Episode 30: New York Part Two

In part two of Craig and Lindsay's New York adventure they talk about their favourite theatrical experience – Too Much Light Makes the Baby go Blind.

Show Notes

Playwriting Exercise Series Seth's Broadway Chatter Box Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

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Episode Transcript

Welcome to TFP, The Theatrefolk Podcast. I am Lindsay Price, resident playwright for Theatrefolk. Hello! I hope you're well. Thanks for listening.

Today, we have part two as Craig and I dish on our favourite New York experience. But first, let's do some THEATREFOLK News.

Lots a great stuff going on over on our blog over on theatrefolk.com/blog. We've already talked about Movie Monologue Monday and we also have an on-going series of playwriting exercises on Saturday. It has been so much fun to work on this series. I think that it just really sits in an interesting part of my brain. I love coming up with exercises. I love trying to find new ways to help encourage, inspire writers. This week, it's going to be a “picture prompt as writing inspiration” post.

Every time we're in New York the visual stimulation is just mind-blowing. There is always something awesome to look at, interesting, exciting. Everywhere you look there is a story. Now, often it is a story that I am completely fabricating, I'm making up as we go, but, you know, that's what writers do, right? Make it all up! I have to put my crazy mind to work. I have to make it do something useful, you know?

So, last time in NYC, I was really taken by textures – murals, mosaics, ceilings, floors. So, that's going to be the application of this week's picture prompt. Write a scene that takes place in or incorporates aspects of the photograph.

Lastly, where, oh, where can you find this podcast? We post new episodes every Wednesday at theatrefolk.com and on our Facebook page and Twitter. You can find us on the Stitcher app AND you can subscribe to TFP on iTunes. Imagine that! All you have to do is search on the word “Theatrefolk.”

Episode Thirty: New York Part Two

Thirty? We're already up to thirty episodes? Isn't that wonderful? That’s amazing. All right, let’s keep going.

So, today we're back in New York City where Craig and I talk about our favourite theatrical experience in New York and actually anywhere. We also talk about a live interview we saw with Seth Rudetsky. He has a show called Seth's Chatterbox in the back of a tiny basement cabaret bar where he interviews Broadway performers and these two that he interviewed the time that we went share some very interesting points on the path to Broadway, on succeeding on Broadway and failing on Broadway. So, keep listening to find that out.

Lindsay: Hello, Craig. How are you?

Craig: Me?

Lindsay: Yes.

Craig: I’m good. I’m tired.

Lindsay: Yes! We’re nearing the end of our time here in New York, right? And I think that last night we did what is, I think, it’s my top theatrical experience. How does it rate for you?

Craig: Last night’s show?

Lindsay: Just going to see this show in general?

Craig: Oh, I think it’s something that I, sometimes, it’s only on two nights a week and, sometimes, we come here and it’s not on the nights we’re here and I feel lesser for not having seen it.

Lindsay: The show that we’re talking about, it’s a very unique experience. It only plays in New York and Chicago and it’s been running for years and years and years and years. We figured out that we started going in 2004.

Craig: Which is impossible because we’re not that old.

Lindsay: That means we’re old!

Craig: Weren’t we in high school in 2004?

Lindsay: Yes, of course, we were. And this is a show called Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind put on by the New York Neo-Futurists and it’s a very simple concept. It is 30 plays in 60 minutes.

Craig: They attempt to perform the 30 plays in 60 minutes.