Production Problems Posed By the Text:
The first issues posed by the script are the time and place to set it in. Once you have set the date, you need to research all the issues surrounding that date, such as current events. Any issues of that time could affect the plays content and how the audience responds. Also when you have set the place you have to research events in that place on that day, involving Stonewater Rapture , you would need to research churches in that area, any events that involve the content at all. The setting is the living room and porch of a small house, one problem in having an audience on all three sides is visibility by the audience, the set has to be in such a way that the audience can see every aspect of it. Other problems the text presents are the sexual encounters, in scene one the boob scene as I like to call it can be played many ways but if made too sexual could ruin the intent of the author but if played too innocent it could muddy the affects of later events. And also the final part in scene two, the image at the end has to be a tableau, to the affect that audience will understand the meaning behind it.
Production Problems Posed By Our Context:
If Sam were to produce “The Stonewater Rapture”, some major issues would be the churches reaction to how the religious content was displayed and how we are presenting religion to the audience. Also this is for a more mature audience, high schools could come to see it but you would be hard pressed to have it accepted by the school board or even to have the parents to allow their children to see it. This play deals with homosexuality though it may be small in the context, it’s still there as a bright red flag to those people who are against it. You might have to deal with protesters or at least have churches and parents sending emails to the head of the department about how this show is wrong to do for the community. Most students at the college would not have a problem coming to see the show, because studies show that college students are more apt to deal with the controversies and see the actual meaning of the issues and how they actually affect them every day.
Other Production’s Solutions:
Other Productions have solved these problems by one easing their community into the play. Some productions have started off by doing plays with similar content and seeing the reactions of the community. Other Productions have sent out emails to the local churches explaining the plays content and seeing the reactions of the leaders. Also they have sent flyers out gauging the reaction of the community. Fact: you will never have a show that makes everyone happy there will always be one person or one group that finds something offensive about your production, you can’t please everyone.
Critical Response:
I had a hard time finding any reviews at all on this play, it seems to not be done that often, on the reviews I did find, they seem to have been moved by the words and the pictures created by the performances they have seen. The productions that I could find were all college level, and were reviewed by the school paper or the local paper, just little short excerpts, about the play and their reactions which were to say the play was worth seeing and it had been incredible moving.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Dramaturg's Statement
The Stonewater Rapture was published in 1998, it was written by Doug Wright. We set it in 1988 in a small town somewhere in west Texas. The time period was chosen for the political issues going on at the time such as, abortion, and homosexuality. These issues still exist today but in 1988 they were on the forefront of everyone’s mind. This play involves abortion, rape, teen lust, and religion . Here at Sam Houston we strive to show audiences the plays that involve raw emotion and the controversy , instead of the happy-endings because in life there are not always happy endings, though we do show a whole range of plays. Stonewater rapture is just a taste of what life can be for teenagers in a small religious town, in 1988 the presidential election affected religion everywhere. George Bush and Michael Dukakis were running in the presidential election, the main issues that the church was concerned with was abortion and the death penalty, Bush was against abortion but for the death penalty and Dukakis was for abortion but against the death penalty, so the church was at a crossroads, so abortion was a major issue at this stage in the U.S. Also in 1988 we have the issue of abortion which is still a raging issue even today, but in 1988 people were far less accepting of ones preference to sexual orentation, if thought to be a homosexual in the year 1988, you were considered an outcast and treated as such. Homosexuality was sometimes approach with violence, also families were known to send their children to degayification instutes to cure their so called disease. This show is very biblical, every few lines there is some quote from the bible, and we research everyone, seeing its specific significance, to the surrounding dialogue and to the scenes outcomes. Each phrase is followed by an action directly connected with the meaning, so the biblical research was extensive. We also didn’t want to weigh to heavily on the religious aspects of the play but also delve into the emotional degrees of the play such as: Teen lust, and rape. In the first scene we start with innocence then get thrown into lust and then to guilt, but in scene two we start with guilt then go to the story of rape and then back to guilt then we end with disappointment. We end with nothing resolved because our issues are never ending, thus nothing gets resovled but we see we can always end with something. We want you the audience to be transported back to your highschool days and remember the issues around your experience, the issues in the play have happened to many people maybe not to this degree but everyone can level with the emotions of the characters on the stage.
Educator's Packet
Basic Facts of the Script:
-The play is set in West Texas, in the early Fall. The setting is the living room and front porch of a small, white frame house.
Plot:
-Set on the front porch and in the living room of a conservative Texas home, the play tells the story of two teenagers whose sexual awakening has been severely hampered by the fundamentalist fervor that runs like power lines through the Bible Belt. A comic first scene, set on the porch of Whitney’s home, details his attempts to seduce the puritanical Carlyle after he’s just been elected president of the Youth Ministry at the Church picnic. Carlyle coyly refuses his advances, citing everything from teen pregnancy to hellfire and damnation as reasons to abstain. In a dramatic second scene, Carlyle seeks Whitney’s help after she has been the victim of a sexual assault. Rather than face the grim reality of her experience, Carlyle transforms the attack from an act of violence to a vision of glory, in which the bodies of her assailants become the angels torn from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and the alcohol they forced upon her becomes the blood of Christ. As Carlyle’s delusions grow, Whitney must convince her of the unfortunate truth. Together they struggle to wed their simplistic religious doctrine with the often painful complexity of the real world.
Author:
-The author Doug Wright was born in 1962 in Dallas, Texas. He is a playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. He earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1985 and he earned his M.F.A. from New York University. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves on the board of New York Theatre Workshop. He has written several plays including: I am my own wife, Quills, Dinosaurs, The Stonewater Rapture, Watbanaland, and Interrogating the Nude. He also wrote the Musicals: The Little Mermaid, Grey Gardens, and Buzzsaw Berkeley.
He received several awards such as the 2004 Tony Award for Best Play- I am my own wife, the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama- I am my own wife, the 2005 Lambda Literary Award- I am my own wife and the 2006 Toleranzpreis Europa- I am my own wife.
