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Sircmichaels
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Posted: Fri Dec 21st, 2007 05:04 pm |
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Hi. My name is Sirc. I've been writing plays for a little over a decade now.
I was, earlier on, much more interested in production than in publication. In other words, I would work tirelessly to get a script produced, be a part of the process as much as I could, and then move on to the next project.
While I have had some small amount of success as far as getting plays produced, I have not acheived a level that I am happy with.
So now I am pursuing a far more aggressive campaign on sending out my work, knocking on the doors of publshers, etc.
It is a long, exhausting road, but it beats working for a living.
At the moment I also serve as the Artistic Director of a theatre in TX, and have been enjoying all the trials that come with working in a venue as opposed to just production by production.
I guess that's all about me for now.
I am glad to have found this place, since where I live now gives me little opportunity to actually talk to fellow playwrights.
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MaryS
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Posted: Fri Dec 21st, 2007 06:47 pm |
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Hi Sirc,
Nice to meet you here on the Playwrights' Forum.
I look forward to hearing about you and work. It'll be especially interesting to get your point of view as an artistic director of a theatre, of the risks and joys doing original work.
Mary Steelsmith
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CaseyC
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Posted: Mon Dec 31st, 2007 10:16 pm |
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| What type of plays do you enjoy writing?
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Sircmichaels
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Posted: Thu Jan 31st, 2008 06:27 pm |
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CaseyC wrote: What type of plays do you enjoy writing?
It all depends. Everything seems to come out as a comedy. I wrote FAUST based on Marlowe's Faustus, Goethe's Faust, and every bit of legend I could get my hands on. I put it all together and got to work. In the end, even with this classical piece that focuses on these awesome themes of mortality and desperation and desire for greatness it is riddled with comic relief. When the show was staged it got great response, so I guess that is where my comfort zone is at. Even my play PATRIOS, which is at its heart a condemnation of many things American, is a comedy. A satire, not to put too fine a point on it. So there.
As for style, that depends on the piece. The characters speak and I dictate, so whatever age, style, slang, whatever they use and speak in is what I write down. I'm not one of those 'forward shapers'. I do all the shaping in the editing.
Wow - that was long. I am presently at school in between subbing classes so I have little to do and can't access any of my theatres to contact or my email, so that might explain the length of this.
Okay - I am off now.
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Will Kemp
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Posted: Tue Mar 4th, 2008 10:11 pm |
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| So you take classes, sub classes, run a theatre as artistic director, write plays, arrange publication of plays, but don't work for a living? Hm.
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