I like to do this really mean thing to actors in which I make them be ghosts all the time. There are only so many active things that ghosts can do (stare, observe, hover, haunt.) …
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ghosts
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fight choreography
It is truly incredible what fight choreographers do. They know the ins and outs of pistol whips, gunshots the head, blood bursts, and other horrifyingly real things. We’re so so so lucky that the FC …
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Our Town
Our Town is an incredible play written some 70 years ago by Thorton Wilder – detailing the seemingly ordinary lives and ordinary moments in the lives of a fictional small town in Massachusetts. It is …
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we’re bacckkkkk
Naturally, the play about a tragic and random murder / suicide starts with a town history paegant and peanut festival. Naturally.
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BRAVERY
With House of Home, which painfully and nicely revealed itself to me yesterday in a first reading – I am BOLDLY* going where no bekah has gone before! A PAGE ONE rewrite**. Like starting from …
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CONFLICT
My new life chapter, post-job, has been about confronting my writerly weaknesses. Before, when I couldn’t figure a play out, I had a good excuse: ahhhhhh not enough time, must write super fast, must wake …
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‘Listen, Bob…’
How often do we ACTUALLY call each other by our names? It’s pretty rare. But yet, when writing, we feel like everyone has to say each other’s names all the time. Like ‘Bob listen, listen …
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Clarity
Please allow this picture, this ‘gif’? to represent Clarity. Ahhhh, it is moving!! It moves!!!! Okay so: I think that one of the biggest of the 11,000 things that are hard about playwriting is the …
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‘I am scared!’ x infinity
David Mamet says that when you are stuck / lost in a scene, just have the character say exactly what they are feeling. I think this is fantastic advice that I have perhaps OVER-taken. While …
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Issues
As a writer I think it’s important to always have issues, things that you’re scared of / worried about / confused by, so that at the drop of a hat, you can pull from one …