Thursday, December 16, 2004
Little By Little
In my office here at Barter Theatre,(listening to Brad Ross' LITTLE BY LITTLE) continuing the campaign to clean up and make sense of all that is here, so that when Derek Davidson takes the office over, he doesn't faint! It's just that so many new plays have been coming to me in the past 3 years, so many new writers to get to know, and i have taken these relationships seriously enough to want to not neglect them and keep them waiting in piles forever, so my routine has been fairly consistent: the summaries i am sent that do not impress me as right for Barter Theatre, i send back as soon as i can with a polite note to that effect. I have a detailed alphabetized list on my office computer tracking all these (what i call) SNAF (Script Not Asked For) transactons, with the date when i sent the rejection letter.
THEN, there are those I love, so i ask for full scripts and ,if necessary, accompanying music samples in CD form. I carefully mark on my computer when this material arrives, and another pile is started, which grows larger and larger until i have a chance to actually read and listen to the full script. A bunch of writers send repeatedly, new script ideas,etc. and I appreciate their perserverance. The plays I red and love I write up an evaluation and put the script in Rick Rose's office for him to read. If it is especially wonderful I make sure he knows it and reads it sooner than later. Barter includes many new works each year on both its Main Stage and Stage II programs, and i am proud of how we have discovered some really good new writers. Audiences here appreciate new coices, and our box office figures reflect that. Ron Osborne, (we did 2 of his plays this year...one of which I was in (FIRST BAPTIST OF IVY GAP) and the other I directed (WISE WOMEN). Both ahave been popular. he knows how to write women!! A very swell guy too, as is his wife Melissa!!
THEN, there are those I love, so i ask for full scripts and ,if necessary, accompanying music samples in CD form. I carefully mark on my computer when this material arrives, and another pile is started, which grows larger and larger until i have a chance to actually read and listen to the full script. A bunch of writers send repeatedly, new script ideas,etc. and I appreciate their perserverance. The plays I red and love I write up an evaluation and put the script in Rick Rose's office for him to read. If it is especially wonderful I make sure he knows it and reads it sooner than later. Barter includes many new works each year on both its Main Stage and Stage II programs, and i am proud of how we have discovered some really good new writers. Audiences here appreciate new coices, and our box office figures reflect that. Ron Osborne, (we did 2 of his plays this year...one of which I was in (FIRST BAPTIST OF IVY GAP) and the other I directed (WISE WOMEN). Both ahave been popular. he knows how to write women!! A very swell guy too, as is his wife Melissa!!
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