Will It Play Here? by the Pleasantville Thespian

24/07/2024

https://willitplayhere.wordpress.com/2024/07/24/challenges-and-hopes-at-chicago-shakespeare-theatre-a-season-ticket-holders-perspective/

02/07/2024

https://willitplayhere.wordpress.com/2022/07/21/becky-shaw-by-gina-gionfriddo-an-analysis-for-production/

Max: Unless you’re Gandhi or Jesus, you have a limited sphere of responsibility.

02/07/2024

https://willitplayhere.wordpress.com/2022/07/28/all-those-plays-about-yankee-city-folk-who-drop-51-f-bombs-in-2-hours/

. It is understandable that the 2023 season at my main performance venue (a challenging lineup) draws from plays first produced (in chronological order) in 1939, 1963, 1982, and 1987.

02/07/2024

https://willitplayhere.wordpress.com/2022/07/28/all-hail-hurricane-gordo-by-carly-mensch-an-analysis-for-production/

Gordo: See, our mom didn’t know how to cook. Or didn’t believe in it. It wasn’t like a feminist thing. It was like a nurturing thing. She was anti-nurturing in general.

02/07/2024

https://willitplayhere.wordpress.com/2021/07/17/analysis-for-production-100-saints-you-should-know/

“…maybe the state of having nothing and feeling so used up, maybe that’s the sort of state God wants me in, not so full of all my ideas about myself and what a rebel I am –b…

02/07/2024

New Analysis

Part of a series: By Nancy Jess: But how long till I’m fixed? When am I done? Voice: Little by little, you’ll see. You are not built to endure. You are built to recover (Acting Editi…

03/03/2023

https://youtu.be/aaOchb0wixc

For tickets visit http://www.tktassistant.com/Tix/?u=PACHer Majesty’s Radio Theater presents Sherlock Holmes - Hound of the BaskervillesFriday March 24th & S...

06/09/2021

Part of the series, "By Nancy..." DUNN: Yeah, I was thinking you know? If I’m going to name something after myself, I want it to pop. POWELL: You know the unwritten rules. DUNN: Yeah, well they’re unwritten. We only follow them half the time. P. 14, acting edition TPT Commentary: Conventional history might be retold as the exhausting adventures of naïve white men who discovered wonders of nature that were already there, while imagining they outwitted savages of ageless wisdom, and overcame adversity for which they should have been prepared, all to benefit richer white men who could not be bothered with the risk....

https://willitplayhere.wordpress.com/2021/09/06/men-on-boats-an-analysis-for-production/

DUNN: Yeah, I was thinking you know? If I’m going to name something after myself, I want it to pop. POWELL: You know the unwritten rules. DUNN: Yeah, well they’re unwritten. We only follow them hal…

04/05/2020

https://www.facebook.com/1724322973/posts/10207715201354415/?d=n

the struggles of womanhood…under public scrutiny

31/03/2020

This is a good place to start reading my 30 plus entries about producing theatre far outside major cities.

https://willitplayhere.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/who-am-i-613/

My goal is to find and produce theatre with which my community can identify and by which it can be inspired.

15/02/2020

a return to traditional gender roles but, this time, by choice

21/01/2020

https://willitplayhere.wordpress.com/2019/10/26/god-of-carnage-willitplayhere/

Part of the series, “…by Nancy” TPT Commentary: The play is a funny, but scathing commentary on a common veneer of social respectability and civility, which is belied by the basic brutality with wh…

21/01/2020

https://willitplayhere.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/the-thanksgiving-play-by-larissa-fasthorse-an-analysis-for-production/

a group of “culturally sensitive” artists makes a series of fumbling attempts in an effort to fashion a public performance honoring both the traditional American November holiday and Native America…

21/01/2020

https://willitplayhere.wordpress.com/2020/01/21/these-shining-lives-by-melanie-marnich-an-analysis-for-production/

A young woman joins the workforce to support her family finding identity, pride, and friendship only to discover that that the work is killing her and and her coworkers

12/11/2019

Read this!

Part of the series, “…by Nancy” TPT Commentary: This very palatable comedy has excellent comic writing born of the practiced and award winning pedigree of its playwright. Sarah Treem’s a feminine …

28/02/2019

Some community theaters have canceled productions of the play after receiving legal warnings that theirs cannot go on at the same time as the one in New York.

14/05/2018

https://willitplayhere.wordpress.com/2018/05/13/the-beard-of-avon-by-amy-freed-an-analysis-for-production/

Ms. Freed succeeds in giving us both truly complicated male characters that are central to the work and period, and thankfully two women, Queen Elizabeth and Anne Hathaway who represent the “…