The Brown University Graduate Program in the Literary Arts has continually produced impressive and original works by young, talented playwrights, and this year's New Plays Festival proved to be no exception. Saturday night's performance of "The Fishbone Fables," written by Dan LeFranc GS with direction ...
Innovation and originality abounded at the Sock and Buskin-produced performance of Maurice Maeterlinck's "The Blind." Director Rebecca Schneider, associate professor of theater, speech and dance, and her skilled group of actors certainly maintained Maeterlinck's original artistic intentions that rejected ...
Michael Dean's '09 adaptation of Dario Fo's "The Accidental Death of an Anarchist" parallels the futile and ultimately frustrating deceits of the conservative 1960s Italian regime with the current American involvement in Iraq. Politically charged and incredibly absurd, the play was warmly welcomed and ...
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's soft voice soothed her audience at her reading for the Contemporary Writers Series on March 6. Like a gentle lullaby, her coaxing intonation harmoniously complemented the words of her poetry, providing a consistency and steadiness to her ethereal lyrics.
The stage is blushed pink and dimpled with teddy bears and scattered dollies - a classic suburban playroom, a little girl's dream. An ominous black and white screen hanging on the back wall of the stage bursts the bubblegum sweetness of the room. The jarring juxtaposition, contrasting saccharine-sweet ...
On Feb. 7, the Literary Arts Masters of Fine Arts Graduate Program kicks off its 25th annual New Plays Festival. For the third year running, a series of plays will be performed in conjunction with the Brown University/Trinity Repertory Consortium. In the past, the combination of these blossoming playwrights ...
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