Reading the Whole Dramaturgy Packet

needs an artist's retreat

The Bob Fosse rendition of Pippin.

Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.

Crazy Eddie, of course.

all things Aga Boom.

But especially the Iceberg bit.

This is a brief list. The main influences for the play I am working on this week. All of the above is enough. I don’t really need to wander the internet to find the ingredients for a great play. This list is enough.

A week of reading the Dramaturgy packet as an artist’s retreat. I did that one summer and did a Midsummer Night’s Dream that I am still proud of. It was in my backyard at the time, not in some exotic locale…like Lancaster, PA. The article below details how to do your own artist’s retreat. Not the backyard kind. The air bnb + grocery store snacks kind of retreat.

How I Built a Writing Retreat

Maya Angelou, too. She evidently went to a cheap, plain hotel with no tv for a week to do her writing on the bed with a legal pad. I don't know if those cheap hotels still exist. I booked a hotel in my home city, down the street from my parent’s place in Harrisburg, PA, Lancaster’s cousin, for $58/nigh…