The Cultivated Playwright Podcast: Recent Episodes
Brad McEntire
The Cultivated Playwright is a podcast hosted by theatre artist Brad McEntire. The aim is to explore performing arts, culture and general refinement from the perspective of a mid-career theatre maker who is, you know, just trying to figure stuff out.
A professor I had as an undergraduate recently passed on. He had quite an impact on me.
This episode is dedicated to John Weckesser (1941-2018).
This past year I read a range of books about organization, minimalism and civilized living. These seemingly disparate volumes come at it from different perspectives, but all explore living a curated, ordered lifestyle.
I had what I thought would be a good, quick, rather easy idea. I would apply the superhero movie Thor: Ragnarok to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's three questions for subjectively evaluating a piece of art. It turned out not to be so not quick nor so easy to put this particular episode together. Special thanks to Judy the librarian on this one.
In this episode, I riff on why now is the right time to build a personal home library of physical books.
In this episode, I talk about how artists need uninterrupted spans of time to do focused creative work. And I mention what I'm doing nowadays since I don't have uninterrupted spans of time.
I have been recording what I wear to work on Instagram recently. It has instigated some thoughts on clothes and appearance.
Some thoughts on how Dan Harmon approaches his show HarmonQuest and how I have cooled my jets a bit as far as improv goes... but I'm getting restless for it once again.
An idea must be recorded immediately or it vanishes forever. I share my informal system of index cards, notebooks and Evernote to capture inspiration when it hits.
Writing a play is difficult. Writing a full-length play is very difficult. The difficulty is what makes it fun.
A brief introduction to The Cultivated Playwright Podcast. I'm discussing who I am, the idea behind the podcast and what I hope to tackle over the course of this particular audio journey.
As the name implies I am interested in culture, refinement and living a good life. I am also a theatre artist enter his mid-career and will offer my perspective as an artist in the contemporary cultural landscape.