tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53329670384189900062012-02-25T01:13:11.980-08:00A play blogging experiment written by Claire Rice and illustrated by Cody Rishell.Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.comBlogger1141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-26797573674666518022012-02-24T12:44:00.000-08:002012-02-24T12:46:08.737-08:00

Morning.  Cold and hard like a hang over.  It is sunny, but not necessarily in a pleasant way.   The sun comes too hard and too hot into the house. JULIA sits in a rocking chair with a blanket wrapped around her, a cup of coffee next to her, and a notebook and pen.  She isn’t writing.  She’s looking off into the distance. FRANK DELANY enters.  He is in his fifties. He has a beard, and work

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MIKE Every morning I get up and I fix myself my coffee and I write in my notebook for two hours.  I don’t write anything in-particular.  Sometimes it’s personal.  Sometimes it’s a writing exercise.  Sometimes it’s observations on this or that.  Sometimes it’s monologues or scenes from whatever I’m writing.  I heard once that’s what Hemingway did.  He would write in the morning for two hours

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 It is very late.   Everyone is in the house, which is brightly light, and has plates of food in their hands and are milling about eating, talking and drinking.  There is a general noise of party and talk.  Bits and pieces of conversations can be heard. LORELEI Well, I just recently moved back to the Bay Area.  I hate San Francisco.  It's too small town for me.  Anyway, Julia and I went to

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It is late evening.  The sun has set.  MIKE, AJ, ANNE, CLYDE, GREG, FRANCIS, SADIE and BRIAN all sit huddled around the fire pit, which is a glow with a large fire.  They are all wrapped up in their coats and each other.   They are all holding scripts and discussing them by the light of cell phones. They pass around various bottles of booze. MIKE is in his early thirties.  He is a tender man

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Mrs. Delany from Prologue Lights up.  It is late afternoon.  A fog still hangs in the air. The house is empty.  A bird calls.  After a moment, JASON enters.  He is a good looking man in his twenties. Tall, with a friendly nature and a gentleness about him.  He carries with him his messenger bag and an overnight bag.  On his entrance, he rubs his eyes.  He is exhausted.  He looks around for

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A vacation house in the Marin headlands.  The house is fogged in. It is mid-afternoon, late summer, present day. It is a beautiful modern home. Full length plate glass windows make up one side of the house, allowing us a complete view of the interior. A deck wraps around the entire house. The house sits above the garage, which is unseen. A stairway leads from the garage and driveway up onto

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I'm writing a new play and I want to share it with you as I write it. Over the next few months, I'm going to post a new scene to this blog about every week.  I will post the scenes as I write them; as finished and polished as I can. In this way, the play will build episodically.  Once a scene is published on the blog, I'll consider it set in stone.  No rewrites, no take backs.  If I set

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SF Olympians - Heavenly Bodies The EXIT - October 6-29 Hot young writers produced in reading.  A festival of plays dedicated to and about the Greek gods.  This years inspiration comes directly from the heavens.  Hunters and their Monsters.  Men and their Women.  Stars and Satellites.  Gods and Goddesses.  You'll see them at the festival today and then on the best stage across the country

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If you are reading this, it is most likely because you are a friend of mine, a colleague or an acquaintance.  And, if you are, you may have stumbled over this little blog before.  And, if so, you maybe wondering about the new look. A few days ago a good friend of mine asked me how Weight Watchers was going.  As you may already know, I don't work for Weight Watchers in any capacity.  So she

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You need to see this video, and then you NEED to go buy tickets for the show!

