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One issue I've had with this blog in the past is that I set it up with Textpattern, which is at once the easiest and most bewildering blog software I've ever worked with. What I mean is, it's extremely simple to set up the basics, and for most people I'm sure that's fine. But then I started tweaking and customizing and ... man. At that point it gets COMPLICATED. Still not sure if I haven't broken some parts of it beyond repair!
IMAGICON was an interesting experiment ... usually nerd-fests like this are held in big hotels, but they held this one at the McWane Science Center In some ways this was brilliant and in others I think it caused more problems than it was worth. Certainly the events held off-site suffered, especially when the promised transportation shuttles failed to arrive. But for the most part, everybody that I saw was having a great time, especially the cosplayers. The STAR TREK panels went really well, I thought, perhaps despite their being built largely around me talking a lot and telling the same stories over and over. Personal gripe about the con: Not Enough DOCTOR WHO. None, in fact. If there's a next time, perhaps I need to personally round up the DOCTOR WHO support.
I said I'd let you know how this year's Script Frenzy went, and the graphic you see here
gives the short answer. Script Frenzy is a brilliantly-conceived program, despite being desperately underfunded. I'm looking forward to next April, and who knows? Maybe I'll tackle their November Novel Writing Month challenge as well...!
Meanwhile, Theatre UAB's production of my script THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD is in rehearsals and will be ready to go on tour in the fall. I look forward to having photos and video to show you here soon...
Recent
It seems like I'm averaging a new play production every year, so I guess the New Play for 2010 was "Crossing Lines" for Black History Month at Vulcan Park and Museum. This is a two-person show set in November 1938, as Birminghan hosted the first-ever convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. The SCHW convention started out quietly enough, but by the second day Eleanor Roosevelt was butting heads with "Bull" Connor. The show's premiere on February 18th was extremely well-received, and we're looking forward to an opportunity to perform it again. After all...
... last year's "Vulcan" play (my New Play for 2009) has been performed several times now. That was "Too Many Questions," a one-woman show I wrote about Virginia Foster Durr starring the peerless Ginny Loggins. It's been a big hit with the audiences -- which have included Mrs. Durr's oldest daughter! No pressure there!
Virginia Durr was an amazing woman and it is great fun to pretend like you're spending an hour with her at her home, listening to her tell about her extraordinary experiences as a white Southerner who dared to stand on the "colored" side of the civil rights struggle in the 1960s. Each time we've done this show, Ginny and I have both been regaled with personal stories about various people's encounters with Mrs. Durr. I wish I had known her...
... last year's "Vulcan" play (my New Play for 2009) has been performed several times now. That was "Too Many Questions," a one-woman show I wrote about Virginia Foster Durr starring the peerless Ginny Loggins. It's been a big hit with the audiences -- which have included Mrs. Durr's oldest daughter! No pressure there!
Virginia Durr was an amazing woman and it is great fun to pretend like you're spending an hour with her at her home, listening to her tell about her extraordinary experiences as a white Southerner who dared to stand on the "colored" side of the civil rights struggle in the 1960s. Each time we've done this show, Ginny and I have both been regaled with personal stories about various people's encounters with Mrs. Durr. I wish I had known her...
