A reminder, the cool kids of Daniel Webster High School will perform The Bill Show in Tulsa, OK this week!
Performances are Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, April 12–14. If you’re in the area, check it out!
Archive for April, 2006
Tulsafied
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006Act I in Egypt
Saturday, April 8th, 2006Coming in only four months behind schedule is Act I of my Egypt play. Depending on the time of day you ask me, its title is either Grave Matters or Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb! One is more sober than the other.
I may delay my work on Act II to instead expand Menage A Sartre. Rather than pairing Menage with another one-act, it may stand on its own as an hour-length performance. This means adding at least twenty minutes to the play; hopefully I have enough sex jokes to do the job.
Introducing The Hardline According To Martin McDonagh
Thursday, April 6th, 2006mikemariano.com presents:
True Playwright Confessions
Last month I saw The Pillowman at George Street Playhouse. I think I didn’t like it.
But my judgment may not be well-qualified, because every time they referenced one particular murder:
Katurian She’s buried out by the old wishing well.
I heard:
Terence Trent D’Arby WISH ME LOVE A WISHING WELL! TO KISS AND TELL!
And this is a plot point! They say “wishing well†a lot!
Detective So what will we find when we go out to this wishi—
Terence Trent D’Arby HUH WISHING WELL! OF BUTTAHFLY TEEEARS!
Every time they did that, I missed another five minutes.
Maybe The Pillowman is more than a pleasant romp through child murder and police brutality. Maybe the play even makes a legitimate case for the power of storytelling. You know, like it promises to.
If does, I was too busy rockin’ out to The Artist Currently Known As Sananda Maitreya to notice.
Bonus: Extra points to anyone who gets “Sign Your Name†stuck in their head during performances of The Miracle Worker.