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What am I up to now, you ask? Answer: I'm going to New York!Guerrilla Rep (headed by John Caldon) and Ann Marie Productions (my theatre company) are taking Aileen Clark's one woman show "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lost My Virginity" to New York City as part of the 2011 FringeNYC! We've spent the last three years working on this show and we are proud to say it is a great piece of

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An update, a plea for money, and a sincere request.____________________________________________________________UPDATE:There's quite a lot going on in this little life of mine. On June 19th, 2011 Matt and I will have been married for one year. I can't tell you how much fun it is being married to not only my best friend, but my favorite artist and most important collaborator. You can see

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So, I got to review two plays on a podcast for Theatre Bay Area. Listen in!http://www.theatrebayarea.org/programs/playchatter.jsp

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I highly recommend you read this piece l in the New York Times...http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/theater/10schmidt.html?_r=1&ref=theater

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I've been thinking a lot lately about writing, and it's translated to the actual act of writing now and again. Every day in fact. I think to myself as I'm in the bus "Man, I wish there were room to sit so I could write." It's true! I pull out my pad of paper before hitting the hay and I jot down a paragraph or a sentence or a word. No lie! Now and again I'm even able to find a whole hour or

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It's been a busy bunch of months since I last tip-tippidy-tapped on this blog. Sad emoticon face. Sad sad emoticon face.And the months only prove to get busier and busier. But, the good news is, there is something to read! (just not here...)I've started a small contribution to the Theatre Bay Area Chatterbox world and you can read it in all it's glory here: http://blog.theatrebayarea.org/2010

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Too many Chee-Its and not enough sleep. Surely this will come back to haunt me with more then just bad dreams.But, while the weekend doesn't end honestly, it was well spent. Friday night was the first night of our subscription tickets to A.C.T. I anticipate the whole season will leave us dizzy, such is the hight of the cheap seats. But, a little vertigo seems like a small additional fee for a

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"Do you realize there is an iceberg the size of Rhode Island headed right for us? Don't any of you care about anything? I keep asking myself why everyone isn't writing what is truly important."The above was shouted at me in a writing group after we had all gone around the table and shared our respective pieces. We has just finished a lively discussion over my play and whether or not I should

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Right now I'm happy to relate that I'm working on the SF Olympian Festival with over 50! other amazing artists, actors, directors and writers. 12 Gods, 12 Plays, 12 Days, 1 Festival. I suggest you all get on board. I directed last night's (sorry, you missed it) The Life Poseidon by Thunderbird Theatre Company's Bryce Allemann, Kathy Hicks, and Dana Constance. You've also missed Nathan

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I'm working with Theatre Bay Area to put together a celebration of the life of Quentin Easter to pay tribute to his life long work as an extraordinary theatre maker and fundraise to ensure that his home, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, can continue to create amazing theatre.Please come out and join us in song, performance and voice.go to www.lhtsf.org for more information.

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"Young Jean Lee's Theater Company creates and produces new, experimental performances for theater that are written and directed by Young Jean Lee."Gabby Gomez started a small theatre company with me and we called it Ann Marie Productions. We were asked again and again who Ann Marie was. Was she the playwright? The founder? Then we would say that my middle name is Ann and her's is Marie and

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Because Aileen Clark has something to say about it! This is my most recent directing/producing gig and you will feel sad if you miss it. The show is at 7pm this Sunday at the SF Playhouse. I'm not just proud of this, I am over the MOON about it. http://www.sfplayhouse.org/season0910/solo.php

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Not long ago I quit my job so I could write. I had this vague sort of notion that being a playwright wouldn't be too different from being a character in an E.M. Forester novel. Except without the servants or the clothes or the accent. Well, sometimes the accent. I'd wake up late. Do some sort of light physical activity. Drink too much tea. I would sit at my desk, bathed in the sun light and

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Recently I received an interesting email from the Playwright's Foundation that I would like to share with you. "Dear Claire,We would like to take a moment to personally apologize for the generic "Dear Playwright" email that you received regarding your festival submission. We believe that playwrights are the creative wellspring of the theatre, and realize that this was not the ideal way of

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Wonderful, wonderful news! Aileen Clark's brilliant one woman show "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lost My Virginity" is back...but this time we'll be at the SF Playhouse. We're doing two Sunday's in May. Sunday May 23rd and Sunday May 30th. I can't tell you how proud I've been to be a part of this show from the beginning and how excited I am that we are moving this great show to a bigger

