, The Adventurer 1754
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HAMLET
William Shakespeare
1601
It is a vulgar and barbarous drama, which would not be tolerated by the vilest populace of France, or Italy... one would imagine this piece to be the work of a drunken savage.
Voltaire, (1768), in The Works of M. de Voltaire 1901
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OTHELLO
William Shakespeare
1604
Pure melodrama. There is not a touch of characteriziation that goes below the skin.
George Bernard Shaw, Saturday Review 1897
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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
William Shakespeare
1606
To say that there is plenty of bogus characterization in it... is merely to say that it is by Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw, Saturday Review 1897
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JULIUS CAESAR
William Shakespeare
Performed in London, 1898
There is a not a single sentence uttered by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar that is, I will not say worthy of him, but worthy of an average Tammany boss.
George Bernard Shaw, Saturday Review
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ARMS AND THE MAN
George Bernard Shaw
Performed in London, 1894
Shaw may one day write a serious and even an artistic play, if he will only repress his irreverent whimsicality, try to clothe his character conceptions in flesh and blood, and realize the difference between knowingness and knowledge.
William Archer, World
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MAJOR BARBARA
George Bernanrd Shaw
Performed in London, 1905
There are no human beings in MAJOR BARBARA: only animated points of view.
William Archer, World
--*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** ROTTEN REVIEWS & REJECTIONS ***
The book is available to borrow for free online at the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/pushcartscomplet00hend
***
UNCLE VANYA
Anton Chekov
performed in New York, 1949
If you were to ask me what UNCLE VANYA is about, I would say about as much as I can take.
Robert Garland, Journal American
***
A DOLL'S HOUSE
Henrik Ibsen
It was as though someone had dramatized the cooking of a Sunday dinner.
Clement Scott, Sporting and Dramatic News 1889
***
GHOSTS
Henrik Ibsen
Performed 1891, London
The play performed last night is 'simple' enough in plan and purpose, but simple only in the sense of an open drain; of a loathesome sore unbandaged; of a dirty act done publicly.
Daily Telegram
***
ROMEO AND JULIET
William Shakespeare
Performed in London, 1662
March 1st - To the Opera and there saw Romeo and Juliet, the first time it was ever acted, but it is a play of itself the worst that ever I heard in my life, and the worst acted that ever I saw these people do...
Samuel Pepys, Diary
***
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
William Shakespeare
Performed in London, 1662
The most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life.
Samuel Pepys, Diary
***
KING LEAR
William Shakespeare
1605
This drama is chargeable with considerable imperfections.
Joseph Warton, The Adventurer 1754
***
HAMLET
William Shakespeare
1601
It is a vulgar and barbarous drama, which would not be tolerated by the vilest populace of France, or Italy... one would imagine this piece to be the work of a drunken savage.
Voltaire, (1768), in The Works of M. de Voltaire 1901
***
OTHELLO
William Shakespeare
1604
Pure melodrama. There is not a touch of characteriziation that goes below the skin.
George Bernard Shaw, Saturday Review 1897
***
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
William Shakespeare
1606
To say that there is plenty of bogus characterization in it... is merely to say that it is by Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw, Saturday Review 1897
***
JULIUS CAESAR
William Shakespeare
Performed in London, 1898
There is a not a single sentence uttered by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar that is, I will not say worthy of him, but worthy of an average Tammany boss.
George Bernard Shaw, Saturday Review
***
ARMS AND THE MAN
George Bernard Shaw
Performed in London, 1894
Shaw may one day write a serious and even an artistic play, if he will only repress his irreverent whimsicality, try to clothe his character conceptions in flesh and blood, and realize the difference between knowingness and knowledge.
William Archer, World
***
MAJOR BARBARA
George Bernanrd Shaw
Performed in London, 1905
There are no human beings in MAJOR BARBARA: only animated points of view.
William Archer, World
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