We're firing up for another round of playgoing as I await word on a variety of play projects out there in the world, just awaiting a status report.
Recently, we took in "Virtue of Fools," presented as part of the Greensboro Fringe Festival at Open Space, and including Neil Shepherd, Ken Ashford and Cheryl Ann Roberts in the cast. We thought it was quite a mature script for a young woman recently graduated from college, and very much enjoyed the performances even if the audience was, well, compact. In discussion on the way home, we found what we considered to be some holes in the storytelling, but still, it was an interesting night of theater that held our attention. Can't say that about everything I see!
We also took in "Black Pearl Sings!" at Triad Stage Saturday night, and found that to be well-written and performed as well, taking one to a place one did not know particularly well. The point of it was: it had GOOD performances, if one stronger than the other in our opinion. Yet, the vast majority of a fairly large audience stood at the end for an ovation. See diatribe below about standing ovations.
Next on the slate: the short plays at City Stage, also part of the Fringe Festival.
Bill in Salisbury, N.C. (photo by Gene Stafford)
About Me
- Bill
- Over the roughly 35 years since college, my career has chiefly involved writing in one form or another: advertising, copywriting, public relations and similar work, in addition to several stints as a freelance writer for newspapers and magazines. During the 1980s, I also wrote genre short stories that were published in the small press. Since 2004, I've returned to freelancing and added playwriting in 2006 as a way to write something uniquely mine.
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