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I'm very happy to report the first workshop day of Water Line went really very well. I feel like I hadn't actually talked to the play in a while, and it was good to catch up. AMP produced (paid for copies of the script and food) a small reading in my living room with director John Caldon and actors Matt Gunnison, Dara Yazdani, Ryan Marchand, Molly Benson, Whitney Mitchell, Tea Toplak and Shay

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I've been caught in the act of theatre. If you missed this event, you can live it through a lense, through a computer screen, while sitting in your home. I suggest you have a glass of red wine or a good draft with you. It will add mise en scène. I also suggest you go to the Theatre Pub web site and plan on seeing their next show. Whatever it may be, when ever you are looking at this. Of

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Earlier today you might have seen some actual live blogging happening on this page, unfortunately that was a little error on my part. I mis posted on my page what was meant for Theatre Bay Area's Chatterbox. But I encourage everyone to go over to that site and take a look at it. Over the next few days it will be honed and made pretty, I've never done the live blogging before so it's going to

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In July I'll be participating in the SF Olympians, a 12 night (yes! 12) festival. 12 new plays about the 12 gods and goddesses of Olympus. My play "Demeter" will be performed July 22nd. But, really, this is not a thing to be missed. More information on the website: http://www.sfolympians.com/

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San Francisco Theater Pub returns to Cafe Royale on Monday, March 22nd at 8 PM for "How to Ride a Bus in San Francisco", a collection of Muni-based stories by local writers illustrating the written and previously un-written rules for riding the bus properly. Pieces include short plays, poems and songs meandering across the city on a number of well-travelled Muni lines.Material and performances by

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Come on out and see the Bay Area On Acts Festival (BOA). I am directing "Housebroken" by Stuart Bousel. It will be going up in Program 2. Visit http://www.threewisemonkeys.org/ for more information.9th Annual Bay One Acts (BOA) FestivalFebruary 18 - March 13, 2010Boxcar Theatre, San FranciscoTickets: $24, $16 for 30 and under & TBA, $12 Student/SeniorView Schedule and Buy Tickets

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About thirty or forty or more minutes ago, a man was placed in handcuffs on 18th Avenue between Lincoln and Irving. I didn't see this happen. I saw him sitting on the side walk, his back resting against an apartment building with two park rangers (I think) standing over him. They were waiting. They were all waiting. I checked in on them now and again, but there was no change to this attitude

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By now you may have heard that Matt and I are engaged and getting married. A wave of odd embarrassment flows over me when ever anyone says "Congratulations!" Not because I am not proud and excited about our upcoming nuptials (because I am, truly, very happy) but because I don't know what to say other than "Thank you." The congratulations always makes itself out to be a conversation starter,

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lost My Virginityby Marvin CandleMonday Nov 16, 2009Aileen Clark in one of her many poses. (Source:Guerrilla Rep)Email Print Share Buzz up!Guerrilla Rep continues its process of creating art in its own unique way withHow I learned to Stop Worrying and Lost my Virginity. Much like their previous success Third Eye before it, Virginity is a piece made up from

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How I Stopped Worrying and Lost My Virginity: Surviving Heartbreak Without Becoming a ‘Ho’By Linda Ayres-FrederickPublished: November 12, 2009San Francisco Bay TimesAileen Clark in How I Stopped Worrying and Lost My Virginity.Aileen Clark does not consider herself to be a playwright, but she certainly knows how to tell a rich story. Produced by Guerrilla Rep and Ann Marie Productions, she does

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I woke up this morning and looked for a cat. Any cat would do, although a brown gray cat who is feeling her age and is missing a back leg would be best. Or perhaps a grumpy cat whose ears fold down like thundercloud eyebrows and add to his over all grumpiness. He is so fat, he is a puddle of a cat, but he feels each touch with the gratitude of a cat who has lost much and isn't really grumpy,

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This is my last sunburn.

