A Full-Cast Audio Play My NYC-based theatre company is producing the (Olivier-award-winning, Tony nominated) play, "Our Country's Good" [tickets]. The play tells the true story of the first penal colony in Australia: In the late 18th Century, the convicts acted in a play called "The Recruiting Officer" -- Australia's first play. Thomas ("Schindler's List") Keneally wrote "The Playmaker," a novel about the convicts and their show. In 1988, playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker wrote a play based on Keneally's novel. She called her play "Our Country's Good." My company is reviving it. In addition, we've produced "The Recruiting Officer" as an audio play, and we've made it available for free download.
posted to Projects by grumblebee at 1:17 PM on February 25, 2008

1. write two sentences. 2. create tension between them. 3. define Years ago, I crafted a creative-writing activity called "Two Sentences." You write a sentence, and then write a second one that somehow creates tension (conflict, surprise twist, contradiction, etc.) with the first sentence. Two Sentences became popular on a couple of writing sites I used to visit, but I forgot all about it until recently. Then I noticed this MeFi project, got inspired, and created a site for Two Sentences.

EXAMPLES 1: The darkness completely enveloped him. He suspected there was more to blinking than this.

EXAMPLE 2: I'm leaving you. I'll be back tomorrow.
posted to Projects by grumblebee at 5:04 PM on October 10, 2006

Goblin Market My theatre company, Folding Chair Classical Theatre, is about to perform short plays by Harold Pinter and Christina Rossetti. The Pinter play, "A Kind of Alaska," was written in 1982, based on Oliver Sacks's "Awakenings." The Rossetti piece, a poem (and erotic fairy tale) called "Goblin Market," was written over 100 years earlier, in 1862. The two pieces are linked in interesting ways. If you live in NYC, I'd love to see you at one of the performances. But since Metafilter members live all over the world, here's a FREE MP3 PERFORMANCE of "Goblin Market."
posted to Projects by grumblebee at 2:02 PM on January 29, 2006