Skip to content
playfair

playfair

PlayFair or FairPlay

  • Blog
  • Awards & Productions
  • Plays
    • The Depth of Holes
    • Lurking Variables
    • Impossible Memory
    • Aspirations of Eve
    • Slow Dance in Cut Time
    • Jump the Bright Line
  • About
    • Contact Us

Playwright Blog

False Truth

Posted on December 26, 2016December 26, 2016 by PlayFair

“Seven at one blow!” said the little man with great pride. “Such a brave deed ought to be known all over the town, and it won’t

Read More
Playwright Blog Biden, false, lies, normalization, truth

I had Hoped We Were Better Than This

Posted on December 9, 2016December 12, 2016 by PlayFair

The rabbi stood before his congregation last Saturday and in his comforting baritone, spoke as rabbis have spoken for centuries: Keep yourself clear of the fighting

Read More
Uncategorized

Pull It Together

Posted on December 5, 2016December 5, 2016 by PlayFair

Pull it together, for crying out loud! I can’t settle. I can’t write right. Words fail me. My anger feeds my fear and my fear feeds

Read More
Playwright Blog Art, Create, despair, Karen, Karen Ackerman, Lincoln Center, Playwright, Pull it Together, Sarah Ruhl, Speech, warning, Write

Experts and Pitchforks

Posted on October 31, 2016November 28, 2016 by PlayFair

Angry? Me? Who am I to be angry? Let’s talk about experts: the people we trust to have delved deeply into a certain topic because it

Read More
Playwright Blog

Speak With Grace

Posted on August 23, 2016November 28, 2016 by PlayFair

I’ve said it so many times, I can’t remember to whom I’ve said it and on what walls of which elevators I’ve scratched it with my

Read More
Playwright Blog

You’re Being Ridiculous

Posted on August 11, 2016November 28, 2016 by PlayFair

Dodo-birds, Unite! Before We’re All Fricassee The following is a speech from Tony Kushner’s play, A Bright Room Called Day. Shut up. Listen. There is something

Read More
Playwright Blog

Terrible Things

Posted on June 12, 2016November 28, 2016 by PlayFair

I hate the cavalier way people use the horrific to describe the irritating or inconvenient, like calling the lifeguards at our small beach Sand-Nazis because they

Read More
Playwright Blog

Blog as Civil and Social Disobedience

Posted on December 12, 2015November 28, 2016 by PlayFair

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau   I might have hesitated to

Read More
Playwright Blog

Blog as Play

Posted on December 1, 2015November 28, 2016 by Karen

I’m still not sure about this blogging thing.  For example, when I wrote about my evening out with friends a couple of weeks ago, I forgot

Read More
Playwright Blog

Hallow the Dead

Posted on October 31, 2015November 28, 2016 by PlayFair

Cecil the Lion or rather his pelt will be competing for most common costume this Halloween—appropriate, considering this is the holiday on which, traditionally, we celebrate

Read More
Playwright Blog
  • ← Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Next →
 
playfair

playfair

PlayFair or FairPlay

Built with BoldGridPowered by WordPress