G.L.Horton's Stage Page

Geralyn will be taking Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfarro's musical Martha Mitchell, in Mostly Her Own Words to the West End Theater in New York City April 19th.

G.L. had another reading of her play Best Practice. She has decided to have both a 10-minute, 2-character, version - this, when trimmed - and a longer version with five characters. This is a work-in-progress, read at Playwrights' Platform by experienced actors.

We recently stopped in at the Newton Community Access Cable studios to talk with Regina Ramsey about the latest production of G.L.'s Beyond Measure, which seems to be developing unexpected legs. Written for an character in her late 50s and another in her late 30s, its recent productions have been performed by much younger actresses. What can I say ... a production is a production is a joy to behold.

I've just been told many Windows users - about 3/4 of our audience - cannot see the Chapter Art and Related Links I've been including with our shows. I thought I'd checked that, apparently not well enough. Here's a link that will lead you to a page offering a free plug-in recommended by a Podomatic.com system administrator.

If you can already see the art change during the shows ... "never mind".

Dave

G.L. was told of a ten-minute play contest ... Must ... Enter! ... so she decided to adapt a portion of her latest play for it. Five characters were cut to two and a whole lot of scenes were removed. She brought it to her Newton Playwright's group and ... and then they discussed it. We have the reading, followed by a couple of news bits.

This episode focuses on a play G.L. has been working on for ages, held back by a lack of available research material - despite nearly 20,000 references to Susanna Centlivre in a Google search. A section of what she has written to date was read at a recent meeting of playwrights, then discussed. Send G.L. an email if you happen to have a source of Centlivre direct quotes from her political or personal writings.

G.L. had a bunch of e-mails from students and educators. We found a few to answer on the show. We found room for a monologue from Fantasia for String Trio (Jonathan Donahue), and one from Beyond Measure (Geralyn Horton), and one from Conventional Behavior (David Meyer).

This conversation took place following the Playwrights' Platform pre-season board meeting, where plans were laid for the upcoming season. Among the participants were Kelly DuMar, Chris King, Gail Phaneuf, Phylis Ritter. And, of course, G.L.Horton.

This week we are talking about e-mail G.L. has passed along. All involve either this podcast or her site, though ... no two are the same.

The second part of the late-night discussion, this part focusing on the dilemmas a playwright faces in trying to write and get produced.