NYC playwright Sara Farrington breaks down how theater is hard. It's funny, rage-fueled, punk, anti-establishment, historically accurate, motivating and especially anti-capitalistic. www.ladyfarrington.com
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My fake—I mean, real— agent.
I don’t really want to have to write this piece. I mean… I want to—-the topic’s been nagging at me for months, but I’m sure it’s professionally ill-advised. How do I address this without shooting my career in the face?
Well, as with everyt...
Narrating High-Spice Romance.
Trigger warning: explicit mentions of sex.
I read a lot lately that people are worried about A.I. replacing them— at their job, as an generative artist, as an actor, everywhere.
It’s a valid worry. We creative types have the imagination t...
Values.
My last Theater Is Hard piece, (A Woman Could Have Fixed It), was my response to the now somewhat controversial New York Times interview with former (but not for 2 years) Public Theater AD Oskar Eustis where:
a) he quoted Karl Marx and, be...
(A Woman Could Have Fixed It.)
The Public Theater was in the news today because their long-time AD, Oskar Eustis, is stepping down (in two years.)
The New York Times interviewed him about it here.
Early in the interview, Eustis says:
“We make history, but we do n...
Time-Poverty.
My younger son, Levi, has a favorite would-you-rather:
“Would you rather live forever or die right now?”
He asks me this all the time. (So much so in fact, I used it in as a scene in my play Look Out.)
My answer is always the same:
“Li...
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