Tag: mac wellman
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The Uses of Obscurity | a conversation with Jerry Lieblich, Steve Mellor, and Meghan Finn
Jerry’s keen ear is tuned to productions of un-meaning—the kinds of nonsense, half-sense, and anti-sense that enable and mask violence, particularly violence committed in the names of patriotism and progress
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The Wordy Worlds of Mac Wellman
The evening resembles what one might imagine how a Moth Storytelling Hour might play out if it were held at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
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“I’m Fundamentally Interested in a Gentle Theater” – a conversation with Corinne Donly and Sarah Hughes
I got the impression that Corinne and Sarah were working out their ideas in front of me, rather than regurgitating concepts already known. In other words, the play was becoming before my eyes.
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Passing On the Passed (Past)
I could go on, you should go on for me, counting heros not yet fallen.
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Slavic Soul Remix: Bring a Weasel and a Pint of your Own Blood Festival at JACK
The annual dare: Mac Wellman challenges three of his Brooklyn College playwrights to write short pieces based on the same source material, this year Maxim Gorky’s remembrances of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreev. The set, a palimpsest of JACK’s signature tinfoil, typed pages and reverent portraits reminded me of that chunk in Anna Karenina I’ve been…
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On The Offending Gesture, or what means ‘work’?
A response to The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman and what makes something ‘work.’
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Dystopian Cigar Factories on Rocks Hurtling Through Space
Culturebot contributor Jeremy M. Barker discusses the new play “Muazzez” with Mac Wellman and the playwright’s long collaboration with actor Steve Mellor.
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The Culturebot Guide to January Festival Season in NYC
Culturebot’s completely unbiased guide to January Festival Season in NYC. At your service to help manage the Madness.
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Bourgeois Pretensions, or Biscuits and Gravy
Timothy Braun hangs out with Mac Wellman, Steve Mellor and Eliza Bent atThe Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX.
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Prelude12 Recap: “Festifesto!”
Or, Some Preliminary Considerations Regarding the Formal Nature and Purpose of Prelude
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Mac Wellman’s Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood Fest Returns
The director of Brooklyn College’s experimental playwriting program presents his seventh annual festival of emerging playwrights this August
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PRELUDE.11 October 12-14, 2011 at the Segal Center
PRELUDE, everyone’s favorite annual don’t-miss festival sneak peek of the upcoming season by NYC-based theater and performance artists returns to The Segal Center, October 12-14, 2011.