Just prior to coming to Fort Myers, she was in Dallas and then flew to Sacramento. Pre-pandemic, she logged 100,000 air miles a year.
She travels around the country, providing services and assistance for the 125 theaters that are part of the network. Barnett’s coming to town for 2023 PlayLab, Florida Repertory Theatre’s four-day festival of new plays. “Of course, there is nothing wrong with ‘A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.’”Ĭomedy can be healing and offer some levity in a stressful world. It can open you up and give you a different understanding of that person. “With plays, you can see people you didn’t know existed, you can get to meet and know and feel for people you might not have ever run into in your life, and those that you do. “Alabaster,” a previous Florida Rep play. But everything I learned about the world was because I was in a play. I often say I was a conservatory graduate, I have a not-extensive education. New plays can provoke empathy, they educate. “It’s important to speak to a community, especially now. This is how we hold a mirror up to ourselves with current events in time,” says Nan Barnett, executive director of National New Play Network. The plays also offer talk-backs with the director, playwright and actors, and allow audiences to make comments and ask questions. But that doesn’t mean the presentations are static the events are lively, with performers acting out their lines with words, expressions, gestures, and interactions.
The plays are presented as readings, which means no sets or costumes, with the scripts in front of the actors. (By holding new play contests and festivals) we’re advancing the art of storytelling.” “You can’t keep seeing the same things over and over again. “New plays are vital,” says Annette Trossbach, founder and producing artistic director of the Lab Theater. (See the In the Know box for more information.) Additionally, the Centers for the Arts Bonita is presenting its 2023 International Stage It! 7 Ten-Minute Play Festival May 11-21. The Florida Repertory Theatre presents its PlayLab festival May 4-7 and The Laboratory Theater of Florida is presenting the just-announced winner and two finalists of the Louise Wigglesworth New Play Contest May 11-13. There will be an abundance of theatrical newness in May, with two different new play festivals being held in Fort Myers. SW Florida the spot for new play festivals
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