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3 ten-minute plays: "Reality Book Group", "Room with Maintenance", & "Bluefish"
teartracks:
Hi Dr. G,
“Reality Book Group,” a 10-minute play by Dr. Richard Grossman, was top-billed in the Boston Globe and performed at the 2012 Boston Theater Marathon.
Congratulations! That is quite an accomplishment.
tt
PS What did daughter think?
Dr. Richard Grossman:
--- Quote from: teartracks on October 22, 2012, 01:52:05 PM ---“Reality Book Group,” a 10-minute play by Dr. Richard Grossman, was top-billed in the Boston Globe and performed at the 2012 Boston Theater Marathon.
Congratulations! That is quite an accomplishment.
--- End quote ---
Hi tt,
Thanks! It is something I will always be very proud of--especially since I’m a dilettante! (Oops, my friends say I’ve now officially lost that title and am forbidden to use the word.)
--- Quote from: teartracks on October 22, 2012, 01:52:05 PM ---PS What did daughter think?
--- End quote ---
She “really liked” “Reality Book Group” and “liked” “Room with Maintenance”. “Room with Maintenance” reminded her of “Ionesco—dark, absurdist”. Re: getting top billing, she congratulated me, although 4 or 5 years ago we went together to see a couple hours of the Boston Theater Marathon, and she (like me) was unimpressed with most of the plays we saw (it's a tough genre: writing a beginning, middle, and end that offer interest, believability, surprise, etc. all in a 10-minute play is very difficult). So, she used to laugh at me when I submitted plays to the Marathon (i.e. “Why are you wasting your time with that!")
The real surprise at this stage of my life is that my father, 87 and an unpublished literary critic in his own right, liked/laughed heartily at both plays—calling the latter one “post-modern”. Perhaps my biggest accomplishment of all :wink: !
Best,
Richard
teartracks:
And who's going to fix the broken toilet, the crude carpenter or the intellectual? Did it matter on the 'other side'? My guess is that it didn't until or unless the media got hold of it? :lol:
tt
Dr. Richard Grossman:
Hmmm. Interesting guess, tt! But not quite right. So as not to spoil the plot, let me pose your query as a multiple choice question:
Who’s going to fix the toilet?
A. A deus ex machina
B. an angel sent by God
C. Angelo the Maintenance Man
D. All of the above.
Richard :wink:
teartracks:
Okay so it's a ten minute play. How many 'characters' can a ten minute play support? It's art. Art doesn't play
well with logic. Absurdity is truth played backwards? There's Angelo and the intellectual. A deus ex machina could easily
be the reflection of each. Kind of a supernatural, talking out of both sides of his/her mouth that binds them in their misery? An
emotional quick fix?
Random thoughts that made me guess A.
tt
PS I don't think the toilet got fixed (:shock:.
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