Episode #202 - Plays and Playwrights 2008 Authors Roundtable
This is the second in a three part series to introduce the playwrights of Plays and Playwrights 2008. Martin Denton is the editor of this volume and enjoys this chance to chat with four of the playwrights he has gotten to know so well while working on the book. The four playwrights taking part in this episode are: Mac Rogers (Universal Robots), Robert Attenweiler (… and we all wore leather pants), Carolyn Raship (Antarctica), and John Regis (Linnea).
Each of the playwrights talks a bit about his/her play and gives interesting insights such as Mac believes Universal Robots is a mash-up of Capek’s RUR and events in Czechoslovakia in the time of Masaryk; Robert tells how … and we all wore leather pants combines a “white trash” ethos with magic realism; Carolyn reveals that Antarctica is inspired, in part, by the Norse version of the fairy tale, “Beauty and the Beast”; John talks of the autobiographical nature of Linnea.
There is also a great deal of background material in this episode about each of the authors and how they became playwrights.
The episode ends with an invite to two upcoming free events (at the time the recording went live) – a reading/q&a hosted by Drama Book Shop on March 21 and a launch/party to be held at T. Schreiber Studio on April 3.
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