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Tug of War – InspiraTO Festival

ammatte Uncategorized 22 April 201322 avril 2013director, dramaturg, festival, inspirato, Matthew James Hines, MC Thompson, play, playwright, théâtre, tug of war 0 commentaire

My play, Tug of War, is part of this year’s edition of the InspiraTO ten-minute play Festival. A member of the festival’s Mentorship Project, I worked with dramaturg M.C. Thompson before handing Tug of War off to director Matthew James Hines.

Here are some of Matthew’s thoughts on the play:

« I’m very excited to be working on a comedy that has strong & dangerous female characters. It’s the women who really drive the action of this play, and that’s something that doesn’t come around very often. »

And see the results of the Tug of War collaboration at the InspiraTO Festival in May and June at Toronto’s Alumnae Theatre (Mainstage), at 70 Berkeley St:

Fri. May 31 @ 10 pm ; Sat. June 1 @ 6 pm ; Thurs. June 6 @ 9 pm ; Fri. June 7 @ 8 pm.

Inspirato Theatre Mentoring Project

ammatte Uncategorized 2 February 20132 février 2013festival, inspirato, mentor, mentorship, play, playwright, playwriting, théâtre, Toronto 1 commentaire

Ten days to the deadline for the first draft of a ten-minute play for this year’s Inspirato Festival (at the Alumnae Theatre in Toronto, May 30-June 8, 2013).

Below, the fellow Inspirato playwrights in the same predicament. Half of us have to write a play related to « tunnel » and the other half of us on « rope ». (Then, we work with a dramaturge to polish the play in time for production.)

Inspirato2013MentoringProject — InspiraTO’s Playwrights’ Mentoring Project participants: Standing (L to R): Jenny Alexander, Lindsay Cochrane, Brett Haynes, Ayesha Mansur, A.M. Matte, Kevin Craig, Jordan Mechano, Christopher Duthie. Kneeling (L to R): Ashley Park, Rachel Ganz, Madeleine Jullian, Mirella Christou.

So far, I’ve written about two women attempting to rob a club owner, a mother eager to see her child off to college and a violin maker in love with a musician. None of those plays have what it takes to make it to the festival’s mentors.

However, I’m fairly confident about my latest attempt, in which two crooks get swindled. I now just have to figure out if anyone gets shot at the end. Thoughts?