Playwrights Retreat to Ohio

Information about retreats organized by the Ohio State University Department of Theatre for the International Center for Women Playwrights (ICWP), whose work is archived in Ohio State's Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute.

Monday, July 30, 2007

AND WE BEGIN!!

The 2007 ICWP Retreat to Ohio has begun! Six playwrights are here, Kathy Coudle King having joined Vicki Cheatwood, Cheryl Conner, Geralyn Horton, Mrinalini Kamath, and Cynthia Wands, all of whom arrived yesterday (or, in Mrinalini's case because of a much-delayed flight, very early this morning). Readings tonight included Geralyn Horton's new one-person piece, commissioned by a Boston performer, about the eighteenth-century slave who successfully sued for her freedom under the rights guaranteed by the new Constitution, thus ending slavery in Massachusetts in the 1780s. In the reading, the narration was split up among two performers, while separate performers read Mrs. Sedgewick, the first successful woman novelist, who wrote about the former slave, and the former slave herself. So one person monologue became a four-part harmony! We also read Cynthia Wands' beginning of a new piece exploring Shakespeare's 'lost years'--written in iambic pentameter! Not bad for a first draft!



here the playwrights watch as Ellen Nickles (in green) and Mary Vade Bon Coeur read a scene from Cynthia's play.


playwrights watch as volunteers read aloud; from left, Joe Cofer, volunteer actor; Mrinalini Kamath; volunteer Peggy Williams; Cheryl Connor; Geralyn Horton; Cynthia Wands; Vicki Cheatwood; Kathy Coudle King.


in the computer lab, Cynthia offers technical help as Geralyn tries to use Windows to print an Apple document.



in the computer lab: Cynthia points to where Geralyn has to click in order to print, while at the right, Vicki discovers a band she likes is playing locally this weekend.

AND--a message tonight from Carolyn Gage via email: "I will be thinking of you all and missing those very productive hours by that lovely, lovely river!

Carolyn"

2 Comments:

  • At 10:08 PM, Blogger Shirley said…

    Wish I could be there with all you talented people. Sounds like such a marvelous learning experience as well as great fun.

    Shirley King

     
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