The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University announces the third annual Writing is Live: a Festival of New Plays in Progress, a presentation of new works featuring six plays by writers in Brown’s graduate and undergraduate theater programs. Performance writing may take forms complete and incomplete, narrative and imagistic, compact or durational. The festival stresses and plays with the idea of the Live, allowing the development and evolution of new work in conversation with the writer, directors, actors, designers, and audience.
The plays are acted and directed by students in the Brown/Trinity M.F.A. program, Brown University’s undergraduate programs and the community at large. Tickets for all of the festival’s performances are free and available on a first-come, first-served basis at the door half an hour before the curtain. Festival runs February 3rd though February 13th at various locations, go here.
Starts Friday at the Leeds Theatre with Liquorland, written and directed by Laura Colella.