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Long Story Short(er): A Debate About LONG PLAYS
We get down to business about one of the most contentious issues in modern American theater - play length and whether or not to have an intermission. Audiences have VERY STRONG feelings about this, and as producers of new plays we see these trends firsthand. As much as we love a 90-min theater experience, are our shrinking attention spans getting in the way of deeper, richer storytelling? Have we lost our theater stamina?
The debate about whether to produce a play based on its length is very real, and in this episode we offer an inside look at how producers address this evolution in theater making.
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By Jen Uphoff Gray, Julie Swenson, and Mike Fischer | Forward Theater Company
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We get down to business about one of the most contentious issues in modern American theater - play length and whether or not to have an intermission. Audiences have VERY STRONG feelings about this, and as producers of new plays we see these trends firsthand. As much as we love a 90-min theater experience, are our shrinking attention spans getting in the way of deeper, richer storytelling? Have we lost our theater stamina?
The debate about whether to produce a play based on its length is very real, and in this episode we offer an inside look at how producers address this evolution in theater making.
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