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Playwright Love
Happy rainy Monday, everyone. We at Tiger Lily have been hard at work planning our first fundraiser. Details on that in a bit. First, I want to share something one of our wonderful local playwrights sent me yesterday. THIS is a speech given by the playwright Theresa Rebeck as the keynote address of the 2010 Laura Pels Awards. She addresses gender inequality in theatre and the roadblocks female playwrights, and artists of all types, experience, as well as the pervasive dismissal of our concerns over their existence. I won’t recap the whole thing here, as her words are far more eloquent than my re-hash of them could ever be. Hop on over and take a look. We’ll wait.
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Now, about that fundraiser…. It would be wonderful if I could afford to pay for everything we do for Tiger Lily myself, but sadly I am a working class girl and simply can’t. The goal of our first fundraiser is to pay for our 501(c)3 application and, maybe, take a baby step toward paying for the rights to our inaugural production, optimistically planned for this fall…fingers crossed. But we don’t want something for nothing. No, no, no. We will be producing an evening of short theatre, featuring the work of some of our local playwrights, as well as a one-act performance by the advanced theatre students of a local high school. A few weeks ago, the Tiger Lily board and I got together and sorted through a small handful of really great short plays from our local ladies and painstakingly narrowed down our selections. I have to say that my only real fear regarding our goal of producing local work was that we wouldn’t have enough. I worried that our local writers may not be that into plays, or would only want to focus their attention on full length productions. Thank you all for showing me how ridiculous that was. In the end, we had to read with an eye toward creating a cohesive production. It was hard to put aside some of our submissions that didn’t quite fit with the others, but it had to be done. To all of the wonderful writers that sent us their work, thank you! We can’t say enough about how grateful we are to have had the opportunity to read it, and how excited we are to see more from each of you in the future.
We’ll be posting the flyer for the event, along with details about the selected plays, a little later. In the meantime, here’s a little bit of pertinent information:
- The fundraiser/performance is currently scheduled for the evening of Saturday, April 28th, location TBA.
- We will be holding auditions for this production at Theatre Knoxville Downtown on the evening of Sunday, March 4th. Thanks to TKD for graciously allowing us the use of their space. We will need men and women for these shows.
That’s all from us for now, but we want to hear from you. Are there any particular plays you’d like to see produced? We’re always taking ideas and submissions.
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