Volume III. Mar-April 2012
The Road Weeps
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The Land Marks Festival welcomes The Road Weeps
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A New Director
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How long must The Road Weep for us in The Twin Cities?
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The Road Weeps Goes to College
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From the Editor, Donna Walker Kuhne
The Lark Play Development Center continues to examine how The Road Weeps… The Well Runs Dry influences and inspires dialogue around the U.S. Last month, the Lark creative team had the opportunity to attend a series of events that included a reading of the play at the University of South Florida, one of the Consortium partners. It was exciting to see the play framed in an academic environment with theater students. Professor Fannie Green provided a platform for the students to be fully engaged in the reading. The eagerness in which they attacked the roles was refreshing and inspiring. (more...)
  • Originally, I set out to write a play about the first all-black town in the U.S. — Wewoka, Oklahoma. I had a special interest in the town because my grandmother was born there. In my research, I learned that Black Seminoles (people of African and Native American ancestry) actually incorporated the town. Here I was thinking I was writing a history play about a forgotten people, only to realize I was actually writing my own history. — Playwright, Marcus Gardley

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The Road Weeps Bulletin is part of the Lark Play Development Center's Launching New Plays into the Repertoire, a national multi-lateral collaboration between five theater organizations, supported in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Nathan Cummings Foundation.

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