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I went to the shooting range yesterday! Yes. Me. Claire Rice who wont have a gun in her house and believes to the bottom of her feet that guns were invented and are intended primarily as a people killer and only as an extra bonus as a tool for killing animals before eating. Yes. Me. I shot guns.And it was cool.There is no denying the power and the charge I got from cocking back the hammer

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My dear friend Rachel asked last night "Should I call you and check to make sure you are working?" I said, "Yes, that's probably a good idea." There is a fear that I will drop off and away into a sedentary, quiet life of doing nothing with my writing days. And there are so many ahead of me, the prospect is very frightening. I, like many writers I have known, need something a kin to a cattle

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My boyfriend is out of town and so I'm doing the only logical thing a girl can do when the man in her life absconds for a holiday with his mom...I'm drowning myself in "Doctor Who" episodes and cheap margaritas. Oh joy, oh pure happiness, you have come to find me at last.Yes, I will stay up at least three hours past the time that this is posted. Yes I will allow my glutton tenancies to over

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Dear Mr. Bushee,I loved your sarcastic, comedic article on the front page of this Sunday's paper (Chronicle begins new era ). I was surprised at first that a venerable editor of an important newspaper in a major city would do a comedy editorial (a la Dave Berry), but as I read it I realized how much I'd missed such a thing in the newspaper. Funny and poignant social commentary that communicates

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I felt the need to have written three blogs by now...but time travel is not an option. Which is unfortunate for you.You will never be able to take back the half a minute that I stole from you when you started reading this hoping I was going somewhere.Any more time you spent reading beyond "I stole from you" is your own fault and I take no blame.

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And I wrote it! "It Ain't Me" ain't getting no press coverage just yet. I hope it does, but with the dailies cutting back on their arts sections, I need to reach out to the Bloggisphere. To be honest, it's not a sphere I know a lot about and haven't had a lot of practice navigating it. I know from word of mouth that SF is sort of the home of the blog culture and that really, I should be able

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There is a great song by Cake. "Heads of state who ride and wrangle/ who look at your face from more than one angle/ can cut you from their bloated budgets/ like sharpened knives through chicken McNuggets." Let us all be thankful on more than one level that those heads of state have not yet cut me and my job just yet.Why? You ask. Because then I would be writing more blogs. And after having

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a blogger review of Tallgrass Gothic by Melanie Marnich, presented by Impact TheatreI'm not as familiar with the source material for this play, The Changeling by Thomas Middleton, as I would like to be. The Jacobean drama is, as most dramas of that time, a bloody and violent punishment of political, religious and sexual extremes. Passions of any type are violently punished to the fullest extent

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Well hello hello. Long time no read, you might be saying to yourself. And yourself would be right in chastising this little writer for ignoring her duties to her public who ache to know up to date information on comings and goings and doings and seeings. But, all that is for not. I can not recover time lost by wasting it in the present with apologies. So, onward and upward. Matt and I were

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That's right. I've gotten internet at home. No more excuses, I can't hide in my apartment any more. I can't say you can't reach me. I'm here.Which also means you might get more blogs from the bog of boredom that is sometimes my evenings after work.Good luck with that.

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Below is a note that was forwarded to me in regards to the GOP VP pick. It is from Linda Salvay, the mother of a good friend of mine, who was more then a little up set about the way the GOP wants to pander to the women's vote (check this page for updates on how I feel about Mrs. Palin):I have an idea, ladies: Let's declare a moratorium on wearing lipstick until the election is over. Maybe hockey

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Starbucks and I've just spent $18 to get on the internet for two days...here. Like it's a joy to come here. I miss New Orleans and it's almost Starbucks coffee shop with it's numerous places to sit, ample outlets, and big windows. I want to find a tea shop with internet so I can sit and enjoy tea and toast and work. This stupid corner Starbucks does not have enough places to sit, does not

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I just have to put these up before they go away forever..."Since 1998, the Thunderbird Theatre Company has produced original comedic plays with a literary and cinematic twist; its last two seasons featured Release the Kraken, a modern retelling of the Perseus myth, and Aaah! Rosebud!, a prequel to Citizen Kane. Now, Thunderbird takes on mistress-of-the-word Jane Austen in Pride and Succubus, a