Questions:
1. How did you want to affect the community with this production?
2. What problems arose during the production process?
3. How did the actors prepare emotionally for their roles?
4. What time period did you set the play in? And why?
5. With the issues surrounding the play was the time period selected to emphasize the issues?
-The play is set in West Texas, in the early Fall. The setting is the living room and front porch of a small, white frame house.
Plot:
-Set on the front porch and in the living room of a conservative Texas home, the play tells the story of two teenagers whose sexual awakening has been severely hampered by the fundamentalist fervor that runs like power lines through the Bible Belt. A comic first scene, set on the porch of Whitney’s home, details his attempts to seduce the puritanical Carlyle after he’s just been elected president of the Youth Ministry at the Church picnic. Carlyle coyly refuses his advances, citing everything from teen pregnancy to hellfire and damnation as reasons to abstain. In a dramatic second scene, Carlyle seeks Whitney’s help after she has been the victim of a sexual assault. Rather than face the grim reality of her experience, Carlyle transforms the attack from an act of violence to a vision of glory, in which the bodies of her assailants become the angels torn from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and the alcohol they forced upon her becomes the blood of Christ. As Carlyle’s delusions grow, Whitney must convince her of the unfortunate truth. Together they struggle to wed their simplistic religious doctrine with the often painful complexity of the real world.
Author:
-The author Doug Wright was born in 1962 in Dallas, Texas. He is a playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. He earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1985 and he earned his M.F.A. from New York University. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves on the board of New York Theatre Workshop. He has written several plays including: I am my own wife, Quills, Dinosaurs, The Stonewater Rapture, Watbanaland, and Interrogating the Nude. He also wrote the Musicals: The Little Mermaid, Grey Gardens, and Buzzsaw Berkeley.
He received several awards such as the 2004 Tony Award for Best Play- I am my own wife, the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama- I am my own wife, the 2005 Lambda Literary Award- I am my own wife and the 2006 Toleranzpreis Europa- I am my own wife.
Questions:
1. How did you want to affect the community with this production?
2. What problems arose during the production process?
3. How did the actors prepare emotionally for their roles?
4. What time period did you set the play in? And why?
5. With the issues surrounding the play was the time period selected to emphasize the issues?
Friday, August 7, 2009
Statement
In 1988 Ronald W. Reagan was President and George Bush was the V.P. The population of the United States was right around 244,498,982 and our life expectancy was the age 74. Also 98% of the United States households have a Television. On January 13 the Supreme Court ruled that public school officials had broad powers to censor school newspapers, school plays and other school sponsored expressive activities. A U.S. Civil Liberties Act was passed. Feb 10, A 3-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down the Army's ban on homosexuals, saying gays were entitled to the same protection against discrimination as racial minorities. The ruling was later set aside by the full appeals court. President Reagan vetoes a Civil Rights Restoration Act March 16 but Congress overrides his veto March 22, expanding the reach of non-discrimination laws within private institutions receiving federal funds. The U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously June 20 in New York State Club Association, Inc., v. The City of New York that the city's 1984 law banning discrimination against women and minorities in private clubs with more than 400 members does not violate First Amendment rights. The ruling supports the city's human rights law and will affect clubs in every other U.S. city. After 8 years and 1.5 million dead the Iran -- Iraq war ends in August. US Navy ship shoots down Iranian airliner in Persian Gulf, mistaking it for jet fighter; 290 killed (July 3). Suspected Libyan terrorist bomb explodes on Pan Am jet over Lockerbie in Scotland on December 21st killing all 259 on board and 11 on the ground. Also France and China permit use of "morning-after" birth-control drug RU486. This was a very large issue in 1988. In 1988 Prozac is introduced as an anti-depresent. The first plutonium pacemaker is made. A new drug Crack appears ( A derivative of Cocaine ) and is increasingly found in US Cities. World's longest undersea tunnel is completed. Work begins on the Chunnel which will then become the world's longest undersea tunnel. Also the Hubble Space Telescope is put into operation. The US Stealth Bomber is unveiled. Using Carbon Dating it is established that the Turin Shroud Can Not Be the Burial Cloth of Christ. Archaeologists uncover the original Globe Theatre in London. Some Popular films of this time were: Rain Man, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Big, Twins, Crocodile Dundee II, Die Hard, Beetlejuice and Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. There were a lot of great musical artists of this time but here are few of the chart toppers: Enya, Robert Palmer, Erasure, Kylie Minogue, U2, The Beach Boys, Michael Jackson, Gloria Estefan, Chicago with " Look Away " , George Michael with " father Figure ", and Guns N' Roses. Also in 1988 it was the first year that CD’s outsold vinyl records. Some deaths of this time: Roy Orbison, Chet Baker, Luis Alvarez, Edgar Jean Faure, and Nora Astorga. Interesting Fact 1988 was the year of the dragon People born in the Year of the Dragon are healthy, energetic, excitable, short-tempered, and stubborn. They are also honest, sensitive, brave, and they inspire confidence and trust. Dragon people are the most eccentric of any in the eastern zodiac. They neither borrow money nor make flowery speeches, but they tend to be soft-hearted which sometimes gives others an advantage over them. In 1988 most people with religious backgrounds were concerned with the fact that the presidents running for office such as George Bush were for the death penalty but against abortion and Dukakis was for abortion but against the death penalty they were confused on who would be the better candidate.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Production History
Theater/Venue:
Dickinson College
City/State:
Carlisle, PA
Month/Year:
The Friday, Nov. 21 and Sunday, Nov. 23 (8 p.m.) ,2008
Director:
Shamus McCarty
Designers:
Shamus McCarty was involved in an advanced Directing Class which had them involved in every process including design.
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I am my Own Wife
Written by Doug Wright
Produced Organization:
Delphi Productions, in association with Playwrights Horizons.
