Playbill.com: Tina Howe, David Henry Hwang, Rajiv Joseph, Greg Kotis, Neil LaBute, Craig Lucas and Donald Margulies are among the playwrights who have contributed to Primary Stages' New York One-Minute Play Festival, which is held Oct. 16 at 59E59 Theaters.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
One-Minute Play Festival, Featuring Works by Tina Howe, David Henry Hwang, Rajiv Joseph, Presented Oct. 16
Playbill.com: Tina Howe, David Henry Hwang, Rajiv Joseph, Greg Kotis, Neil LaBute, Craig Lucas and Donald Margulies are among the playwrights who have contributed to Primary Stages' New York One-Minute Play Festival, which is held Oct. 16 at 59E59 Theaters.
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After reading the article about the implications of one-act plays, this one's a wild concept. It's really neat to think about distilling a story to the tiniest little moment. After a stack of "moments" were written for this festival, I'd be really interested to know how they curated them into a performance - did thrulines appear? Did they all fit into themes that could denote sections of the show? Or was the whole thing a glorious hodgepodge of the human experience (lofty words, but potentially a fair goal for a festival of life's moments)?
I'll suggest that anyone interested check out the This American Life episode "20 Stories in 60 minutes". While not quite 1min apiece, it's interesting to see how quickly a full story, beginning-to-end, can be conveyed. Plus, it's generally a great episode.
I think this idea is intriguing. it certainly makes me want to see what one minute can do. I am not sure how successful you can be in telling a story in such a short amount of time but I feel like I might be impressed if such an accomplishment was indeed possible. I think it is also a really interesting challenge for playwrights. How do you pare everything down into a quick but powerful idea. I would also be interested in hearing how the Directors of these pieces approach the challenge.
This sounds awesome, like trying to make theatrical haikus. Trying to distill down one moment into its bare essence. I think its always harder to say something with less words than more. Every move that actor makes is that much more important too because its just that one minute of time. Everything else is up for interpretation by the audience. The one minute time limit is a little like twitter as well. I don’t know if that speaks more to the fact that people have short attention spans or that its just a really interesting way to present material.
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