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Bgirl_Hamster
10/12/09

In reply to Agony Aunt
If I'm reading the article correctly, this is a one woman play? I am by no means a theater buff, but these can be pretty hard to get right. The few one-woman or man shows I've seen have almost put me to sleep.
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BAngieB
10/12/09

In reply to Agony Aunt
And if the hair is right, everything else will fall into place.
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lucyjae
06/25/09

In reply to She Feels Bad About Her Necklace
Hmm, there was a book called that before. We wrote essays based on it in my college freshman comp class.
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save jinger
06/25/09

@lucyjae: The play is based on the book:

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CurtCole
06/25/09

@save jinger: directed by Karen Carpenter? I'm firmly against zombies directing plays, and I'm not afraid to say it.
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save jinger
06/25/09

@CurtCole: She's only just begun. She's gonna be a superstar.
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save jinger
06/25/09

In reply to She Feels Bad About Her Necklace
Alternative titles:

When Sally Met Jewelry

You've Got Shoes

Sleepless in Stockings
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LaComtesse
06/25/09

In reply to She Feels Bad About Her Necklace
The lack of serial commas in the title of the play is making me want to run a red pen over my computer screen (stylistic, I know... it also keeps in Jezebel's style, but ahhhhJUSTADDINANOTHERCOMMAOTHE...!)

In other news, this plot sounds incredibly hackneyed.
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save jinger
06/25/09

@LaComtesse: I, too, am a supporter of the Harvard comma. Series seem naked without it.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
06/25/09

In reply to She Feels Bad About Her Necklace
"Love, Loss and What I Wore" will next be turned into a Hollywood movie, starring Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore and [token black friend] as three wacky, shoe obsessed women who try to figure out how they achieved the oldster age of 30+ without dying of shame.
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Mary McCarthyite
06/25/09

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): Queen Latifah, of course.
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hovy
06/25/09

In reply to She Feels Bad About Her Necklace
Must...resist...pearl...necklace...joke...gah!
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Recky Chinon
06/25/09

@hovy: Do you think they are real?
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Samanthrax
06/25/09

@Recky Chinon: It's made from the sperm of Rush Limbaugh.
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Lymed
06/23/09

In reply to Unscripted
I'll believe it will change when I believe the under reprsentation of female directors will change.
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NefariousNewt
06/23/09

In reply to Unscripted
"This study will probably change the way we read scripts," says one director.

Then again, probably not. The current generation of directors needs to die off, first.
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PhDork
06/23/09

@NefariousNewt: Yeah, this will do very little, because Doodz are still the vast majority of ADs and directors and designers and... Women playwrights see get a bump in the 2010-11 season, but this information is hardly revolutionary. It's good to have some irrefutable stats to back up what women in theatre have been saying for, oh, maybe 40 years, though.
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
06/23/09

In reply to Unscripted
Without hearing any context regarding a play at hand, I automatically assume a man has written it. The same thing tends to go for movie scripts. I don't know why, except I suppose I was raised not hearing much about women in those roles. Other professions (doctor, lawyer, CEO is a hit or miss) aren't quite the same as far as my gender assumptions, but it bothers me how quick I am to subconsciously assign masculine origins.
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woobie
06/23/09

@tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock: Me too! Not just playwrights or screenwriters, but all writers I assume to be male, even journalists. And it makes me sad because all I've ever wanted to do is write and sometimes I feel like there's no chance because women aren't great writers, only good writers.

See what you've done to me, American public schools????
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
06/23/09

@woobie: Hurston? Walker? Giovanni? Collette?

When I was a small nerdy girl practically all I read were lady writers, before they made me start with the textbooks in school (and other than Richard Scarry and Leo Leonni).

GF, maybe you need to get out more?
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LBB
06/23/09

@tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock: I assume that the writers of produced movies are male [despite being a professional reader and reading tons and tons of scripts by women], but I tend to not assume for playwrights and to assume female for novelists... maybe because the types of books I read [urban fantasy, young adult and romance] are predominantly written by women?
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
06/23/09

In reply to Unscripted
'"This study will probably change the way we read scripts," says one director.'

Yeah - now they'll finally be skimming them right-side-up.
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Lymed
12/27/08

In reply to R.I.P. Harold Pinter
Coming late to the shiva to say his words will be missed, but those written will surely live on.
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goldfarb
12/26/08

In reply to R.I.P. Harold Pinter
not to go OT but...

"...who came from a modest Jewish family..."

at what point in time did this become an important piece of information? with so few words of biography why point out his ethnicity and not something about his wife/children? or his very active political life?
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Diziet_Sma
12/26/08

In reply to R.I.P. Harold Pinter
He was a genius, who cared very deeply about people. I will never forget his Nobel acceptance speech:
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Stabby McStabberson
12/26/08

In reply to R.I.P. Harold Pinter
why george bush is insane

- by harold pinter, 2002

[www.zmag.org]

(pause)
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