Theatre/Venue:
At the Lyceum Theater
City, State:
Manhattan, New York
Month, Year:
December 3, 2003, Wednesday
Director:
Moisés Kaufman
Designers:
Sets by- Derek McLane
Lighting by- David Lander
Costumes by- Janice Pytel
Sound by- Andre J. Pluess
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9505E5DB163DF937A35751C1A9659C8B63
Of all the peculiar entries in the Broadway derby this fall, perhaps the most peculiar is Doug Wright's fascinating one-actor play starring Jefferson Mays, ''I Am My Own Wife.'' A critical success in its limited run earlier this year Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, it has now moved to the Lyceum Theater, where it opened last night amid all kinds of doubts that such a work might find enough of a mainstream audience to sustain it.
You have to wonder, How many visitors from the heartland of America will be eager to pass up the bling-bling of a Broadway musical for this quiet, dramatic tale about an East German transvestite played by an unknown male actor speaking in heavily accented English and wearing a black dress and a string of pearls?
That being said, let me urge them to do so. For the producers of ''I Am My Own Wife'' have done theatergoers a service by giving the play a chance to be more widely seen. And it has, in fact, broader appeal than a mere description would have you believe. It is not an esoteric work, and it isn't especially kinky.
It does, however, tell a terrific story based on a real person, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (née Lothar Berfelde), a soft-spoken but tenaciously gender-bending biological male who died in 2002 at 74. Her lifelong obsession -- Mahlsdorf preferred to be thought of as female -- was the preservation of furniture, especially pieces from the 1890's, and other household relics like Victrolas and gramophones.
Her devotion to her astonishing collection -- she turned her home into a museum -- gave focus and motivation to a life whose grandest achievement was that it proceeded to its natural end. In fact, ''I Am My Own Wife'' is largely about Charlotte's enduring the cruel repressions of the Nazis and the Communists, and her harrowing tales of survival through the eras of the Gestapo and the Stasi, the East German secret police, are nothing short of breathtaking.
By BRUCE WEBER
Published: December 4, 2003, Thursday
NY Times-Theater Reviews
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Theatre/Venue:
Mad Cow Theatre
City, State:
Orlando, FL
Month(s), Year:
July 15-August 9, 2009
Director:
Alan Bruun
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Theater/Venue:
Arcadia University
City/State:
Glenside, Pennsylvania
Month/ Year:
2008-2009
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Theater/Venue:
Albertson College of Idaho
City/ State:
Idaho
Month/Year:
February 9-11, 2006
Director:
Alex Zamora
Designers:
Alex Zamora designed his own set and costumes.
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Sounds and Images
the car that Whitneys father would have most likely owned, that was destroys with rocks and spray paint.
Football was already very popular and every boys dream was to become a famous player, to play in high school meant you had a bigger chance to get drafted.
Youth Ministry has a huge following in 1988, it was just as popular and serious for youths and their parents as it is today. It has expanded from just group meetings to competions , and trips, and also summer camps.
drilling for oil is very popular all over texas and still is to this day. 
a popular gay newpaper
Protesting the war in Iraq.
Kokomo - Beach Boys: a popular song in 1988
Power Of Love - Laura Branigan: another popular song of 1988
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Link to People Magazines from 1988
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Link to TV Guide Magazines from 1988
Micro View
U.S. Statistics:
President: Ronald W. Reagan
Vice President: George Bush
Population: 244,498,982
Life expectancy: 74.9 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 56.6
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 50.3
Economics:
US GDP (1998 dollars): $5,049.60 billion
Federal spending: $1064.14 billion
Federal debt: $2601.3 billion
Median Household Income(current dollars): $27,225
Consumer Price Index: 118.3
Unemployment: 5.5%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.22 ($0.25 as of 4/3/88)
Events:
Ninety-eight percent of U.S. households have at least one television set.
CDs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
Ted Turner starts Turner Network Television (TNT) and buys MGM's film library
Science:
France and China permit use of "morning-after" birth-control drug RU486 (Mifepristone). Background: Birth & Contraception
NASA scientist James Hansen warns congress of the dangers of the global warming and the greenhouse effect. Background: Environment & Nature
http://www.infoplease.com/year/1988.html
President: Ronald W. Reagan
Vice President: George Bush
Population: 244,498,982
Life expectancy: 74.9 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 56.6
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 50.3
Economics:
US GDP (1998 dollars): $5,049.60 billion
Federal spending: $1064.14 billion
Federal debt: $2601.3 billion
Median Household Income(current dollars): $27,225
Consumer Price Index: 118.3
Unemployment: 5.5%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.22 ($0.25 as of 4/3/88)
Events:
Ninety-eight percent of U.S. households have at least one television set.
CDs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
Ted Turner starts Turner Network Television (TNT) and buys MGM's film library
Science:
France and China permit use of "morning-after" birth-control drug RU486 (Mifepristone). Background: Birth & Contraception
NASA scientist James Hansen warns congress of the dangers of the global warming and the greenhouse effect. Background: Environment & Nature
http://www.infoplease.com/year/1988.html
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Macro View
Time: 1988
Jan 13, The US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that public school officials had broad powers to censor school newspapers, school plays and other "school-sponsored expressive activities."
A US Civil Liberties Act was passed.
"Moonwalk" by Michael Jackson was published.
Feb 10, A 3-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down the Army's ban on homosexuals, saying gays were entitled to the same protection against discrimination as racial minorities. The ruling was later set aside by the full appeals court.
Feb 21, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart tearfully confessed to his congregation in Baton Rouge, La., that he was guilty of an unspecified sin, and said he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Reports linked Swaggart to an admitted prostitute, Debra Murphree.
Aug 25, Iran and Iraq began talks to end their 8 year war.
The Hubble Space Telescope is put into operation
http://timelines.ws/20thcent/1988.HTML
Popular Films:
Rain Man
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Big
Twins
Crocodile Dundee II
Die Hard
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Beetlejuice
Dangerous Liaisons
A Fish Called Wanda
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Popular Musicians:
Enya
Robert Palmer
Erasure
Kylie Minogue
U2
The Beach Boys
Bros
Michael Jackson with " Dirty Diana "
Gloria Estefan
Chicago with " Look Away "
George Michael with " father Figure "
Guns N' Roses
George Harrison
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1988.html
Sporting Events:
Los Angeles Dodgers over Oakland Athletics, 4-1
Super Bowl XXIIWashington Redskins over Denver Broncos, 42 to 10.
