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…
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…
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…
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…
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…