Ruth Geye

@postproctorism doesn’t work on the institutional non-profit scale either by the time you’ve had your government mandated four readings and a workshop

political theatre doesn’t work on the commercial scale because by the time anyone gets enough investors their play is incredibly dated

nothing says “happy 28th birthday” like waiting for Verizon

@postproctorism Troubled Sleep’s drama section isn’t enormous, but oddly good selection. Unnamable is in a similar boat.

what are the best used bookstores in nyc with large drama sections that are NOT the strand ????

@TheStalwart Not every line item will apply, and it’s missing some for musicals (MD, musicians, etc) but Good Apples has a good budget template: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

@TheStalwart If you have prior relationships with people who are excited about your work, people will often work on a workshop or reading for an upsettingly low number. But IMO for a week of public performances and the required rehearsals, $700 min. Which is still low if you think by hour.

Roughly speaking, how much money would one need to raise in order to put on a full length, full cast musical (assuming the most indie minimal setup in terms of theater choice, live instrumentation, costume setup, etc)?

@TheStalwart There’s also an option of a place like The Tank, where there is no up front cost to use the space, but they take half the door (a *great* deal if you’re not in the position to raise money up front, potentially less so if you can).

@RuthGeye Thank you! This is excellent to know

@TheStalwart “semi-subsidized” was a bit cheeky. It’s subsidized, just still expensive. There are many non-profit theatres, particularly in Bk, that offer lower rental rates for other non-profits and independent artists that are subsidized from their end by grants. See also: rehearsal space.

@RuthGeye what do you mean "semi-subsidized"?

One of these three can write circles around the others, but brainworms about Israel can make anyone write a Great Value Josh Harmon play, I suppose.

We need to put Josh Harmon, Jonathan Spector, and Itamar Moses on an island until they can figure out how to stop writing each other’s plays

The difference between the two photos is that the Vogue cover is an editorial, meaning the photographer made the conscious choice to curate a racist caricature of a black man, whereas the Israeli settler simply Just Looks Like That. This whole controversy around the L’Espresso cover is reminding me how much I held my tongue as a teenager, afraid that I would sound crazy if I repeated what I saw settlers doing. For example, one of the Jewish settlers who lived in the stolen half (yes, half) of our house in Jerusalem would repeatedly do unspeakable, perverted things to a German Shepherd they kept in the house. Whenever international activists came to visit, I'd tell them that the settlers beat the dog, which was true, but I often omitted the part about the sexual abuse--something about naming it outright made me feel dirty, as if complicit (I was also very young) until one day the settler did it while two European activists were present. He most likely wanted to be watched. A couple days later, there was a graffiti on our wall that said something like "settlers are very, very strange people." The way Israeli settlers are depicted in the media is, in fact, very often understated. I assume people worry about coming across as conspiratorial or bigoted, so they often hesitate to report the full extent of such depravity. But at the end of the day, it is really not our problem that many Jewish settlers are quite frankly caricatures of themselves.

Are you people not embarrassed

@shlumpsters Yeah, this all feels very 2018

@RuthGeye Maybe like 5 years ago when this discourse was peaking

What if I told you…these are different groups of people.

Iran has some of the only antizionist synagogues in the world, a community that has flourished for over a thousand years To the Zionist entity the only Jewish lives worth saving are the white ones who bow to fascism

The proposed buffer zone policy doesn't make any sense. Some NYC blocks have so many religious institutions + repro facilities that you would effectively ban protest. In this moment of rising fascism, seems like a bad idea. google.com/maps/d/u/0/vie…

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

i will never recover from the horror and shame of this sick fuck running our country. the damage is incalculable and it's not even finished.

pesach has me acting like nara smith. oh I want hot fudge? guess I’ll just Make It