NBA:LA Lakers over Detroit Pistons, 4-3NCAA:Kansas over Oklahoma, 83 to 79
http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/sports.htm
Jan 13, The US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that public school officials had broad powers to censor school newspapers, school plays and other "school-sponsored expressive activities."
A US Civil Liberties Act was passed.
"Moonwalk" by Michael Jackson was published.
Feb 10, A 3-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down the Army's ban on homosexuals, saying gays were entitled to the same protection against discrimination as racial minorities. The ruling was later set aside by the full appeals court.
Feb 21, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart tearfully confessed to his congregation in Baton Rouge, La., that he was guilty of an unspecified sin, and said he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Reports linked Swaggart to an admitted prostitute, Debra Murphree.
Aug 25, Iran and Iraq began talks to end their 8 year war.
The Hubble Space Telescope is put into operation
http://timelines.ws/20thcent/1988.HTML
Popular Films:
Rain Man
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Big
Twins
Crocodile Dundee II
Die Hard
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Beetlejuice
Dangerous Liaisons
A Fish Called Wanda
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Popular Musicians:
Enya
Robert Palmer
Erasure
Kylie Minogue
U2
The Beach Boys
Bros
Michael Jackson with " Dirty Diana "
Gloria Estefan
Chicago with " Look Away "
George Michael with " father Figure "
Guns N' Roses
George Harrison
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1988.html
Sporting Events:
Los Angeles Dodgers over Oakland Athletics, 4-1
Super Bowl XXIIWashington Redskins over Denver Broncos, 42 to 10.
NBA:LA Lakers over Detroit Pistons, 4-3NCAA:Kansas over Oklahoma, 83 to 79
http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/sports.htm
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Characters and Casting
“The Stonewater Rapture” is a play in West Texas, it is heavily about religion and about discovering oneself, and also it involves temptation of all kinds. In regards to race, if you were to cast one black actor and one white it would change the outlook of the play. It would bring another controversy to an already heavy play. With everything that is going on during the course of this play, to add the effects of a mixed race relationship with the two character would just be piling on to an already burning fire. The race of the characters doesn’t matter as long as the characters are both of that race. Now it doesn’t say you cant mix races but it would be hard for the audience in this day to be as color blind as theater. If you cast two same race characters, doesn’t matter what race then I feel the play and its content will be delivered smoothly and will be easier for the audience.
As far as same gender it really doesn’t allow it in the text. Referring to Whitney in the boys locker room, ripping off his towel. Also Carlyle at the barn being raped by the football team, it is very clear about the sexuality of the characters. In this play there is a huge issue in sexuality and to bring it forefront and saying it doesn’t matter would actually take away from the story, plus you would be changing the authors intent completely, therefore destroying the message. There is really no wiggle room for changing the sex of the characters, they are as they stand, Whitney is the male and Carlyle is a female.
Carlyle’s character is not heavily physical there are some stage directions in the script that talk about running outside, or throwing oneself at the other character but I feel with some work on blocking, you could cast someone with physical disabilities, such as someone limited to a wheelchair. I think it would also add to her character and give her character more conviction. Regarding Whitney’s character the actor would have to be someone in the physical shape to tryout for the football team, so probably could not be someone with disabilities.
As far as same gender it really doesn’t allow it in the text. Referring to Whitney in the boys locker room, ripping off his towel. Also Carlyle at the barn being raped by the football team, it is very clear about the sexuality of the characters. In this play there is a huge issue in sexuality and to bring it forefront and saying it doesn’t matter would actually take away from the story, plus you would be changing the authors intent completely, therefore destroying the message. There is really no wiggle room for changing the sex of the characters, they are as they stand, Whitney is the male and Carlyle is a female.
Carlyle’s character is not heavily physical there are some stage directions in the script that talk about running outside, or throwing oneself at the other character but I feel with some work on blocking, you could cast someone with physical disabilities, such as someone limited to a wheelchair. I think it would also add to her character and give her character more conviction. Regarding Whitney’s character the actor would have to be someone in the physical shape to tryout for the football team, so probably could not be someone with disabilities.
Fable with Plot Summary
Fable:
The Stonewater Rapture is a story of teen lust, religion, and rape. The story begins with the two characters, the male, Whitney and the female Carlyle coming into Whitney’s house after and youth ministry election. At the meeting Whitney was elected President and Carlyle was elected Secretary. Carlyle is a very religious girl, she is stern in her beliefs but she is also eighteen, and very curious. She is also somewhat popular and is very energetic. Whitney is more pensive, his father is a preacher and he want Whitney to follow the same path, but Whitney has no intention of being a preacher. Whitney is not popular as school, he is skinny and rather quiet, but would like to be popular and be on the football team. When arriving home Whitney is depressed about being elected President and feels it seals his fate, his father has filled out seminary applications for him, his father has even written his essays. Carlyle feels that Whitney should his calling as her mother says. After talking for a bit Carlyle realizes Whitney parents are not home and they go out to the porch, where they have a conversation about Thelma Pewler a pimple faced girl with a clubbed foot that is now pregnant by the captain of the football team. He had sex with her on a dare and was paid fifty dollars. Carlyle tells us that the boy wouldn’t help Thelma at all and his parents just gave her money to get rid of it. Thelma then ran away from home to save the baby. Carlyle suggests they, being the youth ministry raise money for the birth of the baby. To Carlyle this is a serious subject; to Whitney he doesn’t believe it at all. They also discuss the fact that now being President of the Youth Ministry, Whitney will never make the football team. Carlyle wonder why he wants to be on the team, all the guys are mean to Whitney and call him names and pulls horrible pranks on him. Also they talk about a boy in their class that might be gay and that once in the locker room he was getting undressed next to Whitney and part him was touching Whitney and other boys saw and the coach had to assign him to a team because no one would pick him. Also Whitney tells that while he was in the locker room shower one day the football boys put porn pictures of men in his locker and then ripped off his towel when he looked at them. The Audience should be able to get from this the other boys think he is gay and are trying to prove it. Carlyle then goes into telling of a dream she had about angels and them being naked but her not being afraid, and them telling her she was being saved for the heavenly host and she was his. This story is very important to the plot, later on. During the conversation Carlyle suggests they go inside because of the misquotes, and says Whitney has to leave the door open, and Whitney says “ why? I wont rape you!” this is a very important line in the play, it is a foreshadowing to later events. They then go inside and Carlyle then says it’s a sin to waste and asks him to shut the door and turn out all of the lights except for one lamp. After they are sitting in the barely lit room Whitney asks to kiss Carlyle and she offers him her cheek, he then says the comic line of “You’re not my Grandmother” then she tells him to sit on his hands and then she allows him to give her a kiss. This is both their first kiss in life, they are nervous and awkward. After the first kiss there is a moment of nervous chatter from Carlyle about decorating for a party the football team is throwing and it is not school sponsored and might not be chaperoned but would be good practice since she was selected to decorated for the school parties. Following this chatter Whitney asks again to kiss her, she allows this, but Whitney moves his hand to her leg, Carlyle then asks him to move it and he moves it up. In this part of the play Whitney begs Carlyle just to let him touch her breast saying that he will die if he doesn’t do anything with a girl. After lots of pleading Carlyle says he can touch her breast for five seconds, during this five second he flexes his hand on her breast and she slaps his hand away they try again with Carlyle counting and then she asks if she was counting too fast and then Whitney Counts. While Whitney is counting the scene takes a sexual turn, they are kissing and groping till it is too much for Carlyle and she feels if they had gone any further he would have tried to have sex with her. They yell at each other and then Carlyle goes to leave but comes back in to kiss Whitney but he resists and she grabs his face and kisses him fiercely on the lips, thus exciting him again but she gets away from his grasp and runs out of the house.
