This week I’m thrilled to share a guest essay from award-winning playwright, librettist, and poet Jacqueline Goldfinger. BONUS: Check out her new TikTok channel www.tiktok.com/@all.things....
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Here's a craft article on taking risks and talking goats. #AlabamaGoatPlay #Alabaster #writingtips #thursdayinspiration #craft #newplay #amwriting audreycefaly.substack.com/p/if-these-g...
The real estate traveled between the moment a loop is opened and the moment it’s closed is where the listener’s attention sharpens. Memory imprints more clearly. Investment deepens.
Everyone: “Chekhov is subtle.”
Also Chekhov: “I shot a seagull and gave it to you. Here it is.”
Sir???
Most plays aren’t about what happens.
They’re about what can’t.
What can’t be said.
What can’t be undone.
What can’t be forgiven.
Start there.
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“No stone unturned. No maggot lonely.” Harold Pinter on Beckett
In the quiet after a play, or the breath held between brushstrokes, we catch a glimpse of the eternal. Not in the grandness of it all, but in the tender reach. The reaching is the point. The world forgets. Art remembers. And through it, maybe, we remember each other.
Art is how we mark the walls of time. A gesture. A sound. A story told by firelight or spotlight or the flicker of a screen. It doesn’t preserve us so much as prove we were here—that we saw, that we felt, that we tried to name the shape of being alive.
Sometimes we are so busy writing the lines that we forget the biggest thing of all: What the room is doing to the people in it. audreycefaly.substack.com/p/playwritin... #playwriting #craft #amwriting #writingtips #writinghacks #subtext
Just made a one-sheet for artistic directors and literary managers and… wow. This play has been places! Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since I directed the world premiere for the Inaugural Women’s Voices Festival. Grateful. Gobsmacked. Still going. #maytagvirgin
I don’t trust plays that beg you to cry. I don’t trust characters who “grieve” in tidy monologues about how much they miss someone. I don’t trust weepy music or lighting cues that whisper, now feel this. But reader: I used to.
If you’ve ever written your way into a truth you didn’t know was waiting… this one’s for you. audreycefaly.substack.com/p/writing-fr... #playwriting #memoir #twins #amwriting #mondaymotivation
“How Is Live Theater Still Alive?It has become fiendishly expensive to produce, and has more competition than ever. And yet the believers still believe. Why? And does the world really want a new musical about … Abraham Lincoln?! (Part one of a three-part series.)” freakonomics.com/podcast/how-...
Theater makers give their "beyond the textbook" take on what makes a stage play theatrical. #playwriting #newplay #amwriting #writingtips audreycefaly.substack.com/p/what-makes...
"Now we face our greatest test. Running theatre companies is harder than ever, but not only because we have at least 30% less funding than two decades ago. Not only because arts subjects in schools and universities were systematically depopulated..." www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...
Be the c*nt we need in the world. ❤️🖕
I can see you have a miserable situation. 😍
ht Michelle LaCroix for posting this over on Substack.
Can confirm.
Had a blast recording this podcast with @dennishensley.bsky.social Hensley and my writing partner, #CarolynMessina. TOPICS: #AlabamaGoatPlay (aka #Alabaster), writing trauma, comedy, and what it was like getting published by #SamuelFrench. Have a listen! #playwriting #amwriting #dramaturgy
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The final mission is the total subjugation of children to parental control with no recourse for their right to information or an open future
