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Next up – THE CHISERA for Earth Day

paulacizmar April 11, 2016 April 11, 2016Articles, News, Productions 0

THE CHISERA will be performed on Earth Day, Friday April 22, as the first play in Mach 33: The Festival of New Science Plays. Directed by Arden Thomas, and part of a special Earth Day celebration that includes a sound artist from the Owens Valley, plus food trucks, and free…

Water Rites

paulacizmar February 17, 2016 February 28, 2016Inspiration, News, Productions

When there is plenty of water, we don’t think about it much more than we do breathing. But when it disappears? Water Rites is a multidisciplinary celebration of water in the tradition of deep ecology. It is theatre, documentary, community storytelling. What do we love about water? How does it fit…

SEVEN celebrates remarkable women changing the world

paulacizmar November 7, 2015 November 7, 2015Articles, Inspiration, News, Productions

And The March to MARCH campaign has begun. SEVEN, the documentary play, has already had productions and readings in many parts of the world, but there are vast numbers of people who still know very little about domestic violence or human trafficking and how this particularly affects women–and what…

Documentary to Spectacle – Theatre Theatre Theatre

paulacizmar October 25, 2015 October 25, 2015Articles, Inspiration, News, Productions 0

Nothing is more exciting than witnessing words on a page transform into movement, sound, action–bodies moving through space, actors giving life to characters, stories unfolding in real time. With SEVEN, the documentary play conceived by Carol K. Mack and written by seven female playwrights–Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth…

365 Women A Year in Los Angeles

paulacizmar September 20, 2015 September 20, 2015Articles, News

There are so many untold stories–and so many extraordinary women who haven’t been spoken of, let alone depicted onstage. The 365 Women A Year project is designed to start solving that disparity, with new short plays about incredible women in history–one for each day of the year–being created annually. (It’s almost…

Coming Soon: Water Rites

paulacizmar July 31, 2015 August 15, 2015Articles, News 0

Actually, it’s in progress and moving into Phase 2. Water Rites is a big project–so I can only deal with it by thinking of it as a single step, and then another, and then another. It’s a hybrid project–so I can only deal with it by thinking of it…

From the Self-Starter Dept: The Group Thing…I like it…

paulacizmar July 31, 2015 August 16, 2015Articles, Inspiration, News, Productions 0

More and more, playwrights are sending out invitations. Not just the typical request to attend a reading or a production or workshop–but something even more imaginative. They’re inviting other playwrights to join them in creating group projects. It’s a trend that I’m really enjoying–not only as a willing participant, but also…

Collaboration: The adventure awaits…

paulacizmar March 3, 2015 July 31, 2015Articles, News

When Jon Lawrence Rivera asked me to be one of the writers of The Hotel Play, he hadn’t even gotten all the words out of his mouth before I said, Yes. He hadn’t even gotten around to describing the project. Or what it was intended for. But I said yes…

From the dogs…

paulacizmar December 30, 2014 March 3, 2015Articles, Inspiration

Boo-no and Oskey Oscar, hard at work, burning the midnight oil. They found a little bit of time to share this tiny excerpt from my short play Boodaboy. A scene between Dog and Marge… MARGE: You can appreciate that, can’t you? How nice it is to drive home from work? …

The more things change…

paulacizmar December 30, 2014 March 3, 2015Inspiration

…the more they stay the same.

Poet Amy Lowell, writing in 1930:

“Imagination is behind all the great things that have been said and done in the world. All the great discoveries, all the great reforms, they have all been imagined first. Not a poem has been written, not a sermon preached, not an invention perfected, but has been first conceived. And yet imagination must take a second place today and give room for the learning of so-called useful things!” –Amy Lowell, Poetry and Poets: Essays (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1930)