EPISODE 33: REWRITING HISTORY
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Mark Spina sits down with members of our playwrights group, Joe Vitale and Lynn Marie Macy, to discuss the challenges when writing about historical events or people, what drew them to that genre and the various approaches a writer can take when doing so.
Lynn Marie Macy's most recent plays at The Theater Project (TTP) are Combustible: A Sanitized Love Story, Getting Grandma’s Goat, The Surprising Measure of Buried Treasure, The Couch Potato & The Armchair Activist and Sister Resisters. Her script The Color Of Vengeance was performed at New Perspectives Theater Company and McNeese University. Her translation/adaptation of George Sand’s Gabriel was presented on Zoom by New Perspectives, NYC, for On Her Shoulders. Her script Lady Susan or The Captive Heart, A Jane Austen Bodice Ripper was presented in a reading at Theater 2020 in NYC last spring. Macy is Playwright-In-Residence, Theater 2020, New Perspectives full-length Women’s Work Lab, and member of TTP’s Playwrights Workshop & Dramatists’ Guild.
Joseph Vitale, a finalist for the 2020 Woodward-Newman drama prize and recipient of a NJ Council on the Arts fellowship in playwriting, is the author of a number of plays, including Murrow , a one-man show about the life of Edward R. Murrow (called “a dramatic masterpiece” by the Huffington Post), which was performed Off-Off Broadway in 2016. His one-acts have been performed around the country. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and The Theater Project Playwrights Workshop. His play, The Interpreter, is part of The Theater Project's mainstage season in 2024.
REFERENCES
The Lost Patrol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Patrol_(1934_film)
Peter Shaffer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shaffer
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Hunt_of_the_Sun
Pizzaro Brothers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizarro_brothers
Amadeus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_(play)
Dragons in the Crease
https://newplayexchange.org/plays/105516/dragons-crease
The Fourth State of Matter
https://www.josephvitale.net/plays-1
The Interpreter
https://www.josephvitale.net/plays-1
Richard Sonnenfeldt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sonnenfeldt
Hermann Göring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring
Nuremberg Trials
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials
Vile Things in Dark Corners (still a work in progress, but here’s Lynn Marie’s website)
https://lynnmariemacy.com/
Nellie Bly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly
Jack the Ripper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper
Jane Austin at Prinny’s Palace from Hearthside Reading Series by Theater 2020, co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Heights Library
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqdhTs5mOE8
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlKIqsdFv2s
Henry VIII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII
Madame Henriette Campan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette_Campan
Hamilton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_(musical)
1776
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_(musical)
Martin Luther King
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
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