G.L. spoke to Larry Stark, of Theater Mirror, a while back and I'm just getting around to posting SOME of the hour and a half they recorded. More will come along later. For those of you just joining us, I'd like to recommend you work your way back from the top, rather than forward from the bottom. That way you get the better shows first. Also included, is this monologue from G.L.'s Revolutionary War docu-drama, Boston's Brothers.
We posted the earlier part of this discussion a while back, the part with G.L. talking with Donna Spector, Anne Pecaro and Farzana Moon. This is the second half of the conversation, G.L. is talking with Vicki Cheatwood and Mrinalini Kamath.
On a sunny Sunday in October, the International Centre for Women Playwrights' Board Secretary, Jan Watts of Birmingham England, was in Boston visiting family. She had a few hours free to meet with Geralyn and, after a walking tour of Boston's Emerald Necklace, Back Bay, and the Common, to record an interview about her theatrical adventures and her plans for a cooperative project between ICWP and the New Plays programme of the Birmingham Rep.
On the way home from the ICWP Summer Retreat, G.L. recorded a conversation she had with Professor Alan Woods. They started out talking about the retreat, then moved on to more generic theatrical topics. That conversation is followed by my reading of a monolog from G.l.Horton's Stage Page Web Site, from the mouth-offs page.
Several of the playwrights got together toward the end of the Retreat and discussed the what, why and how as they enjoyed it.
G.L. talks about the imminent I.C.W.P. Retreat she is about to attend at OSU. Oh, and I read another monolog!
G.L. talks with Regina Eliot-Ramsey about the upcoming S.W.A.N. Day presentation - 2 PM, Saturday, 28 March, Boston Playwrights' Theater.
Geralyn reads the short play she will be reading at the S.W.A.N. Day presentation, Saturday, the 28th of March, at the Boston Playwright's Theater.
In this interview, Regina Eliot-Ramsey speaks with Geralyn about the Our Voices Together showcase, the ICWP, Playwright's Platform and the Platform's showcase, and Geralyn's experience Off Broadway with Martha Mitchell.
This past Sunday I announced that Geralyn will be performing Martha Mitchell just Off-Broadway in a bit over a week. Actually, did I even give the date? And I got the name of the theater wrong. It's the West End Theater, 263 West 86th Street, NYC - that's an easy walk from the corner of Broadway and West End Ave. April 19th, at 8 PM or April 20th at 3 PM. Hope you can make it.
Geralyn will be taking Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfarro's musical Martha Mitchell, in Mostly Her Own Words to the West End Theater in New York City April 19th.
G.L. had another reading of her play Best Practice. She has decided to have both a 10-minute, 2-character, version - this, when trimmed - and a longer version with five characters. This is a work-in-progress, read at Playwrights' Platform by experienced actors.
We recently stopped in at the Newton Community Access Cable studios to talk with Regina Ramsey about the latest production of G.L.'s Beyond Measure, which seems to be developing unexpected legs. Written for an character in her late 50s and another in her late 30s, its recent productions have been performed by much younger actresses. What can I say ... a production is a production is a joy to behold.
I've just been told many Windows users - about 3/4 of our audience - cannot see the Chapter Art and Related Links I've been including with our shows. I thought I'd checked that, apparently not well enough. Here's a link that will lead you to a page offering a free plug-in recommended by a Podomatic.com system administrator. 3ivx If you can already see the art change during the shows ... "never mind". Dave
G.L. was told of a ten-minute play contest ... Must ... Enter! ... so she decided to adapt a portion of her latest play for it. Five characters were cut to two and a whole lot of scenes were removed. She brought it to her Newton Playwright's group and ... and then they discussed it. We have the reading, followed by a couple of news bits.
This episode focuses on a play G.L. has been working on for ages, held back by a lack of available research material - despite nearly 20,000 references to Susanna Centlivre in a Google search. A section of what she has written to date was read at a recent meeting of playwrights, then discussed. Send G.L. an email if you happen to have a source of Centlivre direct quotes from her political or personal writings.
G.L. had a bunch of e-mails from students and educators. We found a few to answer on the show. We found room for a monologue from Fantasia for String Trio (Jonathan Donahue), and one from Beyond Measure (Geralyn Horton), and one from Conventional Behavior (David Meyer).
This conversation took place following the Playwrights' Platform pre-season board meeting, where plans were laid for the upcoming season. Among the participants were Kelly DuMar, Chris King, Gail Phaneuf, Phylis Ritter. And, of course, G.L.Horton.
This week we are talking about e-mail G.L. has passed along. All involve either this podcast or her site, though ... no two are the same.
The second part of the late-night discussion, this part focusing on the dilemmas a playwright faces in trying to write and get produced.
Half a dozen of the ladies at the ICWP Retreat followed G.L. home about half-way through their stay ... and they talked. This is the first dozen or so minutes of the half-hour chat, more will follow next week.
While G.L. is still away, I tend to take it easy. This week we have a short interview with Jonothan Donahue followed by a reading he did with us of an excerpt from the full length play,
My wife has gone off to the ICWP Retreat at OSU. We talk about that right after the reading by Jonathan Donohue.
G.L. and Lydia take a moment to sip iced coffee on our screen-porch and discuss the project near and dear to them - a one-woman show about Mumbet.
Larry wants to change the way theater is seen in Boston. Most importantly, he'd like to point many more of you towards going to the smaller theaters. The theaters that rent their spaces to companies that lack their own. He'd like help in Making it Happen.
We've had a busy week. Helping with a production in Palo Alto, California for next week - see Vagabond for the details - and finalizing a reading of G.L.'s latest in Boston at 7PM Sunday, the 8th. We'll make sure the script gets posted to Stage Page as soon as possible.
If you think you missed an episode last week, you're only partly correct. We lost our house broadband for over three painful days and couldn't have posted a show if we had on to post. We have been punished by a slight drop in our numbers. Good thing we don't rely on ad revenue, eh? G.L. and I discuss what happened this past week. The play will be up on the Stage Page site shortly after it's public reading ... if it's ready.
We celebrated the passing of our friend "Prof" Will Stackman at the Cambridge River Festival, on the banks of the Charles River, yesterday. We shared stories and read several of his short plays. We came away feeling better, which is what I believe he would have wanted. I managed to record some of it and edited the best of it down to present here.
Our friend and colleague, Will Stackman, died last Sunday. His work can still be seen at On the Aisle and there will be a celebration of his life next Saturday, June 16th, at the Cambridge River Festival on the banks of the Charles River. Anyone may attend...
Wyn Snow, G.L.'s web mistress and one of our show's early guests, returned to discuss our current status. Her earlier show - Getting On The Web - still averages a couple downloads a day. Every day, every week, every month. If your small business needs a boost on the web, call her for help.
