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Monday, April 1, 2013

Blogging Absence by Kristen Palmer

The blog is currently silent.But, the pages will be updated.For anything current - please check there.And, if you'd like to recommend a play to read, post it in the comments.All the best to …

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

We Play For The Gods by Kristen Palmer

things have been busy.click on these things to find out about this amazing Collaboration I have been working on: nytheatre review Brooklyn Rail Article WE PLAY FOR THE GODSand…

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

LOCAL STORY on Indie Theater Now by Kristen Palmer

Indie Theater Now has been creating an on-line collection of plays, and today LOCAL STORY is live on the site.You can read it for a pittance. Then you can dream of tiny Betsy and learn the …

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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Deadlines by Kristen Palmer

I have a post up over at the Coyote Commission Project Blog.You should read it.Here.

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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Excerpt from a new play...SACRIFICE by Kristen Palmer

In case you missed the current issue of The Dramatist - which, I know, you may have, but you would have missed an excerpt of my play. And that would be too bad - so here is the excerpt. T…

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

So I'm working on this collaborative project... by Kristen Palmer

That is described quite finely on HowlRound from the Producers Perspective...And through the year will also be described from the directors and the playwrights perspective.We're in the thick…

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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Firsts by Kristen Palmer

I'm also posting at the Coyote Commission Blog.Writing about starting writing...click here:http://coyotecommissionprojectblog.blogspot.com/it's a music & reading experience combined.

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Dramatist Guild Fellows Event by Kristen Palmer

September 19NYCDramatist Guild Fellows Night of ExcerptsPlaywright's Horizons7pmI'll be presenting a scene from THEN AND NOWfeaturing:Sarah Kate JacksonChris Kipiniakdirected by: Kyle Ancow…

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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Angels Fall - by Lanford Wilson by Kristen Palmer

Commissioned and presented by The New World Festival, Inc. in Miami Florida in 1982 and then moved intact to NYC in 1983 Angels Fall is a character driven 2-act play that takes place in an i…

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

the four of us - Itamar Moses by Kristen Palmer

I've been away from this. I've been reading, but mostly unpublished scripts. And I've been writing. And the teaching. That's also been happening. But, happily, I started reading plays ju…

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Sunday, April 10, 2011

My reading... by Kristen Palmer

7pm Monday.April 18, 2011.Julia Miles Theatre424 W. 55th StreetN.Y.C.You are invited to attend a reading of:THE HEART IN YOUR CHESTa dystopian romanceWritten byKristen PalmerDirected byJulie…

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Seascape with Sharks and Dancer - Don Nigro by Kristen Palmer

A play with a long production history, Seascape with Sharks and Dancer was first done at the Theatre Barn at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1974. It went on to productions at…

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Sunday, February 13, 2011

This Playwright's To Do List by Kristen Palmer

So, elsewhere on the web there have been assertions that playwrights are disconnected from their communities and the nuts and bolts of theater-making. This may be true in some cases, but no…

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Monday, February 7, 2011

Phaedra - Racine, translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur by Kristen Palmer

I am not a scholar of French Theatre, this might actually be my first reading of a classical French work, so please feel free to fill in my gaps and clarify my misunderstandings. My first q…

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Sunday, January 30, 2011

New Design by Kristen Palmer

Hello all,So I'm re-doing this site to serve as a place to find information about my plays and projects - as well as other people's.I am feeling pretty remedial at this, so please forward an…

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Friday, April 16, 2010

The Pain and The Itch - by Bruce Norris by Kristen Palmer

Premiered at Steppenwolf then Playwrights Horizons, The Pain and The Itch is a satire of liberal suburbanites so focused on their correctness they don't perceive the rot in their own house.I…

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Saturday, April 3, 2010

The Typographer's Dream - by Adam Bock by Kristen Palmer

Produced in NYC by Clubbed Thumb in 2003, The Typographer's Dream has three characters who speak directly to the audience (most of the time.) They talk about their jobs.There is a Typograph…

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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Kissing The Floor - by Ellen McLaughlin by Kristen Palmer

Published in the 2009 New York Theater Review, McLaughlin states in her introduction,Kissing the Floor is the ninth play I've written that is directly inspired by a Greek text, and though it…

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

The Long Christmas Ride Home (A Puppet Play with Actors) - by Paula Vogel by Kristen Palmer

The Long Christmas Ride Home was first produced in 2003 in a co-production by The Long Wharf Theater and Trinity Rep, it moved to NYC later in the year.In her introduction Vogel cites a misu…

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Good Boys and True - by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa by Kristen Palmer

First produced by Steppenwolf in 2007, then in NYC at Second Stage Theater in 2008, Aguirre-Sacasa's play Good Boys and True is a play that works kindof like a funnel, or more precisely like…

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Monday, March 8, 2010

The Dew Point - by Neena Berber by Kristen Palmer

The Dew Point premiered in 2001. It's a 2 act play with 4 scenes in the first act and 6 in the second. 5 characters, three women and two men. In a quick nutshell, Mimi is engaged to Kai, …

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Friday, February 26, 2010

The Pavilion - by Craig Wright by Kristen Palmer

Sometimes I assume things. Like my friend Kyle. When first introduced I thought he was a Marine Biologist. Turns out he's a theater director (among other things), but it may have been a y…

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Monday, February 15, 2010

The Gaoler's Ache For The Nearly Dead - by Howard Barker by Kristen Palmer

Continuing reading Barker today, while waiting for an oil change. A TV blaring a game show. I'd even thought that today wouldn't be a bad day to sit in a waiting room. The Olympics are o…

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Monday, February 8, 2010

Seven Lears - by Howard Barker by Kristen Palmer

Continuing a week of Barker, maybe longer...Seven Lears takes as its starting point the wonder about the mother, the queen, Lear's wife. How she is never mentioned in Shakespeare's play and…

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Friday, February 5, 2010

The Bite of The Night - by Howard Barker by Kristen Palmer

I've been reading this play for a week. On and off. I should go back and read it again, to grasp, to wallow in it, to follow the fissures. What I think I will do is forge ahead and read m…

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Fat Men In Skirts - by Nicky Silver by Kristen Palmer

The earliest of the published plays, and it feels it, very raw, loud when it wants to be, little restraint - working exactly right for this play's brutal cri d'couer.I'm interested in Silver…

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Monday, January 25, 2010

Pterodactyls - by Nicky Silver by Kristen Palmer

I love reading multiple plays by one writer. Obsessions and patterns emerge, but also each play's unique way of weaving the material, texturing it. It's the same but different.Pterodactyls…

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

The Food Chain - by Nicky Silver by Kristen Palmer

I found a collection of his plays downstairs in the unpacked boxes, so there will be a few more of these. Excellently there was an introduction to this one. I love introductions written by …

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Raised In Captivity - Nicky Silver by Kristen Palmer

Another shocking gaping hole in my play-reading life. Nicky Silver. Other than this one, just read today (by the fire, very nice) I'm shamed to say I'd only read Free Will and Wanton Lust,…

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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You In The Closet And I'm Feelin' So Sad - Arthur L. Kopit by Kristen Palmer

1959. Harvard. Undergrad Arthur Kopit writes the play that will launch his career, and defines a generational response to the horrors the world has faced. Well, maybe not the last stateme…

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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Tattoo - by Rejane Desvignes and Igor Bauersima by Kristen Palmer

Published in Theatre Forum #35, and translated from the German by Neil Blackadder, Tattoo unfolds in a modern, European city. Fred and Lea are broke artists, Fred is working on a novel, Lea…

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