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...hour Play Festival is a biannual tradition now in its 14th semester at Harvard. In the span of only a day, about 30 students write, rehearse, direct, and perform five short plays. Even more impressively, the fifth is often a musical with original songs...
...timeline of the festival is nothing short of a whirlwind. At about 6 p.m. the day before, the writers begin to write the plays, which they finish overnight. At 7 a.m. the next morning, the actors start rehearsing them with the directors. During the day the actors costume themselves, find crazy props, and then put on a show three times over the course of the night—this year at 7, 8:30, and 10 p.m. on May 1. Amram recommends the last showing because it is the wildest: “The plays get crazier and crazier over...
Likewise, Berman threw half of the material he filmed for “The Anomaly” away, added new animation sequences, and wrote a new voiceover in post-production. “As many little pictures that you draw or scripts that you write, you really don’t know what you’re going to have until you finish it,” Berman says. “And that’s what’s so exhilarating about...
...emotional confusion, presented in subtle, but evocative language. Despite the setting and the occasional piece—such as “The Dog Story”—that borders on memoir, Keenan says his work does not stem primarily from personal experience. “Your writing is always informed by experience. We all have a vocabulary of narratives, impressions, and images that is largely defined by our personal experiences. I draw a lot from my background, but I don’t consider most of what I write to be autobiographical,” he says...
...don’t mean to say something so banal as ‘be yourself’ or ‘write what you want’,” Keenan continues, “but to write the things that you need to write about or that will move you regardless of whether some people say they are interested in them or not.” Keenan attempts to maintain the style and content of his work despite expectations he has encountered. “I think there is a real disparity between what I think about when...