Tag: new play
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On Rhythmic Utterances, The Catharsis of Musicality, and Destabilizing Interactions: A Conversation with Playwright Abe Koogler
When Deep Blue Sound announced its residence at The Public Theater, the playwrights in my MFA program were thrilled. Their response gave me an inkling as to what kind of playwright Abe Koogler must be: a playwright’s playwright, the type of writer that younger practitioners admire for a fresh take on the form. In speaking…
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That Time I Left You For The Burlesque Dancer (a response to MAGIC TRICK)
Mariah MacCarthy’s play Magic Trick unfolds itself over the course of about two and a half hours in semi-fragmented short-to-medium length scenes, weaving a narrative that functions primarily as a lover’s messy triangle story (in which one person leaves a second person and shacks up with a third party, with complications) and with touches…
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Mariah MacCarthy on ‘Magic Trick’
Mariah MacCarthy’s ‘Magic Trick,’ playing at the Studio Theatre of Theatre Row from August 27th-September 12th, is a play in which a disabled person leaves her boyfriend and becomes a burlesque dancer. Culturebot reached out to Mariah to learn more about her process around creating this work. Burlesque is nudity on two levels: There’s the…
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S.O.S. in West Virginia
A response to Ion Theatre’s Sea of Souls