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Category Archives: On-stage
Justifying the Cut: The Plays of Saints on Stage
With the publication of Saints on Stage: An Anthology of Mormon Drama, I’ve been thinking a lot about Mormon drama and how it currently stands as it own niche genre. The whole reason I pitched the idea of the anthology … Continue reading
Posted in On-stage
Tagged Burdens of Earth, Eric Samuelsen, Farewell to Eden, Fires of the Mind, Gadianton, Hancock County, Huebener, I Am Jane, J. Golden, J. Scott Bronson, James Arrington, Mahonri Stewart, Margaret Young, Martyrs' Crossing, Matters of the Heart, Melissa Leilani Larson, Mormon drama, Robert Elliott, Saints on Stage: An Anthology of Mormon Drama, Stones, Susan Elizabeth Howe, Thom Duncan, Thomas F. Rogers, Tim Slover, Zarahemla Books
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Literary Darwinism: Melissa Leilani Larson and Adapting Characters Into a Dramatic Medium
Melissa Leilani Larson is a literature fiend. Before she was roped into the world of theatre by taking playwriting courses from Elizabeth Hansen and Eric Samuelsen,[1] she was firmly entrenched in BYU’s English department. Before the playwriting bug bit her, … Continue reading
“Upon the Stage of a Theatre”: Reflecting on Mormon Drama at the Advent of the Saints on Stage Anthology
Christopher Bigelow (publisher), Ben Crowder (layout), and I (chief editor) have been pounding out the last minor details of the upcoming Saints on Stage: An Anthology of Mormon Drama being put out by Zarahemla Books. Considering that I pitched this … Continue reading
Posted in On-stage
Tagged Mormon drama, Saints on Stage: An Anthology of Mormon Drama, Theatre
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Needful Opposition: Addressing Conflict and Controversy in Mormon History Plays
How to present Mormon History has often been a sensitive thing within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Especially with the understandable impulse to protect the faith and culture of an entire people, it can be tempting to … Continue reading
Posted in On-stage
Tagged Blacks and the Priesthood, Brigham Young, Burdens of Earth, Burdens of Earth by Susan Elizabeth Howe, Elijah Abel, Emma Smith, Hancock County, Hancock County by Tim Slover, I Am Jane by Margaret Young, Jane Manning James, Joseph Smith, Liberty Jail, Mormon drama, Mormon history, Mormon History Plays, Saints on Stage: An Anthology of Mormon Drama, Susan Elizabeth Howe, Tim Slover
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in verse # 23 : mighty line versus ordered speech
It was Kit Marlowe who awakened in Will Shakespeare a hunger for a dramatic speech more nearly reflecting ordinary English speech. It was Will Shakespeare who made it possible for Kris Kristofferson to write and sing the following lyrics as … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse, On-stage, Thoughts on Language
Tagged A Dead Man in Deptford, Anthony Burgess, blank verse, Christopher Marlowe, Hamlet Prince of Denmark, Kris Kristofferson, Nothing Like the Sun, poetry, Singer/Songwriter, Stephen Greenblatt, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Tamburlaine the Great, Will in the World, William Shakespeare
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Old Problems, New Opportunities: Looking Towards the Future of Mormon Drama
We recently completed the last leg work for the editing of Saints on Stage: An Anthology for Mormon Drama, which I’ve been spearheading for Zarahemla Books. It includes important plays from some of Mormonism’s best playwrights… Robert Elliott, Thomas Rogers, … Continue reading
in verse # 22 : back to blank verse
It is one of the guiding principles of in verse that verse should always be read aloud. This includes Shakespeare and Isaiah, Dante and Jeremiah, Milton and John of Patmos. It includes Pope and Chaucer, Beowulf and Homer, Dryden and … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse, On-stage, Personal Narratives
Tagged "The Highwayman", "The mirror for magistrates", "Tragedy of Gorboduc", Alfred Noyes, Bessie Soderborg Clark, Christopher Marlowe, Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), Marden J Clark, Stephen Greenblatt, The new Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville (Earl of Dorset), William Shakespeare
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Zion Theatre Company: The Agony, the Ecstasy and the Spirituality in Trying to Push Forward a Religious Theatre Company
A little less than two years ago I created Zion Theatre Company. The venture was born out of necessity, as the theatre group I was collaborating with previous to that suddenly dropped a re-mount of my play Farewell to Eden, … Continue reading
Posted in On-stage
Tagged A Roof Overhead, C. S. Lewis, Farewell to Eden, Immortal Hearts and Other Short Plays, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jinn and Other Myths, Legends of Sleepy Hollow, Melissa Leilani Larson, Persuasion, Producing, Rings of the Tree, Swallow the Sun, The Death of Eurydice, The Hobbit, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Opposing Wheel, Theatre, Zion Theatre Company
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The Book of Mormon: a Biography
One of my favorite books of Bible scholarship, and a terrific dip-your-toes-in-the-water first book for people interested in the subject is Karen Armstrong’s The Bible: A Biography. It was part of a series called Books That Changed the World, and … Continue reading
The Divine Feminine, Mormon Style: Carol Lynn Pearson’s _Mother Wove the Morning_, Joanna Brooks, and Faithful Mormon Feminism
Feminist. It’s a divisive word among Mormons. When I’ve told people that I consider myself a Mormon feminist it gets a wide range of reactions, from pleasant surprise from my more secular friends and peers who have a firm idea … Continue reading
