Re: RAT Unsolicited Scripts . . .

[Ezra Buzzington <jonoh1@juno.com>]

Hi,
  I saw a play called "Tuesday" years ago in Seattle. It starred Bill
Salyers. Same "Tuesday"? Brilliant. Fucking brilliant.
http://home.cwix.com/~the.buzz@mci2000.com

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 10:15:29 -0800  "Sylvain, John"
<jsylvain@station.sony.com> writes:
>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 . . .
>> 
>> . . . are a crappy way to get your plays out there.
>> 
>> Granted.
>> 
>> 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.)
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Think of it as a form of flossing-- to help fight pesky manila 
>build-up.
>> 
>> 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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