In the next scene Carlyle arrives at Whitney house, two weeks have past since their kiss. Carlyle arrives in funeral clothes; one of the ladies from the Home has past away. Whitney answers the door, really not wanting to be bothered but also misses her. She asks to come in and he allows it, his parents are not home, but she seems to not be this as bothered by this as she was before. She even says it is better they are not home. Carlyle and Whitney talk about the fact he hasn’t been at school and how he didn’t make the football team. Also someone taged his dad’s car with the word Fag. Then Carlyle starts to tell him about the unchaporoned party she decorated for, the one for the football team she tells of how beautiful the decorations turned out. Whitney asked who was there and she listed off the names which were the whole football team, Whitney asks where the girls are. Carlyle says she was told they were to arrive later. Carlyle then tells that the boys toasted her with some tangy punch which Whitney suggests was spiked. They toasted her over and over again and one boy named Micheal kept whispering things into her ear about how she was beautiful and would be so popular if she wasn’t so religious. Then another boy got angry and said he was out and he wanted his money back, then the other boys threw him out. Then she started to tell how the boys started touching her and ripping at her clothes. Whitney stops her at this point and starts to call the police because he knows exactly what happened next, but she stops him saying that couldn’t have happened because what would that make her. Then she starts to tell him how she was wrong the boys were hurting her they were angels and they were preparing her for the heavenly host, she was his, she told how they used their belts to tie her down for him. Also the punch was not punch but the blood of Christ. She is then crying saying that is what happened it couldn’t be the other way because that would make her a Thelma Pewler and a football whore. Whitney holds her through this and is enraged by every word she says. Then she says that she loves him and wants him to be her Joseph, and that they should get married. He fights this saying he is not good enough for her and that she deserves better and she says she is the one not worthy of him because she is pregnant. She then goes into saying that the other boys were right about him and that he might be a Fag as they say and he can’t be with girls. This Pisses Whitney off and he trys to convince her this isn’t true until finally he says he will be her Joseph but they baby is his and not Gods and she has to accept that. She then leads him off into the trees in the back yard and says that she needs to make him her Joseph what she means is he needs to have sex with her, he resists alittle still and she takes off his shirt and says he needs this he needs to know he can do this. The very last lines in the play are Carlyle telling Whitney “ you look like an Angel, like an Angel”.
Plot Summary:
The Stonewater Rapture
Author(s):Doug Wright
Set on the front porch and in the living room of a conservative Texas home, the play tells the story of two teenagers whose sexual awakening has been severely hampered by the fundamentalist fervor that runs like power lines through the Bible Belt. A comic first scene, set on the porch of Whitney’s home, details his attempts to seduce the puritanical Carlyle after he’s just been elected president of the Youth Ministry at the Church picnic. Carlyle coyly refuses his advances, citing everything from teen pregnancy to hellfire and damnation as reasons to abstain. In a dramatic second scene, Carlyle seeks Whitney’s help after she has been the victim of a sexual assault. Rather than face the grim reality of her experience, Carlyle transforms the attack from an act of violence to a vision of glory, in which the bodies of her assailants become the angels torn from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and the alcohol they forced upon her becomes the blood of Christ. As Carlyle’s delusions grow, Whitney must convince her of the unfortunate truth. Together they struggle to wed their simplistic religious doctrine with the often painful complexity of the real world.
