Midsummer Casebook

Ghostlighters,

Another really excellent piece of work here from Anthea, supported by Clare and Zander. The online casebook for Midsummer's! In the blog feeds. Congrats, Midsummer team!

-Doc

Dramatist Guild Roundtable on Dramaturgy in the American Theatre

Dear Ghostlighters,

We have been reading an article from The Dramatist, the publication of the Dramatists' Guild, of a Roundable that took place in 2002 about dramaturgy in the American theatre. Participants included Mark Bly, Anne Cattaneo, Liz Engleman, John Dias, Janice Paran, Oskar Eustis, Michelle Volansky, Edward Albee, Susan Birkenhead, Gretchen Cryer, Carol Hall, David Henry Hwang, Shirley Lauro, Emily Mann, Polly Pen, and Jeffrey Sweet. Everyone is invited to post comments here - questions, rants, raves, cries of anguish, diverse alarums, calls to war, whatever. Non-CMU readers, we'd love your thoughts as well.

-Doc

Barbarous Nights Online Casebook

Dear Ghostlighters,

Corinna Archer's online casebook for Barbarous Nights, the new adaptation of the works of Frederico Garcia Lorca which she is executing with CMU director Sam Creely, is a really excellent piece. The Nights crew presented their research last night at the first rehearsal, and we will be watching the blog from here from now on. Check for updates as the rehearsal process progresses.

http://www.barbarousnights.blogspot.com/

-Doc

Author's Rights in the hypermedia age

The link below, provided by Professor Boevers, raises some interesting questions about an artistic life in the hypermedia era:

1) What are the rights of an author in a day when it is increasingly difficult to assemble anything like "privacy" or "secrecy?"

2) What is the value of the schadenfreude of being a total jerk online compared to someone else's enjoyment of discovering a piece of theatre as it was intended to be discovered?

All of this has close bearing on our work - I urge you to read and comment.

Wikipedia springs 'Mousetrap' ending - News, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent

Kendra Chapman in the news

An article about our own Kendra Chapman in the Black4Youth publication.

http://www.4blackyouth.com/NewsDetail.aspx?id=66

Jamie Green, Dramaturg - Interview

Discovered on youtube; an interview with Jamie Green, Literary Manager and Dramaturg with MCC Playwright's Coalition. What do you think?

-Doc

Michael Lupu Honored

This from Goeff Proehl.

I'm happy to share this news:

At the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Guthrie Theatre’s Board of Directors, Michael Lupu, senior dramaturg at the Guthrie received the Artistic Director’s Award from Joe Dowling.

Dowling, in presenting the award, noted Lupu’s unwavering commitment to artistic excellence in a career that has spanned thirty years.

In 2006, Michael received LMDA's Lessing Award for Lifetime Career Achievement.

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