{"id":86,"date":"2010-07-14T17:45:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T00:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2010-07-16T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T21:00:34","slug":"plays-ive-written-and-those-i-hope-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Playwrights Notes Part  III: Plays I\u2019ve Written, and Next Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been following my posts, you know I am a playwright in the making. \u00a0As of now I have not had my works published, or performed in front of a paying audience. \u00a0Thus the &#8220;in the making&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That said I&#8217;ve written three plays:<\/p>\n<pre>Dinners with Augie\r\nJustice and Injustice\r\nThe Day My Father Met the Lord<\/pre>\n<p>Of those three, the first one (&#8220;Augie&#8221;) has been through a reading, and the second one is scheduled for a reading later this year. \u00a0I&#8217;ll talk about the &#8220;Augie&#8221; reading in another post, and update you on the &#8220;Justice&#8221; reading as we get closer to the event. \u00a0And I&#8217;ll get some synopsis&#8217;s posted soon, and some commentary about each play. \u00a0I will repeat here (and often elsewhere) the the process of getting a play through a reading is an important first step. \u00a0Plus the Augie reading was a huge amount of fun!<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I want to talk about my next steps, which (besides getting &#8220;Augie&#8221; in final draft, etc.) is to get my plays produced and published.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n google_ad_client = \"pub-0675667561792454\"; \/* Ad#1 Writers Block *\/ google_ad_slot = \"4888260728\"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>First, my understanding is that it wouldn&#8217;t be a good idea to publish the plays myself on this blog. \u00a0No one has actually said this, but I notice that other professionals (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jondorf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Dorf<\/a>) haven&#8217;t. In fact Mr. Dorf makes a point of saying his plays are subject to copyright laws, intellectual property rights laws, and are subject to royalties. \u00a0From what I gather so far, people who publish plays\u00a0(i.e. publishers) don&#8217;t want other people (including the author) posting the content to websites.<\/p>\n<p>But the above said, I&#8217;m going to make one exception. \u00a0The third play, &#8220;The Day My Father Met the Lord&#8221; is a 10 minute play, no setting to speak of so it&#8217;s really simple production, and I was going to make it available to non-profit groups anyway. \u00a0Of course anyone who charges admission will have to pay royalties. \u00a0And I might point out my plays are registered with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">US Copyright Office <\/a>. \u00a0So stay tuned and I&#8217;ll have the play available in another blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I&#8217;ll be working on other ideas as time allows. \u00a0I need to finish up &#8220;Augie&#8221;, and see if I can get it produced.<\/p>\n<p>And I want to keep exploring the art of playwriting, and see where it takes me.<\/p>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s it. \u00a0Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been following my posts, you know I am a playwright in the making. \u00a0As of now I have not had my works published, or performed in front of a paying audience. \u00a0Thus the &#8220;in the making&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-plays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}