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I can not tell you the shear, unadulterated, intense joy that is hearing your words spoken by intelligent, joyful actors. It is overwhelming, exhilarating, and delicious. I sat behind a green curtain in the dark in the lobby of the New Langton theatre listening to my silly silly play, and I felt insanely and stupidly in love with my own words. I admit it. I felt unadulterated joy in my own

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No, it's not done. It's no where near done. But I feel comfortable with calling what I have a first draft. It sort of falls apart in a couple of places and it is now officially the longest think I've ever written (158 pages), but that shouldn't be important. Especally since I see it loosing at least 50 easy. But, here is a preview. You may never see this monologue again. It's something I

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There is a woman sitting not far from where I am. She's beautiful and reminds me of my mother in the way she shows off her large breasts without it seeming tacky or ridiculous. She wears silver and red in such a way that makes her seem a little like a gypsy. I don't mean that it's overwhelming, it's exotic and natural all at once. She has a pile of brown curly hair on the top of her head.

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I'll have these all up on my calendar before too long, but I just wanted to put the following shows out there in the wide world. These are all shows worth seeing and keeping your eyes out for. I'm connected to each of these by a friend or colleague or just because I'm a fan of the work, but as you plan your theatre goings on for the rest of the year put these down in your calendar. Of course,

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Short note today: Pictures up on Flickr!

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Everyone should visit Nazaré Portugal in the off season. I’m sure there is a good reason so many tourists come from all over Europe and America in late July or early August, but in all honesty it was great to be some of the only tourists in that city. When we were there it really felt like what it must have been at one point; a small fishing village. Well, I mean it didn’t feel like that

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I just wanted to make a few notes about the joys of writing and working in the theatre as a writer. As far as my ambitious and all consuming project that is right now egotasticly (yes, that is how I meant to spell it) called "The Untitled David Copperfield Project." I'm working on a few scenes and a few monologues, but right now it's all pretty sketchy still. I have a pretty solid beginning

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I'm not a very good writer. I'm not saying this to be humble or to fish for compliments. And I don't mean that what I write isn't worth reading or watching. To tell you the truth sometimes I listen to a monologue I wrote and I say "Damn! Damn that was good!" What I mean when I saw this, always when I say this, is that I'm not very good at sitting down and actually writing. I'm also bad at

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Day two in New Orleans and I decided to continue my UPS saga just a little further. (By the way, the end of that saga really is that Matt had to go pick up the package on Monday and I'll get it when I return home. No more tears, just an acceptance that sometimes I over react, and that I picked the right time to go on an extended holiday.) One of the books I had ordered from Amazon was David

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A few days ago I started to reconsider the wisdom of traveling to New Orleans by myself. The city is a city of legend for so many reasons. Always when it comes up, whether in books or movies or plays, it is a city of dangerous magic. The city is always a character, and that character is a Janis (look up.) One face is the fun loving big easy, the other is extremely poor and disenfranchised.

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So this is not really that big a deal. What I need to do is take a chill pill and get over myself. But, on the other hand this should not be that difficult.I ordered a package from Amazon. Usually I don't have any problem with Amazon packages. They show up with the mail. I usually order very small packages (books and music and movies) so when I get home BING! there they are. It has always

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The Great American Road Trip! It's an American thing to happily get into a car and happily charge forth into the unknown. Maybe there is something distinctly Gypsy in our blood that makes us itch for the road. Having taken more then a few road trips in my life, I can say there are long periods of unpleasant followed by brief periods of pretty great, followed by longer periods of boredom.

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This has been a difficult couple of weeks creatively. "The Journeys of the Angels" opened to more or less a creek and a whisper. We get great reactions from our audience when the director, writer and costumer come. They all seem to love the show. A few of my friends who came to see it also loved it, a few even said they would be coming back to see it again. I've had one bad review from a

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I hate it when people ask me what my favorite anything is. Especially playwrights. The moment people find out I'm a playwright they ask me who my favorite is. I just don't know. I could make a list for you of the people who hit my head first, but more likely then not the type of people who ask me who my favorite is don't know what they are getting themselves into and have probably never heard

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Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

