While the Covid-19 lockdown was going on, Keen Company recorded and distributed some audio plays. One of my absolute favorites is “Digging in the Dark” by the great Pearl Cleage. I’m delighted to share this fabulous play, available on both SoundCloud and Youtube.
“The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective” rides again! The Public Theatre (Lewiston, Maine) gets a rave review from Broadway World’s Carla Maria Süllwold. “Milton has a keen ear for the cadences of the period dialogue and so slips into the conversation speeches and one-liners laden with stunning acerbic wit…” The Public Theatre‘s production of Patricia Milton‘s THE VICTORIAN LADIES DETECTIVE COLLECTIVE …
I’ve altered the title of my latest play, and thus its dramaturgy page. If you’re interested in AI ethics and the pickle we’re in because it’s hurtling forward without developers thinking through the ethical concerns, take a look. Kamiri is a tech whiz can’t get hired after blowing the whistle on her former company. She swears to remain loyal to …
W. B. Yeats, ‘Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors’ What they undertook to doThey brought to pass;All things hang like a drop of dewUpon a blade of grass. This is Yeats’ poem in its entirety, written in the 1930’s. It is posted in gratitude to my own subconscious.
I haven’t been writing here for a while, since I went on holiday to the British Isles. Whee! At any rate, while I was gone, East Bay Magazine readers voted “Escape from the Asylum” the Best of the East Bay 2022 in the odd category of Theater troupe/Performance. Now, why they would award a best of 2022 when 2022 is …
… rides again! The Public Theater in Lewiston, Maine will produce the East Coast premiere in November 2022, Covid-19 willing. I’m excited as they will also film it, and I’ll be able to enjoy it either in person or via streaming. This will be its second production and the first on the East Coast, although it was presented in a …
It’s been a minute since I’ve posted as I am deep into writing “The Engine of our Destruction,” a satire about Artificial Intelligence. The thing is, “Artificial Intelligence” is a contradiction in terms. There are lots of lines that people tell us every day. Among them are “maintenance-free”, “guaranteed for life”, and the old standby, “no new taxes”. But the …
Bookcase-prop and real or fake bouquetbehind you, well-dressed only to the waistas if in a casket, top half on display,here’s another weirdness to be faced:you’re in the Gallery. You’re shown as oneof your own satellites—as if the sunwere both a planet and the Copernicanmagnet for all planets. Yes, I canundo all this and activate the HideSelf feature . . . where was that again? …
By Lucille Clifton won’t you celebrate with mewhat i have shaped intoa kind of life? i had no model.born in babylonboth nonwhite and womanwhat did i see to be except myself?i made it uphere on this bridge betweenstarshine and clay,my one hand holding tightmy other hand; come celebratewith me that everydaysomething has tried to kill meand has failed. Lucille Clifton, …