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RE: RAT Unsolicited Scripts . . .
Audie McCall,
Funny, thats the name of a character in a play by Paul Mullin. "Tuesday" We
did it at Sacred Fools in Los Angeles and we got all kinds of awards for it.
Any theater looking for stuff to do should look at "Tuesday" and pretty much
all of Mullin's work.
Audie, are you familiar with Paul?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Audie McCall [SMTP:audiemccall@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 9:15 AM
> To: Rat List
> Subject: RAT Unsolicited Scripts . . .
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> . . . are a crappy way to get your plays out there.
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> Granted.
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> But for many disenfranchised playwrights, cold submission can seem
> like the ONLY way. (And contrary to the reigning misapprehension,
> plays DO get chosen this way, albeit once in a very blue moon.)
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> I understand that pretty much every theatre, large or small, fat or
> rat, has a stack of manila folders stuffed with plays that will barely
> get looked at, far less considered for development. I also understand
> that this is inevitable.
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> But let me suggest one simple, fairly painless thing any theatre with
> a commitment to new work might try to help address the problem: Take
> one of those scripts off the shelf. Make sure it's one whose author's
> name rings a bell with no one in your company. Do a reading of it.
> Do this once or twice a season. Invite the author. If he or she
> can't come, offer them written feedback after the fact.
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> Think of it as a form of flossing-- to help fight pesky manila build-up.
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> A modest program like this, just once or twice a season, could really
> go along way to expanding the horizons of both the playwright and
> theatre involved.
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