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Thunderbird Theatre Company is doing my show!My first professionally produced play will be "Pride and Succubus" Remember when I got dressed up as Princess Leah in her slave outfit? No? Well, I do. And I did it for Thunderbird. Remember when the bottom fell off on stage in front of everyone and there was no way to fix it? Well, now...right now...it was totally worth it.As soon as I have dates

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Claire RicePlaywright, Actor, DirectorApril 11, 12 and 13th - Actor - What You Need by Megan O'Patry - GreenHouse Reading SeriesJune 20th-July 13th - Actor/Dramaturg - The Journeys of the Angels by Roy Conboy - Teatro de la EsperansaJuly 14-August 8th - Playwright - Taking time off to work on "Untitled David Copperfield Project" in New OrleansAugust - Playwright - Pride and Succubus - Thunderbird

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My eyes are super tired. Sunny days are here again, but because I can now see out my office window, the sun is behind my monitor and it makes my eyes very tired. It is very much time to see an eye doctor. And the dentist, but that has nothing to do with my eyes, it's just a thought. It's that time of the year when one goes to all the doctor's appointments they've been putting off for a year.

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So I just finished reading The Four of Us by Itamar Moses. Every once in a while I will go to the play section in a book store and I'll pick up a play by a playwright I've never heard of before. This is harder then it sounds. I dare you to go into a Barnes and Nobel or Borders and after sifting through the Shakespeare (if you can even find the "Drama" section) you may find up to 12 shelves

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So, I love reading people's comments on movies on IMDB.com. It's way more fun then just reading about the movies. People get all huffy and stupid and belligerent about the dumbest things, but they can also be sincere, intelligent, rational, and informative. Rarely do they have discussions about the film techniques or acting choices, but often I think it gives a much more accurate view of the

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There was a little girl. A cartoon girl. She was eating something or waiting for something. Behind her was a building and I could see a grate that led to a duct or something. The girl, thinking her friends were in there, moved the grate aside and crawled into the duct. The duct was actually where all the kitchen grease went after it was thrown down the drain. It was slick and the girl

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Just sos yous knows...I'm posting my pictures and exploits on Flicker as well now (see slide show to the right) but you can see them all here as well. Enjoy!

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Just so that everyone knows, Serve by Expiration (back with more masterbation jokes!) went just fucking fantastic! Here are the reviews and some press for your reading pleasure.http://www.sfbaytimes.com/index.php?sec=article&article_id=7666Serve by Expiration By Linda Ayres-Frederick Published: March 6, 2008

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My mother told me a story of a woman who bought a house once in Texas. It was one of those "Mc Mansions". A cheaply constructed cookie cutter monstrosity with an odd facade sort of glued to the front of the thing, no lawn, not enough windows, and ridiculous room sizes. My mother assured me that despite all this, she was happy when she made the walk throughs, after the inspections, and when she

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I found the following story on IMDB.com this morning during my usual gossip glut. I understand that some important people/events might have been left out of the ceremony this year due to the short time organizers had to put the bulk of it together. But because he died so recently and he wasn't exactly a nobody. I would hope that the organizers would apologize and, if such an excuse could be

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Thunderbird Theatre is proud to present the return of last year's Sketch Comedy Show… "Serve By Expiration!" Written by Ian Hemenway and Sang S. Kim Directed by Claire Rice Featuring: Faith Aeryn, Jacquie Duckworth, Jenni Gebhardt, Matt Gunnison, Tavis Kammet, Christopher P. Kelly, Nathan Tucker & Wilton Yeung It's our tenth year and we're starting 2008 with brand new skits

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If you can't do it here, where can you?Update on my life: I visited my mom in San Antonio and on a delay in Las Vegas mistakenly bought Matt a pack of nude playing cards that I thought just had showgirls on them. I'm directing Serve By Expiration for Thunderbird Theatre Company and right at this moment I think it's going well. Ask me tomorrow and who the F*%K knows what I'll tell you. I've

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Matt and I were introduced to Scott Prendergast through Wholphin, and I think it's fair to say we sort of fell in love. Ok, maybe it's not fair to say that seeing as Matt isn't here to agree. But it is fair to say that we can't stop thinking about The Delicious. So here, for your entertainment, the best of independent comedy film making.AtomFilms.com: Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | Comedy

