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RE: RAT Unsolicited Scripts . . .



Yes...same play. How bout that bathtub scene?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ezra Buzzington [SMTP:jonoh1@juno.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 02, 1999 4:59 AM
> To:	rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
> Subject:	Re: RAT Unsolicited Scripts . . .
> 
> 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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