Episode 6: Ten Questions

This week Lindsay answers ten questions about her process as a writer. She didn't write down any of the answers beforehand. Ten questions. No net.

Show Notes:

Sample pages from our plays. Theatrefolk on Facebook. Theatrefolk on Twitter. The Theatrefolk Podcast on iTunes. Dramatists Guild of America. Alexander Graham Bell, I Want To Have Your Love Child. Among Friends and Clutter.

Subscribe to The Theatrefolk Podcast in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. 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 it's me off the grid, off the crutch, off the notes, answering some questions. But first let's do THEATREFOLK NEWS. And yes, we will eventually have like actual news, new news, like what conferences you can find us at upcoming plays, but it’s August still and since we basically run on the school year, things are just now gearing up; although it's really freaky to me that there are some places that start school in August and not the first Tuesday after Labor Day. What is that? School in August seems very, very wrong. Where's the tradition in an August start? Where's the feeling of sinking dread on that Labor Day, holiday, Monday or you know was that just me? It took about 10 years for it to fully sink in for me that I don't have to go to school anymore in September. And I still have nightmares about exams. Ugh. But I digress. Okay, so let's talk about sample pages today. You can find sample pages for every one of our plays over on our website www.theatrefolk.com. Why are sample pages important? Well, we don't want you to buy a play that you can't use and sometimes descriptions, they’re not enough. They’re not enough to know if the place is going to be suitable for you. They’re not enough to know if the set is going to work in your school. They’re not enough to know about what happens on page 22. You know we have a lot of folks who like our stuff and will grab new material or they'll be grabbed by the title or maybe they like the red cover and that’s the reason they pick a play. But directors and especially high school directors often have built in factors than need to be met in order to choose a play. And if we could do something to make that decision process easier, we're going to do it. Like that you read a chunk of the play before you buy. You test drive a car, test drive a play.

And lastly, please always remember and don't ever forget the places in which you can find this podcast. We are of course at theatrefolk.com and on our Facebook page and Twitter and you can subscribe to this podcast. You can just subscribe to TFP on iTunes. Search for us through Theatrefolk.

Episode Six: Ten Questions.

So I do want to push myself in this format, this speaking. Hello? Talking to you, how you doing? Good? I want to push myself to talk without having notes or having everything written down, the actual act of speaking off the top of my head. And I came across a Ten Questions article in the most recent edition of The Dramatist, the magazine put out by the Dramatists Guild of America. You know the deal. They do them in every type of magazine for every type of topic. Ten questions for actors, ten questions for a chef, they probably even do ten questions for a scientist in a science journal. They are questions that in a capitalized form are supposed to help you, the reader, learn something interesting about the person answering the questions. So I thought, why don't I do the ten questions from The Dramatist, but not think about or prepare beforehand. I have… I wrote down these questions about a month ago and haven’t looked at them since. Ha, ha! One point I thought about changing in couple of the questions or cutting them because I thought they're dumb at that time and I thought no, no, no. I should just do them as is, off the top of my head. But I mean,