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Last night was the first in a series of Masterpiece Theatre showings of Jane Austen movies. Can I just say that is Sunday after Sunday after Sunday of happiness? Because honestly that's what it is. Emily introduced me to Jane Austen and I have to tell you I fell hard for the girl from the first word. She can be irreverent, she can be silly, she can be stupid, she can be wonderful, and she can

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Saturday morning, bright and early, Pauline and I shook off the San Francisco fog and headed south to hike in McNee Ranch State Park. I highly recommend this area. The views are fantastic and there are opportunities for all kinds of hikers at all kinds of levels. Below are a few sites that I recommend that give nice pictures and information:http://www.weekendhike.com/2007/04/

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Update: I took the yoga class on Wednesday...and I'm still hurting on Friday. I'm trying to shake the Western Ideas of "I need to be good at this" out of my head and remind myself that I should be thinking more like a person who is doing yoga. It's not about being good or better than the person next to me. It's about being in the moment.In this moment, my shoulders are super sore. In that

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In an effort to feel a little more positive about everything, I thought a change in look for the ol'weblog was in order. The black was starting to feel a little oppressive and not really me. Also, I think because this is an election year, I'm feeling a little more optimistic about the future and I thought that a new look would reflect that.I like to think that if I fell into a coma and woke up

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Claire Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13472443701925295117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5332967038418990006.post-24446347356485831882007-11-28T15:30:00.000-08:002007-11-28T15:33:07.765-08:00

More from the writers on the front lines. Oh...and some dumb shit who doesn't get it.

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I thought I'd spread the good word about my hot hot boyfriend, Matt Gunnison, and his hot hot doings.He wrapped shooting for a short film a few weeks ago and via myspace have been getting updates now and again. For now, here's a little tease.

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To tell you the truth, I haven't really decided on John Edwards for president yet. And I'll tell you why. I hope all those politicos are out there and they are going to listen so that tomorrow on the news I'll hear something about it and then one of the candidates will say something either moronic or profound that will finally set my vote in stone. But, honestly, those politicos have me

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Your vote doesn't count...if you don't vote!And the best way to start swinging the vote your way is to talk about who you are voting for and why. We can't shy away from political conversations. We can't beg out of a room when we hear other people talking about politics. The people who are talking, who are arguing, who are making themselves heard are the people who are changing the vote and

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This is my good friend Jen Eden.

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...And not just because they came out to see the show. Watch the whole thing. Very interesting interview about Orson Wells. I entirely recommend The Dead Report. Watch it!

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I've been looking forward to November for a long time. The whole summer actually. November is one of my favorite months due in large part to Thanks Giving and the color orange. I love a feast, pumpkin pie, squash, turning leaves, wine, family, etc...Not to mention my brother comes home in November, ending his first tour of duty as a full time soldier. We are all thankful for that.But, I also

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STEPHEN COLBERT: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Before I begin, I've been asked to make an announcement. Whoever parked 14 black bulletproof S.U.V.'s out front, could you please move them? They are blocking in 14 other black bulletproof S.U.V.'s and they need to get out.Wow. Wow, what an honor. The White House correspondents' dinner. To actually sit here, at the same table with my hero, George

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So, one day I will write again. Filling these empty pages with thoughtful words and observations on the condition of being human and other viruses that have plagued our lonely mother ship we call Earth, I will trudge through the episodes of my life and verbally abuse the sensitive eyes of the avatars who inhabit the internet in place of their human and invisible counterparts, all the while

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Aaah! Rosebud! Silly homage to the sled in Citizen Kane provides good slapstick, not great dialogue By Molly Rhodeshttp://www.sfweekly.com/2007-09-05/culture/aaah-rosebud/ Published: September 5, 2007

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http://www.sfbaytimes.com/index.php?sec=article&article_id=6796Aaah! Rosebud: Citizen Kane Redux By Albert Goodwyn Published: August 30, 2007 Peter Finch’s

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