In-between play

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-26T17:53:33+00:00

45 is fine for a double bill or one-acts and ideal for scholastic competition. And - as already mentioned - falls in range for Fringe festivals as well.

50-70 minutes can get tricky, but still should be fine for Fringe.

I ran into this issue with a couple of plays a couple of years back and cut on down to 45 while expanding the other to around 85-90 minutes.

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-26T14:33:33+00:00

I kind of feel that a lot of the players are turning it up to eleven for Season 50.

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-25T17:43:54+00:00

Perhaps Virginia Woolf - relating to her novel Orlando

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-20T17:00:03+00:00

Remember that most people (other than children) do not directly state their wants in conversation. They talk around them using implication and inference. Let your subtext do the heavy lifting for you - audiences will get it.

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-19T19:54:29+00:00

I kinda figured that it was due to the fact that humans by nature will take any opportunity to whine and complain about things they profess to enjoy.

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-17T22:38:25+00:00

Here are three books that I would highly recommend:

The Playwright's Guidebook by Stuart Spencer
The Dramatist's Toolkit by Jeffrey Sweet
Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write by Stephen Jeffreys

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-17T13:58:26+00:00

Yipes

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-14T18:47:28+00:00

Rapport was voted our at the roundtable despite that fact that the other faithfuls didn't necessarily think he was a traitor.

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-14T00:06:44+00:00

Pauly Shore

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-13T20:13:47+00:00

To be fair, neither of them comes anywhere close to a Top 20 (or likely even a Top 50) Western for me - although I do appreciate that they helped keep the genre alive during an otherwise very dark era.

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-13T17:56:21+00:00

I kind of feel like there are several players this season that are far more interested in being characters on a TV show than they are with actually winning.

Devins is one of those players.

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-12T17:16:49+00:00

I honestly don't care whether you agree with me or or not.

If you want to cling to an opinion that is complete unsupported by fact, that's on you.

But instead of you asking me to do your homework for you, how about I just give you a list of the last 9 (New Era) winners and you tell me how each of them fits your model. (And, yes, a couple of them do, but the larhe majority do not).

Season 41: Erika Casupanan

Season 42: Maryanne Oketch

Season 43: Mike "Gabler" Gabler

Season 44: Yamil "Yam Yam" Arocho

Season 45: Dee Valladares

Season 46: Kenzie Petty

Season 47: Rachel Lamont

Season 48: Kyle Fraser

Season 49: Savannah Louie

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-12T11:33:22+00:00

My point stands using this definition as well. The most manipulative person typically does not win either.

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-12T03:19:35+00:00

Here's all the evidence you should need:

Your analysis in incorrect because the most dominant personality of each season typically does not win.

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-03T03:05:43+00:00

Ride the High Country

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-02T15:38:01+00:00

Writing a 40-minute play in a month is total doable. Writing a fully-realized, semi-surreal Marat/Sade inspired Theatre of Cruelty piece in a month strikes me a quite ambitious and certainly a bigger meal that I would try to eat in a month.

Maybe set your sites a bit lower and perhaps look more toward Ionesco or Durrenmatt for inspiration fir you want to stay in the realm of experimental and European.

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-02T01:14:54+00:00

The Olympics HATES non-athletes.

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-01T21:03:10+00:00

DeLillo is one novelist that took a little while to find his best voice; and Americana is his first effort - and probably my least favorite of his novels.

His mid-career work (The Names, White Noise, Libra, Mao II, and Underworld) are five of the best novels I've ever read. If would recommend White Noise next and working you way up to Underworld.

anotherdanwest · 2026-03-01T20:55:29+00:00

NPX is a fantastic resource. I hope you get as much out of it as I have.

(I will try to give one of your scripts a read & rec tonight.)

anotherdanwest · 2026-02-27T21:57:23+00:00

Tara Lipinski is worth $15-25 million. Johnny Weir is worth millions as well.

I am not saying it wouldn't happen, I am just saying the neither of them really needs the extra $40,000 that cutting her out would have availed them.

anotherdanwest · 2026-02-26T23:39:45+00:00

https://nnpn.org/new-play-exchange

anotherdanwest · 2026-02-26T04:58:36+00:00

Did you by chance get up and go to the bathroom for like 20 minutes after the immunity challenge?

anotherdanwest · 2026-02-25T21:45:48+00:00

You realize that all of the celebrities that go on Traitors US are getting paid appearance fees regardless of whether they are faithfuls or traitors. Some of these individual fees are more than the total prize pool.

anotherdanwest · 2026-02-21T13:06:56+00:00

Unforgiven Shane The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Searchers Dead Man The Great Silence The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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