![]() Many scripts change dramatically over the course of rehearsal. Selected playwrights are given several days to work with their cast, director, and a dramaturg, culminating in two public readings. Paul, so either Minnesota is looming large in the collective playwright imagination, or Core Writers know their audience. The 2016-2017 season includes Mat Smart’s Eden Prairie, 1971 and Lee Blessing’s upcoming Minneapolis/St. The Sea & The Stars is part of the Ruth Easton New Play Series, the public reading series for the Center’s Core Writers. He picked up a McKnight Fellowship last year and is in the midst of his term as a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center. Paul, having been lured from New York to the Twin Cities by a Jerome Many Voices Fellowship a few years ago. I had finally caught Moonlight the day before, so this play fit neatly into the “Stories of Men Connecting Romantically in Florida Near the Ocean Written by Exemplary Young Black Playwrights With Three Names” Festival I had concocted for myself. ![]() Two men juggling broken hearts and family obligations collide on the beach in this joyful, bittersweet piece. The setting of Rivers’ play is Jupiter, which I initially took to be the planet but is actually a small town in Palm Beach County, peopled with lonely eccentrics and the aforementioned talking parrot. See, I had just been to the Playwrights’ Center for their reading of Core Writer Harrison David Rivers’ play The Sea & The Stars and bits of it were following me around, like a mysterious talking parrot at your family’s beach house. There’s nothing where he used to lie/Conversation has run dryĪctually, it wasn’t Natalie Imbruglia exactly, but Jon-Michael Reese scream-crying “Torn” at an imaginary karaoke bar in Florida. I was brushing my teeth the other night and Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” popped into my head.
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