Describing The Play

A ghost story...but not. A time-travel tale...but not. Describing Austin Tichenor's new play Puritans accurately and intriguingly reveals that writing the play and describing the play are two completely different skillsets. Austin talks with Daniel Mothershed, the director of Puritans's world premiere in Greeley, CO and shares the challenges of marketing a kind of play that's never been seen before; how the play “tesseracts through time” and what association that phrase conjures up; how Puritans both is and isn’t “a Bible- and door-slamming farce”; how the play resembles both Slaughterhouse-Five and Dr. Manhattan; the power of a fraught sibling dynamic; how a house both is and isn’t a metaphor; a shout-out to the New Play Exchange and some excellent examples of play descriptions; and how describing your play successfully sometimes starts with examining the reasons why you wanted to write it in the first place. (Length 23:08) (Poster design by Josiah Mothershed at Mothershed Design Company.) The post Describing The Play appeared first on Reduced Shakespeare Company.