HeyJaredTheater Is Hard
NYC playwright Sara Farrington breaks down how theater is hard. It's funny, rage-fueled, punk, anti-establishment, historically accurate, motivating and especially anti-capitalistic. www.ladyfarrington.com
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Slow Death (opens the original)
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In April 2017, a show of mine called CasablancaBox opened Off-Broadway at HERE Arts Center, where I had been an artist-in-residence for three years, part of their HARP @ HERE program.1CasablancaBox was gigantic— 18 performers, massive crew, a video or sound cue every half-second, projected film moments caught in mid-air on handheld screens and the funniest script I’d ever written—- my imagined b
Further Evidence That Theater is Hard. (opens the original)
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Warning: Mentions of sex, a sexual encounter and a really, really sad thing.My personal paleographic-archeological journey into my life in the theater continues.For any new subscribers, in a nutshell: I documented every minute of my life in journals from 5th grade to last night. But rather than subjecting you to most of it, I am extracting and analyzing only the entries about theater in an effort to understand where my misconceptions came from, who I helped and hurt, who helped and hurt me, what
My fake—I mean, real— agent. (opens the original)
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I don’t really want to have to write this piece. I mean… I want to—-the topic’s been nagging at me for months, but I’m sure it’s professionally ill-advised. How do I address this without shooting my career in the face?Well, as with everything I write, lemme smuggle my way into it via theater history.In 1939, Tennessee Williams won a $100 playwriting prize for some one-acts he wrote called American Blues. The pages got to a newly established agent named Audrey Wood. Even though Tennessee did
Narrating High-Spice Romance. (opens the original)
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Trigger warning: explicit mentions of sex.I read a lot lately that people are worried about A.I. replacing them— at their job, as an generative artist, as an actor, everywhere.It’s a valid worry. We creative types have the imagination to envision where this A.I. journey ends.But I’ll be honest: I genuinely never worry about A.I. replacing me. At least in one major part of my life.Here’s why.My side-hustle is that I’m a professional voice actor. I’ve
Values. (opens the original)
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My last Theater Is Hard piece, (A Woman Could Have Fixed It), was my response to the now somewhat controversial New York Times interview with former (but not for 2 years) Public Theater AD Oskar Eustis where:a) he quoted Karl Marx and, being a millionaire at the helm of a charity, didn’t feel weird a
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