http://www.playdatabase.com/play.asp?play=5C3237F3-439C-4121-A022-404B1742AFDE
The Stonewater Rapture is a story of teen lust, religion, and rape. The story begins with the two characters, the male, Whitney and the female Carlyle coming into Whitney’s house after and youth ministry election. At the meeting Whitney was elected President and Carlyle was elected Secretary. Carlyle is a very religious girl, she is stern in her beliefs but she is also eighteen, and very curious. She is also somewhat popular and is very energetic. Whitney is more pensive, his father is a preacher and he want Whitney to follow the same path, but Whitney has no intention of being a preacher. Whitney is not popular as school, he is skinny and rather quiet, but would like to be popular and be on the football team. When arriving home Whitney is depressed about being elected President and feels it seals his fate, his father has filled out seminary applications for him, his father has even written his essays. Carlyle feels that Whitney should his calling as her mother says. After talking for a bit Carlyle realizes Whitney parents are not home and they go out to the porch, where they have a conversation about Thelma Pewler a pimple faced girl with a clubbed foot that is now pregnant by the captain of the football team. He had sex with her on a dare and was paid fifty dollars. Carlyle tells us that the boy wouldn’t help Thelma at all and his parents just gave her money to get rid of it. Thelma then ran away from home to save the baby. Carlyle suggests they, being the youth ministry raise money for the birth of the baby. To Carlyle this is a serious subject; to Whitney he doesn’t believe it at all. They also discuss the fact that now being President of the Youth Ministry, Whitney will never make the football team. Carlyle wonder why he wants to be on the team, all the guys are mean to Whitney and call him names and pulls horrible pranks on him. Also they talk about a boy in their class that might be gay and that once in the locker room he was getting undressed next to Whitney and part him was touching Whitney and other boys saw and the coach had to assign him to a team because no one would pick him. Also Whitney tells that while he was in the locker room shower one day the football boys put porn pictures of men in his locker and then ripped off his towel when he looked at them. The Audience should be able to get from this the other boys think he is gay and are trying to prove it. Carlyle then goes into telling of a dream she had about angels and them being naked but her not being afraid, and them telling her she was being saved for the heavenly host and she was his. This story is very important to the plot, later on. During the conversation Carlyle suggests they go inside because of the misquotes, and says Whitney has to leave the door open, and Whitney says “ why? I wont rape you!” this is a very important line in the play, it is a foreshadowing to later events. They then go inside and Carlyle then says it’s a sin to waste and asks him to shut the door and turn out all of the lights except for one lamp. After they are sitting in the barely lit room Whitney asks to kiss Carlyle and she offers him her cheek, he then says the comic line of “You’re not my Grandmother” then she tells him to sit on his hands and then she allows him to give her a kiss. This is both their first kiss in life, they are nervous and awkward. After the first kiss there is a moment of nervous chatter from Carlyle about decorating for a party the football team is throwing and it is not school sponsored and might not be chaperoned but would be good practice since she was selected to decorated for the school parties. Following this chatter Whitney asks again to kiss her, she allows this, but Whitney moves his hand to her leg, Carlyle then asks him to move it and he moves it up. In this part of the play Whitney begs Carlyle just to let him touch her breast saying that he will die if he doesn’t do anything with a girl. After lots of pleading Carlyle says he can touch her breast for five seconds, during this five second he flexes his hand on her breast and she slaps his hand away they try again with Carlyle counting and then she asks if she was counting too fast and then Whitney Counts. While Whitney is counting the scene takes a sexual turn, they are kissing and groping till it is too much for Carlyle and she feels if they had gone any further he would have tried to have sex with her. They yell at each other and then Carlyle goes to leave but comes back in to kiss Whitney but he resists and she grabs his face and kisses him fiercely on the lips, thus exciting him again but she gets away from his grasp and runs out of the house.
In the next scene Carlyle arrives at Whitney house, two weeks have past since their kiss. Carlyle arrives in funeral clothes; one of the ladies from the Home has past away. Whitney answers the door, really not wanting to be bothered but also misses her. She asks to come in and he allows it, his parents are not home, but she seems to not be this as bothered by this as she was before. She even says it is better they are not home. Carlyle and Whitney talk about the fact he hasn’t been at school and how he didn’t make the football team. Also someone taged his dad’s car with the word Fag. Then Carlyle starts to tell him about the unchaporoned party she decorated for, the one for the football team she tells of how beautiful the decorations turned out. Whitney asked who was there and she listed off the names which were the whole football team, Whitney asks where the girls are. Carlyle says she was told they were to arrive later. Carlyle then tells that the boys toasted her with some tangy punch which Whitney suggests was spiked. They toasted her over and over again and one boy named Micheal kept whispering things into her ear about how she was beautiful and would be so popular if she wasn’t so religious. Then another boy got angry and said he was out and he wanted his money back, then the other boys threw him out. Then she started to tell how the boys started touching her and ripping at her clothes. Whitney stops her at this point and starts to call the police because he knows exactly what happened next, but she stops him saying that couldn’t have happened because what would that make her. Then she starts to tell him how she was wrong the boys were hurting her they were angels and they were preparing her for the heavenly host, she was his, she told how they used their belts to tie her down for him. Also the punch was not punch but the blood of Christ. She is then crying saying that is what happened it couldn’t be the other way because that would make her a Thelma Pewler and a football whore. Whitney holds her through this and is enraged by every word she says. Then she says that she loves him and wants him to be her Joseph, and that they should get married. He fights this saying he is not good enough for her and that she deserves better and she says she is the one not worthy of him because she is pregnant. She then goes into saying that the other boys were right about him and that he might be a Fag as they say and he can’t be with girls. This Pisses Whitney off and he trys to convince her this isn’t true until finally he says he will be her Joseph but they baby is his and not Gods and she has to accept that. She then leads him off into the trees in the back yard and says that she needs to make him her Joseph what she means is he needs to have sex with her, he resists alittle still and she takes off his shirt and says he needs this he needs to know he can do this. The very last lines in the play are Carlyle telling Whitney “ you look like an Angel, like an Angel”.
Plot Summary:
The Stonewater Rapture
Author(s):Doug Wright
Set on the front porch and in the living room of a conservative Texas home, the play tells the story of two teenagers whose sexual awakening has been severely hampered by the fundamentalist fervor that runs like power lines through the Bible Belt. A comic first scene, set on the porch of Whitney’s home, details his attempts to seduce the puritanical Carlyle after he’s just been elected president of the Youth Ministry at the Church picnic. Carlyle coyly refuses his advances, citing everything from teen pregnancy to hellfire and damnation as reasons to abstain. In a dramatic second scene, Carlyle seeks Whitney’s help after she has been the victim of a sexual assault. Rather than face the grim reality of her experience, Carlyle transforms the attack from an act of violence to a vision of glory, in which the bodies of her assailants become the angels torn from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and the alcohol they forced upon her becomes the blood of Christ. As Carlyle’s delusions grow, Whitney must convince her of the unfortunate truth. Together they struggle to wed their simplistic religious doctrine with the often painful complexity of the real world.
http://www.playdatabase.com/play.asp?play=5C3237F3-439C-4121-A022-404B1742AFDE
Characters
Whitney (male)- Eighteen years old, rather pensive, and inhibited. He is also not very popular, but he is not indulgent or prone to self- pity.
