#playwrighting

[spikeironfoundersson]

Guys. GUYS.

2023’s Black List (the most popular un-produced screenplays in Hollywood) has dropped, and it has a screenplay based on the making of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

Yes, THAT Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Broadway’s most expensive flop of all time. With Greek mythology and Julie Taymor and fucking U2.

The screenplay is called Boy Falls From Sky and it’s written by Hunter Toro and it’s very funny and well-researched. Please enjoy, and tag your fan-casts for these roles because I’m so hyped by this potentially being made someday.

Read it HERE

[shakespearenews]

Lucy Prebble’s Dramas of High Anxiety

In plays such as “The Effect” and TV shows such as “I Hate Suzie” and “Succession,” the writer has become an expert at getting deep inside w

...Prebble told me, “Macbeth,” with its gradual accumulation of immoral acts, was a more important referent for “enron” than Marlowe’s play. Prebble said of her Shakespearean borrowings, “If you take something that has lasted an incredibly long time, and that everyone says is good, and then use that as a sparse backbone, you might be protecting yourself to some extent—or helping the narrative be stronger.” 

[gothicctherapy]

just started my first big stage management gig and i'm like bubbling with joy!! this is what i want to do!! i'm doing the thing!! fuck yes!!

[xx-knife-xx]

What makes Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland?

I'm working with a team to make an Alice in Wonderland adaptation (Stage Production), and we're working out the most important parts of the story. I was hoping people could tell me what makes Alice in Wonderland Alice in Wonderland to them.

[rakonteur]

SATAN: You know what, Cunningham? All those excuses you got wedged between that dubious cleavage of yours: your mother, the bulimia, the herpes, the booze, the abortions, the rape, the bipolar pharmaceutical adventures, the twin suicide attempts, and the abject failures at every relationship you ever attempted - all those things do nothing to Band-Aid the simple fact that There Comes a Time When the World Stops Rewarding Potential - and what that time came for you, you threw yourself the world's biggest pity party and dedicated the rest of your short, pathetic, inconsequential life to finding fault everywhere fuckin' else but in the return gaze of your own cosmetically altered reflection. Okay?

[freckled-bunny]

I hate how people who talk about theatre to non theatre people think that its all musicals and bullshit like heathers and cats and les mis. theatre has changed !!! the consumerism of broadway has taken over the world's understanding of theatre. look up Willem Dafoe's Wooster Group !! they did a theatre show in the 70s where they took a bunch of acid in rehearsals for a play and filmed it. then they created a script from that footage and performed it live for audiences. look up Elevator Repair Service !! they did a show in New York library where an AI robot created a script on the spot and the actors had to learn and read the script as they progress throughout the library IN REAL TIME. if you want something contemporary, read Jasmine Lee-Jones' "7 Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner", where she writes about cultural appropriation and racism and misogyny on twitter with tweets and memes printed on the script as dialogue !! please please please for the love of god stop only rewatching the same musicals over and over again. there are so many incredible theatre works out there that don't involve bullshit musicals !!

[monsieurenjlolras]

Shout out to my playwriting professor for this