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Articles on Premieres of Don’s Plays
There were fantastic articles on the premieres of
Postville and Shakespeare Incorporated this past weekend: Friday in the Longmont Times Call and Sunday in the Boulder Camera.
Don’s Play “The Code” Live on Boulder TV
“The Code,” the first of the 5 short plays in Don’s Senior Moments, will be performed live on Boulder’s Channel 54 Community Television, Wednesday, January 27th, at 7 pm. After the play, they’ll be interviewing him. You can watch the program live at http://www.cctv54.org, or view it later from the archives.
Review of U&D in Courier Newspaper
The October issue of the Left Hand Valley Courier newspaper, serving Longmont and Niwot, Colorado, has a review of Ups & Downs.
Reviewer Donna Currie says, “The reader laughs with them, at them, and then laughs some more … How such a mismatched father-and-son team could make it through several countries on foot without one of them tumbling down a mountainside is a wonder. But make it they did, with some good stories to tell.”
Article in Boulder Camera about Colorado Launch
There’s some nice coverage about next Sunday’s Colorado Launch of Ups & Downs and Don’s playwriting activities in today’s Boulder Camera.
Don’s play, “Shakespeare Incorporated,” wins first prize at RMTA
“Shakespeare Incorporated,” Don’s zany, but historically possible play on who really wrote the works attributed to William Shakespeare, has won first prize in the full-length play category at the Rocky Mountain Theater Association’s 2009 Festival. The competition was open to playwrights from Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. Click Here to go to Don’s Website and see the synopsis of “Shakespeare Incorporated.”
Another article on Don’s Postville play
There have been several newspaper articles in the past week about Don’s upcoming play which deals with the events in the northeast Iowa town of Postville.
In the late 1980s, Postville was slowly dying. Then an entrepreneur from a sect of Hasidic Jews purchased the defunct meatpacking plant and moved in with 30 orthodox rabbis and their families. An incredible (and often comic) culture clash ensued. In May of 2008, the comedy turned to tragedy when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Raid uncovered large numbers of illegal immigrants and underage workers in the plant along with numerous other employment law infractions.
The resulting human and economic devastation are far from being resolved.
Take a look at Don’s blog, “They’re Hijacking My Play” to see more on the events in Postville and on the play, and click on the following link to read the article in the Des Moines Register.
Articles on Don’s Postville play
Last week’s The Iowa Independent and The Colorado Independent each published feature articles on Don’s Postville play. Click on the newspaper names above to see the articles.
Grant Schulte, a reporter from The Des Moines Register saw The Iowa Independent article and interviewed Don over the phone today for an hour. His article will be published in this Saturday’s Register.
Article on “Ups & Downs” and Don’s Plays in Longmont (CO) Newspaper
Don in costume as Charles Darwin in "The Debate". Photo by Joshua Buck, Longmont Times-Call
The nearest city to Don’s tiny hometown of Niwot, Colorado, is Longmont. The excellent Longmont newspaper is the Times-Call. They’ve been very generous in covering Don’s productions for the past year, and today there was a big article about “Ups & Downs” and Don’s theater activities on the front page. Wow!
Don Interviewed by Longmont Newspaper
Quentin Young, the Arts Correspondent for the Longmont (Colorado) Daily Times Call newspaper has covered several of Don’s plays in the past year. Yesterday he came to interview Don for a “Where Are They Now” article about 2008 newsmakers, and ended up staying for 2 hours!
Quentin and Don talked about lots of things, but Ups & Downs will certainly feature prominently in the article, which should be coming out in the next week or so. We’ll post the link to the on-line version of the article when it’s available.
