Monthly Archives: February 2017

Conceptual Play

Jane Martin’s Beauty takes the concept of beauty and examines its advantages and drawbacks, what it enables and disables. Pick a concept that you think needs investigation. Write a two-minute play that exposes its myths and its realities. What idea … Continue reading

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The Bangkok

David Ives’ one-act The Philadelphia is a serious comedy that creates some problems and solves them. If a Philadelphia is where “you can’t get what you ask for” (79), and a Cleveland is “like death, without the advantages” (82), what … Continue reading

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