Carlyle (female)- Eighteen and pretty, she is overtly religious, but not stringent or severe. She is physical often running around the room and gives broad gestures. She also enjoys relative popularity in school.
Carlyle (female)- Eighteen and pretty, she is overtly religious, but not stringent or severe. She is physical often running around the room and gives broad gestures. She also enjoys relative popularity in school.
Exegesis
Sin of Pride:
"A high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pride
"Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity."
http://www.deadlysins.com/sins/index.htm
Seninary School:
"A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is a specialized and often live-in higher education institution for the purpose of instructing students (seminarians) in philosophy, theology, spirituality and the religious life, usually in order to prepare them to become members of the clergy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminary
Book of Leviticus:
Leviticus (Greek: Λευιτικός, "relating to the Levites") or Vayikra (Hebrew: ויקרא, literally "and He called") is the third book of the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament, and the third of five books of the Jewish Torah or Pentateuch.
Leviticus contains laws and priestly rituals, but in a wider sense is about the working out of God's covenant with Israel set out in Genesis and Exodus - what is seen in the Torah as the consequences of entering into a special relationship with God (specifically, Yahweh). These consequences are set out in terms of community relationships and behaviour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Leviticus
Shriner's Posters:
"The first Shriners Burns Hospital for Children opened its doors in 1966 in Galveston, Texas. Dr. Truman Blocker and Mr. Harvey Beffa worked with the Shrine philanthropy to establish hospitals to treat burned children and support burn related research. Shriners Hospitals for Children also had many hospitals that cared for children with orthopedic disabilities. With their four burn hospitals, Shriners cares for children with burn injuries from the time of acute injury through rehabilitation and individual reconstructive needs throughout their childhood.
Shriners Hospitals for Children at Galveston is a 30 bed hospital. It has an ICU with 15 acute beds, a reconstruction and plastic surgery unit with 15 reconstructive beds, three operating rooms, a multi-bed recovery room, clinics and a large outpatient population. The Galveston Shriners Hospital has treated patients from around the country and around the world."
http://www.totalburncare.com/shrinepage.htm
Fornicate:
Voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fornication
Rites of Purification:
Traditionally, Christianity adhered to the biblical regulation requiring the purification of women after childbirth; this practice, was adapted into a special ritual known as the churching of women, for which there exists liturgy in the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer, but its use is now rare in Western Christianity. The churching of women is still performed in a number of Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.
Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and High church Anglicans are also traditionally required to regularly attend confession, as a form of ritual purification from sin, especially as preparation before receiving the Eucharist. However, this is only required once a year or if a mortal sin has been committed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_purification#Christianity
Blasphemer:
"To speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things)."
"To speak evil of; slander; abuse."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blasphemer
Queer:
"mentally unbalanced or deranged."
"Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. "
"homosexual. "
"effeminate; unmanly."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/queer
Sistine Ceiling:
"The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. The ceiling is that of the large Papal Chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV after whom it is named the Sistine Chapel. The chapel is the location for Papal Conclaves and many important services[1]
The ceiling's various painted elements comprise part of a larger scheme of decoration within the Sistine Chapel which includes the large fresco of The Last Judgment on the sanctuary wall, also by Michelangelo, wall paintings by a team of the most highly regarded painters of the late 15th century including Botticelli and Perugino, and a set of large tapestries by Raphael, the whole illustrating much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church.[2][3] (Main article:Sistine Chapel)
Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which the Creation of Adam is the best known, having an iconic standing equalled only by Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the hands of God and Adam being reproduced in countless imitations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel_ceiling
Infallible Truth:
"absolutely trustworthy or sure"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/infallible
"A high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pride
"Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity."
http://www.deadlysins.com/sins/index.htm
Seninary School:
"A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is a specialized and often live-in higher education institution for the purpose of instructing students (seminarians) in philosophy, theology, spirituality and the religious life, usually in order to prepare them to become members of the clergy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminary
Book of Leviticus:
Leviticus (Greek: Λευιτικός, "relating to the Levites") or Vayikra (Hebrew: ויקרא, literally "and He called") is the third book of the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament, and the third of five books of the Jewish Torah or Pentateuch.
Leviticus contains laws and priestly rituals, but in a wider sense is about the working out of God's covenant with Israel set out in Genesis and Exodus - what is seen in the Torah as the consequences of entering into a special relationship with God (specifically, Yahweh). These consequences are set out in terms of community relationships and behaviour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Leviticus
Shriner's Posters:
"The first Shriners Burns Hospital for Children opened its doors in 1966 in Galveston, Texas. Dr. Truman Blocker and Mr. Harvey Beffa worked with the Shrine philanthropy to establish hospitals to treat burned children and support burn related research. Shriners Hospitals for Children also had many hospitals that cared for children with orthopedic disabilities. With their four burn hospitals, Shriners cares for children with burn injuries from the time of acute injury through rehabilitation and individual reconstructive needs throughout their childhood.
Shriners Hospitals for Children at Galveston is a 30 bed hospital. It has an ICU with 15 acute beds, a reconstruction and plastic surgery unit with 15 reconstructive beds, three operating rooms, a multi-bed recovery room, clinics and a large outpatient population. The Galveston Shriners Hospital has treated patients from around the country and around the world."
http://www.totalburncare.com/shrinepage.htm
Fornicate:
Voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fornication
Rites of Purification:
Traditionally, Christianity adhered to the biblical regulation requiring the purification of women after childbirth; this practice, was adapted into a special ritual known as the churching of women, for which there exists liturgy in the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer, but its use is now rare in Western Christianity. The churching of women is still performed in a number of Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.
Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and High church Anglicans are also traditionally required to regularly attend confession, as a form of ritual purification from sin, especially as preparation before receiving the Eucharist. However, this is only required once a year or if a mortal sin has been committed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_purification#Christianity
Blasphemer:
"To speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things)."
