So, I want to start up some awards in Philadelphia for independent theater. Awards are always a tricky thing; I mean, on the one hand, no one working in the arts should care about awards, because they’re bullshit, right? Even if you could accurately create a system for quantitatively evaluating performances or direction or design, [...]
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On the Power of Livestreaming
Posted: August 2, 2010 in braak, Productions!, Projects, ScratchpadTags: braak, empress of the moon, livestreaming, theater, theatre
ANNOUNCEMENT: in concert with the science and speculative fiction site WWW.IO9.COM, the SOE will be livestreaming the opening night performance of Empress of the Moon. As long as you go to io9 between the hours of 8:00 PM Eastern/Standard and…whenever the show is over (I think it’ll be around 10:00 PM), you will be able [...]
Empress of the Moon: the Lives of Aphra Behn
Posted: June 16, 2010 in braak, Projects, ScratchpadTags: aphra behn, braak, feminism, theater
(cross-posted at Threat Quality Press) So. My new play, The Empress of the Moon, is done-ish. First draft done, anyway. We start rehearsals for it today, and we can spend a week or so doing some major re-writes to it, because I have to start choreographing the MILLION swordfights that it requires. Right now, I [...]
