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takemebythehand-andsetmefree · 2 years

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It’s the military people again!!!! Oh no, ma’am please stop driving. Seriously ma’am. Please stop driving.

Seriously ma’am stop driving.

Oh no… lube it off

Ew noooo I think I could rather live with it on than get a rotary grinder to the face

Ask him where the princess is!

Owen of course you love Guys And Dolls 🙄😂

Princess Arabella! Why didn’t the fucking RA unit stop?

Oh lord… there’s so many people…

Their delivery van😂😂😂

I mean I’d totally eat there.. minus the gas leak

YAY! PAUL!

Good job covering for Marjan 😂

Oh no Paul… what did the doctor actually say?

Yeah this is Judd’s job tbh..

Is the bartender flirting with Mateo??? Or just saying the other dude is ugly

“Do you know where I live” “No I don’t” “that’s unfortunate” and just passes the fuck out. Same dude. Same

#911 ls spoilers #911 lonestar spoilers

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dramatistsguild · 7 years

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DG National Report: Kentucky  by Nancy Gall-Clayton

@dramatistsguild @nancygall

For this report, I invited Kentucky’s talented Ambassador, Jackson Wolford, to reflect on his recent collaboration with theatre faculty at a public high school in Louisville. Jackson heads to graduate school soon, and my term ends this spring, so we both bid a fond farewell as we welcome Liz Fentress, Kentucky’s next regional rep. Jackson’s report follows:

“A unique feature of theatre is the way it invites audiences to actually enter into it, to momentarily cede some small part of themselves to something different. Whether on Broadway or at an Easter pageant, an audience member who walks into the theatre enters into a new reality; the actor who performs enters into the new mind of a character; and the playwright who writes enters into a whole host of new perspectives.

In a world that is – and perhaps always has been – desperately in need of empathy, what a vital skill to develop, this ability to confront and enter into a world and a voice different from our own! And what an essential tool to develop in future generations.

This March the culmination of months of work by students busily cultivating these skills at the Youth Performing Arts School (YPAS) was evident. The previous semester, 25 high school playwriting students crafted ten-minute plays as part of a playwriting course taught at the school by Brian Hinds. Brian and Georgette Kleier, who teaches directing in the theatre department at YPAS, contacted me to discuss adjudicating these plays to determine which to produce for YPAS’s New Works Festival. Two theatrically-inclined associates – Max Abner and Kate Tooley – and I were able to provide feedback to these playwrights and select sixteen scripts for production.

From there, the process was guided with limited adult intervention. Each play’s director, every actor, stage manager, run crew, and the props master were all students. Beyond this, the YPAS theatre program recently started training students in dramaturgy, and student dramaturgs helped interpret intention and design between playwrights and directors. From the playwright’s first idea to the final reality of production, nearly every facet was controlled by students, compelling students to work together to bring the particular world of their scripts to life.

I was lucky to be able to see these plays performed over two evenings this March with the outgoing Kentucky rep, Nancy Gall-Clayton. The creativity and compromise required to bring a world out of a playwright’s mind and present it for others to enter into was on clear display in every insightful bit of staging, and in every line I heard something slightly altered by the playwright to suit some practical feature of production.

Performance is probably always collaborative like this, requiring at bare minimum a performer and an audience. At YPAS’s New Works Festival, the collaborative took center stage as both source of entertainment for the audience, and as pedagogical tool for the students. In building art, students are constructing worlds, inviting us to enter into them. In the process, they are learning to enter into the worlds of others, an essential skill for good artists and good people. We live in a world that needs – and perhaps always has needed – more of both.

To recognize the efforts of the student playwrights whose scripts were produced, I wanted to listing the names and the titles of their plays: AlienNation, McKenzie Thompson; Last Will and Testament, Ellie Cambron; The Fateful Fall of the Art of Jousting, Parker Henderson; 911 Postpartum Drive, Savasia Thompson; Early One Morning, Aileen Tierney; An Unfortunate Demise, Erik Vasquez; Few Moons Shy of Woman, Arabella Paulovich; What Goes on Behind Closed Doors, Andrea Lowry; Piano Lessons, Caroline Glazier; Postage; Steele Whitney; Rewind, Helen Lister; Guilty Until Proven Innocent, Gracie Ording; This Time Tomorrow, Alexis King; Same Place, Different Time, Different Place, Katlyn Judd; Easy Living, Thomas Sheffer; and Bizarre Illusions, Elijah Callaway.”

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From the New Works Festival, featuring new plays written and directed by high school students

#nancy gall-clayton #dramatist #dramatists guild #Kentucky

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