"To speak evil of; slander; abuse."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blasphemer
Queer:
"mentally unbalanced or deranged."
"Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. "
"homosexual. "
"effeminate; unmanly."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/queer
Sistine Ceiling:
"The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. The ceiling is that of the large Papal Chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV after whom it is named the Sistine Chapel. The chapel is the location for Papal Conclaves and many important services[1]
The ceiling's various painted elements comprise part of a larger scheme of decoration within the Sistine Chapel which includes the large fresco of The Last Judgment on the sanctuary wall, also by Michelangelo, wall paintings by a team of the most highly regarded painters of the late 15th century including Botticelli and Perugino, and a set of large tapestries by Raphael, the whole illustrating much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church.[2][3] (Main article:Sistine Chapel)
Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which the Creation of Adam is the best known, having an iconic standing equalled only by Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the hands of God and Adam being reproduced in countless imitations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel_ceiling
Infallible Truth:
"absolutely trustworthy or sure"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/infallible
Monday, July 13, 2009
The Facts Of the Play
Title:
The Stonewater Rapture
Author:
Doug Wright
Language:
English
Play Structure:
One Act
Two Scenes
Cast Breakdown:
Two Characters
One Male: Whitney- eighteen and rather pensive
One Female: Carlyle - eighteen and pretty
Running Time:
(Dave knows)
Genre:
Drama
http://www.playdatabase.com/play.asp?play=5C3237F3-439C-4121-A022-404B1742AFDE
Drama/American
http://www.langtoninfo.com/showitem.asp?isbn=0822210827
Brief Bio:
Wright has a bachelor's degree from Yale College. He was a member of the Class of 1985 and Wolf's Head. He earned his M.F.A. from New York University. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves on the board of New York Theatre Workshop. He is a recipient of the William L. Bradley Fellowship at Yale University, the Charles MacArthur Fellowship at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, an HBO Fellowship in playwriting and the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University.
Wright lives in New York City with his partner, singer/songwriter David Clement.
http://www.enotes.com/am-my-own-wife/author-biography
Publication Info:
Published in 1990, Dramatists Play Service (New York, N.Y. (440 Park Ave. S., New York 10016))
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL1614372M/stonewater-rapture
Licensing and Rights:FEE:
The Rights Belong to Dramatists Play Service
For non-professional rights it is $30 per performance.
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=148
The Stonewater Rapture
Author:
Doug Wright
Language:
English
Play Structure:
One Act
Two Scenes
Cast Breakdown:
Two Characters
One Male: Whitney- eighteen and rather pensive
One Female: Carlyle - eighteen and pretty
Running Time:
(Dave knows)
Genre:
Drama
http://www.playdatabase.com/play.asp?play=5C3237F3-439C-4121-A022-404B1742AFDE
Drama/American
http://www.langtoninfo.com/showitem.asp?isbn=0822210827
Brief Bio:
Wright has a bachelor's degree from Yale College. He was a member of the Class of 1985 and Wolf's Head. He earned his M.F.A. from New York University. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves on the board of New York Theatre Workshop. He is a recipient of the William L. Bradley Fellowship at Yale University, the Charles MacArthur Fellowship at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, an HBO Fellowship in playwriting and the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University.
Wright lives in New York City with his partner, singer/songwriter David Clement.
http://www.enotes.com/am-my-own-wife/author-biography
Publication Info:
Published in 1990, Dramatists Play Service (New York, N.Y. (440 Park Ave. S., New York 10016))
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL1614372M/stonewater-rapture
Licensing and Rights:FEE:
The Rights Belong to Dramatists Play Service
For non-professional rights it is $30 per performance.
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=148
Friday, July 10, 2009
Definitions of Dramaturgy
1.
The craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dramaturgy
2.
Dramaturgs can be hired by theatres or directors as freelance production dramaturgs. They can be hired by theatres as literary managers, outreach coordinators, education supervisors and artistic directors. Playwrights can hire dramaturgs to act as script consultants and editors. Dramaturgy can be general and academic, or dramaturgy can be related to a specific production. Production dramaturgy seems to be the most cryptic function a dramaturg performs. The job description of a production dramaturg can be defined as follows:
NOUN: A production dramaturg is a consultant and an advocate for the playwright's intentions. The dramaturg's skill set should include
historical and cultural knowledge
efficient research and writing skills
patient and objective observation skills
playwrighting experience
structural analysis skills
assertive and tactful communication skills
an ability to work in collaboration with others
http://www.geocities.com/amylynnhess76/whatsadramaturg.html
3.
Dramaturgy is the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. Some dramatists combine writing and dramaturgy when creating a drama. Others work with a specialist, called a dramaturg, to adapt a work for the stage.
Dramaturgy may also be defined, more broadly, as shaping a story into a form that may be acted. Dramaturgy gives the work or the performance a structure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturgy
The craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dramaturgy
2.
Dramaturgs can be hired by theatres or directors as freelance production dramaturgs. They can be hired by theatres as literary managers, outreach coordinators, education supervisors and artistic directors. Playwrights can hire dramaturgs to act as script consultants and editors. Dramaturgy can be general and academic, or dramaturgy can be related to a specific production. Production dramaturgy seems to be the most cryptic function a dramaturg performs. The job description of a production dramaturg can be defined as follows:
NOUN: A production dramaturg is a consultant and an advocate for the playwright's intentions. The dramaturg's skill set should include
historical and cultural knowledge
efficient research and writing skills
patient and objective observation skills
playwrighting experience
structural analysis skills
assertive and tactful communication skills
an ability to work in collaboration with others
http://www.geocities.com/amylynnhess76/whatsadramaturg.html
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Dramaturgy is the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. Some dramatists combine writing and dramaturgy when creating a drama. Others work with a specialist, called a dramaturg, to adapt a work for the stage.
Dramaturgy may also be defined, more broadly, as shaping a story into a form that may be acted. Dramaturgy gives the work or the performance a structure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturgy
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