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Essay: I promise this is about ‘I Promise This Isn't About You (Even If It Seems Like It Is)’ (even if it seems like it isn't)
Martha is mad at theatre as an industry. She’s mad at programmers and producers and friends and artists. Sometimes, when she isn’t mad, she has a good time. Read about the good times and the bad in her essay/review of I Promise This Isn’t About You (Even If It Seems Like It Is) here.
Essay: I wrote a play about vagina dentata and all I got was empathy for men
Erica wakes up every morning wanting nothing more than to tell the best stories she can. She’s written a play about women who grow teeth in their vaginas, called The Hero Leaves One Tooth. Read her essay about the process here.
Essay: ancient magic
Robin puts the “imp” in “imposter syndrome”. They’re also obsessed with fantasy, Celtic culture and the way it echoes into modern fantasy. Read their essay about it here.
Essay: it’s getting better, right?
Jacob is a friend of Dorothy. He’s written a play about growing up queer that opens this week at KXT on Broadway. Read his essay about the joys and tragedies of growing up queer here!
Essay: go and write a play about it
Alex’s ex told them to go and write a play about their breakup. Come Again, a play written by Alex, opens this week at KXT on Broadway. You can read about their ability to spitefully follow throwaway comments as instructions here.
The Nerves And Their Endings: essays on crisis and response is an insight into the slow doom of climate collapse
With a powerful and responsive voice, Jessica Gaitán Johannesson’s The Nerves and Their Endings holds the reader with an urgent grip lest we struggle away, put down the book, and resolve to our inaction. Read Clare’s review of it here.