Just a quick heads up; anyone living in the Wasatch front with an
interest in Mormon drama, you're invited to the first round of WDA
readings.
WDA is the Writers/Dramaturgs/Actors workshop. We take 3 new plays, and
work to develop them over the course of a half semester--we then repeat
the process for 3 other new plays. And we have staged readings of the
scripts at the end of each cycle.
So we'll read the first three plays Tuesday Oct. 23, Wednesday Oct. 24
and Thursday, Oct. 25. They'll be at 5:00 each night, in the Nelke
Experimental Theatre, in the Harris Fine Arts Building on the BYU
campus. Admission is free, and the performances shouldn't take longer
than a couple of hours, depending on how the post-reading discussion
goes.
The three plays we're reading this week are as follows:
Tuesday, Oct. 23, the play is called The Provider, by Melanie Hewitt.
It's a symbolic/absurdist play about a man contemplating suicide.
Poetic and powerful.
Wednesday, Oct. 24, The Plan, by Eric Samuelsen. My new play consists
of six short plays dealing with Old Testament women and the plan of
salvation.
Thursday, Oct. 25, WWJD by Anna Lewis. A new comedy about four college
roommates, whose apartment is visited by Jesus, who does their dishes.
Hope some of you can make it!
Eric Samuelsen
